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Game-Based Model Checking for Reliable Autonomy in Space

Autonomy is an emerging paradigm for the design and implementation of managed services and systems. Self-managed aspects frequently concern the communication of systems with their environment. Self-management subsystems are critical, they should thus be designed and implemented as high-assurance components. Here, we propose to use GEAR, a game-based model checker for the full modal mu-calculus, and derived, more user-oriented logics, as a user friendly tool that can offer automatic proofs of critical properties of such systems. Designers and engineers can interactively investigate automatically generated winning strategies resulting from the games, this way exploring the connection between the property, the system, and the proof. The benefits of the approach are illustrated on a case study that concerns the ExoMars Rover.
Fast High Voltage Solid State Switch Using Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor for Discharge-Pumped Lasers

A novel method to produce a fast high voltage solid states switch using Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors (IGBTs) is presented for discharge-pumped gas lasers. The IGBTs are connected in series to achieve a high voltage rating. An avalanche transistor is used as the gate driver. The fast pulse generated by the avalanche transistor quickly charges the large input capacitance of the IGBT, resulting in a switch out of a fast high-voltage pulse. The switching characteristic of fast-high voltage solid state switch has been estimated in the multi-stage series-connected IGBT with the applied voltage of several tens of kV. Electrical circuit diagram and the mythology of fast-high voltage solid state switch as well as experimental results obtained are presented. Keywords—High voltage, IGBT, Solid states switch.
Improving Transient Stability in a Grid-Connected Squirrel-Cage Induction Generator Wind Turbine System Using a Fuzzy Logic Controller

A common problem in wind power plants involves fixed-speed wind turbines. In fact, being equipped with a squirrel-cage induction generator (SCIG), they tend to drain a relevant amount of reactive power from the grid, potentially causing voltage drops and possible voltage instability. To improve SCIG power quality and transient stability, this paper investigates a new control strategy for pitch angle control based on proportional-integral (PI) controller and a fuzzy logic controller (FLC), considering both normal and fault ride-through (FRT) schemes. In the literature, often, the mechanical torque output is assumed constant for a specific wind speed. This might not be accurate, because the mechanical torque-speed typical of a wind turbine depends also on the power coefficient or pitch angle. In this paper, an analytic model of transient stability is proposed using the equivalent circuit of the SCIG and using the concepts of stable and unstable electrical-mechanical equilibrium. The method has been evaluated by comparing the results obtained by the analytic method with the dynamic simulation. The results show that the proposed hybrid controller is effective at smoothing the output power and complying with FRT requirements for SCIG in the power system.
Discriminative Data Visualization for Daily Behavior Modeling

This paper describes a novel data visualization technique for intuitive interpretation of human behavior modeling results. Our visualization method captures the relational structure of clusters obtained by some human behavior modeling method, and reflects it to two- to three-dimensional space. The main advantage of our method is that the method can be applied to massive daily sensor log analysis. This paper reports some experimental results on pyroelectric sensor log analysis where the data spans months to years.
Usability Requirements for GIS Application

