Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Low-Power and Programmable Analog Circuitry for Wireless Sensors

Low-Power and Programmable Analog Circuitry for Wireless Sensors by Brandon David Rumberg Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering West Virginia University David W. Graham, Ph.D., Chair Embedding networks of secure, wirelessly-connected sensors and actuators will help us to conscientiously manage our local and extended environments. One major challenge for this vision is to create networks of wireless sensor devices that provide maximal knowledge of their environment while using only the energy that is available within that environment. In this work, it is argued that the energy constraints in wireless sensor design are best addressed by incorporating analog signal processors. The low power-consumption of an analog signal processor allows persistent monitoring of multiple sensors while the device’s analog-to-digital converter, microcontroller, and transceiver are all in sleep mode. This dissertation describes the development of analog signal processing integrated circuits for wireless sensor networks. Specific technology problems that are addressed include reconfigurable processing architectures for low-power sensing applications, as well as the development of reprogrammable biasing for analog circuits.
Human-tracking system using quadrotors and multiple environmental cameras for face-tracking application

In this article, a system for tracking human’s position and orientation in indoor environment was developed utilizing environmental cameras. The system consists of cameras installed in the environment at fixed locations and orientations, called environmental cameras, and a moving robot which mounts a camera, called moving camera. The environmental cameras detect the location and direction of each person in the space, as well as the position of the moving robot. The robot is then controlled to move and follow the person’s movement based on the person’s location and orientation, mimicking the act of moving camera tracking his/her face. The number of cameras needed to cover the area of the experiment, as well as each camera’s position and orientation, was obtained by using particle swarm optimization algorithm. Sensor fusion among multiple cameras is done by simple weighted averaging based on distance and knowledge of the number of robots being used. Xbox Kinect sensors and a miniature quadrotor were used to implement the system. The tracking experiment was done with one person walking and rotating in the area. The result shows that the proposed system can track the person and quadrotor within the degree of 10 cm , and the quadrotor can follow the person’s movement as desired. At least one camera was guaranteed to be tracking the person and the quadrotor at any time, with the minimum number of two for tracking the person and only a few moments that only one camera was tracking the quadrotor.
Logistikens termer och begrepp

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Enhancing Team Effectiveness Through Leader Emotional Intelligence and Knowledge Sharing: Structural Equation Modeling Approach

Leader’s non -cognitive abilities and knowledge sharing behavior among team members remains a central concern of healthcare teams for the effective team outcomes. As in complex healthcare environment leaders have to confront with contradictory behaviors. Therefore, the research study attempts to address question how exchange of knowledge amongst health professionals who are associated and working in teams enhances the team effectiveness under emotionally competent leadership. Considering the factor; that leader emotional intelligence is a critical proficiency which may influences sharing of knowledge in health care teams, in terms of final outcomes and effectiveness criteria. A cross-sectional study with structural modeling approach by using Smart PLS was employed to examine the mediating effect of knowledge sharing on relationship of leader emotional intelligence and team effectiveness Data were analyzed by means of a self-reported questionnaire from 225 health care professionals who were working with teams. The study findings indicated knowledge sharing within interprofessional health care teams is influenced by leader emotional intelligence. Furthermore, it was shown that leader emotional intelligence and knowledge sharing is positively related to team effectiveness. Mediation analysis revealed that knowledge sharing mediates the relationship between leader emotional intelligence and team effectiveness. In practice, the results of the study provide a valuable starting point for healthcare leadership to educate them on emotional competencies and encourage knowledge sharing as it deemed important for achieving effectiveness.
Mayan Metate Ethnoarchaeology

