Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effective Intrusion Detection System by using LOS Classifier

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UNFOLD Deliverable 8.3. Final evaluation report

This report provides an overview of evaluation work carried out in the context of the UNFOLD project. It relates this to the UNFOLD evaluation plan, and shows how the work carried out has fulfilled that plan. The results of the evaluation are largely positive, with particularly strong performance in addressing the user group and providing an effective programme of events and activities. Details of the evaluation actions carried out are provided in D8.1, D8.2 and the annex to this report.
Do Judgments of Learning Impair Recall When Uninformative Cues Are Salient?

Judgments of learning (JOL) are one of the most commonly used measures of metamemory. There is mixed evidence that eliciting JOLs while participants are studying word pairs influences their subsequent recall, a phenomenon known as reactivity. The majority of studies have found that positive reactivity occurs when word pairs are related. This finding suggests that when the final test is sensitive to the cues used to make a JOL (e.g., pair relatedness), a benefit to recall is observed. Here, in three experiments, JOL reactivity is examined in the presence of a salient, yet non-diagnostic cue—font size. The results show that when study time is limited and font size is made salient, eliciting JOLs impairs future recall. It is argued that JOLs prompt participants to evaluate salient cues in the learning environment to evaluate whether they will affect future recall. This increased processing of salient cues can impair recall if it comes at the expense of processing less salient but more informative cues. These findings suggest that the relevance to the test of the cues processed when JOLs are performed determines the direction of reactivity effects, with both positive and negative reactivity being possible depending on how diagnostic the salient metacognitive cues are for recall.
Strategical and multidisciplinary steering of aeronautical projects on the basis of shared value model and innovation process

The mass production of aircrafts has been mainly led by the objective of both maximizing technological performances and minimizing the manufacturing costs. Within also the constraints of safety and security rules defined by certification organisms, the traditional innovation management has consisted above all in implementing a “technology-push” approach. New developed aircrafts have been then mostly driven by Research and Technology projects outputs. Nevertheless, current market competitiveness and complexity lead to change this approach. The needs of aeronautical customers evolve, change and become diversified, which raise multiple specific profiles to be taken into account as early as possible in today’s development programs. In order to ensure high value and differentiation perception by all the stakeholders, the innovation policy has to shift from mass production to mass customization, and to integrate both “market-read” and ‘technology-push” approaches in the preliminary phase of innovation. The goal of this PhD thesis is to provide the aircraft program managers with a methodological support, named Concept-to-Value, to steer by value the so called Fuzzy Front End of Innovation stage in the literature. At the bridge between the Product Planning and Conceptual Design research works, our contribution improves the existing methodologies on the Business and Engineering domains integration. Concept-to-Value brings a more agile and integrated collaboration of multidisciplinary players: a common language and value model represent their innovation Knowledge, Problems and Solutions. Finally, a convergence process is also defined to conduct the preliminary phase and to deliver high value aircraft concepts.
Towards drive-by-wire automobiles

The development of automotive systems shows an increasing integration of electronic sensors, microcomputers and actuators for single components, engine, drive-chain, suspensions and brakes. After considering electronic driver assisting systems such as ABS, TCS, ASR, ESP, BA the developments towards drive-by-wire systems with and without mechanical or hydraulic backup are considered. Drive-by-wire systems consist of an operating unit (steering wheel, braking pedal) with an electrical output, a haptic feedback to the driver, bus systems, microcomputers, power electronics, and electrical actuators. For their design safety integrity methods like reliability, fault tree, hazard analysis and risk classification are required. Different fault tolerance principles with various forms of redundancy are considered resulting in fail-operational, fail-silent and fail-safe systems. Fault-detection methods are discussed for use in low-cost components. This is followed by some principles for fault-tolerant design of sensors, actuators and communication. The contribution reviews and evaluates those methods and principles which have been developed in quite different areas and shows how they can be applied to low-cost automotive components and drive-by-wire systems. A recently developed brake-by-wire system with electronic pedal and electrical brakes is then considered in more detail showing the design of the components and the overall architecture. An outlook then shows the further development of drive-by-wire systems.
Exploration of a Research Roadmap for Application Development and Execution on Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)-Based Systems

Abstract : FPGA-based reconfigurable computing (RC) technology has been widely used by the DoD community to exploit performance, power, area, cost, and versatility. Significant challenges, however, remain in application development tools and design methodologies. This study focuses on investigating key challenges and limitations of FPGA tools, and identifying and assessing potential solutions and research areas. The investigation included three major tasks: a) survey of use cases and the state of existing tools; b) characterization of limitations of existing flows, analysis of key technical challenges, and identification of potential solutions; and c) qualitative and quantitative analysis and evaluation of the solution space and projected impact. Based on the study, new concepts and methodologies based upon four phases of application development--formulation, design, translation, and execution (FDTE)--are expressed into 12 strategic research thrusts. The impact of the proposed solutions was shown to potentially revolutionize FPGA design productivity and execution efficiency.
Advanced Telepresence Surgery System Development

Abstract : SRI International is currently developing a prototype remote telepresence surgery system, for the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), that will bring life- saving surgical care to wounded soldiers in the zone of combat. Remote surgery also has potentially important applications in civilian medicine. In addition, telepresence will fmd wide medical use in local surgery, in endoscopic, laparoscopic, and microsurgery applications. Key elements of the telepresence technology now being developed for ARPA, including the telepresence surgeon's workstation (TSW) and associated servo control systems, will have direct application to these areas of minimally invasive surgery. The TSW technology will also fmd use in surgical training, where it will provide an immersive visual and haptic interface for interaction with computer-based anatomical models. In this paper, we discuss our ongoing development of the MEDFAST telesurgery system, focusing on the TSW man-machine interface and its associated servo control electronics.
Helical-rotor expander applications for geothermal energy conversion

The helical-rotor expander is one of numerous candidates for the direct ''total flow'' expansion of geothermal fluids. The potential exists for expansion efficiencies as high as 70 percent. Engine efficiencies will generally be below 70 percent because of an expansion-ratio limitation of 15 and a maximum pressure differential of 110 psi. Single-stage expansion of self-pumped geothermal fluids from reservoirs at 350 to 752/sup 0/F gives engine efficiencies in the range from 57.3 to 43.1 percent. Calculated rotor diameters range from 10.5 to 41.6 ft for a range of outputs of 5 to 40 MW. Two-stage expansion of fluid from the 572/sup 0/F reservoir gives an engine efficiency of 62.3 percent and a 21 percent reduction in the diameter of the larger rotor. Rotor diameters can be held to more reasonable sizes by using the expander in combination with a vapor turbine.
Adaptive Mobile Traffic Offloading

Cellular operators count on the potential of offloading techniques to relieve their overloaded radio access networks. In this paper, we propose, design, and evaluate a re-injection strategy to finely control the opportunistic distribution of popular contents throughout a hybrid mobile network. The idea is to use the infrastructure resources as seldom as possible. Unlike existing techniques that bind re-injection to statically defined objective functions, our proposal adapts to the current network topology. This turns out to be particularly effective in highly dynamic scenario, where clustering prevent contents to diffuse properly. We assess the performance of our strategy by re-running a realistic large-scale (more than 10,000 nodes) vehicular dataset to disseminate contents under different tolerances to delay. The results show significant savings in the infrastructure load between 55% and 63%.
Criminology Skills

Criminology Skills covers both study skills and research skills in one manageable volume. The text is designed to enable you to develop an integrated understanding of the key skills required to succeed in your study of criminology. A three-part structure introduces you to the skills of finding source materials and takes you through the academic skills you will need to succeed in your degree, before finishing with a section on research methods and writing dissertations and research reports. The book provides an ideal introduction to the key study and research skills that you will need to demonstrate during your study and practice of criminology. Criminology Skills first helps you establish a strong skills foundation before incrementally building to a more advanced level increasing the competence, and confidence, with which you will be able to approach projects that require strong academic and research skills. After an introduction to the study of criminology, the book covers: books and journals; statistics and official publications; media and web sources; criminal law; study skills; writing skills; referencing and avoiding plagiarism; essay writing; presentations; revision and examinations; research ethics; gathering data; quantitative analysis; qualitative analysis; and dissertations and research reports. It is accompanied by online resources.
Bringing the user experience to early product conception : From idea generation to idea evaluation

The User Experience (UX) has become a major concern for the design of consumer products. Today exist various tools for the evaluation of static properties of final products on their User Experience value. However, very few tools and methods are available that allow anticipating the future User Experience during the first stages of product conception. This thesis explores the wide range of design dimensions that potentially form the experience of the user. Dynamic product properties emerge as an important factor for User Experience. In the studies a software based on inspiration words and links, as well as the technique body storming are tested as a new means of User Experience generation. The produced early concepts and interaction gestures are then evaluated through a combination of questionnaires, behavioural and physiological measurements. The study results show firstly that a wide range of design dimension needs to be regarded to design for User Experience, secondly that it is possible to apply UX evaluations on early concepts and thirdly that UX evaluations can also be done on dynamic properties like interaction gestures. This thesis furthermore contributes design research and practice with a new model on the mechanism of User Experience and a list of design dimensions for early product conception.
Optimal Placement of Point Detectors on Virginia’s Freeways: Case Studies ofNorthern Virginia and Richmond

In Virginia, point detectors in the Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads regions are placed at approximately ½ mile spacing. This density is a product of early requirements for incident detection that have proven ineffective and perhaps unnecessary. There are other important uses of the data that likely have different requirements for detector placement than the original incident detection focus. For example, there is a desire to derive travel time estimates from the point detector data for the purpose of performance monitoring. To do this, the detectors are to be placed so as to effectively sample the conditions on a freeway. Unfortunately, little guidance exists on how to place detectors for effective sampling. The purpose of this research project was to develop a decision support methodology to identify the optimal locations of a finite set of point detectors on a freeway corridor in order to minimize the error in travel time estimation, within the constraints of available capital and maintenance funding. Case studies of freeway sections in three regions were conducted to demonstrate the utility of the newly developed tool. While there are potentially other important uses of the data collected by freeway point detectors, the recommendations in this report deal specifically with the issue of travel time estimation. The investigators found that the placement of detectors for the development of accurate travel time estimates will vary by location based on specific conditions. Arbitrary, evenly spaced detectors do not necessarily result in accurate travel time estimates. With carefully placed detectors that are well maintained, travel time estimates can be derived with an acceptable level of accuracy from point detection, under incident-free travel conditions. The methods developed in this research effort including the GPS data collection and the mathematical tool are effective in determining preferred detector locations when the objective is to minimize travel time estimate error. There is evidence that VDOT can reduce the number of detectors that are currently maintained by TMCs and can deploy far fewer than the ½ mile spacing guidelines, resulting in significant cost savings in both capital and operations and maintenance costs. Using the results of the Northern Virginia case study on I-66 EB where there are 20 detector stations currently deployed, the tool identified minimum travel time errors when data are assumed to be coming from 11 of those stations, a reduction of 45%. Data from VDOT’s Traffic Monitoring System place the ongoing cost of a detector station at approximately $10,500. That results in an annual savings of $94,500 for this 11-mile roadway segment alone.
Investigation of dynamic stall characteristics for flow past an oscillating airfoil at various reduced frequencies by simultaneous PIV and surface pressure measurements

Wind tunnel experiments were carried out at low speed aerodynamics lab at IIT Kanpur to investigate dynamic stall characteristics for a flow past an oscillating NACA 0015 airfoil at various reduced frequencies (k). The NACA airfoil model was design and developed to incorporate simultaneous surface pressure measurement at the mid-span of the airfoil model along the chord and 2D PIV measurements of the flow-field downstream near the Trailing Edge (TE) vicinity of the oscillating airfoil model subjected to the higher reduced frequency k up to 0.5. The main objective of this work was to critically assess the effect of k in the unsteady domain from fully develop to partially develop dynamic stall regimes. For a given constant Reynolds number Re of 0.2E06, the instantaneous 2D PIV images were captured for an oscillating airfoil at varied k. These images have been critically assessed to provide qualitative information and flow visualization of the flow field to trace various dynamic stall events which mainly includes the formation, growth and shedding of Dynamic Stall Vortex (DSV) from the TE.
Combining relaying and base station coordination for improving cell-edge multi-user performance in 3GPP LTE-Advanced networks

The emphasis of this thesis work is placed on improving cell-edge multi-user performance in 3GPP LTE-Advanced networks by utilizing relaying and base station coordination technologies. Relaying is a technology for enhancing the transmissions between two locations on a radio path and base station coordination is a multi-cell processing technology towards mitigating the inter-cell interference. In this report, we first study the capacity behavior of relaying. Two forward strategies: Amplify-and-forward (AF) and Decode-and-forward (DF), are modeled and compared. A new full duplex (FDX) operation mode of relaying is discussed, as well as a relay network with a multi-antenna receiver. Results show that FDX relaying outperforms half duplex (HDX) relaying, DF relaying has better performance than AF relaying under the condition of an ideal relay link (RL) and a multi-antenna receiver gains more from relaying than a single-antenna receiver. Then, we apply the pre-coding on the coordinated evolved Node B (eNB) to realize simultaneous multi-user transmissions on the same frequency band. Designs of the pre-coding matrix are investigated and results show that zero-forcing (ZF) pre-coding of base station coordination reaches significant capacity enhancement in the case of a relatively high signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR). Finally, we propose a novel combination transmission scheme which integrates a shared relay node (RN) and coordinated eNBs in order to achieve higher multi-user sum-rate capacity. We show that the advantages of this combination scheme compared with applying each technology separately can be expected in most cases and it turns out to be a good improvement of the cell-edge multi-user performance.
EXPLORATORY STUDY OF SHEAR STRENGHT OF JOINTS FOR PRECAST SEGMENTAL BRIDGES

