Magnetic/plasmonic microparticles have attracted much attention because of their integrated magnetic manipulation and SERS sensing characteristics. However, traditional growth routes often lead to compact or irregular plasmonic shell with sparse...


The present invention is directed to support and represent the automotive sensor and a car containing him, and relates to vehicle systems, driving-related information for a variety of services to collect and based on them through the car sensor representing the virtual world into the virtual world. Car sensor according to the present invention is arranged on one side of the vehicle to convert the sensor information in accordance with at least one sensor for generating a sensor signal the signal generator and, the collected sensor signals predefined MPEG-V standard related to motoring It includes MPEG V-signal converting units. Vehicles according to the invention is e to convert the sensor information based on driving-related sensor signals, at least one of the vehicle sensors comprising a sensor unit, and a portion of the collected sensor signals predefined MPEG-V standard the car sensor for gathering and a control device. And the vehicle system representing a virtual world according to the invention comprises a car, the service-enabled device and a communication network. Car and transmits the converted information to a sensor in accordance with the operation related to at least one of the collected sensor signals and the sensor signals to the collection of predefined MPEG-V standard. Services enabled device and outputs the received sensor information a vehicle is provided. And the communication network supports the communication channel formed between the car and the service support system.


The reliability of printing mechanism can directly affect the dynamic accuracy and processing quality of paper and yarn compounding bag-making and printing machine.The model of printing mechanism is designed by Pro/E software and the dynamic simulation analysis is analyzed based on the construction design module of Pro/E.By bidirectional exchanging data between Pro/E and ANSYS software,the model is imported into finite element analysis software(ANSYS Workbench)and the modal analysis is carried out.Through the simulation analysis,the rationality of mechanism design is verified and the parts with severe bending torsional deformation are found,which provides theoretical basis for further mechanism design and optimization.


Emerging trends in future Intelligent Transportation System allow vehicles to have on-board sensors and digital computers, which might help in real-time information exchange among neighbour vehicles. However, considering infected sensors, computer malfunctioning, and selfishness, legitimate vehicles might inject untrustworthy information into the network. In this situation, to find the credibility of disseminated information in less time delay is the key agenda. To provide a better solution and seamless interconnectivity among vehicles, the authors have proposed software-defined vehicular social networks (VSN). The proposed scheme takes advantage of social connections among vehicles, which are created and maintained over software-defined networking (SDN) cloud. The choice of using SDN cloud is due to its open flow nature, as the devices are more programmable and can be used to optimise the network operation. SDN based on these social connections is able to efficiently handover relevant data from truster to trustee vehicle. The closeness of the relationship between two vehicles in these VSN is modelled and assessed with TrustWalker algorithm by applying novel three-valued subjective logic operations. In the end, to validate the proposed scheme, packet loss and delay are considered as important network evaluation metrics. Performance analysis is done under different schemes and simulation results support the proposed scheme in terms of execution time.


The main aim of this Thesis is to develop processes that allow the integrated production of biopolymers into biorefineries, using feedstocks from first and second generation as raw materials. Climate change, the decrease of the fossil fuel resources and the rapid increase of the world population trigger the development of new processes based on the utilization of renewable raw materials for the replacement of the processes based on the petrochemical synthesis. Moreover, the generation of plastics residues is turning into an important environmental problem due to the recalcitrant feature of the plastics derived from petrol.
Biopolymers, biodegradable and/or biobased plastic-like materials, are an environmentally sustainable alternative to the use of petroleum-based plastics. Among the several types of biopolymers, polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) stand out. PHA is a type of thermopolyester, biobased and biodegradable, produced by certain microorganisms as a storage material. Nevertheless, despite the benefits presented by the biopolymers, the industrial production of PHA is threatened by production costs higher than that of the petroleum-based plastics. The reduction of the PHA production costs depends on the development and application of new fermentation strategies, downstreams processes, the microorganism and carbon source used for its production. The halophilic bacterium Halomonas boliviensis was used in this Thesis as PHA producer organism due to its capacity to accumulate PHA in high amounts.
Firstly, experiments were carried out in order to determine the basic nutritional requirements for growth and PHA accumulation with this microorganism. Besides, an analytical methodology based on flow cytometry was developed for a faster quantification of the PHA content.
Then, two different substrates from first generation feedstocks, cereal and sugarcane juice, were evaluated as carbon source for PHA production by H. boliviensis. A novel process configuration was implemented and evaluated, based on the strategy of simultaneous saccharification and fermentation, for the PHA production from cereal mash. Finally, the utilization of volatile fatty acids, derived from residual streams, was evaluated as carbon source. This allowed to upgrade the biorefinery concept.
To sum up, the results of this Thesis provide different routes for the formulation of processes that allow the integration of the biopolymers production into a biorefinery and, particularly, information about the general PHA accumulation capacity of H. boliviensis and its specific performance growing on complex carbon sources.


home to his parents told them firmly that there appeared "no limits" to his "chances of making money." In August 1850 William P. Dangerfield said much the same. "Proverbial ships" were about to dock. It did not matter that on arrival Dangerfield and his party had but two dollars each. Gold was everywhere, wealth for all close at hand.1 All this implied social flux. Not surprisingly believers in the Dream found it all around them. On 14 November 1850 Dangerfield wrote to his sister from Sacramento City:2


The architecture for integration of MPLS with Mobile IP for supporting IP DiffServ model is presented in this article,in which the node's functional model and register procedure are discussed briefly.We evaluate the QoS architecture of integrated Mobile IP and MPLS by NS2 emulation and conclude the architecture is effective.


