Nearly two billion people worldwide have no reliable access to electricity, a vital part of the path to development. Micro wind power is one promising solution. Micro wind installations offer environmental sustainability, low capital costs, and excellent adaptability to diverse environmental and cultural situations. Yet, electrification projects in the developing world, including small-scale wi...

The development of strategies to reduce the load of unwanted bacteria is a fundamental challenge in industrial processing, environmental sciences and medical applications. Here, we report a new method to sequester motile bacteria from a liquid, based on passive, deployable micro-traps that confine bacteria using micro-funnels that open into trapping chambers. Even in low concentrations, micro-t...

Inspired by the self-migration of microorganisms in nature, artificial micro- and nanomotors can mimic this fantastic behavior by converting chemical fuel or external energy into mechanical motion. These self-propelled micro- and nanomotors, designed either by top-down or bottom-up approaches, are able to achieve different applications, such as environmental remediation, sensing, cargo/sperm tr...

A micro-grid is an energy community having various Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) such as diesel engines, micro turbines, solar power, wind power, fuel cells and energy storage devices. The multi-agent architecture offers a hierarchical structure is very suitable for managing multi-individual and heterogeneous DERs in the micro-grid environment. This paper proposes a multi-agent architectu...

A practical implementation of a wearable physiological and environmental monitoring system is presented. The technical requirements for wearable electronics and sensors are analyzed. A proposed system includes micro and nano device design, wireless network based on TCP/IP protocol and software application. The result samples from monitoring in ambulatory environment are discussed.

Genetic robustness, the preservation of an optimal phenotype in the face of mutations, is critical to the understanding of evolution as phenotypically expressed genetic variation is the fuel of natural selection. The origin of genetic robustness, whether it evolves directly by natural selection or it is a correlated byproduct of other phenotypic traits, is, however, unresolved. Examining micro-...

In this paper, the observation technique on the miCTO environments with a real-time virtual reality camera system, whitch is constructed with a dynamic focusing lens and a smart vision sensor using the “depth from focus” criteria, has been discussed In the operation with a microscope, such as the micro-surgery, DNA operation and etc., the small depth of a focus makes bad controllability to actu...

The advantages of miniaturisation, e.g. low masses, low power consumption and small dimensions open new fields of applications for powerful micro actuators in areas dealing with particular environmental conditions like ultra high vacuum or wide temperature ranges. In fact these kinds of applications are mostly challenging positioning tasks, such as the sensitive movement or exact adjustment of ...

Traffic signals are one of the major components of arterial traffic network. A well designed signal setting benefits on increasing network efficiency and safety, on the contrary a poor setting could cause various problems. Many signal operation and optimization modes have been developed to deal with different traffic conditions. However researches related with evaluation of traffic signal effic...

Background & significance Glioblastoma (GBM) remains prognostically dismal, with only modest gains in mean survival time with chemoand radiotherapy motivating research into reversing its characteristic local and systemic immunosuppression with precision in this high-risk tissue. While wholerepertoire amplification of the TCR repertoire allows unprecedented depth regarding the potentiation of an...