Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Étude comparative de deux approches, thermocouples intégrés et thermographie infrarouge, pour la surveillance thermique d'une infrastructure de transport

Cette etude s’interesse a l’evaluation et a l’amelioration de solutions d’instrumentation thermique pour la surveillance long terme d’infrastructures de transport de nouvelle generation. Un site d’essais a ete equipe de thermocouples et d’un systeme de thermographie infrarouge couple au suivi de parametres environnementaux. Une methode de reconstruction spatiale des images infrarouges est presentee. Les donneee de mesure acquises sur site, puis post-traitees, sont analysees sur le plan temporel. Une conclusion sur les resultats obtenus et des perspectives sont proposees.
Subject or Object? : Syntactic disambiguation in Norwegian, stochastic optimality theory and application in an automatic system

Acknowledgements As the work on my thesis is drawing towards its end, I am happy for the opportunity to thank some of the people who have assisted me along the way and made the whole process such an interesting and enjoyable venture. Firstly, I want to thank my two advisors. My principle advisor, Prof. Janne Bondi Johannessen, has been a true pleasure to work with. She has been involved in the whole process, from choice of topic to concluding remarks , and has always given me pointed criticism, whilst at the same time installing in me a belief in the project and my capabilities therein. Thanks also for giving me a glance into academic life by inviting me to two lovely seminars, and in general making me feel welcome in settings that would otherwise have seemed quite intimidating from a mere student's perspective. Prof. Helge Lødrup has been my secondary advisor and an invaluable source of knowledge and theoretical insight. He taught my first course in syntax and had me interested from the very start. His enthusiasm for the field is truly inspiring. It is my pleasure to thank him for all the time he has spent on me during the course of this thesis and for always having an open door. Many thanks to Kristin, Anders, Åsne and Lars at Tekstlaboratoriet for being so supportive and always making me feel welcome. My fellow students at Language, Logic and Information also deserve thanks. In particular, I want to thank my good friends Iselin, Fredrik and Bjørnar for all the lunches and coffee breaks along the way. The social life here has made the difficult writing process seem a lot less impossible and I will miss you all. My friends outside of university-Liza, Iselin, Kari and all the rest of you, thanks for all the good times! A special thanks also to Anne Karin Paaske and Nils Øvrelid for making the last few months endurable and for all the good food and comfort. Finally, and on a more personal note, I want to thank Stian Nygaard for endless support and patience in everything.
Stochastic Simulation of Biomolecular Reaction Networks Using the Biomolecular Network Simulator Software

Abstract : We developed a software package, the Biomolecular Network Simulator (BNS), to simulate the stochastic behavior of complex biomolecular reaction networks on single and multi-processor computing systems. The software uses either exact or approximate stochastic simulation algorithms for generating Monte Carlo trajectories that describe the time evolution of the behavior of biomolecular reaction networks. This software uses a combination of MATLAB and C-coded functions and can be run on either single processor desk top computers or on multi-processor high performance computing hardware. In the later case, the code is parallelized with the MPI library to allow for multiple simultaneous simulations. The software can be run either in an interactive or in a batch job mode. The graphical user interface of BNS allows users to easily set model and simulation parameters for single or multiple simulation sessions. Furthermore, BNS contains a comprehensive set of data processing tools for post-simulation analysis of the results. The behavior of a single gene in vitro transcription-translation reaction network is investigated as an application example.
Characteristics of Nutrients Distribution in Summer and Winter in the South Sea

