SieveMem: A Computation-in-Memory Architecture for Fast and Accurate Pre-Alignment

The high execution time of DNA sequence alignment negatively affects many genomic studies that rely on sequence alignment results. Pre-alignment filtering was introduced as a step before alignment to reduce the execution time of short-read sequence alignment greatly. With its success, i.e., achieving high accuracy and thus removing...

Multimodal markers for technology-independent integration of augmented reality devices and surgical navigation systems

Augmented reality (AR) permits the visualization of pre-operative data in the surgical field of view of the surgeon. This requires the alignment of the AR device’s coordinate system with the used navigation/tracking system. We propose a multimodal marker approach to align an AR device with a tracking system: in our implementation, an...

Achieving Organisational Alignment, Safety and Sustainable Performance in Organisations

When looking at socio-technical systems from a systems thinking and systemic perspective, it becomes clear that mental models govern the behaviours and determine the achievements of socio-technical systems. This is also the case for individuals, being systems themselves and, as such, being elements of those socio-technical systems. Individual...

Reconceptualising CREM alignment to account for waste

Every business needs a place to operate. The management of corporate operational assets is called Corporate Real Estate Management (CREM). In the era of sustainability, smart use of real estate as the second-largest asset of corporations is needed. The purpose of the paper is to reconceptualise CREM alignment to feature the waste concept in...

Information to support strategic campus management in universities

Purpose: This paper aims to underpin the importance of the availability (or absence) of campus management information (CMI) in supporting universities’ goals. Design/methodology/approach: Four perspectives of campus management were used to develop a structured survey enquiring campus managers about universities’ goals, finances, users and...

Novel method of alignment to buried cavities in cavity-SOI wafers for advanced MEMS devices

Accurate alignment between the cavities in cavity-SOI (c-SOI) wafers and lithography on the wafer surface is essential to advanced MEMS production. Existing alignment methods are well defined, but often require specialized equipment or costly software packages available only in professional manufacturing environments. It would be beneficial...

Analysing fourteen graphical representations of corporate real estate alignment models

Purpose: This paper aims to report an analysis of the graphical representations of 14 corporate real estate (CRE) models. It does this to establish the systematic, metatheoretical requirements for modelling CRE alignment which to date have been disguised in a multitude of models. Design/methodology/approach: This meta study of CRE alignment...

Facilities management and corporate real estate management: FM/CREM or FREM?

Purpose: This paper aims to explore similarities and dissimilarities between facilities management (FM) and corporate real estate management (CREM) regarding its history and key issues, and whether the similarities may result in a further integration of FM and CREM. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is based on a review of FM and CREM...

On-chip positionable photonic waveguides for chip-to-chip optical interconnects

This paper reports on the progress related to a multichannel photonic alignment concept, aiming for sub-micrometer precision in the alignment of the waveguides of two photonic integrated circuits (PICs). The concept consists of two steps: chip-to-chip positioning and chip bonding provide a coarse alignment after which waveguide-to-waveguide...

Management strategies for aligning higher education accommodation with the user needs

Purpose – This paper aims to explore the management strategies of facility managers and corporate real estate managers to align corporate real estate (CRE) with the needs of their organization and the end users in a changing context. Design/methodology/approach – The paper first outlines the theoretical issues of CRE alignment processes and the...

Aligning corporate real estate with the corporate strategies of higher education institutions

Purpose<br/>The purpose of this paper is to explore how corporate real estate (CRE) managers of higher education institutions formulate their CRE strategies and CRE operating decisions to align CRE with the corporate strategies of these institutions.<br/><br/>Design/methodology/approach<br/>An analytical alignment framework has been developed,...