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Improvements of Energy-Efficient Techniques in WSNs: A MAC-Protocol Approach
(IEEEIEEE, 10/12/2018)
The pervasiveness of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) across different applications keeps increasing due to their versatility, although energy consumption is a huge constraint for these types of networks. Therefore, it is ...
Geoffrey: An Automated Schedule System on a Social Robot for the Intellectually Challenged
(12/02/2018)
The accelerated growth of the percentage of elder people and persons with brain injury-related conditions and who are intellectually challenged are some of the main concerns of the developed countries. These persons often ...
Detección de índice de área foliar por firma espectral de cultivo de arroz (Oryza sativa L.)
(2018-07-19)
El objetivo del estudio fue determinar las longitudes para la detección espectral del índice de área foliar en cultivo de arroz variedad IDIAP 52-05. Se realizaron mediciones de campo con un espectrorradiómetro y medidas ...
Electro mobility in Panama: A review
(2018-07)
GGlobal initiatives against climate change have recommended that the world must make a change in its mobility technologies, as the transport sector is responsible for 21% of global emissions, this concern has accelerated ...
Characterization of the degradation process of lithium-ion batteries when discharged at different current rates
(05/08/2018)
The use of energy storage devices, such as lithium-ion batteries, has become popular in many different domains and applications. Hence, it is relatively easy to find literature associated with problems of battery state-of-charge ...
Irrigation system through intelligent agents implemented with arduino technology
(2018-07-05)
The water has become in recent years a valuable and increasingly scarce. Its proper use in agriculture has demanded incorporate new technologies, mainly in the area of ICT. In this paper we present a smart irrigation system ...
The mental health continuum-short form: The structure and application for cross-cultural studies–A 38 nation study
(06/30/2018)
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The Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF) is a brief scale measuring positive human functioning. The study aimed to examine the factor structure and to explore the cross-cultural utility of the MHC-SF using ...
Connectivity between coastal lagoons and sea: Asymmetrical effects on assemblages' and populations' structure
(2018-03-02)
Connectivity among marine populations plays a fundamental role in the dynamic of metapopulations and communities. Moreover, genetic connectivity is important for the evolutionary history and adaptive capability of species ...
Application of survey on energy consumption and occupancy in residential buildings. An experience in Southern Italy
(2018-08-01)
The aim of the study was to create and administer a questionnaire to collect data and obtain typical occupancy profiles of residential buildings. The survey was developed by considering previous experiences conducted in ...
Automatic semantic maps generation from lexical annotations
(03/15/2018)
The generation of semantic environment representations is still an open problem in robotics. Most of the current proposals are based on metric representations, and incorporate semantic information in a supervised fashion. ...