This paper presents the results of recent nutrients measurement and analysis in relation to other environmental parameters such as temperature, salinity, AOU and pH in the South Sea, Korea. In summer, temperature showed stronger correlation with nutrients than salinity and also did the parameters related to biological activities such as pH and AOU. Implications of above results exemplify that primary producers in the vicinity of salt front actively consumed nutrients so that nutrients-salinity correlation is strongly modified in the salt front. Nutrient in winter showed significant correlation only with temperature. Nutrient distribution seems governed by the location of thermal front between vertically mixed cold water in northern area and warm waters flowing north. Due to weak biological activity in winter pH-nutrients correlation, which was strongest in summer ( >0.6) dropped sharply in winter ( , 23 , 637 in summer and 261 , 31 , 742 in winter, respectively. NIP values in summer exhibit phosphorus deficiency, however, winter situation is reversed for nitrogen. Nitrogen input via precipitation and riverine discharge in wet season seems potentially critical for maintaining the South Sea ecosystem.
Determinação da freqüência de ressonância de antenas tipo microfita triangular e retangular utilizando redes neurais artificiais

This work presents the development of models that can be used in the design of microstrip antennas for mobile communications. The antennas can be triangular or rectangular. The presented models are compared with deterministic and empirical models based on artificial neural networks (ANN) presented in the literature. The models are based on Perceptron Multilayer (PML). The models can be embedded in CAD systems, in order to design microstrip antennas for mobile communications.
A Structure of Adaptive Portable Video Streaming and Efficient Social Video Distribution in the Clouds

Recently there have been many studies on how to improve the service quality of mobile video streaming on cloud computing. Resilience against cloud provider failure and temporary unavailabilityUse multiple cloud providers to construct a reliable cloud storage service out of unreliable components.we need Efficient proofs of file availability by interacting with cloud providers but these systems are not sufficient for this type of environments. Use multiple cloud providers to construct a reliable cloud storage service out of unreliable components. High availability and tolerance to adversarial failures.In this paper we address the problems of adaptive cloud services. Our adversaries are the cloud service provider itself, its insiders, or any third party attacks who are able to view the target data, monitor query processing on the data, obtain or infer the data and queries. – have complete access to database server While we need to provide security and privacy against these adversaries, we cannot omit functionality and performance – the most important property for a data service.
Evolutionary multiobjective optimization: review, algorithms, and applications

Many mathematical problems arising from diverse fields of human activity can be formulated as optimization problems. The majority of real-world optimization problems involve several and conflicting objectives. Such problems are called multiobjective optimization problems (MOPs). The presence of multiple conflicting objectives that have to be simultaneously optimized gives rise to a set of trade-off solutions, known as the Pareto optimal set. Since this set of solutions is crucial for effective decision-making, which generally aims to improve the human condition, the availability of efficient optimization methods becomes indispensable. Recently, evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have become popular and successful in approximating the Pareto set. The population-based nature is the main feature that makes them especially attractive for dealing with MOPs. Due to the presence of two search spaces, operators able to efficiently perform the search in both the decision and objective spaces are required. Despite the wide variety of existing methods, a lot of open research issues in the design of multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) remains. This thesis investigates the use of evolutionary algorithms for solving multiobjective optimization problems. Innovative algorithms are developed studying new techniques for performing the search either in the decision or the objective space. Concerning the search in the decision space, the focus is on the combinations of traditional and evolutionary optimization methods. An issue related to the search in the objective space is studied in the context of many-objective optimization. Application of evolutionary algorithms is addressed solving two different real-world problems, which are modeled using multiobjective approaches. The problems arise from the mathematical modelling of the dengue disease transmission and a wastewater treatment plant design. The obtained results clearly show that multiobjective modelling is an effective approach. The success in solving these challenging optimization problems highlights the practical relevance and robustness of the developed algorithms.
A Telerobotic Drilling Control System with Haptic Feedback

