Designing novel cyber-physical systems entails significant, costly physical experimentation. Simulation tools can enable the virtualization of experiments. Unfortunately, current tools have shortcomings that limit their utility for virtual experimentation. Language research can be especially helpful in addressing many of these problems. As a first step in this direction, we consider the questio...

The objective of this review is to address part of the studies on an issue not much explored: the relation between physical exercise and the psychobiological aspects. The importance of understanding these aspects and how they affect the quality of life of the human being is what stimulates researches on this issue. The literature stresses the fact that the regular practice of physical exercise ...

This paper presents the research involved in the elaboration of the timbre model, a signal model which has been built to better understand the relationship between the perception of timbre and the musical sounds most commonly associated with timbre. The elaboration of the timbre model involves an overview of the related topics in many fields. In particular the signal processing, perceptual and ...

The National Accelerator Centre (NAC) is the only particle therapy facility in the Southern Hemisphere and the only one in the world where both high energy neutrons and high energy protons are used for patient treatment. Routine treatment began on the p( 66)/Be isocentric neutron therapy unit in 1989 and 764 patients had been treated in a variety of clinical protocols up to September 1995. The ...

Comprehensive Brachytherapy: Physical and Clinical Aspects. Venselaar J., Baltas D., Meigooni A., Hoskin P., Imaging in Medical Diagnosis and Therapy, William R. Hendee, Series Editor. CRC/Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL, 2013. Hardback 535 pp. Price: $199.95. ISBN: 9781439844984.

Cryopreservation would potentially very much facilitate the inventory control and distribution of laboratory-produced organs and tissues. Although simple freezing methods are effective for many simple tissues, bioartificial organs and complex tissue constructs may be unacceptably altered by ice formation and dissolution. Vitrification, in which the liquids in a living system are converted into ...

Distance measures are used to specify the (amount of) (dis)similarity between (two) events, on the basis of specific properties. This definition of distance measures makes it possible to emphasis various characteristics which I consider to be important. In the speech domain one can replace the general term 'event' in this definition by '(multidimensional) speech signal'. Uni-dimensional physica...

Many writers, indeed, had laid down definite rules to guide our conduct towards domesticated animals, but these generally expressed a sense of duty towards their owners rather than towards the creatures themselves. In the case of Christian teachers, this omission of a sense of duty towards animals was partly based on the manner in which St. Paul interpreted the precept, " Thou shalt not muzzle ...

A brief description of some of the physical origins of higher twist terms and their possible relevance to data are given. (Presented at the XVth Rencontre de Moriond: High Energy Hadronic Interactions, Les Arcs, France, March 9-15, 1980.) * Work supported by the Department of Energy under contract number DE-AC03-76SF00515.