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Chapter Energy-Aware Software Engineering
(2017)
Polystyrene (PS) is a petroleum‐based plastic made from styrene (vinyl benzene) monomer. Since it was first commercially produced in 1930, it has been used for a wide range of commercial, packaging and building purposes. ...
Chapter Airborne and Ground-Borne Noise and Vibration from Urban Rail Transit Systems
(2017)
This chapter addresses recent progress in the field of polymer thermoelectric materials. It covers a brief introduction to intrinsically conductive polymers and its motivation for thermoelectric utilization. A review about ...
Chapter Operational Validation of Search and Rescue Robots
(2017)
This chapter describes how the different ICARUS unmanned search and rescue tools have been evaluated and validated using operational benchmarking techniques. Two large‐scale simulated disaster scenarios were organized: a ...
Chapter RoCKIn@Home: Domestic Robots Challenge
(2017)
Service robots performing complex tasks involving people in houses or public environments are becoming more and more common, and there is a huge interest from both the research and the industrial point of view. The RoCKIn@Home ...
Chapter Peripheral Nerve Reconstruction Using Enriched Chitosan Conduits
(2017)
The repair of peripheral nerve traumatic lesions still represents a major cause of permanent motor and sensory impairment. In case of substance loss, a nerve guide should be used to bridge the proximal with the distal stump ...