Silver halide sensitized gelatin (SHSG) is one of the most promising techniques for the fabrication of transmission holographic optical elements, achieving relatively high sensitivity of photographic material with the low scattering and high light stability of dichromated gelatin. In this…

Numerical calculation of Fresnel patterns through fast Fourier transforms usually requires an extremely large number of samples in order to fulfil the Nyquist sampling condition. In many applications, the cut-off frequency of the system is much below the limit fixed…

Technological innovation requires a technical preparation in material, financial and human resources. However, without a clear corporate culture, the technical side of technological innovation will hardly develop in a satisfactory manner.
In this light, we analyze the origin of a…

The research presented in this paper approaches the issue of indoor localization using the fuzzy logic framework for modeling and dealing with the uncertainty of the position measurements. Fuzzy logic presents properties that make it suitable tool to represent and…

The purpose of this pilot study was to develop and examine the psychometric properties of the Diabetic Care Teacher Support Questionnaire, a 31-item self-report instrument to assess diabetic children’s perceptions of the diabetes specific support received from their teachers at…

Problems encountered in the description of ion-induced compositional changes in non-monatomic solids, on the basis of the binary collision approach (BCA), are reported. The ingredients of a collisional model responsible for eventual ambiguity of computer simulation results are pointed out.…

The main step in the production of carbon nanofilaments is the catalytic nucleation and lengthening of the filament. An undesired parallel step in
the production of carbon nanofilaments is their thickening by pyrolitic carbon vapor deposition consisting in an ordered…

This paper evaluates the different tasks carried out in the translation of pronominal anaphora in a machine translation (MT) system. The MT interlingua approach named AGIR (Anaphora Generation with an Interlingua Representation) improves upon other proposals presented to date because…

Two styrene–bTwo styrene–butadiene–styrene block rubbers, one with 10wt% calcium carbonate filler (S6C), and one without (S6) were surface treated with UV radiation. The resulting surface modifications and adhesion properties with polyurethane adhesive were studied. The surface modifications produced on these…

For a mobile robot that interacts with humans such as a home assistant or a tour guide robot, activities such as locating objects, following specific people, and distinguishing among different people are fundamental, yet challenging robotic vision tasks. For complex…