Abstract In recent years, local energy markets have become an important concept in more decentralized systems. Implementations pilot projects provide first insights into different hypotheses and approaches. From a technical perspective, the requirements for IT infrastructure of market are diverse, holistic view its architecture is therefore necessary. This article presents IT-architecture, whic...

0957-4158/$ see front matter 2013 Elsevier Ltd. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mechatronics.2013.01.010 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 416 946 3357; fax E-mail addresses: [email protected] ( utoronto.ca (M.R. Emami). This paper discusses a practical approach to the concurrent design of robot manipulators, which is based on an alternative design methodology, namely Holistic Concurrent ...

Evidence suggests that people with autism rely less on holistic visual information than typical adults. The current studies examine this by investigating core visual processes that contribute to holistic processing--namely, individuation and element grouping--and how they develop in participants with autism and typically developing (TD) participants matched for age, IQ, and gender. Individuatio...

We believe a holistic approach to problems in childhood and adolescence will benefit the child, adolescent, and the whole family. As a rule, children have far less to say in the family than their parents. Therefore, it is the parents who set the agenda and decide how things are done at home and in relation to the child. Most often, it is also the parents who have a problem when the child is not...

The holistic medical approach seems to be efficient and can also be used in adolescent medicine. Supporting the teenager to grow and develop is extremely important in order to prevent many of the problems they can carry into adulthood. The simple consciousness-based, holistic medicine--giving love, winning trust, giving holding, and getting permission to help the patient feel, understand, and l...