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Workshop report European multifunctional farmers network : creating an European network of pioneers in multifunctional agriculture
This report describes the results of the Workshop European Multifunctional Farmers Network (EMFN) which was held on October 23, 2008 on the multifunctional farm “De Zonnehoeve” of Piet van IJzendoorn, at Zeewolde, the Netherlands. This workshop was part of the European Eemland Conference ‘Versatile Countryside’ which was held 22 – 24 October 2008 (see http://www.eeconference.eu/). This report introduces the of the European Multifunctional Farmers Network, and describes the program of the workshop and the results of the different sessions within the workshop. In addition, it provides the outcome of a pilot with international rural development students working with international multifunctional farmers, using the Interactive Strategic Management Method
Strange bedfellows? Keyword and conceptual search unite to make sense of relevant ESI in electronic discovery
In the brief history of electronic discovery, the latter part of the twentieth century witnessed the
demise of paper by a digital hero that emancipated the content of paper documents with OCR
and TIFF. This technology added a third dimension to the realm of 2D paper document review
and production that lead to a sea change in discovery methods. By many accounts what we have
before us is a three-stage evolution from paper to digital to clustering in order to overcome the
problems of volume and complexity of ESI. The intent of this position paper is to describe the
development of the digital hero and methodology that is emancipating the content and context of
ESI – conceptual search that spans file formats, languages and technique, and includes keyword
search on a common, shared index
Evaluation of Cognitive Architectures for Cyber-Physical Production Systems
Cyber-physical production systems (CPPS) integrate physical and computational
resources due to increasingly available sensors and processing power. This
enables the usage of data, to create additional benefit, such as condition
monitoring or optimization. These capabilities can lead to cognition, such that
the system is able to adapt independently to changing circumstances by learning
from additional sensors information. Developing a reference architecture for
the design of CPPS and standardization of machines and software interfaces is
crucial to enable compatibility of data usage between different machine models
and vendors. This paper analysis existing reference architecture regarding
their cognitive abilities, based on requirements that are derived from three
different use cases. The results from the evaluation of the reference
architectures, which include two instances that stem from the field of
cognitive science, reveal a gap in the applicability of the architectures
regarding the generalizability and the level of abstraction. While reference
architectures from the field of automation are suitable to address use case
specific requirements, and do not address the general requirements, especially
w.r.t. adaptability, the examples from the field of cognitive science are well
usable to reach a high level of adaption and cognition. It is desirable to
merge advantages of both classes of architectures to address challenges in the
field of CPPS in Industrie 4.0
Satellite services system analysis study. Volume 1: Executive summary
Service requirements are considered. Topics include development of on-orbit operations scenarios, service equipment summary, crew interaction, and satellite features facilitating servicing. Service equipment concepts are considered. Topics include payload deployment, close proximity retrieval, on-orbit servicing, backup/contingency, delivery/retrieval of high energy payloads, Earth return, optional service, and advanced capabilities. Program requirements are assessed
Single Value Devices
We live in a world of continuous information overflow, but the quality of information and communication is suffering. Single value devices contribute to the information and communication quality by fo- cussing on one explicit, relevant piece of information. The information is decoupled from a computer and represented in an object, integrates into daily life. However, most existing single value devices come from conceptual experiments or art and exist only as prototypes. In order to get to mature products and to design meaningful, effective and work- ing objects, an integral perspective on the design choices is necessary. Our contribution is a critical exploration of the design space of single value devices. In a survey we give an overview of existing examples. The characterizing design criteria for single value devices are elaborated in a taxonomy. Finally, we discuss several design choices that are specifically important for moving from prototypes to commercializable products
CUSTARD (Cranfield University Space Technology Advanced Research Demonstrator) - A Micro-System Technology Demonstrator Nanosatellite. Summary of the Group Design Project MSc in Astronautics and Space Engineering. 1999-2000, Cranfield University
CUSTARD (Cranfield University Space Technology And Research Demonstrator) was
the group design project for students of the MSc in Astronautics and Space
Engineering for the Academic Year 1999/2000 at Cranfield University. The project
involved the initial design of a nanosatellite to be used as a technology
demonstrator for microsystem technology (MST) in space. The students worked
together as one group (organised into several subgroups, e.g. system,
mechanical), with each student responsible for a set of work packages. The
nanosatellite designed had a mass of 4 kg, lifetime of 3 months in low Earth
orbit, coarse 3-axis attitude control (no orbit control), and was capable of
carrying up to 1 kg of payload. The electrical power available was 18 W (peak).
Assuming a single X-band ground station at RAL (UK), a data rate of up to 1 M
bit s-1 for about 3000 s per day is possible. The payloads proposed are a
microgravity laboratory and a formation flying experiment.
The report summarises the results of the project and includes executive
summaries from all team members. Further information and summaries of the full
reports are available from the College of Aeronautics, Cranfield University
Virtual teams: a new opportunity to develop a business
Virtual teams give many advantages to organizations, including increased knowledge sharing and improve organizational performance. Virtual teams have altered the expectations and boundaries of knowledge worker?s interactions and make a new opportunity to develop the business. In this paper, we present summary results of an online survey. The online questionnaire was emailed by using a simple random sampling method to 356 Malaysian manufacturing small and medium ?sized Enterprises (SMEs). The findings of this study show that SMEs in Malaysia are gaining to use virtual teams, and it can be concluded that virtual teams provide a new platform for developing the business in SMEs. Based on the study, we suggest avenues for future research that are important to advancing our understanding of virtual team effects on business growth
ADVANCING THE SEPARATION SCIENCES THROUGH THE DELIVERY OF NEW MATERIALS, TECHNOLOGY AND METHODOLOGY.
A thesis and collection of works submitted to Plymouth University in partial fulfilment for the degree of
DOCTOR OF SCIENC
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