The use of biomass fiber as a raw material for energy purposes can be done according to four basic platforms: i. Direct combustion to produce thermal energy (steam) and electric power (cogeneration); ii.
Support for IaaS, PaaS and SaaS Last but not least, our solution should support the whole bandwidth of cloud platforms, i. e. IaaS as well as PaaS and SaaS platforms.
We ported our algorithm into a light C-code and ran it on three platforms: (i) a standard Windows laptop (Intel Core Duo at 2.4 GHz), (ii) on embedded Linux board (ARM Cortex-A8 at 800 MHz, the algorithm loaded on a 4 GB microSD flash memory) and (iii) on a customized board equipped with an ARM Cortex-M4 (180 MHz, the algorithm loaded on an external RAM).
LooCI provides interoperability across various Underlying Platforms; i.e., operating systems and execution environments.
The design is flexible enough to support a wide range of hardware platforms, i.e., PC, PDA, and embedded systems.
For the software implementation on different platforms (i.e., desktop, web-based and mobile phone platforms), a cross-platform solution is proposed.
Recently, a family of reconfigurable robotic platforms (i.e., Scorpio) capable of crawling and rolling locomotion has been developed.
Achira is developing two immunoassay-based platforms: (i) microfluidic chips with a dedicated fluorescence reader for quantitative assays and (ii) device-free silk fibre-based chips for qualitative assays, which can be read by the naked eye.
There are two basic assay platforms: (i) the Amplicor HIV-1 Monitor assay, a manual test performed in 96-microwell plates; and (ii) the Cobas AmpliPrep/Cobas TaqMan HIV-1 assay with full automation of nucleic acid preparation and real-time RT-PCR amplification.
This was performed using two different PMMA platforms, (i) silver nanoparticle films deposited-PMMA disk (SNFs-PMMA) and (ii) blank PMMA disk (control surface) [note, PMMA disks were cleaned for 1 min using Harrick plasma cleaner PDC-32G (Ithaca, NY, USA) before use].
A rank correlation analysis was carried out to evaluate the precision of the platforms (i.e., correlation of technical replicates).
