The pressure changes of an acoustic wavefront are sensed with a microphone that acts as a transducer, converting sound pressure into voltage. The voltage is then converted into digital form with an analog to digital (AD) ...

Climate change, smelting glaciers, lack of fresh water, polluted soil and energy consumption are major issues of our time. These phenomena are often considered to be related to industrial activities and their ecological ...

Getting a new idea widely adopted is difficult. For companies, therefore, it is fundamental that customers are willing to adopt the provided idea or a technological system. Understanding customers, their perceptions, and ...

The Advanced Video Coding (H.264/AVC) is the state-of-art video coding standard which has been developed by the Joint Video Team of ISO/IEC MPEG and ITU-T VCEG. It has been widely adopted in numerous products and services, ...

Positron emission tomography (PET) with [15O]H2O provides a method to measure quantitatively the myocardial perfusion in vivo. The quantification enables an objective and accurate way to compare studies acquired on different ...

The implementation challenges in building compact and low-cost radios for future wireless systems are continuously growing. This is partially due to the introduction of multi-antenna transmission techniques as well as the ...

Multipath remains a dominant source of ranging errors in any Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), such as the Global Positioning System (GPS) or the developing European satellite navigation system Galileo. Multipath ...

Understanding heat transfer is vital in numerous applications in the field of power electronics. This thesis introduces some new reliable and efficient calculation methods for plate-fin heat sinks. There may be any number ...

This thesis proposes a semi-analytical algorithm, named repetitive optimal open-loop control (ROC), based on the Model Predictive Control (MPC) framework to generate open-loop feedback control for solving dynamic nonlinear ...

Companies adopt Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems in order to streamline their business processes and to integrate their information systems. ERP implementations have reported failures e.g. because of a lack of ...