In order to increase competitiveness, companies need to be able to react to changing and increasing market demands. To become more flexible, companies make use of outsourcing with the purpose to focus on their core competencies. The consequence of this trend is an increasing number of company networks. This paper...
This paper introduces a methodology for route choice based on fuzzy preference relations. The core of the model is that is a choice function based on fuzzy pair wise comparisons for travel decisions. The paper deals with the formulation of a model that also takes into account the travelers with...
Ductile Ni-Hf-base filler metals have been developed at Aachen University of Technology in Germany for brazing stainless steels and superalloys. The fillers contain no boron, silicon, or phosphorus. Heat- and corrosion-resistant joints in stainless Ductile Ni-Hf-base filler metals have been developed at Aachen ...
This paper describes a design experiment on the implementation of the digital part of a low power 16-channel ultrasound beam former ASIC. The design is based on a physically oriented design methodology applying a data path generator for automatic layout generation and a quantitative optimization of all building blocks for...
Up to Twelve Times Less Swerving and Three Times Better Reaction Time Seen When Using Speech Recognition to Control Music, Navigation and Phone Devices in the Car BURLINGTON, Mass. & AACHEN, Germany -- Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), a leading supplier of speech and imaging...
In the years following the Holocaust, Jewish communities in Germany -- made up of displaced Jews from other countries, since the German Jewish population had been decimated -- began building synagogues to replace the ones destroyed by the Nazis. These new synagogues often were hidden away...
TOKYO AFP — Dubbing himself the "hope of old men," Japanese equestrian ace Hiroshi Hoketsu is ready to show he has improved with age when he trots out to his second Olympics in 44 years. At the age of 67 years and four months in August,...
Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic diseases characterized by high blood sugar levels. One of the complications associated with this condition is heart and blood vessel disease. It is a known fact that heart disease is a leading cause of death in diabetics. To address this challenge in diabetics,...
Volkwin Marg Prof Dipl-Ing Architekt BDA Both 15 October 1936 in Konigsberg/East Prussia, childhood in Danzig 1964 Dipoma in Arehitecture at the University Carolo-Wilhelmina, Braunschweig. From 1965 architect in partnership with Meinhard von Gerkan 1972 Appointment to Academy of Arts, Hamburg ...
SensoSolutions, of Aachen, Germany, todayannounces the launch of its SensoGlove , the first golf glove onthe market with a built-in computer that continuously reads the user's grippressure. Pioneered by German engineers, this patented glove helps golfersimprove every part of their game, from driving to chipping. The...
* Heidelberg is well-positioned at drupa thanks to a range of innovations * 2007/2008 Annual Report available now * Agenda for the Annual General Meeting on July 18, 2008 is available now HEIDELBERG, Germany -- On the penultimate day of the...
An ingredient found naturally in cocoa could help diabetes end word off the threat of heart disease, according to research cited in the Doily Mail. Scientists from Aachen University Hospital in Germany found drinking cocoa improved patients' arteries, with blood flow through formerly restricted vessels improved by 30% after one...
Days like these William L Shirer, the American journalist and historian, writes in Aachen: "To have seen the destruction of war, what guns and bombs do to homes and people in them, to towns, cities, railroad- stations, tracks and trains, to universities and ancient noble buildings, to...
Experience from the Baltics and Scandinavia Undoubtedly, if concrete could be made so strong in tension that it would do without the crutches of reinforcing steel, the potential for increased productivity would bring enormous benefits, raising construction up to the speed demanded in the twenty-first century....
With just weeks to go before the race for the headquarters of the new European Institute of Innovation and Technology EIT could be decided, the three top contestants have turned up the heat and lobby decision makers in Brussels and across Europe. Budapest, Vienna...
With just weeks to go before the race for the headquarters of the new European Institute of Innovation and Technology EIT could be decided, the three top contestants have turned up the heat and lobby decision makers in Brussels and across Europe. Budapest, Vienna...
With just weeks to go before the race for the headquarters of the new European Institute of Innovation and Technology EIT could be decided, the three top contestants have turned up the heat and lobby decision makers in Brussels and across Europe. Budapest, Vienna...
Aachen, Germany, is a very old city. The Romans enjoyed its hot springs, and Charlemagne made it the capital of his new Holy Roman Empire in 800 A.D. The cathedral, or Dom, once Charlemagne's private chapel, dates from that era. Since 1950, Aachen has...
The Institute of Plastics Processing IKV at Aachen University, Germany, has developed a range of composite materials. These include: * integrally manufactured foamed sheet moulding composites SMCs with solid face sheets; * in...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Brussels -- Dr Wolfram Frank, formerly of Elastogran, succeeded Mike Jeffs as secretary general of ISOPA the European diisocyanate and polyol producers association--on I April 2008. Jeffs, who has been in the role since August 2002, retired at...