Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Spatial Touch in Presenting Information with Mobile Devices ; Kosketuksen paikan hyödyntäminen tiedon esittämisessä mobiililaitteilla

Three novel interaction methods were designed for reading six-dot Braille characters from the touchscreen of a mobile device. A prototype device with a piezoelectric actuator embedded under the touchscreen was used to create tactile feedback. The three interaction methods, scan, sweep, and rhythm, enabled users to read Braille characters one at a time either by exploring the characters dot by dot or by sensing a rhythmic pattern presented on the screen. The methods were tested with five blind Braille readers as a proof of concept. The results of the first experiment showed that all three methods can be used to convey information as the participants could accurately (91-97 percent) recognize individual characters. In the second experiment, the presentation rate of the most efficient and preferred method, the rhythm, was varied. A mean recognition accuracy of 70 percent was found when the speed of presenting a single character was nearly doubled from the first experiment. The results showed that temporal tactile feedback and Braille coding can be used to transmit single-character information while further studies are still needed to evaluate the presentation of serial information, i.e., multiple Braille characters.
The Influence of Analogy in Children's Acquisition of New Information from Text: An Exploratory Study. Technical Report No. 281.

The influence of extended analogies on the comprehension of unfamiliar texts by elementary school children was investigated. First and third grade children were read two passages that described how the blood circulates in the body and how an infection heals. The passages were presented either with or without analogies. The children were asked to recall the information contained in the passages and to answer a number of factual and inferential questions. Results showed that at each grade level the Analogy group performed better than the No Analogy group. The children made certain kinds of inferential errors, such as attributing human feelings and emotions to inanimate things, but these occurred irrespective of the presence or absence of analogies. The results of this experiment suggest that analogy can be an effective mechanism for transferring knowledge from a familiar to an unfamiliar domain, a mechanism which not only adults but also elementary school children can effectively utilize. The Influence of Analogy 2 The Influence of Analogy in Children's Acquisition of New Information from Text: An Exploratory Study The question of how children acquire new knowledge, and more specifically how they acquire new knowledge from text; is Alparticularly important one and yet it is one that has been relatively neglected. Typically; our models of comprehension stress the importance of prior knowleai; in understanding text and in learning. But what happens when a new subject is introduced, one about which the reader has little prior knowledge? This problem appears to be particularly acute within the context of schema-based theories (e.g., 'Adams & Collins, 1979; Rumelhart . Ortony, 1977; Schank & Abelson, 1977). Insofar as such theories assume that, rather than operating on the basis of content-free general inference rules, reasoning is tied toD particular bodies of knowledge and is contextbound, it is not easy to see how old knowledge can transfer to new domains. One solution to the problem lies in the use of analogy and metaphor. Indeed, a number of researchers (e.g., Carbonell, Note 3; Hayes & Tierney, 1982; Rumelhart & Norman, 1981; Schustack & Anderson, 1979) have argued that the way people commonly bridge knowledge learned in one domain with knowledge learned in another domain is through analogical reasoning. Analogies and metaphors help structure a new domain in the mold of a previously known one; consequently, they can function as important mechanisms in the acquisition of new knowledge. This claim has received some support in the case of adult or adolescent subjects (Hayes & Tierney, 1982; Schustack & Anderson, 1979). There is no research, however, that shows whether or not elementary school The Influence of Analogy
Image Processing Tool for the Purpose of Textile Fabric Modeling

A system for automatically detecting sidewall and dimensional defects in a transparent container includes a laser scanning system positioned astride a conveyor in a production line. In an upstream inspection zone a laser beam vertically scans a portion of the side wall of the container. Photosensors positioned in a detection chamber detect the specific effect which any defect has upon the laser beam by determining the location of light passing through the container and comparing its intensity against pre-set thresholds. A flaw signal is generated when a threshold is exceeded. The number of flaw signals is counted and when the count equals a pre-set value a reject signal is generated to eject the defective container from the conveyor. If a container is not rejected, it passes through a rotator assembly which rotates the container precisely 90 DEG . The container then continues to a similar downstream inspection zone where an identical scanning and detection process is repeated with regard to the previously uninspected portions of the side wall of the container.
A Survey Study of Key Factors for Improving Requirements Engineering in Agile and Non-agile Software Development

– Requirements engineering is one of the most critical phase of software development life cycle. The primary measure of success in software development projects is largely dependent upon the effectiveness of requirements elicitation and analysis i.e. user requirements have significant impact on software quality, cost and time. Therefore, an effective and efficient system is required to improve requirements engineering process in both agile and non-agile software development. This paper highlights inadequacy in the requirements gathering practices, contrasts the agile and traditional requirement engineering and classifies the key factor that lead to efficient elicitation and analysing of user requirements.
A Toolkit for Intrusion Alerts Correlation based on Prerequisites and Consequences of Attacks

