Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
IDDQ testing of a CMOS first order sigma-delta modulator of an 8-bit oversampling ADC

ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to dedicate my work to my parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chamkura Padma Rao, my brother Aravind and my sister Jyothi, for their constant prayers and encouragement throughout my life. I am very grateful to my advisor Dr. A. Srivastava for his guidance, patience and understanding throughout this work. His suggestions, discussions and constant encouragement have helped me to get a deep insight in the field of VLSI design. I would like to thank Dr. Suresh Rai and Dr. Martin Feldman for being a part of my committee. I am very thankful to Electrical Engineering Department, for supporting me financially during my stay at LSU. I am very thankful to my friends Aluri, Harish and Chandra for their extensive help throught my graduate studies at LSU. I take this opportunity to thank my friends Vijay, Sandeep, Uday, Pavan and Prabhu for their help and encouragement at times I needed them. I would also like to thank all my friends here who made my stay at LSU an enjoyable and a memorable one. Last of all I thank GOD for keeping me in good health and spirits throughout my stay at LSU.
Semantic Fingerprint of Hot Event Acquisition based on Graph Theory

Now, there are more and more hot event of network. The event itself is complex, and have too much useless information. In this paper, we propose a formal method which uses semantic fingerprint to represent the hot event of network, and it can be very intuitive expression important information of hot events. Based on the graph theory, by the event title, the text sentence as the node, through the interaction between them, get hot events on behalf of the sentence. Then use the TF-IDF method to get the feature word from the sentence expression the semantic fingerprints of hot events. The semantic fingerprint is applied to the retrieval model to prove the validity of the event semantic fingerprint method.
Cognitive bias in software engineering : Cognition and software development

Developers' thought processes are a fundamental area of concern. