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1 AUTONOMOUS BRAKING FOR COLLISION MITIGATION PURPOSES BY MEANS OF MULTI SENSOR PERCEPTION

A preventive safety application is presented in principle, which autonomously brakes in case of an inevitable accident in order to reduce the consequences of a collision. For an effective mitigation of collisions with preceding vehicles and vulnerable road users an efficient system for the perception of the environment combined with reliable decision measures for the activation of the actuator is required. Therefore, the potential of a sensor data fusion approach is examined since current off-the-shelf single sensor systems are far from the generation of a robust and accurate description of the area in front of the vehicle. Based on this environment description, a novel situation analysis algorithm evaluates the probability of a crash by computing the trajectories of the host vehicle and the obstacles. In case of an inevitable collision the concept application autonomously triggers the brakes in order to reduce the impact of the crash.
Student paper: HaskellDB improved

We present an improved version of the HaskellDB database library. The original version relied on TRex, a Haskell extension supported only by the Hugs interpreter. We have replaced the use of TRex by a record implementation which uses more commonly implemented Haskell extensions.Additionally, HaskellDB now supports two different cross-platform database backends. Other changes include database creation functionality, bounded string support, performance enhancements, fixes to the optimisation logic, transaction support and more fine grained expression types.
Speaker Segmentation of Interviews Using Integrated Video and Audio Change Detectors

In this paper, we study the use of audio and visual cues to perform speaker segmentation of audiovisual recordings of formal meetings such as interviews, lectures, or courtroom sessions. The sole use of audio cues for such recordings can be ineffective due to low recording quality and high level of background noise. We propose to use additional cues from the video stream by exploiting the relative static locations of speakers among the scene. The experiments show that the combination of those multiple cues helps to identify more robustly the transitions among speakers.
Regular ArticleProtected Values

Protected values are those that resist trade-offs with other values, particularly economic values. We propose that such values arise from deontological rules concerning action. People are concerned about their participation in transactions rather than just with the consequences that result. This proposal implies that protected values, defined as those that display trade-off resistance, will also tend to display quantity insensitivity, agent relativity, and moral obligation. People will also tend to experience anger at the thought of making trade-offs, and to engage in denial of the need for trade-offs through wishful thinking. These five properties were correlated with tradeoff resistance (across different values, within subjects) in five studies in which subjects answered several questions about each of several values, or in which they indicated their willingness to pay to prevent some harmful action. These correlations were found even when the subjects could not tell the experimenters which values they were responding to, so they cannot be ascribed entirely to subjects' desire to express commitment. We discuss implications for value measurement and public policy.
Keeping information safe from social networking apps

The ability of third-party applications to aggregate and re-purpose personal data is a fundamental privacy weakness in today's social networking platforms. Prior work has proposed sandboxing in a hosted cloud infrastructure to prevent leakage of user information [22]. In this paper, we extend simple sandboxing to allow sharing of information among friends in a social network, and to help application developers securely aggregate user data according to differential privacy properties. Enabling these two key features requires preventing, among other subtleties, a new "Kevin Bacon" attack aimed at aggregating private data through a social network graph. We describe the significant architectural and security implications for the application framework in the Web (JavaScript) application, backend cloud, and user data handling.
Conditions for the Success of Online Mentoring a Case Study

This paper reports on the findings about a mentoring project that failed. It is based on a case study in which the writer participated as a mentor of the staff members of the South African Department of Labour. In 2002, the South African Department of Labour (DoL) published a tender ref: Services/ta/cst/p1/wp3 for Communications Skills Training for Staff of DoL. The project was known as the Business Communication Programme (BCP) and the European Union Commission for South Africa funded it. The crucial objective of the BCP was to develop work-based communication skills. This programme was designed to drive a redress and equity process of empowering learners of English as a second language and in particular black women and people with disabilities to advance in the system and to encourage learners to be more effective in the workplace.
Dynamic interaction between WT1 and BASP1 in transcriptional regulation during differentiation

