Optical strain characterizes the relative amount of displacement by a moving object within a time interval. Its ability to compute any small muscular movements on faces can be advantageous to subtle expression research. This paper proposes a novel optical strain weighted feature extraction scheme for subtle facial micro-expression recognition. Motion information is derived from optical strain m...

Conducting organic syntheses in microfluidic chips allows studying and optimising chemical reactions at minimal time-scales and resource consumption. Herein, we describe a multi-channel microdroplet chip, which allows fast and directed dispensing of reactants into individual droplets in a segmented flow. This gives access to study the reaction progress in situ via surface-enhanced Raman spectro...

This paper presents an adaptive mobile agent system. The system consists of a core system and subcomponents like micro-kernel operating systems used in several operating systems. The core system offers only the minimal facilities and the latter is implemented as a collection of mobile agents which offer other various supplemental facilities. The system can dynamically evolve and extend its own ...

Until recently in the developed countries, food prices had been moving in one single direction – downwards – for almost a generation, while the prices of agricultural products had been falling for almost thirty consecutive years. 2008, however, saw a turnaround in the negative trend of food prices, with most crop prices on the global markets doubling in nominal terms and making newspaper headli...

MapReduce and its popular open source implementation, Hadoop, are moving toward ubiquitous for Big Data storage and processing. Therefore, it is essential to quantitatively evaluate and characterize the Hadoop deployment through extensive benchmarking. In this paper, we present HiBench [1], a representative and comprehensive benchmark suite for Hadoop, which consists of a set of Hadoop programs...

The Chemical Engineering Science movement has served well in solving problems from micro to macro scales. Ultimately, as Professor R. Sargent pointed out, it would be better if translated in “Scientific Engineering”. Examples of innovation as a combination of science (concept), technology and process/product will be presented. The first example is perfusion chromatography based on the concept o...

1. Abstract A well designed capacitive micro-machined switch requires small electrostatic pull-in force to easy switch-on and high natural frequencies to fast switch-off. Since the change of geometrical parameters of the bridge (moving part of the switch) affects contrary to one of these aspects, one could search for a shape of the bridge to obtain optimum functioning. The paper deals with desi...