Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Performance analysis experiments for the wireless sensor networks integrated into the C6 virtual reality environment

The invention is directed to an electromagnetic valve unit which comprises a valve body, on which a plurality of electromagnetic valves mounted in parallel with one another, with the terminals of the valves exposed. A frame, which has a connector portion with through holes defined therein, is secured to the valve body for enclosing the electromagnetic valves. A conductive member is integrally formed with connector terminals and contact pins which are connected with respective terminals of the electromagnetic valves. A cover is provided for covering the conductive member. The connector terminals of the conductive member are pressed into through holes which are defined in the connector portion of the frame, and the contact pins of the conductive member are electrically connected with the respective terminals of the electromagnetic valves.
Inductive Codebook Development for Content Analysis: Combining Automated and Manual Methods

Kernstuck jeder Inhaltsanalyse ist ein Kategoriensystem, das haufig induktiv-qualitativ an einer kleinen Stichprobe von Texten entwickelt wird. Methoden des Text Mining ermoglichen es heute, eine nahezu unbegrenzte Anzahl an Texten effizient, schnell und nachvollziehbar zu explorieren. In diesem Beitrag wird ein Verfahren vorgeschlagen, bei dem solche Methoden eingesetzt werden, um induktiv aus einem umfangreichen Textkorpus Kategorien fur eine Inhaltsanalyse zu bilden. Diese Methoden werden mit einer qualitativen, manuellen Inhaltsanalyse kombiniert. Die Kombination verschiedener Verfahren besteht darin, dass zunachst mittels Text Mining thematische Oberkategorien aus einem vorliegenden Textkorpus extrahiert, anschliesend manuell validiert und in einer qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse um Unterkategorien erweitert wurden. Das Vorgehen wird beispielhaft an einem Codebuch erlautert, welches im Rahmen der Auswertung des "Burgerdialogs" der Bundesregierung "Gut leben in Deutschland" zum Thema Lebensqualitat entwickelt und angewendet wurde.
Improved State Estimation for Miniature Air Vehicles

IMPROVED STATE ESTIMATION FOR MINIATURE AIR VEHICLES Andrew Mark Eldredge Department of Mechanical Engineering Master of Science Research in Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV’s) continues to push the limitations of size and weight. As technical advances have made UAV’s smaller and less expensive, they have become more flexible and extensive in their roles. To continue using smaller and less expensive components while retaining and even enhancing performance requires more sophisticated processing of sensor data in order for the UAV to accurately determine its state and thereby allow the use of feedback in controlling the aircraft automatically. This work presents a three-stage state-estimation scheme for the class of UAV’s know as Miniature Air Vehicles (MAV’s). The first stage estimates pitch and roll, the second stage estimates heading, and the third stage produces a position estimate and an estimate of wind speed and direction. All three stages make use of the extended Kalman filter, a framework for using a system dynamic model to predict future states and to update the predictions using weighted sensor measurements as they become available, where the weighting is based on the relative uncertainty of the dynamic model and the sensors. Using the three-stage state estimation scheme, significant improvements in the estimation of pitch, roll and heading have been achieved in simulation and flight testing. Performance of the navigation (position and wind) stage is comparable to an existing baseline algorithms for position and wind, and shows additional promise for use in dead reckoning when GPS updates become unavailable.
Etude du transfert de pesticides dans les sols Exemple de divers herbicides organiques de synthèse et d'un produit minéral : le cuivre

Ce memoire presente une synthese de mes activites scientifiques depuis 1994 en matiere de transferts de pesticides, et plus specifiquement d’herbicides dans les sols. En guise d’introduction, je presenterai la problematique, la reglementation en matiere de pesticides et des generalites sur leurs transferts. La premiere partie de ce travail, la plus volumineuse, correspond aux diverses echelles auxquelles il est possible d’etudier le lessivage des pesticides dans les sols ; les exemples sont choisis de la parcelle a la colonne de sol. Le second chapitre aborde le transfert facilite des herbicides dans les sols, plus precisement, sous l’action des matieres exogenes pouvant perturber la mobilite d’un herbicide : exemple du cuivre et de la matiere organique dissoute (MOD), apportes par la bouillie bordelaise et les amendements organiques. Dans ces deux chapitres, la problematique, les travaux de la litterature et notre contribution a cette problematique seront presentes pour finir sur un bilan et des perspectives. Le lecteur aura peut-etre le sentiment de syntheses bibliographiques trop denses par endroit, mais j’ai tenu a faire d’abord le point sur l’etat des connaissances des diverses problematiques abordees. La derniere partie correspond a des perspectives de recherche visant a proposer des solutions dans le cadre de pratiques culturales alternatives pour limiter le lessivage des pesticides en vue d’une agriculture durable.
Pizza, Pizza, Pizza: A Competitive Strategy Exercise