III LIST OF FIGURES . VII LIST OF TABLES . VIII CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION. 1 1.1. BACKGROUND AND MOTIVATION . 1 1.2. RELATED WORK . 3 1.3. STRUCTURE OF THE THESIS . 4 CHAPTER 2: PROBLEM DEFINITION . 5 2.1. PROBLEM DEFINITION . 5 2.2. USABILITY REQUIREMENTS TO BE SET FOR GIS APPLICATION . 5 2.3. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES . 6 2.4. RESEARCH QUESTIONS . 6 2.5. EXPECTED OUTCOMES . 6 CHAPTER 3: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY . 7 3.1. OVERVIEW . 7 3.2. LITERATURE REVIEW . 9 3.3. USABILITY EVALUATION METHOD. 9 3.4. CO-DISCOVERY LEARNING TECHNIQUE . 9 3.5. INTERVIEW . 10 3.6. QUESTIONNAIRE . 10 CHAPTER 4: THEORETICAL WORK . 11 4.1. USABILITY . 11 4.2. ISO 9241-11 USABILITY GUIDANCE . 12 4.3. WEB-BASED GIS APPLICATIONS . 13 4.3.1. GIS Components . 14 4.3.1.1. Hardware . 14 4.3.1.2. Software. 14 4.3.1.3. Data . 14 4.3.1.4. People . 14 4.3.1.5. Procedures . 14 4.3.2. GIS applications Architecture . 14 4.3.3 GIS application Features . 15 4.3.3.1. Search Location . 15 4.3.3.2. Navigations . 15 4.3.3.3. Get Direction . 15 4.3.3.4. Sharing, Printing, Creating and Saving Maps . 16 4.4. GOOGLE MAPS . 16 4.4.1. Google Maps on PC . 16 4.4.2. Google Maps on iPhone . 17 CHAPTER 5: EMPIRICAL WORK . 18 5.1. SPECIFYING USABILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR GIS APPLICATION . 18 5.1.1. Specifying Context of Use . 19 5.1.1.1. Selection of user Types . 19 5.1.1.2. Tasks . 19 5.1.1.3. Test Environment . 20 5.1.1.4. Usability Equipments and Material . 20 5.1.2. Specifying Usability Requirements for measuring . 20 5.1.2.1. Effectiveness. 21 5.1.2.2. Efficiency . 21 5.1.2.3. Satisfaction . 21 5.1.2.4. Specifying Usability Test Method . 21 5.2. PILOT TEST, INTERVIEW AND QUESTIONNAIRE . 22 5.3. TEST CONDUCTION INFORMATION . 22
A statistical framework for power calculations in ChIP-seq experiments

MOTIVATION ChIP-seq technology enables investigators to study genome-wide binding of transcription factors and mapping of epigenomic marks. Although the availability of basic analysis tools for ChIP-seq data is rapidly increasing, there has not been much progress on the related design issues. A challenging question for designing a ChIP-seq experiment is how deeply should the ChIP and the control samples be sequenced? The answer depends on multiple factors some of which can be set by the experimenter based on pilot/preliminary data. The sequencing depth of a ChIP-seq experiment is one of the key factors that determine whether all the underlying targets (e.g. binding locations or epigenomic profiles) can be identified with a targeted power. RESULTS We developed a statistical framework named CSSP (ChIP-seq Statistical Power) for power calculations in ChIP-seq experiments by considering a local Poisson model, which is commonly adopted by many peak callers. Evaluations with simulations and data-driven computational experiments demonstrate that this framework can reliably estimate the power of a ChIP-seq experiment at different sequencing depths based on pilot data. Furthermore, it provides an analytical approach for calculating the required depth for a targeted power while controlling the false discovery rate at a user-specified level. Hence, our results enable researchers to use their own or publicly available data for determining required sequencing depths of their ChIP-seq experiments and potentially make better use of the multiplexing functionality of the sequencers. Evaluation of power for multiple public ChIP-seq datasets indicate that, currently, typical ChIP-seq studies are powered well for detecting large fold changes of ChIP enrichment over the control sample, but they have considerably less power for detecting smaller fold changes. AVAILABILITY Available at www.stat.wisc.edu/~zuo/CSSP. CONTACT keles@stat.wisc.edu SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
A novel locus for X-linked retinitis pigmentosa.

INTRODUCTION Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is the most prevalent group of inherited retinopathies and demonstrates considerable clinical and genetic heterogeneity, with wide variations in disease severity, progression, and gene involvement. We studied a large family with RP to determine the pattern of inheritance and to identify the disease-causing gene/locus. MATERIALS AND METHODS Ophthalmic examination was performed on 35 family members to identify affected individuals and carriers and to characterise the disease phenotype. Genetic linkage analysis was performed using short tandem repeat (STR) polymorphic markers encompassing the known loci for Xlinked RP (xlRP) including RP2, RP3, RP6, RP23, and RP24. Mutation screening was performed by direct sequencing of PCR-amplified genomic DNA of the RP2 and RPGR genes of the affected individuals. RESULTS A highly penetrant, X-linked form of RP was observed in this family. Age of onset was from 5 to 8 years and visual acuity ranged from 20/25 in children to light perception in older adults. Linkage analysis and direct sequencing showed that no known loci/genes were associated with the phenotype in this kindred. CONCLUSION A novel disease gene locus/loci is responsible for the xlRP phenotype in this family.
ASIM: A Scalable Algorithm for Influence Maximization under the Independent Cascade Model

