One trend in computer technology over the last decades was definitely that of devices becoming smaller and personal. Monolithic main-frame systems with many users are almost extinct and personal computers were the first milestone in this evolution. But the PC was not the end of the line. The personal computer is still getting smaller and portable computers such as powerful laptops and less powe...

Introduction The development of alternative and renewable energies is one of the crucial opportunities exhibited by governments to remediate the diminishing resources of the fossil feedstock. Biogases collected from landfill, digester and wastewater plants constitute a large and disposable supply to produce a rich methane stream, though these resources remain mostly unused. The biogas should be...

Author(s): Bi, Wenyan; Shah, Aalap D; Wong, Kimberly W; Scholl, Brian; Yildirim, Ilker | Abstract: When encountering objects, we readily perceive not only low-level properties (e.g., color and orientation), but also seemingly higher-level ones--including aspects of physics mass). Perhaps nowhere is this contrast more salient than in the perception soft materials such as cloths: dynamics these o...