While business students are typically comfortable identifying and extrapolating trends uncovered during competitive analyses, they often fail to take the Red Queen Effect into account when formulating new competitive strategies. This competitive strategy exercise employs Kim and Mauborgne’s (2005) strategy canvas to help students to anticipate rivals’ potential reactions and then develop new competitive strategies for firms competing in highly competitive markets. The exercise concludes with key takeaways as to how students may best develop and evaluate new competitive strategies. Student feedback indicates that students found the exercise useful, as 97% of students (n = 69) recommended that instructors at other universities adopt the exercise.
Design of high frequency integrated analogue filters

* Chapter 1: Architectures and design of OTA/gm-C filters * Chapter 2: The MOSFET-C technique * Chapter 3: Active filters using integrated inductors * Chapter 4: Log domain filters * Chapter 5: Low voltage techniques for switched-current filters * Chapter 6: Analogue adaptive filters * Chapter 7: On-chip automatic tuning of filters
Multi-Channel Anypath Routing for Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks

Increasing capacity in wireless mesh networks can be achieved by using multiple channels and radios. By using different channels, two nodes can send packets at the same time without interfering with each other. To utilize diversity of available frequency, typically cards use channel-switching, which implies significant overhead in terms of delay. Assignment of which channels to use needs to be coupled with routing decisions as routing influences topology and traffic demands, which in turn impacts the channel assignment. Routing algorithms for wireless mesh networks differ from routing algorithms that are used in wired networks. In wired networks, the number of hops is usually the only metric that matters. Wireless networks, on the other hand, must consider the quality of different links, as it is possible for a path with a larger amount of hops to be better than a path with fewer hops. Typical routing protocols for wireless mesh networks such as Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) use a single path to send packets from source to destination. This path is precomputed based on link state information received through control packets. The consideration of more information than hop-count in the routing process has shown to be beneficial as for example link quality and physical layer data rate determines the quality of the end-to-end path. In multi-channel mesh networks, also channel switching overhead and channel diversity need to be considered as a routing metric. However, a major drawback of current approaches is that a path is precomputed and used as long as the path is available and shows a good enough metric. As a result, short term variations on link quality or channel switching are not considered. In this thesis, a new routing protocol is designed that provides a set of alternative forwarding candidates for each destination. To minimize delay (from both transmission and channel switching), a forwarding mechanism is developed to select one of the available forwarding candidates for each packet. The implementation was tested on an ARM based multi-radio platform, of which the results show that in a simple evaluation scenario the average delay was reduced by 22 % when compared to single path routing.
Handbook of Typography for the Mathematical Sciences

From the Publisher: Focusing on TeX, today's medium of choice for producing mathematics, scientific, and engineering documents, the author illuminates all of the issues associate with page design and seeing your manuscript smoothly and accurately through each step of its publication. " "The Handbook of Typography for the Mathematical Sciences will make you a well-informed author equipped to deal with publishers, compositors, editors, and typesetters, with TeX consultants, copy editors, and graphics designers - an author with a better understanding of the publishing process and the ability to create better books.
Advances in the Sign Language Development of Deaf Children

1. Understanding Sign Language Development of Deaf Children 2. Issues of Linguistic Typology in the Study of Sign Language Development of Deaf Children 3. The Development of Gesture in Hearing and Deaf Children 4. Patterns and Effects of Language Input to Deaf Infants and Toddlers from Deaf and Hearing Mothers 5. Acquiring a Visually-Motivated Language: Evidence from Diverse Learners 6. Lexical Development of Deaf Children Acquiring Signed Languages 7. Deaf Children Are Verb Attenders: Early Sign Vocabulary Development in Dutch Toddlers 8. Learning to Fingerspell Twice: Young Signing Children's Acquisition of Fingerspelling 9. The Form of Early Signs: Explaining Signing Children's Articulatory Development 10. Acquisition of Syntax in Signed Languages 11. How Faces Come To Serve Grammar: The Development of NonManual Morphology in American Sign Language 12. Deaf Children's Acquisition of Modal Terms 13. The Development of Narrative Skills in British Sign Language 14. Natural Signed Language Acquisition within the Social Context of the Classroom
Traffic analysis of anonymity systems

This research applies statistical methods in pattern recognition to test the privacy capabilities of a very popular anonymity tool used on the Internet known as Tor. Using a recently developed algorithm known as Causal State Splitting and Reconstruction (CSSR), we can create hidden Markov models of network processes proxied through Tor. In contrast to other techniques, our CSSR extensions create a minimum entropy model without any prior knowledge of the underlying state structure. The inter-packet time delays of the network process, preserved by Tor, can be symbolized into ranges and used to construct the models. After the construction of training models, detection is performed using Confidence Intervals. New test data can be fed through a model to determine the intervals and estimate how well the data matches the model. If a match is found, the state sequence, or path, can be used to uniquely describe the data with respect to the model. It is by comparing these paths that Tor users can be identified. Packet data from any two computers using the Tor network can be matched to a model and their state sequences can be compared to give a statistical likelihood that the two systems are actually communicating together over Tor. We perform experiments on a private Tor network to validate this. Results showed that communicating systems could be identified with a 95% accuracy in our test scenario. This attack differs from previous maximum likelihood-based approaches in that it can be performed between just two computers using Tor. The adversary does not need to be a global observer. The attack can also be performed in real-time provided that a matching model had already been constructed.
Monte Carlo Methods: Summer semester 2006

