CG: n CT: Although the popularity of artificial reefs has increased in recent years, the idea isn’t new. Humans have been accidentally making reef structures as long as they have been exploring the oceans (and wrecking their ships in the process). By the 1800s, some fishers were intentionally throwing logs into rivers
CG: n CT: A public-key algorithm (also known as an asymmetric algorithm) is one where the keys used for encryption and decryption are different, and the decryption key cannot be calculated from the encryption key. This allows someone to keep a public-key/private-key pair. S: ScDir – shorturl.at/uCUW4 (last access: 31 December
GC: n CT: Exploring the nature of the atom. Uranium was discovered in 1789 by Martin Klaproth, a German chemist, and named after the planet Uranus. Ionising radiation was discovered by Wilhelm Rontgen in 1895, by passing an electric current through an evacuated glass tube and producing continuous X-rays. Then
GC: n CT: ‘Attractors‘ are all-or-none states abstracted from dynamic trajectories. Each attractor can represent a symbol. A symbol is present when the phase-space trajectory belongs to the corresponding attractor. There are as many symbols as ‘attraction basins‘. No symbol is instantiated in a state characterized by a ‘chaotic attractor‘.
GC: n CT: Reasoning is the ability to make inferences, and automated reasoning is concerned with the building of computing systems that automate this process. Although the overall goal is to mechanize different forms of reasoning, the term has largely been identified with valid deductive reasoning as practiced in mathematics
GC: n CT: In order to better answer the current needs of training in automatic control engineering in higher education, Scilab joined forces with Didalab, the French specialist of the educational equipment. This association gave birth to D_Scil, ideal tool to teach automatic engineering. The pedagogical purpose of D_Scil is
GC: n CT: Automatic Control Systems provides engineers with a fresh new controls book that places special emphasis on mechatronics. It follows a revolutionary approach by actually including a physical lab. In addition, readers will find authoritative coverage of modern design tools and examples. Current mechatronics applications build motivation to
GC: n CT: Automatic Natural Language Processing and the Detection of Reading Skills and Reading Comprehension. The primary goal of this study is to assess two approaches for detecting comprehension processes in R-SAT (Reading Strategy Assessment Tool). One approach is based on Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) while the other is
GC: n CT: Automatic speech recognition (ASR) can be defined as the independent, computer-driven transcription of spoken language into readable text in real time (Stuckless, 1994). In a nutshell, ASR is technology that allows a computer to identify the words that a person speaks into a microphone or telephone and
GC: n CT: Automation is the creation of technology and its application in order to control and monitor the production and delivery of various goods and services. It performs tasks that were previously performed by humans. Automation is being used in a number of areas such as manufacturing, transport, utilities,
GC: n CT: Leonardo Da Vinci wrote extensively about automatons, and his personal notebooks are littered with ideas for mechanical creations ranging from a hydraulic water clock to a robotic lion. Perhaps most extraordinary of all is his plan for an artificial man in the form of an armored Germanic
GC: n CT: One major area of autonomous vehicle development concerns an area where machines have already been used for over a century – the motor car. Cars are so widely used that there is already a coherent system in place to organise their operation, perhaps making it easier to
GC: n CT: Autotrophs vs. Heterotrophs. Living organisms obtain chemical energy in one of two ways. Autotrophs, shown in Figure below, store chemical energy in carbohydrate food molecules they build themselves. Food is chemical energy stored in organic molecules. Food provides both the energy to do work and the carbon
CG: n CT: An instant messaging user may be represented in communications with other users by an avatar that is capable of being animated or may convey information about the user by displaying other types of self-expression items, such as non-animated icons, sounds, wallpaper, or objects associated with an avatar or
CG: n CT: The azimuth angle is the compass direction from which the sunlight is coming. At solar noon, the sun is always directly south in the northern hemisphere and directly north in the southern hemisphere. The azimuth angle varies throughout the day as shown in the animation below. S:
GC: n CT: What is bagasse? When sugarcane is squeezed for its juice, a fibrous pulp material is left over. This material is processed into a usable form called ‘bagasse’. For each 10 tonnes of sugarcane crushed, nearly 3 tonnes of wet bagasse is produced. Bagasse is typically used to
GC: n CT: Banking Energy. The fact that electrical energy must be used in real time, when it’s generated, creates a host of problems. Geothermal plants produce electricity around the clock and need a way to save the electricity they produce at night for more productive times of day. Wind
GC: n CT: The term “bathymetry” originally referred to the ocean’s depth relative to sea level, although it has come to mean “submarine topography,” or the depths and shapes of underwater terrain. In the same way that topographic maps represent the three-dimensional features (or relief) of overland terrain, bathymetric maps
GC: n CT: Battery stores electrical energy in a reversible chemical reaction. The renewable energy (RE) source (PV, wind, or hydro) produces the energy, and the battery stores it for times of low or no RE production. Most batteries employed in renewable energy systems use the same electro-chemical reactions as
GC: n CT: A Bayesian network is a graphical model that encodes probabilistic relationships among variables of interest. When used in conjunction with statistical techniques, the graphical model has several advantages for data analysis. One, because the model encodes dependencies among all variables, it readily handles situations where some data
GC: n CT: Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) has the ability to exchange data in one of two states: connected and advertising modes. Connected mode uses the Generic Attribute (GATT) layer to transfer data in a one-to-one connection. Advertising mode uses the Generic Access Profile (GAP) layer to broadcast data out