Rahman, S., Chen, Y., Zhang, Q. and Lobb, D. 2005. Evaluation methods on manure exposure from liquid manure injection tools. Canadian Biosystems Engineering/Le génie des biosystèmes au Canada 47: 6.9 6.16. Laboratory and field studies were conducted to explore evaluation methods on manure exposure (refer as to manure being not covered by soil, but exposed to the air) for liquid manure injection...

Documentation of research data plays a key role in the biomedical engineering innovation processes. It makes an important contribution to the protection of intellectual property, the traceability of results and fulfilling the regulatory requirement. Because of the increasing digitalization in laboratories, an electronic alternative to the commonly-used paper-bound notebooks could contribute to ...

Charge transport in conjugated polymers has been investigated using Monte Carlo simulations implemented on top of the Marcus theory for donor-acceptor transition rates. In particular, polaron effects and the dependency of the mobility on the temperature and the applied electric field have been studied. The conclusions are that while the qualitative temperature dependence is similar to that pred...

This research presents temperature distribution and thermal strain of functionally graded material cylinders with varying thickness and temperature-dependency properties that are subjected to heat fluxes in their inner and outer layers. The heterogeneous distribution of properties is modeled as a power function. Using first-order temperature theory and the energy method, governing equations are...

We consider the problem of energy-efficient routing for optimal detection in sensor networks. The spatial correlation structure of sensor measurements is modeled by a Markov random field (MRF), where the neighborhood system is defined by means of a nearest-neighbor dependency graph. The routing scheme that achieves the best detection accuracy and minimizes the total energy consumption is desire...

The spike discharge of hippocampal excitatory principal cells, also called "place cells," is highly location specific, but the discharge of local inhibitory interneurons is thought to display relatively low spatial specificity. Whereas in other brain regions, such as sensory neocortex, the activity of interneurons is often exquisitely stimulus selective and directly determines the responses of ...

Weekend admissions to hospital have been associated with adverse patient outcomes, including higher morbidity and mortality risk in general medicine and surgery. The reasons behind this are likely to be multifactorial and include reduced senior clinician-led care, decreased overall workforce, and ineffective or incomplete handover. With the advent of shift-work patterns, robust handover between...