Drilling a borehole is a common method for extracting oil, gas, and natural resources from beneath the surface of the earth. The main topic of this Thesis is the design of control algorithms for virtual reality based telerobotic system with haptic feedback that allows for the remote control of the vertical drilling operation. The human operator controls the vertical penetration velocity using PHANTOM Omni haptic device while simultaneously receiving the haptic feedback from the locally implemented virtual environment. The virtual environment is rendered as a virtual spring with stiffness updated based on the estimate of the the stiffness of the rock currently being cut. Based on the existing mathematical models of drill-string/drive systems and rock cutting/penetration process, a robust servo controller is designed that guarantees tracking of the reference vertical penetration velocity of the drill bit. A scheme for online estimation of the rock stiffness is implemented. Simulations of the proposed control and parameter estimation algorithms have been conducted using MATLAB; consequently, the overall telerobotic drilling system with a human operator controlling the process using PHANTOM Omni haptic device is tested experimentally where the drilling process is simulated in real time using Open Haptics toolkit.
Collaborative Process Improvement: With Examples from the Software World

List of Figures. Preface. How to Read This Book. Introduction. Special Thanks and Acknowledgments. Chapter 1. Your World-Understanding Your Situation and Preparing First Steps. Chapter 2. Welcome to the World-Establishing Advocates and Champions. Chapter 3. Drawing Your Map-Initiating your CPI Program. Chapter 4. World Vision-Training the Organization. Chapter 5. World Views-Addressing the Capital Q. Chapter 6. Around the World-Acknowledging Cultural Diversity. Chapter 7. Move Your World-Managing Change. Chapter 8. Rock Your World-Encouraging Process Perpetual Motion. Chapter 9. Your World of Influence-Sneezing and Spreading the Improvement Virus. Chapter 10. World Climate-Checking for Vital Signs. Chapter 11. World Health-Evaluating Progress. Chapter 12. World News-Rewarding and Recognizing Work. Chapter 13. Modern World-Building Meaningful Quality Pictures. Chapter 14. One World-Uniting Your Change Maps with the New World View. Definitions. Acronyms. References and Resources. Index.
Numerical Algorithms for Personalized Search in Self-organizing Information Networks

This book lays out the theoretical groundwork for personalized search and reputation management, both on the Web and in peer-to-peer and social networks. Representing much of the foundational research in this field, the book develops scalable algorithms that exploit the graphlike properties underlying personalized search and reputation management, and delves into realistic scenarios regarding Web-scale data. Sep Kamvar focuses on eigenvector-based techniques in Web search, introducing a personalized variant of Google's PageRank algorithm, and he outlines algorithms--such as the now-famous quadratic extrapolation technique--that speed up computation, making personalized PageRank feasible. Kamvar suggests that Power Method-related techniques ultimately should be the basis for improving the PageRank algorithm, and he presents algorithms that exploit the convergence behavior of individual components of the PageRank vector. Kamvar then extends the ideas of reputation management and personalized search to distributed networks like peer-to-peer and social networks. He highlights locality and computational considerations related to the structure of the network, and considers such unique issues as malicious peers. He describes the EigenTrust algorithm and applies various PageRank concepts to P2P settings. Discussion chapters summarizing results conclude the book's two main sections. Clear and thorough, this book provides an authoritative look at central innovations in search for all of those interested in the subject.
LEARNING TO CLASSIFY SEMANTIC ORIENTATION ON ON-LINE DOCUMENT

As a result of advance in Internet technology, automatic text sentiment classification for a large amount of on-line documents in the form of surveys or called reviews becomes attractive. The task of sentiment classification is to construct an effective classifier with the knowledge data of vocabularies’ semantic meaning and the relationships between the vocabularies to determine the sentiment orientation of a document. In this paper, one method combining HowNet knowledge base with a robust supervised sentiment classifier is proposed. It computes semantic similarity of characteristic words and phrases by using HowNet. Sentiment features of text are divided into characteristic words and phrases, and they adopt the positive and negative terms as features of sentiment classifier. Finally in the experiment, evaluation results show the effectiveness of our method.
Smartphone Based Closed-Loop Auditory Cueing System

