Participatory varietal selection of potato using the mother & baby trial design: A gender-responsive trainer’s guide.

This guide aims to provide step-by-step guidance on facilitating and documenting the PVS dynamics using the MBT design to select, and eventually release, potato varieties preferred by end-users that suit male and female farmers ’different needs, diverse agro-systems, and management practices, as well as traders ’and consumers’ preferences

WCAM: secured video surveillance with digital rights management

The WCAM project aims to provide an integrated system for secure delivery of video surveillance data over a wireless network, while remaining scalable and robust to transmission errors. To achieve these goals., the content is encoded in Motion-JPEG2000 and streamed with a specific RTP protocol encapsulation to prevent the loss of packets containing the most essential data. Protection of the video data is performed at content level using the standardized JPSEC syntax along with flexible encryption of quality layers or resolution levels. This selective encryption respects the JPEG2000 structure of the stream, not only ensuring end-to-end ciphered delivery, but also enabling dynamic content adaptation within the wireless network (quality of service, adaptation to the user's terminal). A DRM (Digital Rights Management) solution, called OpenSDRM is added to manage all authenticated peers on the WLAN (from end-users to cameras), as well as to manage the rights to access and display conditionally the video data. This whole integrated architecture addresses several security problems such as data encryption, integrity, access control and rights management. Using several protection lavers, the level of confidentiality can depend both on content characteristics and user rights, thus also addressing the critical issue of privacy.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio

Entanglement and the nonlinear elastic behavior of forests of coiled carbon nanotubes

Helical or coiled nanostructures have been object of intense experimental and theoretical studies due to their special electronic and mechanical properties. Recently, it was experimentally reported that the dynamical response of foamlike forest of coiled carbon nanotubes under mechanical impact exhibits a nonlinear, non-Hertzian behavior, with no trace of plastic deformation. The physical origin of this unusual behavior is not yet fully understood. In this work, based on analytical models, we show that the entanglement among neighboring coils in the superior part of the forest surface must be taken into account for a full description of the strongly nonlinear behavior of the impact response of a drop-ball onto a forest of coiled carbon nanotubes.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure

A development approach to industrial robots programming

This paper proposes a development approach to industrial robot programming, that includes: a truly high level and declarative language; an easy-to-use frontend; an intermediate representation; an automatic generator of the robot code generators. So, we introduce a new paradigm to program industrial robots, that focus on the modeling of the system, rather than on the robot. It will improve the programming and maintenance tasks, allowing the reuse of source code, because this source code will be machine independent

Uma proposta de linguagem de programação para robótica

Este artigo destina-se a apresentar alguns problemas existentes nas linguagens de programacão de robôs, e uma possível solucão dos mesmos através da utilização da linguagem Reativa Síncrona RS. Uma implementacão prática será apresentada a fim de mostrar como o uso desta linguagem pode facilitar o desenvolvimento de programas para os robôs, neste caso, industriais. Entretanto, verifica-se a necessidade da existência de um módulo intermediário responsável por traduzir uma linguagem declarativa para código final de diferentes robôs, a fim de garantir a portabilidade de código.This paper presents some existing problems in robotics programming languages and a possible solution using a reactive and synchronous language called RS. An implementation will show how the RS language can facilitate the robot´s programming, in this case, industrial robots. However, it should be necessary to create an intermediate module responsible for translating a declarative language to assembly code, in different robots, granting code portability

Young Measures Generated by Ideal Incompressible Fluid Flows

In their seminal paper "Oscillations and concentrations in weak solutions of the incompressible fluid equations", R. DiPerna and A. Majda introduced the notion of measure-valued solution for the incompressible Euler equations in order to capture complex phenomena present in limits of approximate solutions, such as persistence of oscillation and development of concentrations. Furthermore, they gave several explicit examples exhibiting such phenomena. In this paper we show that any measure-valued solution can be generated by a sequence of exact weak solutions. In particular this gives rise to a very large, arguably too large, set of weak solutions of the incompressible Euler equations.Comment: 35 pages. Final revised version. To appear in Arch. Ration. Mech. Ana

A graphical interface based on grafcet for programming industrial robots off-line

This paper presents the current development stage of our approach to industrial robot programming, that is the graphical interface for our environment, that is based on the well-known Grafcet. Our approach focus on the modelling of the system, rather than on the robot. So, it will improve the programming and maintenance tasks, allowing the reuse of source code.Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT

Coherent photon assisted cotunneling in a Coulomb blockade device

We study cotunneling in a double junction Coulomb blockade device under the influence of time dependent potentials. It is shown that the ac-bias leads to photon assisted cotunneling which in some cases may dominate the transport. We derive a general non-perturbative expression for the tunneling current in the presence of oscillating potentials and give a perturbative expression for the photon assisted cotunneling current.Comment: Replaced with a longer paper which includes a non-perturbative calculation. 13 pages with 1 figure. To be published in Physical Review