The Wilms’ tumour suppressor protein WT1 plays a central role in the development of the kidney and also other organs. WT1 can act as a transcription factor with highly context-specific activator and repressor functions. We previously identified Brain Acid Soluble Protein 1 (BASP1) as a transcriptional cosuppressor that can block the transcriptional activation function of WT1. WT1 and BASP1 are co-expressed during nephrogenesis and both proteins ultimately become restricted to the podocyte cells of the adult kidney. Here, we have analysed the WT1/BASP1 complex in a podocyte precursor cell line that can be induced to differentiate. Chromatin immunoprecipitation revealed that WT1 and BASP1 occupy the promoters of the Bak, c-myc and podocalyxin genes in podocyte precursor cells. During differentiation-dependent upregulation of podocalyxin expression BASP1 occupancy of the podocalyxin promoter is reduced compared to that of WT1. In contrast, the repressive WT1/BASP1 occupancy of the c-myc and Bak promoters is maintained and these genes are downregulated during the differentiation process. We provide evidence that the regulation of BASP1 promoter occupancy involves the sumoylation of BASP1. Our results reveal a dynamic cooperation between WT1 and BASP1 in the regulation of gene expression during differentiation.
Optimum Design of a Nearly Zero Ultra-flattened Dispersion with lower Confinement loss Photonic Crystal Fibers for Communication Systems

This paper presents a triangular-lattice photonic crystal fiber for analysis of nearly zero ultra-flattened dispersion like 0.96 - -0.86 ps/nm/km with very low confinement loss less than 10 -5 db/km, moderate effective area, lower splice loss & nonlinear coefficient property of photonic crystal fibers. A five-ringed photonic crystal fiber have be designed using Comsol 4.2 with the finite element method and perfectly matched absorbing layers boundary condition is used to investigate the guiding properties .
A Method to Configure Autonomous Sensor Nodes

In this paper, a concept of Symbiotic Sensor Network (SSN) is proposed. It provides easy way to install sensor network. This sensor network consists of ordinary sensor nodes and autonomous sensor nodes. SSN and human build "symbiotic relationship" to support human who install sensor network into ordinary home.
Development of control platform for micro-UAVs with integrated motion planning in wind

Micro-UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) attract much interest in a wide range of commercial applications. Due to small size, very limited power and susceptibility to wind their design poses difficult problems in control and motion planning. FPGA technology allows integration of high speed control circuits with efficient hardware implementations of complex algorithms on the same reconfigurable hardware chip. This is a very attractive option for implementation of a micro-UAV computing platform. This paper presents development of control platform for micro-UAVs focusing on integration of lower level control with online motion planning in wind. Some aspects of tight integration of on-board optical sensors with the aircraft control system are also discussed.
VirtFS — A virtualization aware File System pass-through

This paper describes the design and implementation of a paravirtualized file system interface for Linux in the KVM environment. Today’s solution of sharing host files on the guest through generic network file systems like NFS and CIFS suffer from major performance and feature deficiencies as these protocols are not designed or optimized for virtualization. To address the needs of the virtualization paradigm, in this paper we are introducing a new paravirtualized file system called VirtFS. This new file system is currently under development and is being built using QEMU, KVM, VirtIO technologies and 9P2000.L protocol.
Impact of postnatal glucocorticoids on early lung development.

Inhaled glucocorticoid treatment during the first 2 yr of life is controversial because this is a period of major structural remodeling of the lung. Rabbits received aerosolized budesonide (Bud; 250 microg/ml) or injected dexamethasone (Dex; 0.05 mg.ml(-1). kg(-1)) between 1 and 5 wk of age. Treatment with Bud caused specific growth retardation of the lung. Dex but not Bud affected the mechanical properties of the lung parenchyma, when corrected for lung volume. Small peripheral airway walls in both glucocorticoid groups were thinner and had fewer alveolar attachment points with greater distance between attachments than controls, but collagen content was not affected by glucocorticoids. Dex led to reduced body weight, lung volume, alveolar number, and surface area. The alveolar size and number and elastin content, when related to lung volume, was not affected by Bud, suggesting normal structural development but inhibition of total growth. Arterial wall thickness and diameter were affected by Bud. This study demonstrates that developing lungs are sensitive to inhaled glucocorticoids. As such, the use of glucocorticoids in young infants and children should be monitored with caution and only the lowest doses that yield significant clinical improvement should be used.
Rates of convergence in the strong invariance principle under projective criteria

We give rates of convergence in the strong invariance principle for stationary sequences satisfying some projective criteria. The conditions are expressed in terms of conditional expectations of partial sums of the initial sequence. Our results apply to a large variety of examples. We present some applications to a reversible Markov chain, to symmetric random walks on the circle, and to functions of dependent sequences.
Oktay Kuru , Herbert J . Meiselman and after an exhausting exercise episode in human subjects course of hematological and hemorheological alterations

after an exhausting exercise episode in human subjects course of hematological and hemorheological alterations Effect of antioxidant vitamin treatment on the time You might find this additional info useful. physiology, especially those papers emphasizing adaptive and integrative mechanisms. It is published 12 times a publishes original papers that deal with diverse area of research in applied
Fault-Model-Based Test Generation for Embedded Software

