The article aims to investigate the presence of a correlation between eco-innovation and economic performance within industrial districts. The case analyzed in this article is based on a study concerning a sample of 54 Italian industrial clusters entitled "Eco-Districts" that has compiled a list of the most eco-efficient districts at the national level. After selecting two districts, this study...

We present and motivate the definition and use of the language and environment dSL, an imperative and event driven language designed to program distributed industrial control systems. dSL provides transparent code distribution using simple mechanisms. Its use allows the industrial control system’s designer to concentrate on the sequences of control required; the dSL compiler-distributer taking ...

Conventional industrial monitoring systems are tedious, inefficient and the at times integrity of the data is unreliable. The objective of this system is to monitor industrial processes specifically the fluid level which will measure the instantaneous fluid level parameter and respond by text messaging the exact value of the parameter to the user when being enquired by a privileged access user....

This paper addresses parallel programming paradigms for nonlinear, explicit finite element simulations primarily employed for crashworthiness and occupant safety simulations in the automotive industry. The reliance of industrial design on computer simulation and state-of-the-art high performance computing architectures will be discussed as a motivation for the need for parallel implementations ...

The concepts of pet companion for elderly were proposed. Wireless network technique enhances communication and emotion reception abilities between pet and elderly. Several kinds of interaction modes were proposed to fulfil the ability and living characteristics of the elderly. The sustainable and industrial applicability issues are evaluated. Zigbee attachment concept is much better in energy s...

This thesis deals with the structure and genetic blueprint of lipopolysaccharides (LPS) expressed by the Gram-negative bacterium Haemophilus influenzae (H.influenzae). H. influenzae is an opportunistic pathogen that regularly colonizes the upper respiratory tract and exists in encapsulated (typeable) or nonencapsulated (non-typeable) forms (NTHi). Prior research has indicated that the surface e...

An overview of the important aspects of managing and controlling industrial effluent discharges to public sewers namely sampling, characterization, quantification and legislative controls has been presented. The findings have been validated by means of a case study covering three industrial sectors namely, tanning, textile finishing and food processing industries. Industrial effluents discharge...

As the number of systems which offer annotations on digital documents increases, robust anchoring of annotations is a key challenge. It is especially important if the annotator lacks write-access to the document being annotated. For example, if someone makes an annotation on a web page today and the web page changes tomorrow, what happens to the annotation? One approach is simply to “orphan” th...

Algorithms which perform auto-annotation of remotely sensed imagery need to undergo verification and validation (V&V) such that the end user can make a fitness-foruse judgment regarding their particular application and can be assured of a high level of confidence in achieving success. Synthesizing these data is one means of obtaining the imagery required to conduct benchmark testing. This paper...