CUI, YUN. A Toolkit for Intrusion Alerts Correlation Based on Prerequisites and Consequences of Attacks. (Under the direction of Dr. Peng Ning.) Intrusion Detection has been studied for about twenty years. Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) are usually considered the second line of defense to protect against malicious activities along with the prevention-based security mechanisms such as authentication and access control. However, traditional IDSs have two major weaknesses. First, they usually focus on low-level attacks or anomalies, and raise alerts independently, though there may be logical connections between them. Second, there are a lot of false alerts reported by traditional IDSs, which are mixed with true alerts. Thus, the intrusion analysts or the system administrators are often overwhelmed by the volume of alerts. Motivated by this observation, we propose a technique to construct high-level attack scenarios by correlating low-level intrusion alerts using their prerequisites and consequences. The prerequisite of an alert specifies what must be true in order for the corresponding attack to be successful, and the consequence describes what is possibly true if the attack indeed succeeds. We conjecture that the alerts being correlated together have a higher possibility to be true alerts than the uncorrelated ones. If this is true, through this correlation, we can not only construct the high-level attack scenarios, but also differentiate between true alerts and false alerts. In this thesis work, I implement an alert correlation tool based on this framework. It consists of the following components: a knowledge base, an alert preprocessor, an alert correlation engine and a graph output component. To further facilitate analysis of large amounts of intrusion alerts, I develop three utilities, namely adjustable graph reduction, focused analysis, and graph decomposition. I also perform a sequence of experiments to evaluate the aforementioned techniques using DARPA 2000 evaluation datasets [19] and DEFCON 8 CTF dataset [2]. The experimental results show that the proposed techniques are effective. First, we successfully construct attack scenarios behind the lowlevel alerts; second, the false alert rates are significantly reduced after the attention is focused on alerts that are correlated with others; third, the three utilities greatly reduce the complexity of the correlated alerts, while at the same time maintaining the structure of the correlated alerts. A TOOLKIT FOR INTRUSION ALERTS CORRELATION BASED ON PREREQUISITES AND CONSEQUENCES OF ATTACKS
Simulation of Clothes for Real-time Applications

Virtual garment design and simulation involves a combination of a large range of techniques, involving mechanical simulation, collision detection, and user interface techniques for creating garments. Here, we perform an extensive review of the evolution of these techniques made in the last decade to bring virtual garments to the reach of computer applications not only aimed at graphics, but also at CAD techniques for the garment industry. _________________________________________________________________________
Theoretical Efficiency of class-D Power Amplifiers

The theoretical efficiencies of class-D amplifiers are compared with those of conventional amplifiers by means of a power balance. As a result of certain similarities, it is suggested that class-AD and class-BD modes of operation should be defined. The class-D amplifier converts the collector dissipation of a conventional amplifier into load power components at a large number of modulation frequencies. When these are removed by filtering, a high overall efficiency results. The analysis presented includes an idealised treatment of the class-D amplifier with an inductive load, and enables constructive comparisons to be made.
BEA – A multifunctional Hungarian spoken language database

In diverse areas of linguistics, the demand for studying actual language use is on the increase. The aim of developing a phonetically-based multi-purpose database of Hungarian spontaneous speech, dubbed BEA2, is to accumulate a large amount of spontaneous speech of various types together with sentence repetition and reading. Presently, the recorded material of BEA amounts to 260 hours produced by 280 present-day Budapest speakers (ages between 20 and 90, 168 females and 112 males), providing also annotated materials for various types of research and practical applications.
Estranged and Degraded Worlds: The Grotesque Aesthetics of Tolstoy’s Resurrection.

This is the published version, which is also found here: http://go.galegroup. com/ps/i.do? id=GALE%7CA32 5496164&v=2.1&u=ksstate_ukans&it=r&p=LitRC&sw=w&asid=c58f0 91cba4f4b6c97d9a8b9e2fb4b48
Mapping autonomous system's router level topology in IPv6

Abstract : The core of the Internet is composed of many independent and mutually exclusive collections of routers, called Autonomous Systems, which are responsible for moving traffic between communicating end-systems, or hosts, regardless of the relative location of those hosts. The complexity of the internal composition of theses autonomous systems is such that accurate documentation of their topology, reference to as mapping, is difficult and prone to error. Developing automated support for this effort remains an area of active research, the potential benefit of which is the ability to actively monitor the health of the Internet across these autonomous systems making it possible to identify critical infrastructure chokepoints before their failure adversely impacts the network or national security. The Internet is in the process of transitioning to a new version of the Internet Protocol, the fundamental protocol that melds the heterogeneous networks worldwide into a single cooperative whole. Tools, techniques, and tactics developed for the current version, IPv4, may hold promise for adaptation to support the new version, IPv6. This thesis explores several of the IPv4 techniques that hold promise for adaptation and provides an implementation as a proof-of-concept.
DECENTRALIZED ADAPTIVE CONTROL FOR UNCERTAIN LINEAR SYSTEMS: TECHNIQUES WITH LOCAL FULL-STATE FEEDBACK OR LOCAL RELATIVE-DEGREE-ONE OUTPUT FEEDBACK

OF THESIS DECENTRALIZED ADAPTIVE CONTROL FOR UNCERTAIN LINEAR SYSTEMS: TECHNIQUES WITH LOCAL FULL-STATE FEEDBACK OR LOCAL RELATIVE-DEGREE-ONE OUTPUT FEEDBACK This thesis presents decentralized model reference adaptive control techniques for systems with full-state feedback and systems with output feedback. The controllers are strictly decentralized, that is, each local controller uses feedback from only local subsystems and no information is shared between local controllers. The full-state feedback decentralized controller is effective for multi-input systems, where the dynamics matrix and control-input matrix are unknown. The decentralized controller achieves asymptotic stabilization and command following in the presence of sinusoidal disturbances with known spectrum. We present a construction technique of the reference-model dynamics such that the decentralized controller is effective for systems with arbitrarily large subsystem interconnections. The output-feedback decentralized controller is effective for single-input singleoutput subsystems that are minimum phase and relative degree one. The decentralized controller achieves asymptotic stabilization and disturbance rejection in the presence of an unknown disturbance, which is generated by an unknown Lyapunovstable linear system.
HB2: a hyperbase management system for open, distributed hypermedia system architectures

The complexities of providing data management support for advanced hypermedia computing environments make it clear that effectiveness requires more than simple extensions to existing database technology. This dissertation presents the conceptual design, prototypic implementation, and qualitative evaluation of the HB2 hyperbase management system (HBMS). The overarching goal for HB2 is to provide as much flexibility and extensibility as possible in support of advanced hypermedia system architectures. A particular emphasis is placed on accommodating application-level extensibility through inter-application linking. HB2 represents a new approach to HBMS organization. Its subsystems include: the Hyperbase Session Manager (HSM), Object Manager (OM), Association Set Manager (ASM), Off-line Services Manager (OSM), and the Storage Manager (SM). OM implements the notion of a large, shared repository of simple, unstructured objects. ASM provides persistent and sharable storage for the connectivity data that link information together to form hypermedia. ASM also manages separate contexts for these structural data. Together, OM and ASM implement HB2's data model, which abstracts inter-object connectivity, behaviors, and information from hypermedia. SM maps HB2's data model into physical storage. Distribution of OM and ASM functionality across a range of platforms is achieved by a client/server model using interprocess communication facilities. HSM controls access to the OM and ASM servers and manages sessions. Transaction management instantiates separate and tailored mechanisms for deadlock-free concurrency control over objects, structural data, and contexts. OSM asynchronously enforces integrity constraints over OM and ASM data. A framework for hyperbase extensibility and scalability is provided by virtue of HB2's modular subsystem organization. HB2 addresses several critical HBMS design issues. Central to HB2 is the notion that effective support for hypermedia requires tailored support for the essential entities that comprise hypermedia. This leads to a new and empowering approach to hyperbase organization. Data management support is provided to the information and behavioral elements of hypermedia independently of its structural elements. In addition, the work advances a notion of object that has been refined to the particular requirements of hypermedia and provides a context for thinking about the eventual incorporation of hypermedia functionality into the base operating environment.
Solving model expansion tasks: System design and modularity

In this thesis, we present the Enfragmo system for representing and solving combinatorial search problems. The system supports natural specification of problems by providing users with a rich language, based on an extension of first order logic. Since the specification language is high level, Enfragmo provides combinatorial problem-solving capability to users without expertise in advanced solver technology. On the other hand, some search problems, e.g., the task of constructing a logistics service provider relying on local service providers, are inherently modular. The framework is extended to represent a modular system. It allows one to combine modules on an abstract model-theoretic level, independently from what languages are used for describing them. In this thesis, an algorithm for finding solutions to such modular systems is proposed. We show that our algorithm closely corresponds to what is done in practice in di↵erent areas such as Satisfiability Modulo Theories, Integer Linear Programming, and Answer Set Programming.
Computational Models of Music Similarity and their Application in Music Information Retrieval

