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Development of Intermediate Controllers for Inductive Charging Systems in Dynamic Roadway Systems

Electric Vehicles (EVs) are becoming a popular alternative to gasoline fuelled vehicles. Presently most electric vehicles have very large batteries in order to have comparable driving ranges with traditional vehicles and need to be regularly plugged in by the user to charge. A perceived downside however is that EV charging stations besides roads and footpaths are unsightly and prone to weathering and vandalism. Inductive Power Transfer (IPT) is a technology which can allow energy to be transferred wirelessly and presents an attractive means to charge EVs without the need for cables and plugs. Power is transferred via electromagnetic induction from the primary charging coil in the ground to the secondary coil that is mounted underneath the vehicle, allowing EVs to be charged at power levels and efficiencies comparable to traditional plug in chargers. IPT charging systems can also be integrated into highways to allow vehicles to be powered while they are in motion. With widespread adoption of IPT charging systems users can seamlessly charge their vehicle throughout the day and even potentially travel an extended or unlimited distance along highways while being dynamically charged. By taking advantage of this opportunistic charging, smaller batteries can be used in EVs, making them more affordable which should further drive the adoption of EVs. This thesis focuses specifically on dynamic charging issues given most current literature related to IPT is focused on stationary charging. Dynamic charging systems tend to have low coupling factors so a means to improve the coupling using an independently tuned coplanar intermediate coil embedded into the primary pad was investigated. This was compared to a traditional two coil system with the same amount of copper in the primary pad to fairly and fully evaluate the benefits of such a coplanar intermediate coil. It was found that the independently tuned coplanar coil improves the efficiency of a series-series tuned system since it reduces the source losses. However, there appears to be no benefit to having an intermediate coupler with parallel-parallel tuned systems. It was shown that a traditional two coil IPT system was also simpler to tune. Following this, the demands on the power supplies for dynamic charging systems were investigated. These power supplies need to tolerate operating with different air gaps, power levels and secondary electronic topologies and as a result have the potential
Beschrijving en validatie van de procesformulering van de abiotische fosfaatreacties in kalkloze zandgronden

Wil men het verloop van de fosfaatuitspoeling naar het grond- en oppervlaktewater kunnen voorspellen, dan moeten de fosfaatreactiemechanismen in de bodem nauwkeurig worden beschreven. Dit rapport geeft een overzicht van de huidige inzichten in het reactiemechanisme van fosfaat in de bodem, met de bijbehorende procesformuleringen. Uit gepubliceerde laboratoriumexperimenten zijn de procesparameters afgeleid, waarna met drie kolomexperimenten de procesformulering is gevalideerd. De resultaten geven aan dat de fosfaatdoorbraak (tijdens sorptie en desorptie) goed gemodelleerd wordt. Op grond van deze goede voorspelling wordt verwacht dat het model een goede indruk geeft van het fosfaattransport door de bodem naar grond- en oppervlaktewater.
Clinical Trials and Intervention Studies

Intervention studies are experimental studies that evaluate the effect of an intervention on humans. There are many different types of intervention, including medical, social, psychological, and so on. In all of these cases, interventions seek to improve the condition of the individual. In an epidemiological context, an intervention study is a specific type of a cohort study. When a medical intervention is involved, one speaks of a clinical trial. Clinical trials take a prominent place in clinical research, as they are pivotal for the registration of new medical treatments. We give a brief overview of the types of intervention studies, but special attention will be paid to clinical trials. Aspects of designing and analyzing an intervention study will be presented. Keywords: clinical trial; evidence-based medicine; intervention study
Evaluation of the documents from the Web-based Question and Answer Service

