This paper presents the architecture developed in the framework of the AWARE project for the autonomous distributed cooperation between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), wireless sensor/actuator networks and ground camera networks. One of the main goals was the demonstration of useful actuation capabilities involving multiple ground and aerial robots in the context of civil applications. A novel...

High-dose intravenous infusion of 5% glucose promotes rebound hypoglycaemia and hypovolaemia in healthy volunteers. To study whether such effects occur in response to glucose/insulin, 12 healthy firemen (mean age, 39 years) received three infusions over 1-2 h that contained 20 ml of 2.5% glucose/kg of body weight, 5 ml of 10% glucose/kg of body weight with 0.05 unit of rapid-acting insulin/kg o...

BACKGROUND Testicular germ cell tumours (TGCT) are the most common cancers in men aged between 15 and 44 years and the incidence has increased steeply over the past 30 years. The rapid increase in the incidence, the spatial variation and the evolution of incidence in migrants suggest that environmental risk factors play a role in TGCT aetiology. The purpose of our review is to summarise the cur...

Acknowledgements My thanks go to all colleagues, friends and my family, especially to 1 Introduction A video surveillance activity has dramatically increased over the past five years [Tri05]. It was caused mainly by the escalating amount of surveillance cameras as a request to the terrorist peril. However, all of the image understanding and risk detection is left to human. An automated system f...

Purpose: To identify which institutions play an active role in health and social care delivery for stroke patients in the Portuguese setting and to determine the level of patient satisfaction from interactions with them. Theory: It has been generally acknowledged that patients’ reports of their health and their satisfaction with care services are as important as many clinical health measures. M...

Sight, hearing and touch are the sensory modalities that play a dominating role in spatial perception in humans, i.e. the ability to recognize the geometrical structure of the surrounding environment, awareness of self-location in surrounding space and determining in terms of depth and directions the location of nearby objects. Information streams from these senses are continuously integrated a...

The Tropical Bookshelf This Zoonotic World " What I love about my work. .. is that it gives me the privilege of spending time with people whose jobs are so interesting, whose work is so important, whose brains and bodies are so tough. I've said it before. .. but some people, you know, admire medical missionaries, firemen, astronauts. I admire field biologists. " " I have a great job because I g...

Mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) are well known by their flexibility and usefulness, being an ideal technology to support ubiquitous computing environments. Such environments are expected to support a plethora of applications, including real-time video and voice communications. In terms of applications, this technology can be used whenever there is a lack of infrastructure for support, which typ...

Introduction The overall effectiveness of an emergency response to a large scale disaster is a difficult entity to measure. Every disaster is different and every response is different. In fact, similar events leave totally different results in their aftermath. For example a category two hurricane might inflict much more damage than a category four, depending on the location of impact. Additiona...

BACKGROUND Bricks have been manufactured in Nepal for hundreds of years and are seen as a component of Nepalese sculpture and architecture. Large quantities of hazardous materials including high concentrations of particulate matter are emitted on a daily basis from brick kilns. Exposure to these hazardous materials can lead to adverse consequences on the environment and human health. This study...