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USING BAYESIAN MODELS IN PRELIMINARY DESIGN

Our objective is to develop a methodology to create surrogate models that enable designers to explore the interactions among design parameters at levels of detail and accuracy that correspond to the current state of design knowledge. We do not assume any specific form of the response; but we do assume that the designer is able to evaluate the system response for a set of design parameters using analysis, computation models, or physical experiments. Our goal is to create models that allow the incorporation of new information as the design progresses. As the design is refined, and new points in the design space are sampled, the scope of the model can be reduced and its accuracy increased without discarding the earlier information.
A national survey to explore the management of the safety alert broadcast system in the UK

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the management of the safety alert broadcast system (SABS) in England. Design/methodology/approach – This survey was part of a multi-method study which was undertaken over an 18-month period. The questionnaire was sent to every trust SABS liaison officer (SLO) (n=561) in England using the DH database. In total, 343 completed questionnaires were electronically returned, a response rate of 62 per cent. Findings – SABS is the means by which safety alerts from key agencies are electronically distributed to the NHS in England. Each organisation is required to have a named SLO who is required to acknowledge receipt on the Department of Health web site, indicate whether action is under way and finally confirm that action is complete. It offers a profile of this important segment of the workforce, over half of whom work in risk management, and 65 per cent of whom have no clinical background. Most spend very little of their working week managing the system itself, and are entirely dependent on the word of other managers to indicate that the trust has completed all action. Whilst the system is liked by the SLOs, concerns are expressed about the level of responsibility they are expected to assume. Practical implications – Trusts may wish to consider the role in the light of the increasing number and complexity of the alerts being managed. Originality/value – The paper offers a unique insight into the role and profile of those managing the interface between trusts and the patient safety team at the Department of Health.
The protection of high art in a postmodern age

o f thesis subm itted for the degree o f Doctor o f Philosophy at the University o f Leicester by Dawn Elizabeth W atkins This project considers whether it is possible to define some works o f literary or visual art as high art solely by virtue o f their inherent qualities, or whether there are factors external to the work which are significant to this process o f categorisation. Thereafter the project considers whether it is appropriate to argue that high art as a discrete category should be accorded a value o f its own to be defended by the legal system alongside or in preference to other values (particularly freedom o f speech), focusing initially upon non-legal arguments which have been put forward in this regard. Thereafter, the project critically analyses the way in which the English legal system has dealt with such issues during the period 1780 to date; firstly by analysing the approach o f the legislature tow ards the notion o f high art and its protection and secondly, by analysing the approach o f the courts in this area. Both the courts ' role in enforcing statute law and administering the common law are assessed; and the extent to which the courts have acknowledged the free speech principle in relation to artistic and non-artistic m atter is given particular consideration. Finally, the project considers those international obligations which influence English law in this area, with particular reference to the European Convention on Human Rights and to the recent inclusion o f Article 10, the right to freedom o f expression, in the Human Rights Act 1998. The extent to which high art might be afforded greater protection under this new Act is considered, and conclusions are drawn as to whether greater protection should be sought for high art under English law and if so, upon what basis.
Effects of Endothelin in Integrated Venous Function in Health and Disease

