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CLUSTERING BASED BIT LOADING ALGORITHMS USING NEURAL NETWORKS

A simple and clustering based Bit Loading Algorithm is proposed here. In Wireless and Mobile Communication, there are two important parameters to be looked upon i.e. the power requirement at the transmitting end and speed of transmission. For downlink appreciable energy can be supplied as it takes place from Base Station to Mobile user but the uplink runs on batteries. As a result energy usage should be optimized. The transmitter energy can be minimized if bits are properly allocated. Our paper aims at transmitting target number of bits with less energy. Most of the algorithms for loading bits are iterative in nature, so we must aim at reducing the number of iterations. The bit transmission is also accompanied by delay which should be minimized by optimal allocation of bits with less iteration. For minimizing iterations the paper aims at clustering the sub-channels and then allocating the bits. The clustering is performed using Neural Networks. The proposed algorithms are faster and convergent to the optimal solution. Â
Temporal aspects of user experience : Models and methods beyond a single use situation

User Experience (UX) is an ongoing process and should not be limited to a single use situation. However, this is unfortunately often the case in HCI research. The goal of this workshop is to deepen and expand available knowledge with respect to temporal dynamics of UX. Relevant aspects will be the understanding of how UX is evolving over time, in particular across products and contexts, as well as the exploration of methods that can evaluate long-term UX in practice. For this, the organizers will prepare a booklet that introduces existing models and methods for long-term UX as a mutual basis for discussing critical experience phases that should be taken into consideration in product development. The booklet also summarizes pre-notes from participants which will be collected prior to the workshop. In addition, during an interactive group activity, participants will reflect on the diversity of longterm UX of different product types. Participants from academia as well as from industry are invited in order to tackle the question of how to make research results and methods applicable in practice.
The Validity of Human and Computerized Writing Assessment

This paper summarizes an experiment designed to assess the validity of essay grading between holistic and analytic human graders and a computerized grader based on latent semantic analysis. The validity of the grade was gauged by the extent to which the student's knowledge of the topic correlated with the grader's expert knowledge. To assess knowledge, Pathfinder networks were generated by the student essay writers, the holistic and analytic graders, and the computerized grader. It was found that the computer generated grades more closely matched the definition of valid grading than did human generated grades.
Quand la ville se ferme : quartiers résidentiels sécurisés

Quartiers residentiels fermes, lotissements securises, residences fermees, gated communities : les ghettos de riches ou de pauvres se multiplient dans les grandes villes comme autant « d'enclaves » urbaines, qui n'etant plus reliees les unes aux autres, font peur car elles menaceraient la ville d'eclatement. Comment et grâce a qui ces produits immobiliers et ces quartiers sont-ils crees ? Quelles en sont les consequences sur l'espace urbain ? Pour tenter de repondre a ces questions des enquetes ont ete menees sur des terrains varies : essentiellement l'Afrique du sud, l'Amerique du Nord et l'Amerique Latine. Cet ouvrage essaie de saisir la logique de ces quartiers sans en stigmatiser les residents.
Cell-based Therapies for Cardiovascular Repair: How small things matter

markdownabstract__Abstract__ Cardiovascular disease accounts for almost half of the deaths in the Western world and 25% in developing countries, despite significant therapeutic and interventional advances. It is estimated that by the year 2020, cardiovascular disease will surpass infectious disease, to become the world’s leading cause of mortality and morbidity. Approximately half of the cardiovascular mortality is due to acute myocardial infarction, whereas subsequent heart failure and stable coronary artery disease account for the majority of morbidity. Stem cell therapy to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease has been the topic of extensive research over the past decade. The assumption that multipotent cells can graft to the injured heart and incorporate into the host’s myocardium, thereby contributing to contractility and improving cardiac function, is considered to be the holy grail for cardiac cell therapy. Hence, the first attempt of cardiac cell therapy more than a decade ago was with skeletal myoblasts (SkM) in end-stage heart failure patients. These progenitor cells are derived from striated skeletal muscle, and are destined to become contracting myofibers. It was hypothesized that, once injected into myocardial scars, these SkM would differentiate into contractile units in vivo, and actually contribute to the contractile apparatus. Unfortunately, clinical reality turned out to be less manipulable, and subsequent research has indicated that the road towards the holy grail is still long and comprises many obstacles on the way. More specifically, injected SkM did not actually incorporate into scars, but rather formed re-entry circuits for ventricular arrhythmias, whereas cardiac function was not enhanced following SkM injection. In the clinical arena, these disappointing results were rather generalized into the notion that cardiovascular cell therapy did not work. However, as there are several different cardiovascular pathologies and even more different stem cell types, cell therapy is not a single entity. Therefore, the last decade has been devoted to unraveling numerous questions, as 1) what is the ideal stem cell type and dose; 2) what cardiovascular disease types qualify for stem cell therapy; 3) when should stem cell therapy be initiated; 4) how should cells be administered; 5) what is the best surrogate end point to evaluate the effect of cell therapy; etcetera. This thesis aims to clarify some of these questions, and summarizes our current knowledge about cardiovascular cell therapy.
Design and operation of optical WDM networks with many-to-many traffic grooming