The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of thermal and thermomechanical cycling on microtensile bond strength (μTBS) of two resin cements to leucite reinforced glass ceramic (IPS Empress Esthetic) after 24 h and 1 year of storage. Seventy-two blocks (8mm x 8mm x 3mm) of leucite reinforced glass ceramic were prepared and the ceramic surface was conditioned with 10% hydrofluoric acid followed by silane application. The ceramic blocks were attached to similar blocks of composite resin (Filtek Z250) using the dual resin cement (Variolink II) or self-adhesive dual resin cement (RelyX U200, 3M ESPE). The specimens were stored in an oven at 37 ° C for 24h. Then, the groups were submitted to different treatments: thermal cycling (3,000 thermal cycles between 5 and 55 ° C), thermomechanical cycling (250,000 mechanical cycles and 3000 thermal cycles) or remained untreated, stored in distilled water (control). After the treatments, the specimens were sectioned perpendicularly to the union area, in both x and y axes, to obtain sticks of approximately 1mm2 of union area, which were stored in distilled water for 24h or 1 year. The sticks obtained from each group were submitted to the microtensile strength test, immediately (24h) and after 1 year of storage, at a speed of 0.5mm / min, totaling 12 experimental groups (n = 6). The results were submitted to Analysis of variance (3 factors) and Tukey test (α = 0.05). The μTBS of the control group was significantly higher (p <0.05) than the groups submitted to thermal cycling and thermomechanical cycling, regardless of the resin cement used and storage time. The groups submitted to thermal cycling showed significantly higher values (p <0.05) than the groups submitted to thermomechanical cycling, regardless of the resin cement used or storage time. Conventional cement presented higher μTBS than self-adhesive cement (p <0.05) regardless of treatment or storage time. The predominant fracture mode for the groups after 24h of storage was the mixed fracture involving the resin cement, ceramic and composite, and after 1 year, the adhesive fracture. It can be concluded that thermal and thermomechanical cycling significantly decreased μTBS in both storage times. Conventional resin cement showed superior performance to self-adhesive resin cement; and storage for 1 year reduced the μTBS of all groups.


Sampling points with blue noise spectral characteristics are best suited for antialiasing. Compared to Poisson disk sampling, Lloyd' s relaxation scheme yields samples that approximate these superior frequency characteristics much better. We complete the elementary algorithm by new techniques that allow to generate hierarchical point sets for adaptive sampling that can be efficiently tiled over the sampling plane in an aperiodic way while preserving the blue noise characteristics.


The problem of constructing and analyzing cubature formulas that integrate a given collection of functions exactly has been earlier considered mainly in the cases when these functions are algebraic or trigonometric polynomials. The approximate integration formulas exact for finite Haar sums can be found in the monograph [1], the accuracy of approximate integration formulas for finite Haar sums was used there for deriving the error of these formulas. A description of all minimal weighted quadrature formulas possessing the Haar d–property, i.e., formulas exact for Haar polynomials of degree at most d, was given in [2]. In [3] the estimates of the norm of the error functional for quadrature formulas exact for Haar polynomials were proved on the spaces Sp and Hα in the case of the weight function g(x) ≡ 1. In [4] the estimates of the norm of the error functional for minimal quadrature formulas exact for Haar polynomials were obtained on the spaces Sp in the case of the weight function g ∈ L∞[0, 1]. In the two-dimensional case, the problem of constructing cubature formulas possessing the Haar d-property was considered in [5–9]. Estimates of the norm of the error functional for cubature formulas on the spaces Sp and Hα were obtained in [10,11]. The results obtained in [3] are extended in this paper to the case of weighted quadrature formulas on the spaces Sp. In the case of the weight function g ∈ L1[0, 1], a lower estimate of the norm of the error functional δN is derived for quadrature formulas exact for any constant. In the cases of the weight function g ∈ L∞[0, 1] and g ∈ Lq[0, 1] (p −1 + q = 1), upper estimates of the norm of the error functional δN are proved for quadrature formulas possessing the Haar d-property. It is shown that in the case of N ≍ 2 with d → ∞, the value ‖δN‖S∗ p for the formulas under study has the best convergence rate to zero, which is equal to N 1 p with N → ∞.


The case is that of a 65 year‐old male with reticulosarcomatosis originating from the skin. There were multiple tumors composed of reticulum cells located only in the skin, particularly around the large joints. The entire course of illness was three years and five months, during which period regression by irradiation, recurrence, or new forma tion of tumors were repeatedly seen. At the end systemic tumor spread not only of the skin but also in various visceral organs including lymph nodes occurred.