The steady growth of graph data from social networks has resulted in wide-spread research in finding solutions to the influence maximization problem. Although, TIM is one of the fastest existing algorithms, it cannot be deemed scalable owing to its exorbitantly high memory footprint.cIn this paper, we address the scalability aspect -- memory consumption and running time of the influence maximization problem. We propose ASIM, a scalable algorithm capable of running within practical compute times on commodity hardware. Empirically, ASIM is $6-8$ times faster when compared to CELF++ with similar memory consumption, while its memory footprint is $\approx 200$ times smaller when compared to TIM.
Constrained Information-Theoretic Tripartite Graph Clustering to Identify Semantically Similar Relations

In knowledge bases or information extraction results, differently expressed relations can be semantically similar (e.g., (X, wrote, Y) and (X, 's written work, Y)). Therefore, grouping semantically similar relations into clusters would facilitate and improve many applications, including knowledge base completion, information extraction, information retrieval, and more. This paper formulates relation clustering as a constrained tripartite graph clustering problem, presents an efficient clustering algorithm and exhibits the advantage of the constrained framework. We introduce several ways that provide side information via must-link and cannot-link constraints to improve the clustering results. Different from traditional semi-supervised learning approaches, we propose to use the similarity of relation expressions and the knowledge of entity types to automatically construct the constraints for the algorithm. We show improved relation clustering results on two datasets extracted from human annotated knowledge base (i.e., Freebase) and open information extraction results (i.e., ReVerb data).
Comparative performance of two types of cerebellar model controllers for controlling robot joint size, learning and generalization

Versions of the proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controllers are most widespread type of controllers used to control plants, in achieving satisfactory performance. Versions of PID controller are also used for controlling robotic plants. With increased speed of operation and more stringent performance requirements PID controller alone will not suffice. Control performance improve significantly by adding second controller that computes necessary driving torque from current operating condition, based on robot model. Two types of cerebellum based controllers where tested in acquiring robot model. First one is standard Albus cerebellar model articulation controller (CMAC), and second one is new cerebellar model controller with added functionality for some of cerebellar neuron types, namely Golgi cell, basket cell, and stellate cell (CMACgbs). Physical modeling of robot joint with SimMechanics was used as testing plant for rapid prototyping. Cerebellar controller features addressed are size of the neural network, learning process, and generalization.
Biodegradation of Mycotoxins: Tales from Known and Unexplored Worlds

Exposure to mycotoxins, secondary metabolites produced by fungi, may infer serious risks for animal and human health and lead to economic losses. Several approaches to reduce these mycotoxins have been investigated such as chemical removal, physical binding, or microbial degradation. This review focuses on the microbial degradation or transformation of mycotoxins, with specific attention to the actual detoxification mechanisms of the mother compound. Furthermore, based on the similarities in chemical structure between groups of mycotoxins and environmentally recalcitrant compounds, known biodegradation pathways and degrading organisms which hold promise for the degradation of mycotoxins are presented.
Homography-based 2D visual servoing

The objective of this paper is to propose a new homography-based approach to image-based visual servoing. The visual servoing method does not need any measure of the 3D structure of the observed target. Only visual information measured from the reference and the current image are needed to compute the task function (isomorphic to the camera pose) and the control law to be applied to the robot. The control law is designed in order to make the task function converge to zero. We provide the theoretical proof of the existence of the isomorphism between the task function and the camera pose and the theoretical proof of the local stability of the control law. The experimental results, obtained with a 6 d.o. f. robot, show the advantages of the proposed method with respect to the existing approaches
Children and Compliance A Comparative Analysis of Socialization Studies