The course will take place on Tuesday from 13.15–15.00 (at the latest) in the statistics library (http://plan.epfl.ch/? room=MAB1504). Each participant is expected to take at least one of the subjects below, and to present the corresponding articles (or others, to be determined with ACD or SM) to the group. Powerpoint presentation is neither expected nor desired; the main effort should go into reading and understanding the paper(s), not into a fancy presentation. All are expected to have made an effort to read the papers beforehand, and to contribute to discussion. The dates we plan to meet are: 21, 28 March; 4, 11, 25 April; 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 May; 6, 13, 20 June.
A Computational Introduction to Linguistics: Describing Language in Plain Prolog

In this book, Almerindo E. Ojeda offers a unique perspective on linguistics by discussing the development of computer programs that will assign particular sounds to meanings and, conversely, meanings to particular sounds. Since these assignments are to operate efficiently over unbounded domains of sound and sense, they begin to model the two fundamental modalities of human language - speaking and hearing. The computational approach adopted in this book is motivated by one of the key problems of contemporary linguistics - figuring out how language emerges from the brain.
Multilayer Nanomagnetic Systems for Information Processing

The Spin-Transfer Torque Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (STT-MRAM) has opened new doors as an emerging technology with high potential to replace traditional CMOS-based memory technology. This has come true due to the density, speed and nonvolatility that have been demonstrated. The STT-MRAM uses Magnetic Tunnel Junction (MTJ) elements as non-volatile memory storage devices because of the recent discovery of spin-torque phenomenon for switching the magnetization states. The magnetization of the free layer in STT-MRAM can be switched from logic “1” to logic “0” by the use of a spin-transfer torque. However, the STT-MRAMs have till now only been used as universal memory. As a result, STT-MRAMs are not yet commercially used as computing elements, though they have the potential to be used as Logic-In-Memory computation applications. In order to advance this STT-MRAM technology for computation, we have used di↵erent MRAM devices that are available as memory elements with di↵erent geometries, to use it as computing elements. This dissertation presents design and implementation of such devices using di↵erent multilayer magnetic material stacks for computation. Currently, the design of STT-MRAMs is limited to only memory architectures, and there have been no proposals on the viability of STT-MRAMs as computational devices. In the present work, we have developed a design, which could be implemented for universal logic computation. We have utilized the majority gate architecture, which uses the magneto-static interaction between the freelayers of the multilayer nanomagnets, to perform computation. Furthermore, the present work demonstrates the study of dipolar interaction between nanomagnetic disks, where we observed multiple magnetization states for a nanomagnetic
Joint convolutional and orthogonal decoding of interleaved-data frames for IS-95 CDMA communications

approved: IS-95, an interim standard proposed for future digital personal communications systems, uses two levels of encoding of digital data for error control and compatibility with code-division multiple access (CDMA) transmission. The data is first convolutionally encoded and the resulting symbols are interleaved and then groups are encoded as orthogonal Walsh sequences. Decoding these two separate encodings is traditionally done in separate sequential steps. By combining the decoding and applying feedback of the final decision of the second level of decoding to the first level decoder it is possible to reduce the error rate of the decoder Each Walsh sequence encodes six non-adjacent symbols of the convolutional code. The receiver computes an estimate of the probability that each of the sixty-four possible Walsh sequences has been sent, and uses this estimate as an estimate for each of the convolution symbols which specified the Walsh sequence. Since the convolution symbols are non-adjacent, it is likely that the actual value of some of the earlier symbols will have Redacted for Privacy been determined by the fmal decoder before later symbols specifying the same Walsh sequence are used by the convolution decoder. The knowledge of the values of these symbols can be used to adjust the probability estimates for that Walsh sequence, improving the likelihood that future convolutional symbols will be correctly decoded. Specific metrics for estimating probabilities that each convolutional symbol was sent were tested with and without the proposed feedback, and error rates were estimated based on extensive computer simulations. It was found that applying feedback does improve error rates. Analytical methods were also applied to help explain the effects. Joint Convolutional and Orthogonal Decoding of Interleaved-Data Frames for IS-95 CDMA Communications
Merleau-Ponty and the Paradoxes of Expression

