AIMS To develop a non-invasive method to demonstrate the presence of haemoglobin and its degradation products in bruises in live human subjects for the purposes of objectively assisting in the determination of the age of a bruise. METHODS The cuvette holder unit of a Cary 100 Bio UV-Visible Spectrophotometer was replaced with the manufacture's fibre optic cable and optical reflectance probe. ...

Multi-antenna systems have been shown to significantly improve channel capacity in wireless environments. The focus of this thesis is on the design of low-complexity multiantenna receiver architectures for communication networks and their demonstration in a real-time wireless environment. Our practical realization of an orthogonal frequencydivision multi-antenna receiver is capable of several f...

Muon Colliders have unique technical and physics advantages and disadvantages when compared with both hadron and electron machines. They should thus be regarded as complementary. Parameters are given of 4 TeV and 0.5 TeV (c-of-m) high luminosity μμ colliders, and of a 0.5 TeV lower luminosity demonstration machine. We discuss the various systems in such muon colliders, starting from the proton ...

The utilization of electric vehicles (EV) and their used batteries in supporting small-scale energy management systems were studied. Both theoretical study and practical demonstration were performed to measure the feasibility of the developed system. Each five EVs and used EV batteries were used along with 20 kW photovoltaic (PV) panels as a renewable energy source. The main objective of the de...

This demonstration will show the practical application of a formal reasoning engine for both policy invocation and policy reconciliation. The primary features of this demonstration include the use of formal ontologies, context based policy reasoning, and support for both policy invocation and reconciliation. BaseVISor [1], a forward chaining inference engine optimized for reasoning about RDF tr...

Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) methods are used extensively in the field of assessment and evaluation. Due to EFA’s widespread use, common methods and practices have come under close scrutiny. A substantial body of literature has been compiled highlighting problems with many of the methods and practices used in EFA, and, in response, many guidelines have been proposed with the aim to improve...

The fact that the coefficients of capacitance for a set of capacitors are geometrical factors appears in all textbooks of electricity and magnetism. However, in basic treatments there is no a rigorous demonstration of such a fact and most of the proofs are based on the Green formalism. We present a demonstration based on the Laplace’s equation that can be accesible for students of a basic cours...

Focal task-specific dystonia is an unusual movement disorder that may affect musicians specifically when they perform on their instruments. Muscles of the lower face, lower limb and upper limb may be involved depending on the nature of the instrument. We illustrate the rich phenomenology of focal task-specific dystonia affecting the upper limb in musicians, and present a practical approach for ...

Mobile agents are programs that can be moved, or can move themselves, from one host to another across a network. Hosts accept these programs without knowing in advance how they will behave. Whilst the majority of these agents should be bona fide it is possible that any mobile agent may be concealing some kind of malicious intent, perhaps to steal data or to break into the site. Research at the ...