This study suggests evaluation criteria for the web-based question-answer databases provided by major Korean search portals. In particular, this study suggests evaluation criteria for the relevance of question titles, entire questions, and answer`s. The evaluation criteria for the qualify of answers are also developed. Based on these criteria. evaluation of documents from Naver Knowledge-in are performed. The results of this study can be implemented to the development of test collection of question-answer databases. The implications for system designers and web content providers are discussed.
Motivasyonel, Bilişsel ve Bilişüstü Yeterlilikler Ölçeği'nin Türkçeye Uyarlanması

Ogrencilerin motivasyonel, bilissel ve bilisustu yeterlilikleri ile ilgili alan yazin incelendiginde cogu zaman bir derse yonelik belirlenmeye calisildigi ve buna yonelik olceklerin kullanildigi gorulmektedir. Bu eksikligi giderme amaci dogrultusunda yapilan alan yazin taramasinda Ingilizce olarak boyle bir olcege (Mok, Fan ve Pang, 2007) rastlanmis ve “motivasyonel, bilissel ve bilisustu yeterlilikler olcegi” nin (MBBYO) Turkceye uyarlanmasi, gecerlik ve guvenirlik calismasinin gerekli oldugu dusunulmustur. Olcegin orijinali 35 madde olup, olcegin Turkceye cevrilmesi arastirmacilar tarafindan yapilmis ve Ingiliz dili alaninda uzman olan bes kisi tarafindan kontrol edilerek gerekli duzeltmeler yapilmistir. Olcegin guvenirlik ve gecerlik calismalari icin, Aydin ili merkez Ilkogretim okullari II. Kademe, ortaogretim okulu ve egitim fakultesinde ogrenim goren 1. , 2. , 3. ve 4. sinif ogrencilerine (N=750) uygulanmistir. Bu arastirmada, olcegin faktor yapilarini belirlemek amaciyla dogrulayici (DFA) ve acimlayici (AFA) faktor analizi calismalari gerceklestirilmistir. Arastirma sonucunda MBBYO’nun orijinal olcek ile uyumlu 6 faktorden olustugu ve olcegin guvenirlik katsayisinin . 70 ile . 77 arasinda degistigi bulunmustur
Postprocessing workflow of 3D-USCT: bridging the gap to the clinic

As ﬁrst USCT systems are approaching clinical application, it is an essential task to prepare the reconstructed images for intuitive diagnosis and conform to clinical standards. We describe our post-processing workﬂow consisting of automated breast segmentation, image fusion, DICOM export and the methods to transfer images to the clinic. The segmentation was tested with 14 images resulting in an average surface deviation of 2.7 mm from semi-automatically segmented images. Modalities were fused applying empiric thresholds for sound speed and attenuation. The exported DICOM ﬁles were checked for consistency and tested with open source and commercial DICOM viewers. A teleradiology connection to University Medicine Mannheim was established based on the DICOM e-mail concept. We consider segmentation and image fusion as essential steps for intuitive diagnosis. Using medical standards like DICOM and PACS allows convenient integration into clinical workﬂows.
Similarities and Differences in Health, Social Trust, and Financial Situation in People With Usher Syndrome, a Bio-Psychosocial Perspective

Purpose The primary aim was to describe the similarities and differences among the general health, physical health, psychological health, social trust, and financial situations of people with Usher syndrome (USH) types 1, 2, and 3. A second aim was to explore whether age, gender, clinical diagnosis, visual field, visual acuity, and degree of hearing impairment were associated with the general health, physical health, psychological health, social trust, and financial situations of people with USH. Methods In this study, 162 people with USH living in Sweden were included, and all three types of the disease were represented. Data concerning vision, hearing, and genetics were retrieved from the Swedish Usher database. Group comparison using frequencies, χ2-tests and Kruskal-Wallis tests for group comparison were used. To examine the effect of independent variables on poor health outcomes, a logistic regression analysis was conducted. Results Problems with poor health, social trust, and finances were found for all three types; however, more similarities than differences were found. The results of the regression model were ambiguous; it is not clear which independent measures contributed the most to poor outcomes. People with USH3 tended to report the most problems regarding the dependent outcome measures. Conclusion The observations of the associations between the independent variables and poor health, social trust and finances made in the present study are important to bear in mind in a rehabilitation setting; however, they do not fully explain how people with USH actually feel or rate their health. More research is needed to confirm the knowledge that exists within the clinical setting and the life stories told by the people with USH to merge existing knowledge into a rehabilitation setting based on evidence.
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

"Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from the present, by men whose power of action upon things was insignificant in comparison with ours. But the amazing growth of our techniques, the adaptability and precision they have attained, the ideas and habits they are creating, make it a certainty that profound changes are impending in the ancient craft of the Beautiful. In all the arts there is a physical component which can no longer be considered or treated as it used to be, which cannot remain unaffected by our modern knowledge and power. For the last twenty years neither matter nor space nor time has been what it was from time immemorial. We must expect great innovations to transform the entire technique of the arts, thereby affecting artistic invention itself and perhaps even bringing about an amazing change in our very notion of art." *
Dos Blogs aos Microblogs: Aspectos Históricos, Formatos e Características

Nos ultimos tres anos, passaram a surgir ferramentas de blogs mais simplificadas, voltadas para postagens com limitacoes de tamanho, e muitas vezes associadas a ideia de mobilidade. Essas ferramentas passaram a ser designadas como microblogs, na medida em que seguem algumas caracteristicas dos blogs, mas de forma simplificada. O presente trabalho tem por objetivo tracar o caminho percorrido do surgimento dos blogs ate o advento dos microblogs, explorando historico, formato e caracteristicas de ambas as ferramentas. A partir da apresentacao de um panorama geral de ambos, pretende-se, ainda, discutir as possiveis semelhancas entre a trajetoria dos blogs e o caminho percorrido pelos microblogs ate o momento.
A large format camera system for national mapping purposes

Le projet CAMv2 de l’IGN a debute en 2006 et est compose de deux parties principales. Tout d’abord, une camera quatre canaux de format moyen a ete developpee. Les elements de base de ce nouveau systeme sont une tete de camera construite autour du Kodak KAF-39 000, un capteur a barrettes de 39 megapixels (7216 x 5412 pixels). Trois systemes opererent dans cette configuration a l’ete 2009 pour la production nationale d’orthophotographies de l’IGN avec des tetes de camera quadricolores (RVB et proche infra-rouge). Grâce a la polyvalence et a l’aspect modulaire de ce nouveau systeme de camera, la seconde etape de notre projet a pu etre atteinte: le regroupement de huit tetes de camera sur le meme element gyro-stabilise, permettant ainsi d’obtenir des images fusionnees de 155 megapixels, avec un rapport de fusion de 2 × 2 et une fauchee finale d’environ 14400 pixels. Cette configuration a large champ a ete etablie avec deux combinaisons de longueurs de focale. Une version 45-90 mm permet une acquisition dediee aux modeles 3D de villes et une version 60-120 mm sert a la production d’orthophotographies. Une bonne qualite colorimetrique est obtenue avec ce systeme grâce a la creation specifique de filtres de couleur. Enfin, le systeme peut etre relie a un FMS/INS afin d’obtenir un georeferencement direct des images et une interface facile d’acces et de prise en main pour des operateurs grâce a un logiciel de planification de vol dernier cri.
Case-based Reasoning in Text Document Classification

This work investigates document classification in Case-Based Reasoning (CBR). The investigation is exemplified by the design and implementation of a system that uses the knowledge-intensive CBR framework Creek to categorize textual cases. The Information Extraction tool CORPORUM analyzes natural language text by extracting "light weight ontologies" consisting of key concepts and the links between them. The output delivered by CORPORUM has been the basis of text categorization in Creek. To find the category of an unknown text case, Creek compares it to a number of already categorized texts and outputs most similar. The calculation of similarity between textual cases has been done according to Creek's existing method. The implemented program is based on a study of Textual CBR and Information Extraction, as well as an analysis of Creek's representation and reasoning functionality. When testing the implemented system, we have observed that Creek and CORPORUM can cooperate in categorizing documents, even if their format of representing text cases is initially different. Because of differences in relation types, the general domain knowledge of Creek was not fully utilized during case matching. However, our results suggests that Creek will benefit greatly from using a text analysis tool such as CORPORUM for ontology building.
Stepping off the Road: A Researcher's story of challenging method/changing methodology

