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Most people recognize packaging as necessary with respect to its protective functions, but some doubt that the packaging industry is providing solutions that are good from a socioeconomic/ecological point of view. Packages influences lifestyles as well as the standard of living and people’s behavior, and therefore must be considered in areas of behavioral science and communication. The central rol

The servo problem for a wide class of nonlinear system is considered.A quantitative bound on system trajectories is derived. For piecewise linearsystems the bound is shown to be computable in terms of linear matrixinequalities.

Simmons (1990) has introduced an extended authentication model where caution is taken both against deceptions from an outsider (opponent) and against some forms of deception from the insiders (transmitter and receiver). Codes for this model are called authentication codes with arbitration, or simply A2 codes. A new construction of authentication codes with arbitration is proposed, which uses codes

An extended Kalman-Yakubovich-Popov (KYP) Lemma for positive systems is derived. The main difference compared to earlier versions is that non-strict inequalities are treated. Matrix assumptions are also less restrictive. Moreover, a new equivalence is introduced in terms of linear programming rather than semi-definite programming. As a complement to the KYP lemma, it is also proved that a symmetri

Evaluating the user experience is often done in a laboratory. Methods for observing what happens in the wild are nonetheless being employed because they bring results that the traditional methods of evaluation do not yield. In this paper we describe and discuss methods used at our lab for understanding the mobile user experience. These methods range from quantitative to qualitative evaluation, and

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Industrial dairy membrane processes require frequent cleaning due to hygienic and regulatory demands and lowered efficiency, caused by fouling. This decreases the membrane life cycle and consumes large volumes of rinsing water and cleaning solution. Therefore, the aim of this project is to increase the understanding of membrane fouling and cleaning and to apply this knowledge to develop more ene

Most scientific instruments currently discard rich streams of commands, data and metadata from which AI systems could learn to conduct experiments with expert-level decision-making and troubleshooting skills. Recording and using this data at scale requires rethinking what data to store, incentivizing large-scale cooperation, and determining how to quantify the reliability of such autonomous system

OBJECTIVES: This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (intervention). The objectives are as follows: To assess the benefits and harms of acupuncture for the treatment of infantile colic.