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Threshold Optimization Algorithm -KSVM for Unbalanced Data Classification Prediction

In the era of Big Data, the multidimensional datasets from electric power, medical treatment and other industries are often unbalanced, and the positive data usually costs more seriously when being classified. According to different datasets, the distribution tendency of datasets may reduce the accuracy of classifiers. Based on SVM, the traditional Classifier KSVM introduces KNN algorithm effectively, that increases the effective classification information for error-prone points near the hyperplane, but at the same time it introduces more noise. Based on the defect that the KSVM algorithm with fixed threshold applied to unbalanced datasets, this paper proposes an improved ε-KSVM classifier with thresholds of dynamic adjustment for different datasets. The classifier applies Genetic Algorithm to adjust the boundary, namely the threshold dynamically so that the misclassification information is reduced. The experimental results show that the prediction accuracy is improved greatly. KeywordsSVM; KNN; threshold; imbalanced datasets; Genetic Algorithm
Use of Research Articles in the EAP Classroom

The central idea of genre-based EAP teaching is assisting students to become more competent users of genres identified as key to their disciplines. As reading research articles in English is a substantial component of target courses syllabi in university settings in Croatia, a student assignment was designed to implement research articles in the EAP classroom. The assignment presented in this paper aimed to raise students' awareness of the rhetorical, metadiscoursal, and lexical features of a research article. Students were first required to identify rhetorical moves throughout four main research article sections. The next task was to find a section in a research article containing at least two different hedging expressions and to translate the section into Croatian. Finally, a lexical analysis focused on the identification of academic collocations across the research article sections. The overall results, which in most cases indicated students’ increased awareness of the aspects analyzed, suggest the effectiveness of genre-based teaching in the EAP classroom. The assignment presented here may have wider pedagogical implications, in that it could serve as a generic model for analyzing the same or other academic genres across a range of EAP contexts.
The Cambridge Companion to Opera Studies

With its powerful combination of music and theatre, opera is one of the most complex and yet immediate of all art forms. Once opera was studied only as ‘a stepchild of musicology’, but in the past two decades opera studies has experienced an explosion of energy with the introduction of new approaches drawn from disciplines such as social anthropology and performance studies to media theory, genre theory, gender studies and reception history. Written by leading scholars in opera studies today, this Companion offers a wide-ranging guide to a rapidly expanding field of study, and new ways of thinking about a rich and intriguing art form, placing opera back at the centre of our understanding of Western culture over the past 400 years. This book gives lovers of opera as well as those studying the subject a comprehensive approach to the many facets of opera in the past and today.
Construction of Diesel Domain Ontology

At present, a large number of professional diesel databases and systems could support all kinds of unified management and retrieval applications based on the diesel research data, but the actual working environment exists three problems: (1) Data scattered in different databases and not conducive to business development. (2) The normalization of the diesel terminology is relatively low, affecting the retrieval accuracy. (3) The efficiency of knowledge search is low. This paper aims at the knowledge management and application problem in the diesel research and development process of digital design for vehicle diesel, analyzes the construction demand of the diesel domain ontology, proposed the diesel domain ontology construction method, constructed the diesel domain ontology structure, developed diesel professional ontology model management tool and diesel domain ontology service interface, which provides an organizational framework for information integration to facilitate the accurate and effective transfer between knowledge, data and model. The constraint of the ontology could ensure the accuracy and consistency of information, which could help enterprise improve the accuracy and integrity of the diesel knowledge search. The diesel domain ontology can support the integration of different databases, which could support enterprise technology innovation.
Design and Development of Hybrid Genetic Classifier Model for Prediction of Diabetes