Manos and metates are ubiquitous at archaeological sites in Mesoamerica. Unfortunately, grinding stones are understudied, and thus, not much is understood about them. Understanding that archaeology is based on the use of analogy to infer past lifeways, little work has been done to create analogies specifically for manos and metates. The purpose of this thesis is to study modern grinding stones used by Mayans living in Guatemala to better understand manos and metates used by ancient peoples. I worked for two field seasons in Guatemala recording the life histories of manos and metates used by the Q’eqchi’ and K’iche’, two contemporary Mayan groups. I conducted surveys with 97 people which highlighted the history of their grinding stones, associated cultural beliefs, their physical descriptions, and metate use-location. I also interviewed several men who manufacture manos and metates at two of the few existing metate quarries in Guatemala. After analyzing the information gathered, I determined many new ways to interpret manos and metates found within the archaeological record. Some of the implications of my study are the identification of wear patterns and the behaviors that cause these patterns. I also show that manos and metates can be multigenerational and are often passed from one generation to the next. Taboos that determine how people handle and use grinding stones as well as other cultural beliefs are discussed in my thesis. I also compare the use-location of manos and metates among the modern Maya to help interpret the locations of these tools among the Maya of the pre-Columbian site Cerén, El Salvador. Other contributions of this study include a correlation between the size and function of manos and metates and many ethnographic implications such as the manifestation
Towards Plug-n-Play robot guidance: Advanced 3D estimation and pose estimation in Robotic applications

Robotic applications DTU Orbit (08/12/2018) Towards Plug-n-Play robot guidance: Advanced 3D estimation and pose estimation in Robotic applications Robots are a key technology in the quest for higher productivity in Denmark and Europe. Robots have existed in many years as a part of production lines where they have solved monotonous and repetitive task in mass production industries. Typical the programming of these robots are handled by engineers with special knowledge who have often raised the price for using robots to a given production task. If robots have to be applicable for small and medium sized enterprises where production task often changes and batch sizes are below 50 products it is necessary that the staff is capable of reprogramming the robot by themselves.
ENTS - a fast and adaptive indexing system for codebooks

We describe Ents, a new tree structured indexing system for vector quantization. This new indexing system is generic, adaptive and can be used as a software component in any vector quantization system. The cost of this higher speed (compared to tabular indexing) is a negligible degradation of the distortion error. Nevertheless, a parameter allows the user to tradeoff speed for a lower distortion error. A distinctive and attractive feature of Ents is that it can follow a non-stationary input vector distribution by performing local repairs to its indexing tree. Experimental results show that Ents is very fast; it outperforms other tree indexing systems like TSVQ and K-trees.
Speed Sensor Error Sources Estimation Using a Linear Neuron

This paper presents a method of estimating the bias and scale factor in a speed sensor using a model-based linear neuron. The training of the linear neuron is performed online in a random manner during the availability of the desired target. This method is applied to the DGPS Aided INS system. The desired target in this case is chosen to be the derived DGPS travel distance. Using this approach, the linear neuron adaptively estimates the speed measurement error source values during the availability of DGPS, and then uses these estimated values to aid the INS during DGPS outages or unsuitable DGPS solutions. The experimental results demonstrate the advantages of this work over typical KF methods in terms of performance and computation time.
Knowledge and Attitudes of Women about Preconception Care

Accepted: 19 Feb, 2016 Abstract Background and Objectives: Preconception care is a set of care services, which assesses the risks of pregnancy and improves women health through providing trainings, diagnostic and therapeutic measures, and pharmaceutical interventions. Considering its importance and impact on pregnancy outcome, this study aimed to determine knowledge and attitude of women about preconception care.
Getting attention for a ceramic art exhibition: A Case study of a nonprofit’s promotional campaign

5 Introduction 6 Literature Review 7 Methods 15 Results 28 Discussion 34 Conclusion 39 References 42 Appendices 46 CASE STUDY OF A PROMOTIONAL CAMPAIGN 5 GETTING ATTENTION FOR A CERAMIC ART EXHIBITION: A CASE STUDY OF A NONPROFIT’S PROMOTIONAL CAMPAIGN Name: Steven R. Bodnar Department: Communication College: Liberal Arts Degree: Master of Science in Communication & Media Technologies Term Degree Awarded: Fall Quarter 2012 (20121)
OWASP Zed Attack Proxy

Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is a free, open-source penetration testing tool.It is kept up to date under the auspices of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP). ZAP is a web application testing framework that is both flexible and extendable. ZAP is a so-called "man-in-the-middle proxy" at its core. It runs between the tester's browser and the web application, intercepting and inspecting messages transmitted between the two, modifying the contents if necessary, and then forwarding those packets on to their intended destination. It can be performed as a daemon process or as a stand-alone application. Keywords—security measures, penetration testing, web vulnerability scanner, Zed Attack Proxy
The study of keyword search in open source search engines and digital forensics tools with respect to the needs of cyber crime investigations

This master thesis consists of both a theoretical and practical part. In the theoretical part of the thesis are three main parts of study: 1) Exploration of experimental search methodologies used in a Digital forensics setting. 2) Analysis of the differences in documented search capabilities between a set of open source search engines and open source forensics tools capable of keyword search. 3) Identified and summarized publicly available Digital forensic related datasets. For the first area of exploration no surveys published in the period 2014-2017 could be found. Therefore, this exploration tackles a missing gap in the current knowledge. The second exploration creates an in-depth and up-to-date analysis of differences in search capabilities, not found anywhere else. This analysis is useful for forensic examiners and researcher that want to know which application is most suitable for their problem domain. The third exploration extends previous lists of its kind, and adds many new unlisted forensic related datasets. This list, is to the best of my knowledge, the largest collection, of publicly forensic related datasets published in any paper. This addition in the paper will be useful for researchers in many subfields of Information security who are looking for a dataset to use in their research. Using publicly available datasets will also make their experiments more reproducible. Some of the datasets are also used in the practical part of the thesis. The practical part is a benchmark experiment where the open source search engines are tested on how well they perform at indexing, searching and memory performance during searching. Elasticsearch was generally better then Solr at index creation time, minimizing index size and response time for the first run of search terms. Solr outperformed Elasticsearch on second run of search terms. The difference between the search engines with regard to memory performance during searching was negligible. There are two main limitations with the experiment. The first being that the experiments are performed on only one virtual host machine. This environment does not allow testing for how well the search engines perform at distributed search. The second main issue is that only the default configurations was tested (out-of-the-box setup) with Solr and Elasticsearch. If more configurations had been tested, then some of the variables such as sharding and segment count could be controlled. Up-to-date experiments with the same testing methodology could not be found. The experiments provide information that is useful for forensic examiners when deciding which search engine is best suitable for their forensics tasks. The study of keyword search in open source search engines and digital forensics tools with respect to the needs of cyber crime investigations
Étude des techniques d'injection de fautes par violation de contraintes temporelles permettant la cryptanalyse physique de circuits sécurisés

