TRANSFER RNA DYNAMICS AND TRANSFER-MESSENGER RNAACCOMMODATION IN BACTERIAL RIBOSOMES AT THE SINGLE-MOLECULELEVEL byMAY DAHERDecember 2012Advisor: Dr. David RuedaMajor: Chemistry (Biochemistry)Degree: Doctor of PhilosophySingle-molecule spectroscopy, protein-induced fluorescence enhancement(PIFE), fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET), and several ...

Over the last few years, the cost of energy from renewable resources, such as sunlight and wind, has declined resulting in an increasing use of Renewable Energy Sources (RES). As a result, the energy produced by RES is fed into the power grid while their share is expected to significantly increase in the future. However, RES are characterized by power fluctuations and their integration into the...

The paper presents the results of the project GISMO, which aimed on generating and interactively visualising a 3D urban landscape model of the city of Stuttgart, Germany. With respect to the desired flexibility to support walkthrough and flyover applications, a combined approach using continuous level of detail, the impostor technique and a method for generalizing 3D building models was used to...

DISIMA (Distributed Image Database Management System) is a research project under development at the University of Alberta that explores: (i) the development of an object-oriented DBMS kernel that provides flexibility for user-defined classification of images, supports feature-based and spatial querying over image content, and enables reasoning over spatial relationships for query optimization;...

This paper presents the contribution of Carlos III University (UC3M) in the IECAT (Innovative Educational Concepts for Autonomous and Teleoperated Systems) project which aims at create an innovative educational tool on autonomous and teleoperated mechatronics systems. UC3M will contribute in the project providing some experiments in the mobile robotics field. The main benefit of Web-based educa...

In this paper we discuss issues concerning the development of interactive virtual reality (VR) environments. We argue that the integration of such type of environments with database technology has the potential of providing on one side much flexibility and on the other hand of resulting in enhanced interfaces for accessing contents from digital archives. The paper also describes a project deali...

Complex qualitative research projects often require not only adjustments during project implementation, but also adaptation of the methodology and research design. The paper discusses the enhancement of the structured-case approach to include action research style interventions within structured-case cycles. An application of this approach is presented based on a study of a Community of Practic...

1.1 Agile Development The Agile Manifesto explicitly states that priority should be given to ‘‘individuals and interaction over processes and tools, customer collaboration over contract negotiation, working software over comprehensive documentation, and responding to changes over following a plan’’ [1]. Thus these agile principles promotes the flexibility by allowing changes to project requirem...

Collaboration flow management is a new paradigm for virtual team support which aims at assisting the opportunistic flow of collaboration within a distributed project, considered as a living and self-organizing system. Such a flow includes informal and formal, synchronous and asynchronous, taskoriented and project management-oriented collaborative sessions. Some of them are elements of model-dri...

We propose theoretical improvement to the Silva & Santiago (2009) valuation model for innovative projects and discuss a practical application. We discuss some points of the model and include a minimum sales function, which decreases in time. In order to test the model, we performed the valuation of an existing project. This project has multiple sources of uncertainty and managerial flexibility ...