EFFECTS OF ENDOTHELIN IN INTEGRATED VENOUS FUNCTION IN HEALTH AND DISEASE Afarh Mansoor Al-Najeer Advisor: Dr. Ron Johnson University of Guelph, 2014 CO advisor Dr. Jonathan LaMarre The endothelin system and integrated venous function are both under the influence of sex steroids. However, there is limited understanding of the influence of gender and acute deprivation of steroid hormones on venoconstrictor responses to ET1. Unpressurized mesenteric vessels of gonadally intact, or neutered male and female rats were used to assess vascular responses to (Endothelin) ET-1 or the selective endothelin B receptor (ETBR) agonist, sarafotoxin 6c (S6c) in presence and absence of the selective endothelin A receptor (ETAR) antagonist (BQ-610) and/or and the selective ETBR antagonist (BQ-788). There were no differences in ET-1 contractile responses between intact male and female rats. However, S6c produced significantly greater responses in the veins of intact male compared to intact female. In intact rats, blockade of ETARs revealed gender related differences in ETAR mediated venoconstriction, whereas blockade of both ETARs and ETBRs eliminated these differences. Ovariectomy enhanced the contractile responses to S6c in veins. Blockade of ETARs by BQ-610 was reduced in veins following ovariectomy and castration. These results suggest that intact male veins produce greater ETBR mediated contractions, estrogen can modulate ETBR mediated contractions, and ETARs are under the influence of both sex steroid hormones. HF is associated with elevated plasma ET-1 levels and an increase in cardiac preload due to venoconstriction. The role of elevated plasma ET-1 levels in altered venous functions in HF has not been evaluated yet. Therefore we aimed to identify the changes in ET-1 vascular contractile responses and concomitant alterations in the ET1 receptors mediated vascular contractile responses together with changes in receptors mRNA and protein expression levels in mesenteric veins. At 4, 8 and 16 weeks post sham operation or Myocardial infarction (MI), venoconstrictor responses were recorded using a pressure myograph. RT-qPCR and Western blotting were used to quantify mRNA and protein expression of receptors. In Mesenteric veins, vasoconstrictor responses to ET-1 and S6c were progressively reduced in the period following MI. BQ-788 significantly reduced ET-1 responses in 4 and 16wk sham but not HF mice. BQ-610 abolished ET-1 responses in 4wk HF and sham mice, whereas in 16 wk mice, BQ-610 caused greater inhibition in ET-1 responses in HF than sham mice and co-application of BQ-788/BQ-610 completely inhibited ET-1 responses in sham and HF mice. ETBR but not ETAR mRNA and protein expression was decreased in HF mesenteric veins compared to those of sham mice. In conclusion, a reduced venoconstrictor response to ET-1 in HF is associated with the functional and molecular down regulation of venous ETBR post-MI.
Page Segmentation for Content Sequence

This paper describes a technique for separate document images. There are 2 steps in this proposed. Firstly, this paper proposes a method for calculate the skew angle of scanned direction. Next, this paper proposes the technique for page segmentation by using a recursive x-y cut technique. The advantage of this technique is segmented boxes ordered by content sequence. There are useful for the OCR process because the output of OCR process is determined the human reading order. The experimental results shown that this proposed are suitable for 300 dpi resolution and text document images.
Experience Report: Serving Hypermedia and the Web Online with HA3L

HA3L is an agent-based adaptive hypermedia system which uses existing technology developed by the IAM group in the form of the SoFAR agent framework and the Auld Linky contextual hypermedia structure service. In a nutshell, HA3L provides guided tours of a topic which are adapted according to user preferences. The book Hypermedia and the Web, by David Lowe and Wendy Hall, outlines an engineering approach to the design and management of Web hypermedia applications. Lowe and Hall wish to create an online resource which compliments (but which does merely replicate) the content presented in the book, providing extra material and examples, and which provides adaptive presentations of its content tailored to individual visitors to the site. The purpose of this report is firstly to briefly recount my experiences in getting to grips with the operation of HA3L, and secondly to describe how I have applied the system to provide adaptive tours through part of the Hypermedia and the Web book. The suitability of HA3L for serving an online, adaptive Hypermedia and the Web resource is also briefly discussed.
An Analysis of the Grammatical Errors in the Narrative Writing of the First Grade Students of SMA 6 Yogyakarta

This study was aimed at finding out: (1) the types of grammatical errors in the narrative writing of the first grade students of SMA 6 Yogyakarta, and (2) the causes of the grammatical errors in their narrative writing. The study was a case study. The participants were 30 students of the first grade students of Senior High School Six Yogyakarta in the academic year of 201112012. The study comprised five steps, namely collection of data, identification of errors, quantification of errors, description of errors, and explanation of errors. The research instrument was in the form of a writing assignment. The data were obtained from the students' writing works. The results of the study were as follows. First, fourteen types of the grammatical errors of the students' narrative writing were found concerning verb tenses, finite verbs, non-finite verbs, pronouns, prepositions, spelling, agreement of singular and plural, punctuation, contexts of usage, contexts of meaning, redundancy, word choices, word orders, and unintelligibility. Second, the verb tense errors occupied the first rank (24.47%), followed by the pronoun errors (11.56%), and the finite verb errors (10.51%). Third, five types of the causes of errors were: (1) interference in copulative verbs, word orders, verb tenses, and article usages; (2) ignorance of rule restrictions in articles, relative clauses, causative verbs, and verb + gerund constructions; (3) incomplete application of rules in prepositions, verb phrases, subjects of the sentence, and objects of the sentence; (4) false concepts hypothesized in past verb tenses, non-finite verbs, agreement of the singular and plural, and adverbs of degree; and (5) over­ generalization in irregular past verbs, articles, verb phrases, and plural nouns.
Physics-based Interactive Virtual Grasping

