Matching the impedance of an artificial lung for pulmonary replacement to native pulmonary impedance is important in preventing right ventricular dysfunction. A lumped-parameter theoretical model and bench-top experiments were used to investigate the effect of a prototype compliance chamber on input impedance. The bench-top simulation consisted of a pulsatile flow generator, a prototype complia...

This work presents the Web Classifying Immune System (WCIS) which is a prototype system to detect zero-day attacks against web servers by examining web server requests. WCIS is intended to work in conjunction with more traditional intrusion detection systems to detect new and emerging threats that are not detected by the traditional IDS database. WCIS is at its core an artificial immune system,...

This Science Fiction Prototype re-imagines the technologies of augmentation which seek to create a space “overlaid” onto our own with a ‘mixed’ reality. It is proposed that this can be seen as an attempt to build an unseen zone that is reminiscent of the aether worlds of the 19th and early 20th Century. Taking an aesthetic developed by the decadent author JK Huysmans to create a neodecadent pro...

This paper describes a prototype for centralised urban traffic control utilising techniques from the field of Artificial Intelligence. The focus of this presentation is on the prototype as a novel architecture for knowledge based traffic control. The prototype is called the Intelligent Urban Traffic Control System (IUTCS), and was developed under DRIVE 1. The IUTCS is now receiving further deve...

As a primary component of Chinese Sign Language(CSL), finger-spelling language plays an important role in deaf education and their communication. With the help of spelling rule, the system that can recognize the alphabet flow can understand and interpret CSL. So in this paper the method of effective frame extraction is proposed and used to eliminate the transition frames in the alphabet flow. A...

In the search for genes expressed in hematopoietic stem cells, we identified that the expression of Gfi-1B (growth factor independence-1B) is highly restricted to hematopoietic stem cells, erythroblasts, and megakaryocytes. Gfi-1 and Gfi-1B are zinc finger proteins that share highly conserved SNAG and 6 zinc finger domains. Gfi-1 has been characterized as an oncogene involved in lymphoid malign...

This work presents an expert system prototype that integrates concepts from Design Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Object-Oriented Modeling and Hydraulic System Design, developed as a research project using CLIPS, the project had intensive validation by industrial and academic experts. The development applied INTERNET technologies for knowledge harvesting and user interface. The paper dis...

This paper contributes an overview of application of intelligent tools into the sector of b2b training. We present three prototype intelligent tools developed with artificial intelligence techniques (neural-networks and fuzzy-logic) which have been successfully applied to business training.

The hand exoskeleton has been widely studied in the fields of rehabilitation and grasping assistance tasks. Current exoskeletons face challenges combining a user-friendly design with lightweight structure accurate modeling motion. In this study, we developed finger rolling contact involute joint. Specific implementation methods were investigated, including an analysis mechanical characteristics...