Real-time embedded systems often have multiple resource constraints such as energy and code size constraints. Traditionally, techniques for reducing energy consumption for real-time embedded systems have been developed without considering code size constraints, whereas code size reduction techniques have been developed without considering energy constraints. There, however, is a tradeoff relati...

Fuel consumption reduction is one of the main challenges in the automotive industry due to its economical and environmental impacts as well as legal regulations. While fuel consumption reduction is important for all vehicles, it has larger benefits for commercial ones due to their long operational times and much higher fuel consumption. Optimal control of multiple energy buffers within the vehi...

A major challenge in swarm robotics is efficiently deploying robots into unknown environments, minimising energy and time costs. This is especially important with small aerial robots which have extremely limited flight autonomy. This paper compares three deployment strategies characterised by nominal computation, memory, communication and sensing requirements, and hence are suitable for flying ...

Recently, environmental issues have been the focus of much of the world’s attention. This has stimulated a response in many countries, which has led to a closer examination of energy conservation strategies for conventional fossil fuels. One way of reducing building energy consumption is to design buildings, which are more economical in their use of energy for: heating, lighting, cooling, venti...

Due to non uniform distribution of nodes, there is an imbalance of energy consumption among the nodes in cluster-based wireless sensor networks. Based on this problem, we propose an efficient data aggregation tree for communication and routing based on the previous clustering architecture. Here based on the parameters such as Residual Energy, Node Density and Load cluster heads are elected usin...

The obesity epidemic is affecting children and adults of all nations and ethnicities. People are struggling with overweight and obesity regardless of age, ethnicity, or background. Children and adults from North America, South America, Asia, Europe, Australia, and Africa have seen shocking increases in overweight and obesity rates in the past few decades. The combination of increased pre-prepar...

BACKGROUND Research has shown that parental feeding styles may influence children's food consumption, energy intake, and ultimately, weight status. We examine this relationship, among recent immigrants to the US. Given that immigrant parents and children are at greater risk for becoming overweight/obese with increased time in the US, identification of risk factors for weight gain is critical. ...

Previous studies suggest that Ramadan exposure during pregnancy might affect the health of women and their babies, particularly through the effect of fasting. This study aimed to evaluate the association between Ramadan exposure and fasting during pregnancy on the birth weight of newborns. This study concerned 1351 pregnant women from a prospective cohort in Jakarta, Indonesia. Ramadan exposure...

In the past decades, plenty scheduling policies have been proposed for improving the execution performance of workflow applications. However, few of them have addressed the issue of energy conservation. In this paper, a novel scheduling metric, namely Minimal Energy Consumption Path, is introduced to reducing the energy consumption when scheduling large-scale workflows. The proposed scheduling ...