In this paper, we propose an interactive virtual grasping system, enabling physically-realistic interaction between a user and virtual objects, using kinematic hand models whose motions are tracked and controlled in real-time by the user. Since hand tracking devices provide only one-way coupling between the user and kinematic hands resulting in penetrations and friction-less interaction, our method implements the contacts as Coulomb's friction model and includes a dynamic proxy hand in the system which follows the kinematic virtual hand to provide a two-way control loop for the physics interactions. Our system, taking advantage of the graphics and physics engine of Unity3D, presently allows us to interact with 3D objects in the virtual space in real-time with no visible latency. Moreover, to visually assist the user's grasping we render the hand model as transparent and provide visual markers at the contact locations. We demonstrate how the use of these tools helps us to perform real-time grasping tasks in complicated virtual environment.
Neoliberalising the Fordist University: A Tale of Two Campuses in Frankfurt a. M., Germany

Abstract: In 2009, the central building of the new IG Farben Campus of Johann Wolfgang Goethe University (JWGU), Frankfurt, Germany was occupied by students protesting against the neoliberalisation of higher education. While similar occupations at the old Bockenheim Campus were usually tolerated, if not welcomed, by the university management, this time 176 students and members of staff were forcefully evicted after only 3 days, when the university's presidential board called in the police. To better understand this way of ending such protest, a level of oppression almost unheard of at a German university in the last 20 years, we reconstruct the way in which JWGU, as part of the state apparatus university, has produced the two campuses as particular places that are bound up in and expressions of the national and local condensations of forces of Fordism and neoliberalism respectively.
Secure Sharing of Data over Cloud Computing using Different Encryption Schemes An Overview

Cloud computing has been envisioned as the de-facto solution to the rising storage costs of IT Enterprises. With the high costs of storage devices as well as the huge amount of data is being generated it proves costly for enterprises or individual users to frequently update their hardware. Data outsourcing to the cloud helps in reduction in storage costs and reducing the maintenance. Cloud storage stores the users data to large data centers, which are remotely located. User does not have any control on those centers . This feature of the cloud poses many security issues and need to understand and solve this problem. Data security is the most important challenges in cloud computing. To assure the clients control over access to their own data's, it is a promising method to encrypt the data's before outsourcing. So many issues are remained for achieving fine grained data access control. Such as scalability in key management, flexible access, efficient user revocation and privacy problems. So many encryption techniques are used for achieving these features. To achieve fine-grained and scalable data access control for client's data, different attribute-based encryption (ABE) techniques are used.
The assessment of patient adherence to physiotherapy rehabilitation

This paper discusses the problem of adherence in physiotherapy and methods of assessing it. Poor adherence to physiotherapy is a problem with up to 65% of patients being either nonadherent or partially adherent to their home programmes, and approximately 10% of patients failing to complete their prescribed course of physiotherapy. As physiotherapy programmes consist of a diverse range of treatment methods that may be administered either at the clinic or at home, the measurement of adherence to these components must reflect the behavioural demands that each impose. Attendance at physiotherapy and the use of the Sport Injury Rehabilitation Adherence Scale (SIRAS: Brewer et al., 1995) to assess patients’ behaviours during the treatment session are recommended as the measures of clinic-based adherence. Patient self-reports are suggested as the most ideal method of evaluating adherence to the home-based physiotherapy. Any assessment of adherence must also include an analysis of the reasons for this type of behaviour, which tend to be related to the patients’ personal characteristics, variables related to the disease or injury and treatment, and the patient-physiotherapist interaction. Knowing the reasons for poor adherence will assist physiotherapists in finding solutions to overcome the problem. Sandra Frances Bassett (2003). The Assessment of Patient
Digital Watermarking for Depth-Image-Based Rendering 3D Images and Its Application to Quality Evaluation

