Highway A58: The first engineered self healing asphalt road (abstract)

Self-healing supramolecular polymer and polymer nanocomposites (poster abstract)

A "door-to-door" path-finding approach for indoor navigation

Indoor navigation is gaining an increasing interest among researchers in many domains. In many cases users need to orient quickly in complex environments, which is not always the target of current routing algorithms. The paper reviews current indoor path-finding approaches and discusses some of the limitations. In order to support a natural...

Design research on business models in home healthcare

In Home Healthcare, a huge number of telemonitoring pilots have been executed. Positive indications suggest reduction of health problems and support in helping patients to gain control. For healthcare providers, significantreductions in healthcare costs have been estimated. However,” despite this large amount of pilot studies and the positive...

Issues in the design of a no-reference metric for perceived blur

Developing an objective metric, which automatically quantifies perceived image quality degradation induced by blur, is highly beneficial for current digital imaging systems. In many applications, these objective metrics need to be of the noreference (NR) type, which implies that quality prediction is based on the distorted image only. Recent...

A Research on the Transformation of Urban Form And Dynamics of Xiguan Area, Guangzhou

This paper mainly uses the method of Urban Morphology to study the transformation process of urban form of Xiguan historical district in Guangzhou, P.R.China. The paper tries to analyze the transformation process through studying the background of politics, economy, society, culture and natural condition of Xiguan area. It further discusses the...

A CMOS 128-APS linear array integrated with a LVOF for highsensitivity and high-resolution micro-spectrophotometry

A linear array of 128 Active Pixel Sensors has been developed in standard CMOS technology and a Linear Variable Optical Filter (LVOF) is added using CMOS-compatible post-process, resulting in a single chip highly-integrated highresolution microspectrometer. The optical requirements imposed by the LVOF result in photodetectors with small pitch...

No-Reference image quality assessment based on localized gradient statistics: Application to JPEG and JPEG2000

Quantum optics with single nanowire quantum dots

In this paper we present our recent developments in control and manipulation of individual spins and photons in a single nanowire quantum dot. Specific examples include demonstration of optical excitation of single spin states, charge tunable quantum devices and single photon sources. We will also discuss our recent discovery of a new type of...

Studying the effect of optimizing the image quality in saliency regions at the expense of background content

Manufacturers of commercial display devices continuously try to improve the perceived image quality of their products. By applying some post processing techniques on the incoming image signal, they aim to enhance the quality level perceived by the viewer. Applying such techniques may cause side effects on different portions of the processed...

Comparing subjective image quality measurement methods for the creation of public databases

InSAR based validation of MERIS IWV cloud gap filling using GPS IWV

High spatial resolution integrated water vapor (IWV) estimates are available from the MERIS spectrometer on board of Envisat. Unfortunately cloud cover results in loss of a large amount of MERIS IWV pixels. Here methods are presented for filling cloud gaps in MERIS IWV scenes, first, by directly interpolating remaining pixels not affected by...

Potential of semiconductor nanowires for single photon sources

The catalyst-assisted growth of semiconductor nanowires heterostructures offers a very flexible way to design and fabricate single photon emitters. The nanowires can be positioned by organizing the catalyst prior to growth. Single quantum dots can be formed in the core of single nanowires which can then be easily isolated and addressed to...

Gravity field modeling on the basis of GRACE range-rate combinations: Current results and challenge

An effective strategy for porting C++ applications on cell

In this paper we present a solution for efficient porting of sequential C++ applications on the Cell B.E. processor. We present our step-by-step approach, focusing on its generality, we provide a set of code templates and optimization guidelines to support the porting, and we include a set of equations to estimate the performance gain of the new...