Research in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) necessarily touches on many research topics of Computer Science, Electronic Engineering and Telecommunication, basing on the existing work in related fields. However, the peculiarity of the WSN field is the interplay and integration of these foundation subjects, yielding a distinct topic worthy of further study in its own right. One of the main open is...

BACKGROUND Malondialdehyde low-density lipoprotein (MDA-LDL) is a major form of oxidized LDL and considered to be more atherogenic than LDL. Information on major determinants of MDA-LDL and their association in subjects who are not under treatment for diabetes mellitus and dyslipidemia is limited. METHODS This study included 778 Japanese subjects who were not taking medication for diabetes me...

A probing technique to obtain the energy distribution of positive charges in high-k gate stack dielectrics, both within and beyond the substrate bandgap, has been proposed. The energy distribution of different high-k devices has been investigated and attention has been paid to their differences from the single-layered SiON devices. The results obtained from the technique demonstrate the existen...

Modelling languages such as UML are increasingly used to describe software systems at different levels of abstraction. There are two very different ways of using such languages. One approach is based on the manifestation of a single model, with construction of different views from this model, and with automatic or semi-automatic consistency checking among these views. This follows what we term ...

The paper reports on a study in which the power loss, energy loss, and loss factor were measured in an actual distribution network in Iran (Qazvin Power Distribution Company) by using an innovative method of load estimation before evaluating five ways of approaching the problem from the point of view of operating costs. The objective function was to minimize the costs. adjusting the load imbala...

While demand response has achieved promising results on making the power grid more efficient and reliable, the additional dynamics and flexibility brought by demand response also increase the uncertainty and complexity of the centralized load forecast. In this paper, we propose a game-theoretic demand response scheme that can transform the traditional centralized load prediction structure into ...

A high level of psychomotor abilities often is essential for successfully operating many technical systems and especially medical and rehabilitation devices. This paper introduces an approach to enable a technical system to automatically assess its user’s level of psychomotor abilities, so that it can adapt its level of automation and provide the user with more or less assistance depending on t...

Recommender systems have the effect of guiding users in a personalized way to interesting objects in a large space of possible options. Content-based recommendation systems try to recommend items similar to those a given user has liked in the past. Indeed, the basic process performed by a content-based recommender consists in matching up the attributes of a user profile in which preferences and...

iron oxide minerals in soils provide valuable insights into pedogenic processes. a wealth of such information has been obtained by rock magnetic investigations on temperate soils but similar studies on tropical soils are rare. here, we report rock magnetic data on pristine soil profiles and surficial soils from five catchments in the tropical southern india and throw light on the pedogenic proc...