Background: The objective of this studywas to investigate the effect of high and moderate summer ambient temperatures on testicular structures and endocrine profile of developing ram lambs. Materials and Methods: Twenty fall-born ramlambswere randomly divided into two groups: animalswere kept outdoor (n = 10) under ambient temperature (31-50°C) or maintained indoor (26-32°C) from May to October...

IntroductIon In recent years much research and development effort BLOCKINhas BLOCKINbeen BLOCKINdirected BLOCKINtowards BLOCKINthe BLOCKINbroad BLOCKINfield BLOCKINof ambient intelligence (AmI), and this trend is set to continue for the foreseeable future. AmI aims at seamlessly integrating services within smart infrastructures to be used at home, at work, in the car, on the move, and generally...

Ambient Telepresence is introduced as a method to give someone the feeling that someone else is present while that person is in fact not co-located. In contrast to other telepresence approaches, ambient telepresence is focused on mediating background activity to promote a peripheral sense of presence. A remote person’s handling of everyday objects is mapped to an ambient presentation in the loc...

With current programming languages programmers have to manually keep track of device connectivity state changes while interacting with multiple partners in an ambient environment. This leads to complex code which is hard to evolve and maintain. We propose ambient contracts, a novel programming abstraction which tracks connectivity states in order to react appropriately when failure occurs. With...

The vision where living and working spaces adapt to people is becoming a reality thanks to the increased embedding of computing power into everyday objects. Ambient learning focuses on the way people adopt technology in their everyday life and how technology adapts to the environment. Ambient learning is a new area in ubiquitous computing (UC) about the different learning processes that occur b...

This paper tries, on one side, to raise awareness on the level of complexity of future computer-based interconnected systems/infrastructures, at least as they are envisioned, and, on the other side, on the level of dependability we are today able to justify with confidence. This paper does not provide solutions, but tries to motivate that fundamental methods and methodologies must be reconsider...

People can usually sense troubles in a car from noises, vibrations, or smells. An experienced driver can even tell where the problem is. We call this kind of skill ‘Ambient Diagnostics’. Ambient Diagnostics is an emerging field that is aimed at detecting abnormities from seemly disconnected ambient data that we take for granted. For example, the human body is a rich ambient data source: tempera...