The paper presents the design strategies for two typical configurations of intelligent systems, using as active elements the Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) cantilever strip and the SMA helical spring. Based on the advantages and unique properties of shape memory alloys the authors defined the operating mode, the mechanical considerations and the design assumptions for these two examples. It also incl...

In order to realize the farmland information pinpointing acquisition, this paper has conducted the technology research for farmland information collecting and processing based on the DGPS. According to the precision agriculture’s demand which agricultural condition information should be made positional, fast, precise, continuous acquisition, system uses the DGPS receiver and the touch-screen co...

Cosmic-rays are ubiquitous, but their origins are surprisingly difficult to understand. A review is presented of some of the basic issues common to cosmic particle accelerators and arguments leading to the likely importance of diffusive shock acceleration as a general explanation. The basic theory of diffusive shock acceleration is outlined, followed by a discussion of some of the key issues th...

DEFINITION Geographic data are in essence visual multimedia data. To entry those data with keyboards and to print them as tables of data are not very practical actions. For entry, special devices exist (theodolites, lasers, aerial photos, satellite images, etc.) whereas visual layout is currently named cartography or mapping. Visual interfaces have two facets, allowing the user to present their...

Molecular similarity is a pervasive concept in drug design. The basic idea underlying molecular similarity is the similar property principle, which states that structurally similar molecules will exhibit similar physicochemical and biological properties. In this paper, a new graph-based molecular descriptor (GBMD) is introduced. The GBMD is a new method of obtaining a rough description of 2D mo...

The current article is a statement of the meeting with international and multidisciplinary participation, held in Wrocław, Poland on September 11-13, 2008. The meeting was devoted to working out a position focusing on the challenge for individuals, health care systems, biological, psychosocial, epidemiological, medical, and public health sciences in the ageing populations of the twenty-first ce...

Combining with the characteristics of equestrian sports and the psycho diagnosis technology and using the tools such as Visual Basic, Photoshop, Microsoft Access, Psychodiagnosis Testing System for Equestrianism Players was developed. About 40 athletes who participated in the whole national equestrian championship game and the whole nation outstanding equestrian players game were divided three ...

Layers in ArcScene containing polygon features can be extruded to create 3D blocks for display in the current scene. While this is useful for representing flat-roofed buildings within ArcScene it does not create a new, 3D shapefile and cannot create buildings with peaked or curved roofs. A method to create 3D shapefiles representing buildings with complex roofs and then export these objects to ...

Context effects occur when the phonetic perception of an acoustic signal is modified by the surrounding phonetic context. Two experiments were conducted investigating visual context effects on the perception of acoustic speech tokens. In the first experiment a visual bilabial articulation [ibi] was paired with synthetic acoustic tokens from /iri/ to /ili/ continua. In the second experiment a vi...