-Diabetes is generally a high sugar problem that doesn‟t make enough insulin to our body and leads to polygenic disease characterized by abnormal high glucose in the blood. By the statistical survey 95% of the diabetic cases in the world suffering with type 2 diabetes. Genetic algorithm (GA) is considered to be an optimal search algorithm to find the optimal solution by cleaning out the worse gene strings based on a fitness function. GA had established efficiency in solving the problems of unsupervised data classification. This paper proposes a new Hybrid Genetic Classifier Model (HGCM) for the prediction of type 2 diabetes by integrating different distance methods as fitness function in GA Classifier & feature Selection method for getting classification accuracy. By HGCM two rules are generated for the prediction of type 2 diabetes.
Brain Maturation Changes Characterized by Algorithmic Complexity (Lempel and Ziv Complexity)

Recent experimental results suggest that basal electroencephalogram (EEG)changes reflect the widespread functional evolution in neuronal circuits, occurring in chicken brain during the “synapse maturation” period, between 3 and 8 weeks’ posthatch. In present work a quantitative analysis based on the Algorithmic Complexity (Lempel and Ziv Complexity) is performed. It is shown that this complexity presents a peak at week 2 posthatch 2, and a tendency to stabilize its values after the week 5 posthatch.
A semantic framework for web-based accommodation information integration

With the tremendous growth of the Web, a broad spectrum of accommodation information is to be found on the Internet. In order to adequately support information users in collecting and sharing information online, it is important to create an effective information integration solution, and to provide integrated access to the vast numbers of online information sources. In addition to the problem of distributed information sources, information users also need to cope with the heterogeneous nature of the online information sources, where individual information sources are stored and presented following their own structures and formats. In this thesis, we explore some of the challenges in the field of information integration, and propose solutions to some of the arising challenges. We focus on the utilization of ontology for integrating heterogeneous, structured and semi-structured information sources, where instance level data are stored and presented according to meta-data level schemas. In particular, we looked at XML-based data that is stored according to XML schemas. In a first step towards a large-scale information integration solution, we propose a semantic integration framework. The proposed framework solves the problem of information integration on three levels: the data level, process level and architecture level. On the data level, we leverage the benefit of ontology, and use ontology as a mediator for enabling semantic interoperability among heterogeneous data sources. On the process level, we alter the process of information integration, and propose a three step integration process named as the publishcombine-use mechanism. The primary goal is to distribute the efforts of collecting and integrating information sources to various types of end users. In the proposed approach, information providers have more control over their own data sources, as data sources are able to join and leave the information sharing network according to their own preferences. On the architecture level, we combine the flexibility offered by the emerging distributed P2P approach with the query processing capability provided by the centralized approach. The joint architecture is similar to the structure of the online accommodation industry. This thesis also demonstrates the practical applicability of the proposed semantic integration framework by implementing a prototype system. The prototype system named the “accommodation hub” is specifically developed for integrating online accommodation information in the large, distributed, heterogeneous online environment. The proposed semantic integration solution and the implemented prototype system are evaluated to provide a measure of the system performance and usage. Results show that the proposed solution delivers better performance with respect to some of the evaluation criteria than some related approaches in information integration.
Research on inhibition of frequency split in paraboloid of revolution shaped resonator

Paraboloid of revolution shaped resonator(abbreviated as PRSR) as a new solid-state wave gyroscope resonator, is the core component of Bell-shaped vibratory angular rate gyro(abbreviated as BVG) which sensitizes angular movement through the Coriolis effect of standing wave in resonance state of axisymmetric shell. Structural characteristics of the resonator make itself have the feature of withstand high overload and high impact, which make it has broad application prospects in high dynamic low-precision angular rate measurement occasions. It is well known that when structural irregularities are present, destroying the symmetry of the structure and will lead to frequency split between drive mode and sense mode. This work puts forward a method of precise balance to reduce the frequency split to an acceptable level for drive and sensing modes by removing the resonator edge mass. Finite element simulation analysis and experimental tests proved that this method can effectively inhibit the natural frequency split of resonator, make the natural frequency split reduced to 0.2Hz or less.
ACSM's Resource Manual for Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription

Section one Lifestyle and health: conceptual basis for coronary artery disease risk factor assessment in clinical practice epidemiology of physical activity, physical fitness, and selected chronic diseases diet and chronic disease tobacco exposure and chronic illness influence of emotional distress on chronic illness integration of lifestyle behaviours. Section two Anatomy: cardiovascular anatomy respiratory anatomy musculoskeletal anatomy surface anatomy. Section three Biomechanics: mechanical load on the body biomechanics and physiology of posture and gait low back exercises - prescription for the healthy back and when recovering from injury. Section four Exercise physiology: fundamentals of exercise metabolism normal cardiorespiratory esponses to acute exercise abnormal cardiorespiratory responses to acute exercise cardiorespiratory adaptations to exercise factors affecting the acute neuromuscular responses to resistance exercise chronic musculoskeletal adaptations to resistance training mechanisms of muscular fatigue detraining and retention of adaptations induced by endurance training deconditioning and bed rest - induced effects on bone health deconditioning and bed rest - musculoskeletal response environmental considerations - heat and cold exercise and the environment - altitude and air pollution. Section five Coronary artery disease: coronary atherosclerosis manifestations of coronary atherosclerosis diagnosis of coronary artery disease medical and invasive interventions in the management of coronary artery disease. Appendix: Drugs-resource list comprehensive cardiovascular risk reduction in patients with coronary artery disease. (Part contents)
Rank reduction for low-bit-rate coding of dynamic texture video

Detailed image structures and visual textures (of stochastic nature) in digital video are difficult to compress efficiently. At medium to low bit rates, texture flattening and blocking artifacts appear, even when using advanced video coding standards such as H.264/MPEG-4 AVC. In this paper, we propose video compression systems to compress stochastic textures by exploiting rank-reduction techniques. In this work, rank reduction is implemented by applying a singular value decomposition and selective transmission of the primary signal components as in principal component analysis. In the low bit-rate range, our implementation shows encouraging results compared to H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, not only in rate-distortion performance, but also in the improved visual quality of the reconstructed videos.
Nanopartículas como herramientas en procesos bio-químicos. Síntesis, caracterización, funcionalización y aplicaciones

[ES] ` Cuando la naturaleza se acaba el producir su propia especie , el hombre comienza a utilizar las cosas naturales en armonia con esta misma naturaleza para crear una infinidad de especies de ` Jean -Marie Lehn utiliza estas palabras de Leonardo da Vinci para ofrecer sus puntos de vista sobre las perspectivas de futuro de la quimica supramolecular . Quimica supramolecular investiga los principios de la naturaleza para producir complejos extraordinarios y enlaces moleculares funcionales, potencialmente utiles como sensores , catalizadores, el transporte y otras aplicaciones en la medicina y la ingenieria. Comenzando con el descubrimiento de la estructura de doble helice del ADN , la biologia ha pasado de ser una disciplina puramente descriptiva y fenomenologica a la ciencia molecular. Todos estos acontecimientos revolucionarios han llevado a fusionar Biotecnologia y Ciencia de los Materiales , dando la ventaja indudable de utilizar componentes biologicos para generar nuevos materiales de diseno y , a la inversa , la aplicacion de estos materiales avanzados y las nuevas tecnicas fisicoquimicas para resolver problemas biologicos. Con el fin de explotar y utilizar todos los conceptos relacionados con los sistemas naturales en la nanoescala , el desarrollo de la Nanociencia y Nanoquimica es crucial. La nanociencia es la ciencia que se ocupa del analisis y la manipulacion de materiales a nivel atomico o molecular , donde las caracteristicas o propiedades fisicas o quimicas difieren significativamente de los que se presentan en una escala mas grande. En este sentido , un nanomaterial se define como un material que consiste de una sustancia o estructura que tiene al menos una dimension inferior a 100 nm . Estas estructuras tienen nuevas propiedades y un comportamiento diferente de la exhibida por el material a granel de la misma composicion . Nanoparticulas inorganicas son particularmente atractivos como bloques de construccion para la construccion de grandes superestructuras y se pueden preparar facilmente a partir de diversos materiales . Ellos tienen propiedades opticas , electronicas y cataliticas interesantes , que dependen fuertemente del tamano de particula . Durante los ultimos veinte anos ha habido un interes creciente en la fabricacion de materiales hibridos inorganicos entre las nanoparticulas y biomoleculas . Como las nanoparticulas y biomoleculas se encuentran en una longitud de escala similar , parece logico que la combinacion de las biomoleculas con nanomateriales podria llevar a algunas herramientas de imitacion interesantes de biomoleculas , lo que demuestra los mecanismos de los procesos biologicos. En la actualidad , es facil de controlar y modificar las propiedades de las nanoestructuras para lograr su integracion con los sistemas biologicos , por ejemplo el control de su tamano o la modificacion de su capa superficial para aumentar su solubilidad acuosa o biocompatibilidad . La nanotecnologia se define entonces como la comprension y el control de la materia a escala nanometrica , en dimensiones…