Acknowledgments \ Abbreviations \ Introduction - The Paradoxical Logic of Expression \ 1. Against the Establishment: Early Hints of an Expressive Logic \ 2. Expression and The Structure of Behavior \ 3. Expression and Phenomenology of Perception \ 4. The Politics of Expression \ 5. The Threads of Silence: Painting, Speaking, Writing \ 6. Painting Ontology \ Epilogue \ Bibliography \ Index
The ground vehicle manager's associate

An overview of MAX, a software framework for manager's associate systems, is presented. MAX is used to develop and execute a problem-solving strategy for the task planning of semi-autonomous agents with the assistance of human performance. This paper describes the use of MAX in the supervisory management of robotic vehicles as they explore a planetary surface.
A speech intelligibiliy testing system for evaluation of communication- and hearing protection devices

A testing system for speech intelligibility in a noisy environment was developed and as a first case for testing, hearing protectors with one-way communication possibilities were chosen. The use of such devices leads to the question of the signal exposure needed for successful communications. By the use of Just-Follow-Conversation methods, speech-Bekesy and an Ascending method, a value of signal exposure required for signal intelligibility was determined for a population of 12 subjects. This value was then compared to values acquired from a Hearing In Noise Test for the same product. Using standardized H, M and L filtered pink noise the test was conducted using speech signals in form of audiobooks to minimize the effect of learning. Comparisons of results using a statistical pairwise T-test suggest that the three methods make successful distinction between H-type noise but the methods do not succeed in distinguishing between Mand L-noise, which calls for further investigations into the matter.
Internet-art and its Medium: Exploring Hypermedia Structure and Multimedia Environment of the World Wide Web through Net-art Projects

The work examines the problem of interrelation between Internet-based art and its medium – the World Wide Web. It elucidates the ways of how net-artists employ and reconsider the basic qualities of the Internet-medium in their virtual projects. All the net-art works are subjected to the terms of the Web-environment, which drastically differs from the context of real exhibition space or traditional artistic media. Net-art, however, does not only accept the rules of its Medium, but also builds a specific strategy to reflect upon them – it forms its own critical standpoint. The research is centered around two crucial conditions imposed by the Web-medium on practices of net-art: first, - functioning in hypermedia environment, second, - necessity to deal with multimedia content. The both hypermedia and multimedia are essential features of the Internet: they define the ways of how virtual information is processed, structured and, finally, displayed. Likewise, the notions of hypermedia and multimedia establish specific rules for art, existing in the Global Network. What the net-artists do, in this respect, is that they take hypermedia and multimedia as thematic subject of their works, considering these two conditions from their own perspective. Thus, net-art enacts as powerful tool for critical reflection upon the World Wide Web. The general argumentation of the work is supported by 5 particular examples of Internet-art, which are incorporated into the course of the discussion. These are the projects by single internet-artists -Lisa Jevbratt, Mark Napier and artistic groups such as “Jodi”, “I/O/D”, “0100101110101101.org”. Each of the case studies is directly related to one of the two Internet-aspects – either hypermedia or multimedia. In general, the work investigates the self-reflective character of Internet-art and identifies the impact which is, due to this self-reflective quality, exerted on the Web-medium. Different modes of self-reflexivity are revealed. One of them is, for instance, how net-art reconsiders hypermedia components of the Web such as data, graphic interface etc., while the other is critical reevaluation of multimedia contents. The self-reflexivity and self-reference is the primary focus of current analysis, which brings to a new understanding of the Internet-based art.
RELIABILITY AND ACCURACY OF JOINT POSITION SENSE MEASUREMENT IN THE LABORATORY AND CLINIC; UTILISING A NEW SYSTEM

Measurement of the joint angles is used to assess the joint position sense (JPS). The aim of this study was to introduce a simple, fast, less expensive and objective method of measurement for JPS. In the current research, the accuracy and reliability of a system, consist of digital photography, nonreflective markers and manual analysis were evaluated. For this purpose, digital photos were taken from 72 angles of the knee positions of twenty four healthy subjects. The angles were measured by using transparent sheets and goniometers as manual method. AutoCAD software was used to evaluate the accuracy of the manual results. The values of Pearson correlation coefficient (r), and intraclass correlation coefficients were used to establish reliability. It was noted that the AutoCAD measurements, as a new system, was reliable and precise enough so it could be utilised for evaluating the JPS.
Approaches to Storing and Querying Structural Information in Botanical Specimen Descriptions.

We are developing an ontology as a defined terminology for the taxonomic description of botanical specimens. To allow these descriptions to unambiguously refer to a given plant structure, the ontology specifies compositional relationships between anatomical structures, as well as providing textual definitions for structural terms. We are testing a variety of approaches for representing this compositional hierarchy in a relational database, so that descriptions can refer to the compositional context (path) of any structure being described. We compare the relative advantages of storing and querying path information in an XML representation or as a materialized string.