This paper describes the implementation of an internet-based personal robot with novel direct internet control architecture which is insensitive to the inherent internet time delay. The personal robot can be controlled by using a simulator provided at a local site. However, a large internet time delay may make some control inputs distorted. Moreover, since it is affected by the number of the in...

investigating and ranking the stressor factors on employees’ job performance in urmia university of medical sciences staff heidarisani m , vahedi m , rahimi gh , rahimi b * received: 25 aug , 2013 accepted: 28 oct , 2013 abstract background & aims: stress and its effect is a significant problem in all organizations therefore employees and even human are living with it in recent decade. the purp...

− Automation networks tend to become smarter and more consumer-oriented. New technologies, initially not intended for automation purposes, offer new possibilities and increased functionality for control and monitoring applications. This paper gives an overview of how intercommunication between to entirely different networks such as fieldbus systems, used for automation networks and wireless per...

Researchers strive to optimize data quality in order to ensure that study findings are valid and reliable. In this paper, we describe a data quality control program designed to maximize quality of survey data collected using computer-assisted personal interviews. The quality control program comprised three phases: (1) software development, (2) an interviewer quality control protocol, and (3) a ...

Recent research has repeatedly demonstrated that well-being typically evinces precipitous deterioration close to the end of life. However, the determinants of individual differences in these terminal declines are not well understood. In this study, we examine the role of perceived personal control as a potential buffer against steep terminal declines in well-being. We applied single- and multip...

In wireless multimedia communication systems, call admission control (CAC) is critical for simultaneously achieving a high resource utilization efficiency and maintaining quality-of-service (QoS) to mobile users. User mobility, heterogeneous nature of multimedia traffic, and limited radio spectrum pose significant challenges to CAC. QoS provisioning to both new calls and handoff calls comes wit...

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This research report undertakes an interdisciplinary review of the concept of “control” (i.e. the idea that people should have greater “control” over their data), proposing an analysis of this concept in the field of law and computer science. Despite the omnipresence of the notion of control in the EU policy documents, scholarly literature and in the press, the very meaning of this concept rema...

As a biologist trained in an academic program that had little scientific appreciation for the traditional method of classical biological control, I find it very instructive that I now oversee one of the largest U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) biological control facilities in the United States. Through years of experience working in pest-management systems of all types, I have become a bel...

Introduction: Recently a new approach of power control was introduced in order to enhance the capacity, i.e. number of simultaneously served users, of personal communication networks. The new method employs superresolution beamformers and array signal processing at the base stations to suppress the co-channel interference by synthesising an antenna pattern with high gain towards the direction o...