Still, to an extent, the idea persists that inertial sensors are useful mainly when the end product has a need to detect acceleration and deceleration. True enough from a purely scientific view. Yet, that could be to miss out on many of the expanding uses of MEMS accelerometers and gyroscopes in areas such as medical devices, industrial equipment, consumer electronics, and automotive electronics.

Major challenges of virtual sales assistant research lie in enhancing the quality of the customer consulting and in guaranteeing efficient maintenance of the product data. Current concepts lack of tight and intelligent integration options into existing business systems (like shop systems), and they lack of possibilities to reuse existing product data. The missing of integration concepts decreas...

Recently an advertisement of “Pediasure” by Abbott Nutrition created lot of controversy and debate in academic circles as many experts felt that the claims made in it were not supported by authentic scientific data, and it was violating the Infant Milk Substitutes (IMS) Act. Previously, similar objections were raised against advertisement of another food product, “Complan”. These controversies ...

Model-based testing helps to ensure a repeatable and scientific basis for product testing, gives good coverage of all the behaviors of the product and allows tests to be linked directly to requirements. Intensive research on model-based testing in the last 5-10 years has demonstrated the feasibility of this approach, shown that it can be cost-effective, and has developed a variety of test gener...

There is growing scientific evidence that improving the sustainability of consumer products can lead to significant gains in global sustainability. Historically, environmental policy has been managed by bureaucracies and institutions in a mechanistic manner; this had led to many early successes. However, we believe that if policy concerning product sustainability is also managed in this way, ne...

The term comfort is often seen relating to the marketing of products like chairs, cars, clothing, hand tools and even airplane tickets, while in the scientific literature, the term discomfort shows up often, since it is used in research. Few papers explain the concept of a localized comfort experience in relation to product use, although people use these products daily. Therefore, in this speci...

Introduction / objectives Critical questions have been raised in the scientific literature and by hand-hygiene thought leaders regarding the minimum alcohol concentration that assures efficacy of alcohol-based hand rubs (ABHR). The objective of this study was to determine the relative influences of alcohol concentration and product formulation on the efficacy of ABHR using internationally recog...

A review of integrative product design strategies is motivated by current trends and challenges faced by the chemical processing industry. The transition in the chemical process industry towards more complex formulated and structured products challenges existing approaches and scientific tools that arewell suited for bulk chemical design and properties estimation (Charpentier & McKenna, 2004; F...

This paper introduces the FMet software package for the scientific processing of Meteosat SEVIRI data. A number of individual modules handle the processing steps from image format conversion to calibration and product generation and presentation. The package is designed for operational applications. It can be freely extended and configured using a dynamic graphical user interface. r 2008 Elsevi...

Salient points Speed up chemical innovation while adopting a holistic approach Simplify integration of sustainability in day-to-day decision making Prioritize chemical processes and resource allocation Scientific assessment methodology High quality integrated database and data support Chemical data: Properties, Prices, Hazards, Life cycle impacts... Process data: Mass balance, technical informa...