Due to the rapid development of 3D display market, the protection and authentication of the intellectual property rights of 3D multimedia has become an essential concern. As a consequence, the digital watermarking for 3D image and video is attracting considerable attention. The depth-image-based rendering (DIBR) technique has been playing a critical role in 3D contents representation because of its numerous advantages. A good digital watermarking algorithm should be robust to various possible attacks, including geometric distortions and compressions. And different from ordinary 2D digital watermarking, there are more specific requirements for 3D watermarking, especially for DIBR 3D image watermarking. Not only the center view, but also the virtual left and right views can be illegally distributed. Therefore, the embedded watermark information should be accurately extracted from these three views individually for content authentication, even under attacks. In this thesis, we focus on the research of digital watermarking and watermarking based quality evaluation for DIBR 3D images. We first present a 2D image and video watermarking method based on contourlet transform, which is then extended to a robust contourlet-based watermarking algorithm for DIBR 3D images. The watermark is embedded into the center view by quantizing certain contourlet coefficients. The virtual left and right views are synthesized from the watermarked center view and the corresponding depth map. One advantage of our algorithm is its simplicity and practicality. However, the performance on watermark extraction needs to be further improved. As an improvement, a blind watermarking algorithm for DIBR 3D images based on feature regions and ridgelet transform is proposed. The watermarked view ii has good perceptual quality under both the objective and subjective image quality measures. Compared with other related and state-of-the-art methods, the proposed algorithm shows superiority in terms of watermark extraction and robustness to various attacks. Furthermore, as one of the most promising techniques for quality evaluation, a watermarking based quality evaluation scheme is developed for DIBR 3D images. The qualities of the watermarked center view and the synthesized left and right views under distortions can be estimated by examining the degradation of corresponding extracted watermarks. The simulation results demonstrate that our scheme has good performance of quality evaluation for DIBR 3D images under the attacks.
Principles of frontal lobe function

The various theoretical positions proposed reflect the diversity of approaches to the same fundamental question about the role of the frontal lobes. Some chapters deal with broad, salient issues such as functional heterogeneity versus homogeneity, while others narrow their focus on specific functions like motor control, language, memory and attention, executive functioning, and emotional and social behavior.
Terminal Guidance System for Satellite Rendezvous

This paper assumes a requirement for an unmanned multiunit satellite to be assembled in orbit. The requirement to be met is to bring the satellites together so tha t they do not collide but actually rendezvous. The equations of motion of the rendezvous satellite in a relative coordinate system are derived and used to compute a final injection velocity which would effect collision after a time r. The velocity is corrected periodically by a command guidance system and just before impact retrothrust is applied. A terminal infrared homing sj^stem is required to actually accomplish physical contact and joining of the satellites. The first satellite placed in orbit is the "control satellite" and controls all the satellites to be assembled and contains the ccmputer, command guidance equipment, precision orientation equipment, and other features necessary to effect rendezvous. The succeeding satellites contain a propulsion system, a rough at t i tude control system, and a command receiver plus whatever scientific equipment they carry to perform their basic mission. This paper presents the following:
Feature encoding by neural nets

While the use of categorical features seems to be the appropriate way to express sound patterns within languages, these features do not seem adequate to describe the sounds actually produced by speakers. Examination of the speech signal fails to reveal objective, discrete phonological segments. Similarly, segments are not directly observable in the flow of articulatory movements, and vary slightly according to an individual speaker's articulatory strategies. Because of the lack of a reliable relationship between segments and speech sounds, a plausible transition from feature representation to the actual acoustic signal has proven elusive. This paper utilises a theory of information processing, known as PARALLEL DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING (PDP) NETWORKS (also called neural networks), to propose a model which begins to express this transition: translating the feature bundles indicated in a broad phonetic transcription into continuous, potentially variable articulator behaviour.
Building Occupancy Estimation using a Probabilistic Approach

Lighting and ventilation can be easily controlled if occupancy detection system is available which enable saving of energy and offering more comfortable building environment, however, exact and accurate measurements of occupancy detection remains not easy task to achieve. This paper present a technique to determine the occupancy level in a building which is divided into zones using video cameras deployed at the front of each zone where image processing algorithm has been developed in order to determine the number of passing people in every zone Keywords-occupancy; video suirveillance; image prcessing;