Popular compliance with prescribed patterns of behavior is the fundamental constraint on social disruption. ' Even the effectiveness of control by legal sanctions depends on the public's acceptance of their use by authorities. Inquiry into the sources of popular adherence to norms conducive to compliance with authorities has been an aspect of socialization research. This essay comments on political science research on socialization, and points out how it differs from the research reported by psychologist Joseph Adelson and his associates (1970) in this journal and in a previous study (1966). The socialization studies are compared in order to determine their utility for discerning the sources of compliant behavior.2
Audio Musical Dice Game

This article proposes a framework for creating user-preference-aware music medleys from users' music collections. We treat the medley generation process as an audio version of a musical dice game. Once the user's collection has been analyzed, the system is able to generate various pleasing medleys. This flexibility allows users to create medleys according to the specified conditions, such as the medley structure or the must-use clips. Even users without musical knowledge can compose medley songs from their favorite tracks. The effectiveness of the system has been evaluated through both objective and subjective experiments on individual components in the system.
Dynamic model and control of a new quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle with tilt-wing mechanism

In this work a dynamic model of a new quadrotor aerial vehicle that is equipped with a tilt-wing mechanism is presented. The vehicle has the capabilities of vertical take-off/landing (VTOL) like a helicopter and flying horizontal like an airplane. Dynamic model of the vehicle is derived both for vertical and horizontal flight modes using Newton-Euler formulation. An LQR controller for the vertical flight mode has also been developed and its performance has been tested with several simulations. Keywords—Control, Dynamic model, LQR, Quadrotor, Tilt-wing, VTOL.
Tangential Touch Between Free and Fixed Boundaries in a Problem from Superconductivity

ABSTRACT In this paper we study regularity properties of the free boundary problem where B + 1 = {|x|<1, x 1 > 0} and B 1 = {|x|<1}. If the origin is a free boundary point, then we show that the free boundary touches the fixed boundary {x 1 = 0} tangentially.
A 6.5-Gb/s 1-mW/Gb/s/CH Simple Capacitive Crosstalk Compensator in a 130-nm Process

A capacitive crosstalk compensator (CXC) at a transmitter is presented. It employs double-path capacitive coupling to cancel accurately crosstalk-induced jitter. A mode detector and an additional clock for compensation are eliminated, and only buffers and capacitors are used. The simple architecture consumes low power (1 mW/Gb/s/CH) and occupies small area (0.009 mm2/CH). The chip was fabricated in a 130-nm CMOS process. CXC has the maximum jitter reduction of 34.1 ps (90.5%) and the maximum voltage improvement of 26.6 mV. CXC operates at up to 6.5 Gb/s.
An Adaptive Window-Setting Scheme for Segmentation of Bladder Tumor Surface via MR Cystography

This paper proposes an adaptive window-setting scheme for noninvasive detection and segmentation of bladder tumor surface in T_1 -weighted magnetic resonance (MR) images. The inner border of the bladder wall is first covered by a group of ball-shaped detecting windows with different radii. By extracting the candidate tumor windows and excluding the false positive (FP) candidates, the entire bladder tumor surface is detected and segmented by the remaining windows. Different from previous bladder tumor detection methods that are mostly focusing on the existence of a tumor, this paper emphasizes segmenting the entire tumor surface in addition to detecting the presence of the tumor. The presented scheme was validated by ten clinical T1-weighted MR image datasets (five volunteers and five patients). The bladder tumor surfaces and the normal bladder wall inner borders in the ten datasets were covered by 223 and 10 491 windows, respectively. Such a large number of the detecting windows makes the validation statistically meaningful. In the FP reduction step, the best feature combination was obtained by using receiver operating characteristics or ROC analysis. The validation results demonstrated the potential of this presented scheme in segmenting the entire tumor surface with high sensitivity and low FP rate. This study inherits our previous results of automatic segmentation of the bladder wall and will be an important element in our MR-based virtual cystoscopy or MR cystography system.
Identidad, sentimientos y lengua: ¿nos definimos por lo que sentimos o por lo que hablamos?