This thesis aims at developing techniques which support users in accessing and discovering music. The main part consists of two chapters. Chapter 2 gives an introduction to computational models of music similarity. The combination of different approaches is optimized and the largest evaluation of music similarity measures published to date is presented. The best combination performs significantly better than the baseline approach in most of the evaluation categories. A particular effort is made to avoid overfitting. To cross-check the results from the evaluation based on genre classification a listening test is conducted. The test confirms that genrebased evaluations are suitable to efficiently evaluate large parameter spaces. Chapter 2 ends with recommendations on the use of similarity measures. Chapter 3 describes three applications of such similarity measures. The first application demonstrates how music collections can be organized and visualized so that users can control the aspect of similarity they are interested in. The second application demonstrates how music collections can be organized hierarchically into overlapping groups at the artist level. These groups are summarized using words from web pages associated with the respective artists. The third application demonstrates how playlists can be generated which require minimum user input.
Token passing: a simple conceptual model for connected speech recognition systems

This paper describes a simple but powerful abstract model in which connected word recognition is viewed as a process of passing tokens around a transition network(cid:0) The advantages of this unifying view are many(cid:0) The various apparently di(cid:1)erent connected word algorithms can be represented within the same conceptual framework simply by changing the network topology(cid:2) the application of grammatical constraints is straightforward(cid:2) and perhaps most importantly(cid:2) the entire structure is independent of the actual underlying pattern matching technology(cid:0) To illustrate the power of this conceptual model(cid:2) the paper concludes by describing some work done under the UK Alvey(cid:3)sponsored VODIS Project in which the Token Passing paradigm enabled the One Pass algorithm to be straightforwardly extended to include the generation of multiple alternatives and context free syntactic constraints(cid:0) (cid:0)
'Access as a service' - reframing the service catalogue and measures of success for information resources

As collection development and the management of information resources have shifted from ownership to access or to ownership as access (in perpetual access models) the traditional distinction between collections and services as the basis for thinking about service delivery is no longer a tenable model. This turn towards "access as a service" has also meant that information resources have come more to resemble 'soft services' in their attendant issues of measurement and value demonstration. Previous input, or infrastructure, measures (volume counts, usage, etc), if not unproblematic in terms of demonstrating their contribution to University outcomes, were at least rigorous in having a shared methodology across the sector, providing a basis for comparison and benchmarking. As such they functioned as proxies for quality but were harder to frame as measures of service outcomes or success. In the more ambiguous environment of new scholarly communication and access models the quality assessment shift is towards a more direct connection with the client experience. This paper describes Macquarie University Library’s development and implementation of a client-centred service model for its information resources services via the development of a service catalogue approach using client ‘I can’ statements to scope the range of services and service outcomes. The Library’s 2013 Client Survey comments on information resources provided context on client service expectations and a ‘sense check’ for the new service catalogue. This process has allowed for the development of new measures of success and facilitated the mapping of information resources services into service portfolios.
The ITK Software Guide

There is disclosed a coating device for coating bands or ribbons with a coating material in continuous operation. The coating device comprises a main frame which mounts one or two deflector rollers for guiding and conveying the band or ribbon material to be coated. Coating is effected by a coating assembly which includes a fountain roll, a metering roll and an applicator roll which are disposed in axially parallel relationship and are adjustable relative one to another and relative to the band or ribbon to be coated as it is guided over one of the deflector rollers. The coating assembly is mounted on an auxiliary frame which is displaceable in the direction normal to the deflector roller over which the ribbon or band is guided. The auxiliary frame, in turn, is displaceable relative to the main frame for the purpose of making the rolls in the coating assembly conveniently accessible for cleaning or other servicing. There is further disclosed an installation including one or more coating devices in superimposition, each enclosed by an enclosure and drying and burning assemblies for purifying obnoxious or toxic pollutants entrained in the air passed through the enclosures of the coating devices before the air is discharged in the atmosphere.
HUMAN BODY DETECTION METHODS

The problem my Individual Bachelor project addresses is the risk of getting injured by a running boat propeller. In order to solve this safety problem I am investigating possibilities to detect humans which are close to the propeller and make a system perform a certain action to prevent injury. The reason for this literature review is to assess if there are any human body detection methods available which could be used to detect the presence of human beings in above and underwater situations. The situation is a very complex one, a constantly changing environment and passing objects with quite high speeds (top speeds up to 90 km/h approx).