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Some considerations on wearable antennas

Anja Skrivervik, Jovanche Trajkovikj

There has been a huge increase in interest for wearable communication devices in the last ten years. Applications are manifold, ranging from rescue to fashion over medical devices and safety, leading to the definition of new standards for Body Area Network ...

Ieee2013

Strong Privacy for RFID Systems from Plaintext-Aware Encryption

Serge Vaudenay

Modeling privacy for RFID protocols went through different milestones. One pretty complete model was proposed by Vaudenay at ASIACRYPT 2007. It provides a hierarchy of privacy levels, depending on whether corruption is addressed by the protocol and on whet ...

2013

Towards a Theory of Glue

Simon Bliudze

We propose and study the notions of behaviour type and composition operator making a first step towards the definition of a formal framework for studying behaviour composition in a setting sufficiently general to provide insight into how the component-base ...

2012

Defining the potential of usable waste heat in industrial processes with the help of pinch and exergy analysis

François Maréchal, Daniel Favrat, Matthias Bendig

This paper aims at giving a definition for waste heat in analogy to the definitions of natural resources and reserves. It aims also at presenting a method for identifying, characterizing and quantifying the available waste heat of an industrial system that ...

Czech Society of Chemical Engineering and Italian Association of Chemical Engineering2012

Strong Privacy for RFID Systems from Plaintext-Aware Encryption

Serge Vaudenay, Khaled Ouafi

he Vaudenay model for RFID privacy from Asiacrypt 2007 suffers from the impossibility to address strong privacy. It has however been shown by Ng et al. at ESORICS 2008 that the impossibility result leads to no practical threat, so that the definition from ...

Springer2012

Assessing the In Vitro and In Vivo Toxicity of Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles

Heinrich Hofmann, Alke Fink, Morteza Mahmoudi

Nanotechnology has become a key word of public interest, since people realized the social and economic power of nanotechnology development. Nanotechnology has already become part of our daily life, and it will have an as yet unknown technological impact be ...

American Chemical Society2012

Global environmental taxes

Philippe Thalmann

Other chapters of this Handbook show that environmental taxes are very interesting instruments for environmental regulation. The question addressed in this chapter is whether they are still interesting when the environmental problem is a global one. Are th ...

Edward Elgar Publishing2012

Urban acceptability of building integrated solar systems: LESO-QSV approach

Christian Roecker, Maria Cristina Munari Probst

The concern for sustainable development issues together with the new EU promotion policies are finally leading to a widespread use of Photovoltaic and Solar Thermal systems in buildings. This upcoming reality is opening a new debate on the urban/architectu ...

Universität Kassel2011

Business/IT Alignment in Practice: Lessons Learned From a Requirements Project at P&G

Julien Favre, Gil Regev, Alain Wegmann

One of the main objectives of the alignment of Business and IT in both small and large organizations is to improve the chances for an IT department to provide services that result in business success. An essential phase for this alignment is the definition ...

Springer-Verlag New York, Ms Ingrid Cunningham, 175 Fifth Ave, New York, Ny 10010 Usa2011

Folded Edge of Turbulence in a Pipe

Tobias Schneider

The results of an experimental investigation into the threshold boundary between laminar and disordered pipe flow are presented. Complex features have been uncovered using a highly refined experimental approach where an intermediate periodic state forms an ...

2010