espanolEste articulo pretende poner de relevancia la dimension social en el analisis de la relacion entre sentimientos y lengua para intentar ver si el contexto de los significados sociales nos ofrece pautas de reflexion utiles para entender la importancia de esta relacion y valorar sus implicaciones. Quisieramos trascender el significado de los conceptos de sentimiento y lengua para poder empezar a tender un puente de contacto entre ambos, y este puente proponemos que este construido con fundamentos sociales, es decir, teniendo en cuenta la necesidad que tenemos de los «otros», de su existencia para asegurar la nuestra, de la necesidad de compartir significados del mundo que nos rodea y de la necesidad de elaborar instrumentos que nos permitan desarrollar practicas culturales y de identificacion. En esta exposicion intentaremos no solo poner en escena los conceptos de lengua y sentimiento sino tambien, puesto que tambien lo creemos necesario para fortalecer el puente de contacto, presentar los conceptos de identidad social, de categorizacion social y de relaciones de poder. EnglishThis paper aims to bring the social dimension into the analysis of the relationship between feelings and language, in order to try to see if the context of social meanings offers us useful guidelines to begin to understand the importance of this relationship and consider its implications. We would transcend the meaning of concepts of language and feelings to begin bridging contact between the two, and we suggest that this bridge might be constructed with social foundations, taking into account the need of the «others», its existence to ensure our existence, the need to share meanings in the world around us and the need to develop tools that allow us to develop cultural practices and identification. This exposition will attempt not only to focus on the concepts of language and feelings but also we, although we believe necessary to strengthen the contact bridge, introduce the concepts of social identity, social categorization and power relations.
Evidence for the Presence of M Cells in the Guinea Pig Ventricle

M Cells in the Guinea Pig. Introduction: Recent studies have described the presence of M cells in the deep layers of the canine and human ventricle displaying electrophysiologic and pharmacologic features different from those of epicardial (EPI) and endocardial (ENDO) cells. The M cell is distinguished electrophysiologically by the ability of its action potential to prolong disproportionately to that of other myocardial cells with slowing of the stimulation rate and pharmacologically by its unique sensitivity to Class III antiarrhythmic agents. The present study was designed to test the hypothesis that similar cells are present in the guinea pig ventricle.
Understanding the Emergence of Behavior Problems in Young Children With Developmental Delays

Children with developmental delays have a much higher incidence of behavior problems than do children who are typically developing. This article reviews the current research on the occurrence and nature of behavior problems in these children, with particular attention to issues relevant to young children and the type and severity of problems that have been observed at ages as young as 2 years. Evidence in support of a conceptual framework for understanding how such behavior problems may develop is presented, with a particular focus on early biological or constitutional factors, family stress, and children's developing self-regulatory capacities. Implications for practice are discussed.
Algebraic invariants of graphs : a computer aided study

Hence, it has shown tha t the robustness margin problem can be formulated as solving polynomial systems by Symbolic Computat ion. The main task of this approach is to find the solutions which are the Morse critical points. However, due to the high dimension of the uncertainty space, for example, 20 uncertainties, which could be a real world problem, the relating polynomial system ! is huge, for example, 39 equations for 20 complex uncertainties. Hence, "Can we solve these kind of huge polynomial systems ? " becomes a main issue of our future research. References [1] E. A. Jonckheere, Algebraic and Differential Topology of Robust Stability, Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, 1997. [2] E. A. Jonckheere and N. P. Ke, Complex-Analytic Theory of the i~-FFunction, Proc. American Control Control (ACC), pp.366-371, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1997; to appear Journal of the Mathematical Analysis and its Applications. [3] N. P. Ke, An Algorithm of Symbolic Computation ]or Stability Margin, pp. 2304-2308, Proc. ACC, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1998. [4] N. P. Ke, A New Method to Compute Complex. , Robustness Margin, to appear Proc. IFAC'99 World Congress, Beijing, P. R. China, 1999.