Design of biped robot walking with double-support phase

Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Fakultät für Maschinenbau, Univ., Dissertation, 2015

Functional design of the air ventilation apparatus and overland excurions by teleosts / Karel F. Liem.

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On the design of peer punishment experiments

We discuss how technologies of peer punishment might bias the results that are observed in experiments. A crucial parameter is the “fine-to-fee” ratio, which describes by how much the punished subjects income is reduced relatively to the fee the punishing subject has to pay to inflict punishment. We show that a punishment technology commonly used in experiments embeds a variable fine-to-fee ratio and show that it confounds the empirical findings about why, whom, and how much subjects punish.

Competition with forward contracts: a laboratory analysis motivated by electricity market design

We use experiments to study the efficiency effects for a market as a whole of adding the possibility of forward contracting to a pre-existing spot market. We deal separately with the cases where spot market competition is in quantities and where it is in supply functions. In both cases we compare the effect of adding a contract market with the introduction of an additional competitor, changing the market structure from a triopoly to a quadropoly. We find that, as theory suggests, for both types of competition the introduction of a forward market significantly lowers prices. The combination of supply function competition with a forward market leads to high efficiency levels.

1st National Accessiblity Plan 2004-2012: achieving equal opportunities and full participation through design for all

According to official statistics, disabled people in Spain number 3.5 million and make up 8.8% of the Spanish population. This group of people are increasingly being recognised as members of society with equal rights, and many of their demands are gradually being transformed into solutions that benefit society as a whole. One example is improved accessibility. Accessible built environments are more human and inclusive places, as well as being easier to get around. Improved accessibility is now recognised as a requirement shared by all members of society, although it is achieved thanks to the demands of disabled people and their representatives. The 1st National Accessibility Plan is a strategic framework for action aimed at ensuring that new products, services and built environments are designed to be accessible for as many people as possible (Design for All) and that existing ones are gradually duly adapted.

Rational design of an organometallic glutathione transferase inhibitor.

Double trouble: A hybrid organic-inorganic (organometallic) inhibitor was designed to target glutathione transferases. The metal center is used to direct protein binding, while the organic moiety acts as the active-site inhibitor (see picture). The mechanism of inhibition was studied using a range of biophysical and biochemical methods.

Rankitt: web social de encuestas

Aquest document presenta una visió global del procés de desenvolupament de la pàgina web "rankitt.com", una web social per a enquestes. L'autor d'aquestes línees exposa els fonaments teòrics en els que es recolça el projecte i realitza l'anàlisi i disseny general de l'aplicació.

Diseño e implementación de un divisor de potencia en banda dual con estructuras metamateriales basadas en CSRRs

L'electromagnetisme és una branca de la física que està en continu estudi. Fins a mitjans de la dècada dels 60 es pensava que, per a la propagació de les ones electromagnètiques fos possible, els medis propagatius havien de presentar una permitivitat dielèctrica i una permeabilitat magnètica simultàniament positives. No obstant, Victor G. Veselago va revolucionar la teoria electromagnètica amb la idea dels medis amb ε i μ negatives i va donar amb això origen als medis metamaterials. En el present treball s'estudiaran els principis físics en els que es fonamenten els metamaterials. Es veuran algunes de les seves característiques que els converteixen en medis exòtics i com aquestes poden ser utilitzades en el desenvolupament de dispositius amb prestacions difícils d'obtenir amb les tecnologies convencionals. A continuació s'aplicaran els conceptes tractats en el disseny d'un inversor d'impedàncies implementat mitjançant ressonadors en anells oberts complementaris. Aquest dispositiu, que presentarà un funcionament en banda dual, serà utilitzat en el posterior disseny d'un divisor de potencia. Finalment es realitzarà la implementació física del divisor de potencia dissenyat i es verificarà el seu correcte funcionament amb les mesures pertinents.

Using active learning for monitoring networks design: The example of wind power plants sites evaluation

Locating new wind farms is of crucial importance for energy policies of the next decade. To select the new location, an accurate picture of the wind fields is necessary. However, characterizing wind fields is a difficult task, since the phenomenon is highly nonlinear and related to complex topographical features. In this paper, we propose both a nonparametric model to estimate wind speed at different time instants and a procedure to discover underrepresented topographic conditions, where new measuring stations could be added. Compared to space filling techniques, this last approach privileges optimization of the output space, thus locating new potential measuring sites through the uncertainty of the model itself.

Translation of biomechanical concepts in bone tissue engineering: from animal study to revision knee arthroplasty.

Bone defects in revision knee arthroplasty are often located in load-bearing regions. The goal of this study was to determine whether a physiologic load could be used as an in situ osteogenic signal to the scaffolds filling the bone defects. In order to answer this question, we proposed a novel translation procedure having four steps: (1) determining the mechanical stimulus using finite element method, (2) designing an animal study to measure bone formation spatially and temporally using micro-CT imaging in the scaffold subjected to the estimated mechanical stimulus, (3) identifying bone formation parameters for the loaded and non-loaded cases appearing in a recently developed mathematical model for bone formation in the scaffold and (4) estimating the stiffness and the bone formation in the bone-scaffold construct. With this procedure, we estimated that after 3 years mechanical stimulation increases the bone volume fraction and the stiffness of scaffold by 1.5- and 2.7-fold, respectively, compared to a non-loaded situation.

Link between microstructure and properties in new metallurgical concepts for very low loss non-oriented electrical steel

The influence of chemistry and soaking temperature (maximal temperature of the continuous annealing) on the final properties of non-oriented electrical steels has been studied. With this objective two different studies have been performed. First the Mn, Ni and Cr content of a low loss electrical steel composition has been modified. An intermediate content and a high content of each element has been added in order to study the influence of this components on the magnetic looses, grain size and texture. Secondly the influence of the soaking temperature on magnetic properties, grain size and oxidation in four grades of non-oriented electrical steels (Steel A, B, C and D) was studied.

Disseny d'un sistema HW/SW de control remot amb dispositius FPGA

El projecte que es presenta a continuació, té com a objectiu implementar un sistema HW/SW encastat en una FPGA, capaç d’executar funcions de control remot per infraroig en plataformes de televisió flexibles de Sony Corp. El disseny obtingut, s’incorporarà a un sistema més ampli de verificació i test de circuits impresos, dins del marc de producció SMD. La finalitat d’aquest projecte, és la realització d’un sistema flexible per a la implementació de comandaments de comunicació per infraroig amb circuits impresos. Prèviament, s’ha estudiat els conceptes bàsics referents a la implementació de sistemes amb FPGAs, la seva metodologia de desenvolupament i les principals característiques de la seva arquitectura. Com a especificacions, s’ha utilitzat l’estàndard de control remot per infraroig de Sony Corp SIRCS (Sony Infrared remote control system).