Si un algorithme cryptographique peut etre mathematiquement sur, son implementation materielle quant a elle est souvent la cible de nombreuses attaques. Cette these porte sur l'etude des mecanismes d'injection de fautes pouvant permettre une cryptanalyse physique des circuits securises et sur la conception de contre-mesures materielles pour empecher ces attaques.Dans un premier temps une mise en pratique d'injection de fautes sur une implementation materielle de l'AES a ete menee a l'aide d'attaques physiques : variations statiques et dynamiques de la tension, de la frequence, de la temperature et de l'environnement electromagnetique. La comparaison des fautes injectees nous a permis de conclure que ces differentes attaques partagent un mecanisme d'injection identique : la violation de contraintes temporelles.La conception et l'implementation d'un voltmetre integre nous a permis d'observer les perturbations internes dues aux attaques par variations transitoires de la tension. Ces observations ont permis une meilleure comprehension du mecanisme d'injection de fautes associe et une amelioration de la precision temporelle de ces injections.Ensuite, un detecteur a ete implemente et son efficacite face a des attaques electromagnetiques a ete etudiee. Du fait de la localite spatiale de ces attaques, la zone effectivement protegee par le detecteur est limitee. Une implementation de plusieurs detecteurs a ete suggeree.Enfin, un nouveau chemin d'attaque exploitant la sensibilite du detecteur a ete propose et valide experimentalement.
Effect of Beraprost Sodium in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Background : Pulmonary vascular changes which occur early in the course of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are prevalent manifestation and later cause pulmonary hypertension, which is a bad prognostic factor in COPD. Beraprost sodium (BPS), an orally active prostacyclin analogue, has been shown to improve survival in patients with primary pulmonary hypertension. This study investigated the effect of BPS in the patients with COPD. Methods : This is a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled, two center clinical trial. Twenty one consecutive patients with COPD were enrolled from June 2003 to June 2004 (patients treated with BPS for 3 months, BPS group, n=11; those with placebo, placebo group, n=10). The baseline demographic, pulmonary function and hemodynamic data were not significantly different between two groups. Results : On echocardiographic examination, trans tricuspid valve pressure gradient has decreased significantly after 3 months with beraprost in the BPS group [17.7(±11.4) to 8.2(±8.9) mm Hg, p-value<0.05], while there was no significant change in the control group. Six-minute walking distance has decreased in the control group and increased in the BPS group, but there was no statistical significance. Conclusion : In patients with COPD oral administration of BPS reduced the pulmonary arterial pressure. The clinical significance of this finding, that is improving symptoms and natural course of the disease, needs further study. (Tuberc Respir Dis 2004; 57:320-328)
Corticonics: the way to designing machines with brainlike intelligence

Present day neural net and connectionist models of the cortex have not been effective in duplicating higher-level brain function and specially the ability of the cortex/brain to process dynamic input patterns. Using mathematics quite- different from that used in the transfer-function and stimulus-response approach to collective nonlinear processing used in conventional networks, we describe here progress with a novel approach to modeling the cortex that combines concepts and tools from nonlinear dynamics and information theory that offers a radically new way to process, classify/learn and recognize spatio-temporal signals.
Mouth Matters: Scientific and Clinical Applications of Speech Movement Analysis

New techniques for recording and analyzing speech movements have the potential to radically change existing approaches to speech assessment and management. Advances in motion capture hardware and software are now enabling a critical mass of researchers to comprehensively investigate speech motor performance in healthy and disordered populations. Although this technology is currently almost exclusively used for research, promising clinical applications are now emerging. In this paper, I briefly discuss the technological progression of current technologies used to record speech movements. I also highlight research in the Speech and Feeding Disorders Lab that is exploring ways to leverage this technology to assist with the assessment and management of motor speech disorders.
Design of an Automated Grain Storage Chamber Based on Wireless Sensor Network

The main objective of this paper is to design a monitoring and controlling system for storage of wheat grains. The temperature, humidity, CO2 and O2 gas levels are the main controlling parameters. Sensors are placed inside the chamber to monitor them and the data is analyzed using wireless communication devices. The data of all the sensors is sent to a wireless zigbee coordinator which is again connected to a microcontroller PIC16F877A. Depending upon the output of the sensor, an actuator operates. The design and implementation of this process has been done using PIC microcontroller, Zigbee & LABVIEW software. This paper provides details of sensing, data acquisition, and controlling the storage parameters. Keywords—Wireless sensor network, PIC 16F877A, Zigbee, LabVIEW, Sensor, Actuator
PHARMACOLOGICAL AND THERAPEUTIC PROFILE OF ANANTAMULA (HEMIDESMUS INDICUS (L.) R. BR.): A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW

The vast field of Ayurvedic science is gaining more importance and popularity throughout the world because of its amazing therapeutic value. Since the beginning of human civilization, medicinal plants have been used by mankind for its therapeutic value. The World Health Organization estimated that 80% of people worldwide rely on herbal medicines for some aspect of their primary healthcare. Hemidesmus indicus is a widely used shrub in Indian folk medicine and considered as magical spiritual dream herb in Ayurvedic medication. It is used as a vital herb for healing many ailments and to treat diversified diseases. Following a large number of claims on the wide range of traditional medicinal properties of the plants, considerable effort have been made to verify its efficacy as a curative agent through pharmacological investigations. Different pharmacological experiments in vitro and in vivo models convincingly demonstrated the ability of Anantamula to exhibit analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antipyretic, antiarthritic, antioxidant, hepatoprotective, nephroprotective, antiepileptic, anticonvulsant, antileprotic, antiacne, antipsychotic, nootropic, antinociceptive, antidiarrhoeal, antigenotoxic, antiangiogenic, wound healing, antiulcer, larvicidal, antivenom, antithrombotic, antihyperlipaedaemic, antimicrobial and anticarcinogenic activities due to its remarkaÂ­ble biological activity and bioactive constituents. This plant is a good source of different bioactive chemical compound like Hemidesmin-1 and Hemidesmin-2, I±-amyrin, I²-amyrin, lupeol acetate, I²-sitosterol, hemidesmol and hemidesterol which were responsible for many of the pharmacological activities. This review aims at providing an up-to-date overview of comprehensive account of the phytochemical investigation, therapeutic potential and pharmacological studies of Hemidesmus indicus .
Gentamicin Use - More Clinical Outcome Evidence Needed

There is currently a looming world-wide problem in antimicrobial resistance. Methods to make antimicrobial prescribing more appropriate and incorporate quality use of medicines guidelines have clearly been ineffective. Further there is a dearth of ‘new’ antimicrobials in the pharmaceutical industry pipeline. The optimal use of older, effective drugs are therefore of clinical relevance. Gentamicin is an antibiotic that is inexpensive and has proven efficacy. However, its use is becoming restricted, due to toxicity concerns. Research to improve knowledge in this area is thus urgently needed.
Líkamshreyfing 9 og 15 ára íslenskra barna í ljósi lýðheilsumarkmiða

Tilgangur: Megintilgangur þessarar rannsóknar var að rannsaka í hvaða mæli 9 og 15 ára börn og unglingar á Íslandi uppfylltu nýlegar hreyfiráðleggingar Lýðheilsustöðvar. Efniviður og aðferðir: Rannsóknin var gerð á tímabilinu september 2003 til janúar 2004 í 18 skólum á höfuðborgarsvæðinu og í þéttbýliskjörnum og dreifbýli á Norðausturlandi sem valdir voru af handahófi. Öllum 9 ára (N=662) og 15 ára (N=661) nemendum skólanna var boðin þátttaka. Helmingur hvors árgangs var valinn, einnig af handahófi, í hreyfihluta rannsóknarinnar og skiluðu 176 9 ára og 162 15 ára nothæfum gögnum. Þátttakendur voru hæðarog þyngdarmældir og þykkt húðfellinga mæld á fjórum stöðum. Ákefð og tímalengd hreyfingar var mæld með hröðunarmælum (ActiGraphTM). Aðalútkomubreyta rannsóknarinnar, fjöldi mínúta yfir 3400 slög/mín á dag, miðaðist við neðri mörk hreyfingar af meðalerfiðri ákefð. Niðurstöður: Samkvæmt hröðunarmælum uppfylltu 5% úrtaks 9 ára barna hreyfiráðleggingar varðandi meðalerfiða og erfiða ákefð dag hvern, en tæp 9% 15 ára unglinga. Aukin hreyfing af þessari ákefð var frekar tengd strákum en stelpum, því að vera 15 ára frekar en 9 ára, að vera með minni þykkt húðfellinga en meiri, auk þess að búa á höfuðborgarsvæðinu frekar en í bæ eða strjálbýli á Norðausturlandi. Ályktanir: Niðurstöðurnar benda til þess að íhlutunar sé þörf til þess að auka meðalerfiða og erfiða hreyfingu barna á skólaaldri. Mikilvægt er að rannsaka hvaða leiðir séu færar í þeim efnum, meðal annars í samvinnu við heimili, skóla, íþróttahreyfinguna og sveitarfélög.