Testing embedded software systems on the control units of vehicles is a safety-relevant task, and developing the test suites for performing the tests on test benches is time-consuming. We present the foundations and results of a case study to automate the generation of tests for control software of vehicle control units based on a specification of requirements in terms of finite state machines. This case study builds upon our previous work on generation of tests for physical systems based on relational behavior models. In order to apply the respective algorithms, the finite state machine representation is transformed into a relational model. We present the transformation, the application of the test generation algorithm to a real example, and discuss the results and some specific challenges regarding software testing.
Empirical Study on Teaching Effectiveness Using English Medium Instruction for Non-English Major Student—A Case Study of a Statistics Course

English medium instruction is one of the tools for higher education internationalization in China. The paper will take a statistics course as a case study to identify the influencing factors that would affect the English teaching effectiveness. The results from a regression analysis indicate that the learning attitude, i.e. students’ wiliness to read teaching materials before or after class, overall learning capability, here refer to GPA, and the mathematical background of the students are significant factors on teaching effectiveness at significant level of 1%, 3% and 6% respectively. While the students’ capability in English learning, i.e. students have already passed College English Test Band 4 (CET4), and students have already learned other courses taught in English before this statistics course, are not significant factors on English teaching effectiveness.
Information and communication technology-based innovations for aging healthcare: a literature review

The paper presents a systematic literature review to identify the key application areas of innovations through the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in providing healthcare information to elderly population. Out of the 210 articles published in various health informatics and information systems journals, 42 were identified to meet the requirements for inclusion in the particular review. Based on our analysis, ICT innovations offered for elderly population's healthcare are classified as: smart home-based; mobile-based; online-based; and personalised device and application-based innovations. However, most of the innovations focus only on user side demands and omit the service providers' dynamic demands for information delivery. A cloud computing-based innovation shows promise to develop an effective information delivery approach to provide benefits, both for service providers and the elderly population, needing to deliver and use relevant technologies.
Robust interval observer and nonlinear predictive control of an active sludge process

In this paper the problem of estimation and control of a bioprocess is approached. These tasks were performed using the interval observers and multiple model predictive control approaches. For estimation of nonlinear and uncertain biotechnological process a robust interval observer was used. The model predictive control, in particular nonlinear model predictive control, that is an advanced control technique for automatic control of the nonlinear processes under operating constraints was used in this paper. Finally, some simulation results are presented, in order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed estimation and control algorithms.
Realization of the table tennis task based on virtual targets

This paper describes how a table tennis robot with a flat paddle coordinates its movement in order to achieve efficient strokes for any given ball. We propose a method of generating stroke movement based on virtual targets that means the point at which the ball should be struck and the paddle velocity just before hitting the ball. These targets are predicted using inputs-outputs maps implemented efficiently by means of a k-d tree (k dimensional tree). The paddle approaches these targets by using a visual feedback control scheme similar to the mirror law proposed by Koditschek. The results of the implementation are also given to show the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Coagulation Factor X Interaction with Macrophages through Its N-Glycans Protects It from a Rapid Clearance

Factor X (FX), a plasma glycoprotein playing a central role in coagulation has a long circulatory half-life compared to closely related coagulation factors. The activation peptide of FX has been shown to influence its clearance with two N-glycans as key determinants of FX’s relatively long survival. To decipher FX clearance mechanism, organ biodistribution and cellular interactions of human plasma FX (pd-FX), recombinant FX (rFX), N-deglycosylated FX (N-degly-FX) and recombinant FX mutated at both N-glycosylation sites (rFXN181A–N191A) were evaluated. Biodistribution analysis of 125I-labelled FX proteins after administration to mice revealed liver as major target organ for all FX variants. Liver tissue sections analysis showed an interaction of pd-FX and N-degly-FX to different cell types. These findings were confirmed in cell binding studies revealing that FX and FX without N-glycans interact with macrophages and hepatocytes, respectively. N-degly-FX appeared to be degraded in hepatocytes while interestingly pd-FX was not by macrophages. Furthermore, the chemical inactivation of macrophages by gadolinium chloride resulted in a significant decrease of circulating pd-FX into mice and not of N-degly-FX. Altogether our data lead to the conclusion that FX interaction with macrophages through its N-glycans protects it from a rapid clearance explaining its relatively long circulatory half-life.
Selection and Peer-review under Responsibility of the 2nd International Conference on Strategic Innovative Marketing. Sciencedirect Icsim Relationship Marketing – a Tool for Supporting the Company's Innovation Process Selection and Peer-review under Responsibility of the 2nd International Conference

