Ski jumps are frequently applied as spillways of high dams. The resulting jet impact location on the plunge pool surface is often distant from the dam toe so that the latter is protected from scouring. Furthermore, the jet disintegrates and disperses prior to its impact, thereby reducing the specific energy addition to the plunge pool. The present research addresses four aspects, based on three...

Speech-enabled dialogue systems developed within an iCALL framework offer a potentially powerful tool for dealing with the challenges of teaching/learning an endangered language where learners have limited access to native speaker models of the language and limited exposure to the language in a truly communicative setting. This paper explores the major potential of virtual conversational agent ...

Wigmore’s charts and Bayesian networks are used to represent graphically the construction of arguments and to evaluate them. KAOS is a goal oriented requirements analysis method that enables the analysts to capture requirements through the realization of the business goals. However, KAOS does not have inbuilt mechanism for evaluating these goals and the inferring process. This paper proposes a ...

Silicon microchips of size 100x100 μm with active electronic sensing and actuation reacting in a chemical environment is the vision of the research project http://www. micreagents.eu, see figure 1a. These chips, called lablets, are fabricated in standard 180nm silicon technology and will be equipped with custom developed supercapacitors allowing them to react autonomously in fluids. They are de...

This extended abstract presents an overview of a technology demonstration that would consist of a novel piece of software for automatically analysing charitable organisations’ posts on the micro-blogging service Twitter. The main contribution is an inbuilt taxonomy of communication styles, which is used to classify each charity based on the results of the analysis undertaken. The demonstration ...

This paper presents a simplified process simulation model of typical waste polyethylene gasification in a fluidized bed reactor using Aspen Plus. The proposed model incorporates both physical and chemical processes, including drying, pyrolysis, combustion and gasification, by using various inbuilt modules to predict the resulting product gas composition and temperature. A detailed sensitivity a...