ABSTRACT. This narrative recounts the disruption of my graduate research project by persistent, self-reflexive questioning of the process of doing independent research for the first time, and draws its texts from the resulting master’s thesis. In this story, the ethnographic method I chose initially to study the experience of women returning to school to earn degrees became less methodologically convincing as critical questions about the method emerged through self-reflective writing in my research journal. As I followed the disruptions generated through writing, and attended to the equally compelling disruptions due to disabling chronic illness, these experiences prompted a methodological shift in the research, with unforeseen textual consequences. Slowly, it became apparent to me that research journal writings that reflected my observations and concerns about power, representation and authority in the research I was conducting, and within the academy itself, constituted the ground of a viable narrative inquiry into what I had been experiencing as a beginning researcher. The thesis I had set out to create was definitely not the one I wrote. SORTIR DES SENTIERS BATTUS : L’HISTOIRE D’UNE CHERCHEUSE QUI CONTESTE LES METHODES DEFICIENTES ET CHANGE LA METHODOLOGIE RESUME. Ce recit relate l’interruption de mon projet de recherche d’etudes superieures en raison de la remise en question constante et autoreflexive du processus de recherche independante entreprise pour la premiere fois, et tire ses textes de la these de maitrise qui en a resulte. Dans ce recit, la methode ethnographique choisie au depart pour analyser l’experience des femmes qui retournent aux etudes afin de decrocher un diplome est devenue moins convaincante sur le plan methodologique a mesure que je me posais des questions tres importantes sur la methodologie dans la redaction autoreflexive de mon journal de recherche. Tout en suivant les interruptions generees par la redaction, et en pretant attention aux interruptions tout aussi contraignantes en raison de la maladie chronique invalidante, ces experiences ont mene a un changement de la methodologie de recherche ainsi qu’a des consequences imprevues sur la redaction. Il m’est ainsi lentement apparu que la redaction du journal de recherche qui exprimait mes observations et mes preoccupations concernant le pouvoir, la representation et l’autorite dans le cadre de la recherche que je menais, et au sein de l’academie elle-meme, constituait la matiere pour une recherche narrative viable sur mon experience en tant que chercheur debutant. La these que j’ai ecrite n’a assurement rien a voir avec mon projet de these initial.
Tradeoffs in concatenated coding for frequency-hop packet radio with partial-band interference

Concatenated coding techniques are applied to a frequency-hop (FH) packet radio on a channel with partial-band interference. Binary orthogonal signaling (e.g., binary frequency shift keying) is used with noncoherent demodulation. The outer code is a Reed-Solomon code, and both block and convolutional codes are considered for the inner code. Hard-decision Viterbi decoding is used for the convolutional code. Methods are proposed for using the inner code to derive reliability information, which is used to identify and erase unreliable symbols. Comparisons are made between the performance of these concatenated coding schemes and the performance of Reed-Solomon codes alone. <<ETX>>
Economic Evaluation of Microneedles for Vaccinations

