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Sensor Fusion-Based Middleware for Smart Homes
Lorcan Coyle,Steve Neely,Graeme Stevenson,Mark Sullivan,Simon Dobson,Paddy Nixon 한국과학기술원 인간친화 복지 로봇 시스템 연구센터 2007 International Journal of Assistive Robotics and Me Vol.8 No.2
Smart homes are sensor-rich environments that contain dynamic sets of interacting components. These components often use competing and closed standards and form a message-based architecture. This complicates the development of applications that require information from disparate sources. It becomes difficult to add new components or to allow components from different applications to interact with each another. In this paper we describe Construct, a pervasive computing middleware that is ideally suited for deployment in the smart home. Construct acts as a sensor fusion layer that takes output from each smart home component and makes it available to all applications. This makes it easy to develop applications that require access to heterogeneous sources of sensor data, and to add sensors to existing systems to improve their performance. This paper demonstrates two Construct-enabled smart home applications and shows how access to new sensors leads to improvements in their performance.
Stanciu, Luminita A,Roberts, Kevan,Papadopoulos, Nikolaos G,Cho, Sang-Heon,Holgate, Stephen T,Coyle, Anthony J,Johnston, Sebastian L BioMed Central 2005 Respiratory research Vol.6 No.-
<P><B>Background</B></P><P>Virus infections are the major cause of asthma exacerbations. CD8<SUP>+ </SUP>T cells have an important role in antiviral immune responses and animal studies suggest a role for CD8<SUP>+ </SUP>T cells in the pathogenesis of virus-induced asthma exacerbations. We have previously shown that the presence of IL-4 during stimulation increases the frequency of IL-5-positive cells and CD30 surface staining in CD8<SUP>+ </SUP>T cells from healthy, normal subjects. In this study, we investigated whether excess IL-4 during repeated TCR/CD3 stimulation of CD8<SUP>+ </SUP>T cells from atopic asthmatic subjects alters the balance of type 1/type 2 cytokine production in favour of the latter.</P><P><B>Methods</B></P><P>Peripheral blood CD8<SUP>+ </SUP>T cells from mild atopic asthmatic subjects were stimulated <I>in vitro </I>with anti-CD3 and IL-2 ± excess IL-4 and the expression of activation and adhesion molecules and type 1 and type 2 cytokine production were assessed.</P><P><B>Results</B></P><P>Surface expression of very late antigen-4 [VLA-4] and LFA-1 was decreased and the production of the type 2 cytokines IL-5 and IL-13 was augmented by the presence of IL-4 during stimulation of CD8<SUP>+ </SUP>T cells from mild atopic asthmatics.</P><P><B>Conclusion</B></P><P>These data suggest that during a respiratory virus infection activated CD8<SUP>+ </SUP>T cells from asthmatic subjects may produce excess type 2 cytokines and may contribute to asthma exacerbation by augmenting allergic inflammation.</P>
Optimization of supersonic nozzle flow for titanium dioxide thin-film coating by aerosol deposition
Lee, M.W.,Park, J.J.,Kim, D.Y.,Yoon, S.S.,Kim, H.Y.,Kim, D.H.,James, S.C.,Chandra, S.,Coyle, Thomas,Ryu, J.H.,Yoon, W.H.,Park, D.S. Elsevier 2011 Journal of aerosol science Vol.42 No.11
<P><B>Abstract</B></P><P>Aerosol deposition (AD) is an efficient technique for customized coating of various substrates. The small particles of AD yield a dense coating layer with small voids. AD is amenable to rapid coating (mass production), thus, it is economically attractive. Low-temperature AD coating is desirable because it minimizes the thermal degradation of the substrate. An optimized low-cost AD coating technique is of significant interest to solar-cell engineers seeking to reduce manufacturing costs. While most previous studies ignore the importance of nozzle geometry on coating performance, this paper examines non-optimized nozzles and commensurate shockwaves using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The optimized nozzle geometry obtained from CFD can rapidly prototype nozzles. The CFD-designed nozzles with optimized geometry yielded significantly improved coating quality over non-optimized nozzles.</P> <P><B>Highlights</B></P><P>► Effects of shockwaves, nozzle geometry and dimensionality, carrier-gas viscosity, and particle density. ► Nozzle geometry was adjusted to yield the optimum condition of <I>P</I><SUB>e</SUB>=<I>P</I><SUB>amb</SUB>, which significantly reduced shock formation. ► We, experimentally and numerically, showed that the correctly expanded (<I>first</I>) nozzle yielded a dense and void-free coating layer. ► While the under-expanded (<I>second</I>) nozzle yielded voids and irregularity.</P>