The paper presents the correlation between a specific method for acquiring knowledge from external sources by companies i.e. partnership marketing and corporate innovation processes. The authors make the assumption that the use of customer relationships in the innovation process contributes to the implementation of this process. CRM systems are effective tools for acquiring information for innovation processes both at the stage of creating innovations and the stage of the diffusion of innovation. The effectiveness of individualised marketing is conditioned by such factors as close relationships with customers, continuous oversight, analyses, information technologies and databases. Customers' participation in innovation creation is significant for another reason: customers who use products and services acquire knowledge that represents a great value for companies. The results of empirical research confirm the above hypothesis. The results of research presented in the paper indicate that Małopolska's companies do not make use of CRM methods in an effective way. It results from the deficiencies of IT infrastructure, the absence of knowledge management systems, cooperation traditions, difficulties in identifying customer needs in large target groups. Relationship marketing can be used as a tool for supporting corporate innovation processes with particular regard to tourism enterprises in order to more fully understand the tourists and visitors of a destination point of view.
Environmental Concern, Health Consciousness and Purchase Intention of Green Products: An Application of Extended Theory of Planned Behavior

Human health is crucial for every human being with their right to utilize and opt for safe and healthy products. The main reasons for consumer awareness about the products they use in their daily life are health consciousness and environmental concern. The environment is affected due to several issues such as pollution etc. it has been the most the cause of concern for general public and as a result the concept of green environment and the green product has emerged in many countries. As far as Iraq is a concern this issue is at infancy level especially for new consumers, however, the growth in the demand for environmentally friendly products is an increasing trend. This paper aims to find out the purchase intention of consumers towards green products. For this purpose, the sample was selected from Salahaddin University Iraq. The sample size was 161 students from the university. The hypotheses were tested using Smart PLS 3 and the results for the inner and outer model were presented in the study. The results showed 10 significant hypotheses however it was limited to the sample of university students because it is supposed that university student is more focused towards their health as well as environment. Moreover, theoretically this study is limited to the theory of planned behavior. The study helps policymakers to formulate strategies to aware consumers regarding their health and environmental issues especially the students. The study also discusses the recommendations.
A hybrid improved quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization algorithm using adaptive coefficients and natural selection method

To improve the precision and convergence performance of the QPSO, this paper present a hybrid improved QPSO algorithm, called LTQPSO, by combining QPSO with the individual particle evolutionary rate, swarm dispersion and natural selection method. In LTQPSO, the individual particle evolutionary rate and swarm dispersion are used to approximate the objective function around a current position with high quality in the search space. Natural selection method is used to update from the worst position to best position in the swarm. Experimental results on several well-known benchmark functions demonstrate that the proposed LTQPSO performs much better than QPSO and other variants of QPSO in terms of their convergence and stability.
The Bush Administration's Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART)

This report discusses how the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) is structured, how it has been used, and how various commentators have assessed its design and implementation. The report concludes with a discussion of potential criteria for assessing the PART or other program evaluations, which Congress might consider during the budget process, in oversight of federal agencies and programs, and in consideration of legislation that relates to the PART or program evaluation generally.
Utilization of 3d city models and airborne laser scanning for terrain-based navigation of helicopters and UAVs

Airborne laser scanning (ALS) of urban regions is commonly used as a basis for 3D city modeling. In this process, data acquisition relies highly on the quality of GPS/INS positioning techniques. Typically, the use of differential GPS and high-precision GPS/INS postprocessing methods are essential to achieve the required accuracy that leads to a consistent database. Co ntrary to that approach, we aim at using an existing georeferenced city model to correct errors of the assumed sensor position, which is measured under nondifferential GPS and/or INS drift conditions. Our approach accounts for guidance of helicopters or UAVs over known urban terrain even at night and during frequent loss of GPS signals. We discuss several possible sources of errors in airborne laser scanner systems and their influence on the measured data. A workflow of real-time capable methods for the segmentation of planar surfaces within ALS data is described. Matching planar objects, identified in both the on-line segmentation results and the existing city model, are used to correct absolute errors of the sensor position.