In the United States, influenza epidemics cost approximately $87.1 billion annually in which $10.4 billion is attributed to direct medical cost [1]. Nearly 13 million influenza cases occur every year, costing $1.4 billion to third-party payers and $11.3 billion to the society [2]. Despite the recommendation for annual influenza vaccinations, a significant number of people fail to get vaccinated due to their concerns about vaccine effectiveness, adverse reactions, inconvenience, and needle phobia [3,4]. Thus, a novel, cost-effective, minimally invasive, and patient-compliant delivery technology-microneedles (an array of micron-sized solid-coated or polymeric dissolving needles) could address some of these issues [5-7]. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has named this technology the potential “game changer” of global vaccination. Preclinical studies have demonstrated that the use of microneedles could lead to long-lasting, robust antibody response, and improved efficacy of various vaccines against influenza, malaria, Alzheimer’s disease, and measles [8-10]. The usability and acceptability of microneedles were also assessed to reveal that 100% of the public and 74% of the healthcare providers surveyed were positive and showed a strong support for microneedle technology [11,12]. Furthermore, if patients could self-administer vaccines using microneedles, the vaccination intent would increase from 44% to 65% [13].
Some aspects of visual discomfort

Visual discomfort is the adverse sensations, such as headaches and eyestrain, encountered on viewing certain stimuli. These sensations can arise under certain viewing conditions, such as stereoscopic viewing and prolonged reading of text patterns. Also, discomfort can occur as a result of viewing stimuli with certain spatial properties, including stripes and filtered noise patterns of particular spatial frequency. This thesis is an exploration of the stimulus properties causing discomfort, within the framework of two theoretical explanations. Both of the explanations relate to the stimuli being difficult for the visual system to process. The first is concerned with discomfort being the result of inefficient neural processing. Neural activity requires energy to process information, and stimuli that demand a lot of energy to be processed might be uncomfortable. The second explanation revolves around uncomfortable stimuli not being effective in driving the accommodative (focussing) response. Accommodation relies on the stimulus as a cue to drive the response effectively an uninformative cue might result in discomfort from an uncertain accommodative response. The following research investigates both these possibilities using a combination of psychophysical experimentation, questionnaire-based surveys on non-clinical populations, and computational modelling. The implications of the work for clinical populations are also discussed.
Performance reliability assessment based on Bayesian Bootstrap method

Performance reliability is an important quality index for much electronic equipment.For performance reliability assessment of modern electronic product,classic method always lacks test data and Bayes method is still in dispute,so this paper introduces Bayesian Bootstrap method to performance reliability statistical analysis.Bayesian Bootstrap method extends the amount of samples by numerical simulation.First,it introduces the basic idea and gives out an algorithm for calculating the expectation and variance of performance parameter,then analyses the applicability of Bayesian Bootstrap method.In the end,an example is presented to show the validity and practicality of this method.
Bifurcation Analysis of Large Networks of Neurons

The human brain contains on the order of a hundred billion neurons, each with several thousand synaptic connections. Computational neuroscience has successfully modeled both the individual neurons as various types of oscillators, in addition to the synaptic coupling between the neurons. However, employing the individual neuronal models as a large coupled network on the scale of the human brain would require massive computational and financial resources, and yet is the current undertaking of several research groups. Even if one were to successfully model such a complicated system of coupled differential equations, aside from brute force numerical simulations, little insight may be gained into how the human brain solves problems or performs tasks. Here, we introduce a tool that reduces large networks of coupled neurons to a much smaller set of differential equations that governs key statistics for the network as a whole, as opposed to tracking the individual dynamics of neurons and their connections. This approach is typically referred to as a mean-field system. As the mean-field system is derived from the original network of neurons, it is predictive for the behavior of the network as a whole and the parameters or distributions of parameters that appear in the mean-field system are identical to those of the original network. As such, bifurcation analysis is predictive for the behavior of the original network and predicts where in the parameter space the network transitions from one behavior to another. Additionally, here we show how networks of neurons can be constructed with a meanfield or macroscopic behavior that is prescribed. This occurs through an analytic extension of the Neural Engineering Framework (NEF). This can be thought of as an inverse meanfield approach, where the networks are constructed to obey prescribed dynamics as opposed to deriving the macroscopic dynamics from an underlying network. Thus, the work done here analyzes neuronal networks through both top-down and bottom-up approaches.