Plant tissue extraction for metabolomics
Plants are not only important producers of foods and energy storages (e.g., sugars, carbohydrates, proteins, and fats) in the form of grains, fruits, and vegetables, they also provide many valuable...
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This chapter examines digital virtual environments as a site for art and proposes a formal aesthetics for art in digital virtual environments. The study arises from the author's decades-long practice...
View ArticleThe role of foreign firms in China's urban transformation: A case study of...
To a large extent the Chinese government has relied upon foreign direct investment (FDI) to stimulate economic growth. Inward FDI, which has expanded massively in China after the opening up policy, is...
View ArticleWatermarked biometrics
This chapter discusses the use of biometrics in remote identity authentication services. Biometrics is a unique representation of a person, and they are not secrets. Biometrical data could be obtained...
View ArticleWireless sensor network simulations using castalia and storage case study
Castalia has been built using the OMNeT++ platform and can be used to simulate wireless sensor net- works, body area networks, and other networks of low-power embedded devices. Castalia's scalable...
View ArticleExhaust system acoustic modeling
A combustion engine exhaust system prevents environment pollution and acts as a cascaded acoustic filter that removes most of the noise from the engine. That acoustic system is extremely nonlinear...
View ArticleThe earth sciences and creative practice: Entering the anthropocene
The Anthropocene is being suggested as a new geological age replacing the Holocene and is a description of a time interval where significant conditions and processes are profoundly altered by human...
View ArticleU-city development for economic competitiveness in an advanced ICT era
The world economy has undertaken economic restructuring. In a postindustrialization period, information-related industries, associated with urban creativeness, are driving economic growth in the world....
View ArticleSustainable flat ride suspension design
It was suggested [1] that having natural frequency of the front approximately 80 % of that of the rear suspension in a vehicle will result in a flat ride for the passengers. Flat Ride in this case...
View ArticleTowards formal modelling of autonomous systems
Autonomous systems perform decision making without human intervention. They collect the data from the environment, process it to build the awareness and perform the actions. Consequently, the...
View ArticleThe supply chain uncertainty and risk measurement development
Due to the globalization, increased supply chain network complexity, higher customer expectations, shorter product and technology life cycles, and unstable environment, today's supply chain now face...
View ArticleSecularising business ethics
Since the 1970s, a discursive formation has arisen around the timeless concern that is commonly labelled "business ethics" today. Often dismissively characterised as an oxymoronic expression, business...
View ArticleDeterminants of continuance intention of RFID in Australian livestock...
The purpose of this study is to develop and refine a theoretical framework to examine the continuance intention of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology in Australian livestock industry. A...
View ArticleImplications of user generated content on Facebook
The purpose of this study is to examine the implications (user benefits and costs) of user generated content posted by users on Facebook to individual users. Although motivations to use social...
View Article"Tipped off": Residential amenity and the changing distribution of household...
This paper explores how the geography of household putrescible waste disposal facilities (tips and landfills) has changed in Melbourne over the period 1966 to the present; and how this may relate to...
View ArticleAn investigation into variations in roughness-induced crack closure in high...
Crack closure, driven predominantly by plasticity and roughness, has been identified as a critically important issue affecting fatigue crack growth in high strength alloys. This paper details an...
View ArticleDecentralized reasoning about gradual changes of topological relationships...
A key challenge facing many applications of new geosensor networks technology is to derive meaningful spatial knowledge from low-level sensed data. This paper presents a formal model for representing...
View ArticleAntecedents of continuance intention of RFID technology in Western Australian...
In literature, adoption and continuance of an innovation have been considered as discrete events and discussed in separate models. This study argues that these are interrelated and continuous...
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