... reads the annual TRNSYS heatingandcooling load profile so as to
determine the values of the peak heatingandcooling loads for each month of the year (see Table 2) and
their durations. Moreover, ... geometrical attributes and
inf
H
the factor of opening’s position and
air force exposure.
Annual heating demand of the building is 33.78 kWh/m
2
whereas cooling demand is 27.34 kWh/m
2
. ... simulation for the heating season than that with 100 m borehole length. Judging from Eqs. (8)
and (9) the borehole wall temperature evaluations are closer for the heating season than for the cooling...
... estimation for OFDM systems
For wide-band wireless communication systems, the channel is time varying and
dispersive fading, which will distort the transmitted signal. Thus, the accurate and
real-time ... of thesis entitled
“A Study of Channel Estimation for OFDM Systemsand
System Capacity for MIMO-OFDM Systems
Submitted by
Zhou Wen
For the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
at the university ...
between the velocity of the mobile handset in the radial direction of the mobile handset
and the base station. Assuming that the arrival angles of the signal is uniformly distributed
in the...
... Cellular Systems 25
2.2.2 Digital Second Generation Systems 25
2.3 First 3G Systems 27
2.3.1 Requirements for 3G 27
2.3.2 Evolution of 2G Systems towards 3G 29
2.3.3 Worldwide 3G Standardisation Efforts ... Control
MAHO Mobile Assisted Handover
MA Mobile Allocation (of radio frequency channels) in GSM
MAI Multiple Access Interference
MAIO Mobile Allocation Index Offset (for frequency hopping in GSM)
MBS Mobile ... COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
5
(GSM) for instance features an SFH option, the benefits of which are discussed extensively
in Chapter 4.
For one 2G system called cdmaOne and most 3G systems, e.g. the Universal Mobile
Telecommunications...
... suitable for
mobile robot applications. In this section we introduce two such systems.
2.3.6.1 The Andrew “Autogyro"
Andrew Corp. [ANDREW] offers the low-cost Autogyro, shown in Figure 2.11, for ... in inertial
navigation systemsfor the Boeing 757 and 767 in the early 1980s, and over half a million fiber-optic
navigation systems have been installed in Japanese automobiles since 1987 [Reunert, ... specifications for the Andrew
Autogyro Navigator
(Courtesy of [Andrew Corp].)
Figure 2.12: The Andrew
AUTOGYRO
Navigator
.
(Courtesy of [Andrew Corp].)
in [Allen et al., 1994; Bennett and Emge,
1994].
In...
... course and velocity information over a given length of time [Dunlap and Shufeldt,
1972]. The vast majority of land-based mobile robotic systems in use today rely on dead reckoning
to form the ... 1.14: An 8-DOF platform with four wheels individually driven and steered.
This platform was designed and built by
Unique Mobility, Inc.
(Courtesy of
[UNIQUE].)
slippage for their two-wheel ... position.
20 Part I Sensors forMobile Robot Positioning
For completeness, we rewrite the well-known equations for odometry below (also, see [Klarer,
1988; Crowley and Reignier, 1992]). Suppose...
... Education and Gender Equality
Taking action: achieving gender equality and empowering women
Task Force on Child Health and Maternal Health
Who’s got the power? Transforming health systemsfor women and ... Education and Gender Equality
Taking action: achieving gender equality and empowering women
Task Force on Child Health and Maternal Health
Who’s got the power? Transforming health systemsfor women and ... epidemiology, economics and political economy, anthropol
-
ogy and the behavioral sciences, law, and policy analysis. Although the task
force joins the call for increased health systems research to...
... suitable for
mobile robot applications. In this section we introduce two such systems.
2.3.6.1 The Andrew “Autogyro"
Andrew Corp. [ANDREW] offers the low-cost Autogyro, shown in Figure 2.11, for ... iron and nickel) and mumetal (iron, nickel,
Where am I?
Sensors and Methods for
Mobile Robot Positioning
by
J. Borenstein , H. R. Everett , and L. Feng
123
Contributing authors: S. W. Lee and ... in inertial
navigation systemsfor the Boeing 757 and 767 in the early 1980s, and over half a million fiber-optic
navigation systems have been installed in Japanese automobiles since 1987 [Reunert,...
... the basis for
quantitative standards for school meals
and is provided as guidance by the
Department for Education and Skills in
its nutritional guidelines for school
lunches.
2
Practical and nutritional
guidelines ... residential and
nursing homes, and in the community,
both to raise the profile of eating well
for older people and to provide
practical guidance for those who work
in this sector andfor those ... summary
of the standards for England and
Wales which relate to food and
nutrition is given in Appendix 2.
Scottish nursing home care standards
go further in their requirement that
all nursing homes demonstrate...
... requirements for initializing and validating upper-ocean mixed-layer models. Such model systems
provide a dynamic framework for the assimilation of satellite and in situ observations and the forecasting ... platforms. International collaboration on such
systems is recent,
2
and the current and nearer-term sensor systems have not been well coordinated. For example,
one may find several platforms ... provide candid and critical comments that will assist the authors and
the NRC in making the published report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional
standards for objectivity,...
... local and remote tasks (proc-
esses), synchronization of their execution,
data exchange between tasks (including re-
formatting), and exception handling. The
commands for the local systems ... companion data-
transforming processors that convert data
produced by the transformed commands
into data compatible with the commands
in the source format. For example, a data-
transforming processor ...
format (source format) to another format
(target format). Transforming processors
provide a type of data independence called
data model transparency in which the data
structures and commands...
... Education and Gender Equality
Taking action: achieving gender equality and empowering women
Task Force on Child Health and Maternal Health
Who’s got the power? Transforming health systemsfor women and ... 88
Tables
1 Goals, targets, and indicators for child health and maternal
health
3
2 Task force approach to health systems 13
3 Proposed targets and indicators for the child health and maternal
health ... task forces who joined with us
in the cross–task force working groups on health systemsand on sexual and
reproductive health and rights have helped ensure that the issues that matter
for maternal...