The joints between the precast segments are of critical importance in segmental bridge construction. They are critical to the development of structural capacity by ensuring the transfer of shear across the joints and often play a key role in ensuring durability by protecting the tendons against corrosion. However, construction of the joints must be simple and economical. A number of types of joint configurations have been used in various precast segmental bridges in the United States, although relatively little information is available on the behavior and design of such joints. This study reports on a modest scope experimental investigation to determine the relative shear transfer strength across different types of joints typically used between adjacent segments of precast segmental bridges. The types of joints considered included no keys, single large keys, and multiple lug keys. Both dry and epoxy joints were tested. The test results indicated substantial differences in the strength at a given slip in the various types of dry joints, but indicated that all types of joints with epoxy essentially developed the full strength of a monolitically cast joint. (Author)
SIW Resonator-Based Duplex Filtenna

In this communication, a low-profile single-layered duplex-filtenna scheme is proposed by using two feeds, and a common substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) cavity. A rectangular slot is carved on the top of the cavity along the narrower side of the SIW, which splits the cavity into two unequal parts. Each part behaves as a half-mode SIW (HMSIW) resonator which radiates with the help of an additional longitudinal slot and open-end of HMSIW when excited with corresponding feed. Also, two vias have been loaded along the broad side of the transverse slot to tune the impedance bandwidth and improve the selectivity in the passbands. The working process of both HMSIW resonators is similar, thus similar type of electrical performance is expected. By properly optimizing the locations of these vias and transverse-slot dimensions, high isolation between input ports is realized. To validate the proposed concept, design has been fabricated and measured. The measured results show good agreement with the simulated counterparts. The measured result shows that the design exhibits impedance bandwidths of around 3.0% (8.63–8.88 GHz) and 4.2% (9.26$ - $9.66 GHz) for lower and upper-frequency pass channel, respectively. The measured average realized gains in the broadside direction are 3.51 and 4.10 dBi, respectively.
Energy-efficient design of adhoc and sensor networks

Adhoc and sensor networks (ASNs) are emerging wireless networks that are expected to have significant impact on the efficiency of many military and civil applications. However, building ASNs efficiently poses a considerable technical challenge because of the many constraints imposed by the environment, or by the ASN nodes capabilities themselves. One of the main challenges is the finite supply energy. Since the network hosts are battery operated, they need to be energy conserving so that the nodes and hence the network itself does not expire. In this thesis different techniques for an energy-efficient design for ASNs are presented. My work spans two layers of the network protocol stack; these are the Medium Access Layer (MAC) and the Routing Layer. This thesis first identifies and highlights the different sources of energy inefficiency in ASNs, and then it describes how each of these inefficiencies is handled. Toward this goal, I first focus on the Medium Access (MAC) Layer and present my work that handles the wasted energy in transmission and describe how the transmission distance is optimized to extend the network lifetime. I then describe BLAM, an energy-efficient extension for the IEEE 802.11, that handles the wasted energy in collisions. Next, TDMA-ASAP, a new MAC protocol for sensor networks, is introduced. TDMA-ASAP targets the wasted energy in idle listening. I also investigate energy-efficiency at the routing layer level. First, the “Flooding-Waves” problem is identified. This is a problem in any cost-based energy-efficient routing protocol for adhoc networks, different ways of solving this problem are presented. For sensor networks routing trees are usually used, I introduce a new routing scheme called RideSharing which is energy-efficient and fault-tolerant. RideSharing will deliver a better aggregate result to the end user while masking network link failures. Next, I present how to extend the RideSharing scheme to handle different link quality models. Finally, I introduce GroupBeat, a new health detection system for sensor networks, which when combined with RideSharing can deliver the information to the end user even in case of node failures.