Mobile computing has been a field of ever increasing growth in the past few years, being the epitome of it nowadays devices like smartphones or tablets. These provide all kinds of benefits for their users in different ways. Several of these might be directed towards the healthcare or wellness of their users. Given the prevalence of Parkinson’s disease in the Portuguese population, it is necessary to research and develop tools for the treatment of this disorder, in order to provide the people suffering from this ailment a higher quality of life. This dissertation aims to provide Parkinson’s disease patients with a way to correct and enhance their walking through the use of auditory cues, using a headset connected to a smartphone. In this document, the state of the art of the intervening fields of this solution and the methodology adopted for the implementation of this solution as an android application will be showcased. A dataset of sensor and video data of 7384 steps, which corresponds to 66 minutes of persons with Parkinson’s disease walking, was collected and validated. The step detector had a mean absolute percentage error of 1.85% and the step length estimator, when calibrated, had a mean absolute percentage error of 5.26%. Results suggest that the developed sound synthesis and music synthesis submodules seem to be promising alternatives to the auditory cueing typically employed in the rehabilitation of the gait of Parkinson’s disease patients.
Technology Profile: An Assessment Strategy for Technological Literacy.

Given the scope of technology and the inherent difficulties of measuring such broad phenomena, this article explores two strategies for assessing technological literacy. One approach is drawn from a multiple measurement strategy often used to assess achievement, the test battery approach; the other is based on wellknown interest inventories and personality type indicators, the typology approach. Shared between these approaches is the notion of a profile. One’s performance or rating could be reported through a profile, that is, “a formal summary or analysis of data, often in the form of a graph or table, representing distinctive features or characteristics” (The American Heritage Electronic Dictionary, 1992).
A model of the normal and impaired auditory system

In this thesis, an existing model of the auditory signal processing from Dau et al. (1997a) has been extended by replacing the original gammatone filterbank stage with a filterbank suggested by Lopez-Poveda & Meddis (2001). The purpose of the existing model was to simulate the monaural auditory signal processing for normal hearing. The purpose of the present work was to improve the original model, such that it included a non-linear filtering stage, the dual resonance non-linear (DRNL). The ability to model on cochlear non-linearities is very important with respect to many perceptual experiments, such as simultaneous masking, forward masking and tasks that depend on the frequency selectivity of the system. Simulations with this new stage showed, that it is necessary to introduce a level-independent expansion stage prior to the adaptation stage in the model. Otherwise, most of the parameters of the original modeling framework were unchanged. The new model was tested in a variety of tasks that were designed to reveal the model’s performance in predicting data that depend on different physiological and psychoacoustic phenomena, such as compression, adaptation and signal detection. The experiments were: tone-in-noise masking, intensity discrimination, spectral masking with tones and narrowband noises, forward masking with noiseand pure-tone maskers and amplitude modulation detection with different noise carriers. The model can quantitatively account for almost all key findings of the experimental data. The introduction of the DRNL filterbank makes it possible to predict data that are affected by the peripheral non-linearity, which cannot be accounted for by the linear processing of the gammatone filterbank in the original model. The parameters of the DRNL filter can also be tuned to simulate a cochlear hearing impairment. Both a mild and a severe cochlear hearing loss can be modeled by changing the compressive characteristics of the model. As an example, the model was used to predict forward masking data from severely hearing impaired listeners. citepage (Dau, Kollmeier & Kohlrausch 1997a, Dau, Kollmeier & Kohlrausch 1997b, Dau, Puschel & Kohlrausch 1996a, Dau, Puschel & Kohlrausch 1996b) (Lopez-Poveda & Meddis 2001) (Meddis, O’Mard & Lopez-Poveda 2001) Patterson, Allerhand & Giguere (1995) van de Par, Kohlrausch, Charestan & Heusdens (2002) (Meddis et al. 2001) (Ruggero, Rich, Recio, Narayan & Robles 1997)Plack, Oxenham & Drga (2002) Moore, Glasberg & Baer (1997) Goode, Killion, Nakamura & Nishihara (1994) Derleth, Dau & Kollmeier (2001) Yates, Winter & Robertson (1990) Muller, Robertson & Yates (1991) Ewert & Dau (2000), Ewert, Verhey & Dau (2002) and Ewert & Dau (2004) Moore, Alcantara & Dau (1998) Kohlrausch, Fassel & Dau (2000) Houtsma, Durlach & Braida (1980) Dau, Verhey & Kohlrausch (1999)
Belegungskartenbasierte Umfeldwahrnehmung in Kombination mit objektbasierten Ansätzen für Fahrerassistenzsysteme

Zukunftige Fahrerassistenzsysteme mit hohem Automatisierungsgrad erfordern eine genaue und robuste Erfassung der Fahrzeugumgebung mit Hilfe von Umfeldsensoren. Hierfur beschaftigt sich die Arbeit mit der Konzeption und Umsetzung verschiedener rechen- und speichereffizienten belegungskartenbasierten Umfeldreprasentationen basierend auf Radar- und Lasersensoren. Das klassische Belegungsgitter wird um die Beschreibung bewegter Objekte erweitert. Daruber hinaus werden verschiedene Methoden zur Bewertung von zweidimensionalen Belegungsgittern entwickelt und diskutiert. Der Nutzen der prasentierten Ansatze wird anhand einer aktiven Gefahrenbremsung und einer Stauassistenz gezeigt.
Attack-based Domain Transition Analysis

SE Linux type enforcement policies are widely understood to be large and difficult for humans to understand. Several groups have created tool sets to aid SE Linux policy writers and maintainers in the task of working with SE Linux policies. We propose an attack-based model to look at the transitive domain transitions allowed in the policy. We have augmented Apol, a graph-based policy analysis tool, to implement global transitive domain translation analysis and more focused reduced transitive domain transition graphs between sets of suspect domains and sensitive domains.
Ergonomische Gestaltung digitaler Anzeigen für jüngere und ältere Erwachsene – Optimierung der Lesbarkeit durch eine positiv polare Textdarstellung

Die in der vorliegenden Arbeit vorgestellten Studien untersuchten den Effekt der Polaritat auf die Lesbarkeit digitaler Anzeigen. In allen Studien konnte ein Vorteil positiver Polaritat, das heist dunkler Schrift auf hellem Hintergrund, im Vergleich zur Darstellung in negativer Polaritat nachgewiesen werden. Die Experimente 1 und 2 untersuchten die Wirkmechanismen des Vorteils positiv polarer Textprasentationen mittels einer Korrekturleseaufgabe. Mogliche Erklarungsansatze umfassen die grosere Vertrautheit fur dunkle Schrift auf hellem Hintergrund, die grosere Ressourcenaufwendung der Retina fur die Enkodierung negativer Kontraste und die hohere Bildschirmluminanz positiv polarer Testdarstellungen. Beide Studien stutzen die Bildschirmluminanz-Hypothese. Die helleren positiv polaren Anzeigen fuhren zu einer starkeren Pupillenverengung (Experiment 2) und somit zu einer hoheren Sehscharfe durch verringerte spharische Aberrationen und einer erhohten Scharfentiefe. Daher zeigt sich der Vorteil positiver Polaritat verstarkt bei der Wahrnehmung feiner Details (Experiment 1). Experiment 3 untersuchte den Effekt der Polaritat bei jungeren und alteren Personen. Angesichts altersbedingter Veranderungen im Auge und Befunden aus Untersuchungen sehbehinderter Personen schien die Hypothese plausibel, dass der Vorteil positiv polarer Textdarstellungen fur altere Personen verschwande oder sich sogar umkehre und die Darstellung heller Schrift auf dunklem Hintergrund vorteilhaft sei. Experiment 3 zeigte mittels Sehscharfetestungen und einer Korrekturleseaufgabe, dass die allgemeine Empfehlung, Text in Form dunkler Schrift auf hellem Hintergrund darzustellen, sowohl fur jungere als auch fur altere normalsichtige Betrachter Gultigkeit besitzt.