A Cabin Car Communication System (CCCS) has the goal of improving the communication among passengers inside the car. Wind, road and engine noise, the distance between passengers and other factors make difficult the communication inside vehicles. The driver must often look away from the road and passengers move out of normal seating positions. The CCCS makes use of a set of microphones to pick u...

Finding the physical location of a specific network node is a prototypical task for navigation inside a wireless network. In this paper, we consider in depth the implications of wireless communication as a measurement input of gradient-based taxis algorithms. We discuss how gradients can be measured and determine the errors of this estimation. We then introduce a gradient-based taxis algorithm ...

Knowledge of the airflow distribution inside a Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) can create a safe working environment for workers and machinery. The airflow quality and the related mass flow rate in the ventilation system should be sufficient to dilute gases and remove dust inside the tunnel. In this work, airflow distribution in the single shield TBM tunnel was studied using computational fluid dyn...

Bacteria have evolved the ability to monitor changes in various physico-chemical parameters and to adapt their physiology and metabolism by implementing appropriate cellular responses to these changes. Energy taxis is a metabolism-dependent form of taxis and is the directed movement of motile bacteria in gradients of physico-chemical parameters that affect metabolism. Energy taxis has been desc...

The taxis response of Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.1 and 2.4.3, Rhodopseudomonas palustris, and Agrobacterium tumefaciens to nitrate and nitrite was evaluated by observing the macroscopic behavior of cells suspended in soft agar and incubated under various conditions. R. sphaeroides 2.4.3, which is capable of both nitrate and nitrite reduction, showed a taxis response to both nitrate and nitrite...

Such functions u are called radiating solutions. Pressure measurements are taken by acoustical sensors located in a domain Ω0 inside or outside the cabin or on a surface Γ0 = ∂Ω0 . Our goal is to reconstruct u inside Ω, or the normal velocity v = ∂νu on Γ = ∂Ω, (ν is the unit exterior normal to ∂Ω). This is a mathematical model of the nearfield acoustic holography [W], [Wu]. H(m)(Ω) denotes the...

The safety of the interior of ambulances is dubious and, in the event of sudden impact during emergency transport, potentially perilous to patients they carry. The workplace ergonomics of the interior of the passenger cabin is lacking. This article discusses an improved ergonomic interior design based on study findings, observations and subjective perception. It suggests design aspects and safe...

Abstract The ventilation flow in a car cabin has been experimentally investigated. study carried out commercially available, by testing one mode (panel-vent mode) at fan strength (level 3 of the 4 available) with fresh air intake (without any re-circulation). velocity exit vents measured using 5-hole pressure probe. fields inside have particle image velocimetry (PIV) three longitudinal sections...

In February 2006, a diagnosis of sylvatic epidemic typhus in a counselor at a wilderness camp in Pennsylvania prompted a retrospective investigation. From January 2004 through January 2006, 3 more cases were identified. All had been counselors at the camp and had experienced febrile illness with myalgia, chills, and sweats; 2 had been hospitalized. All patients had slept in the same cabin and r...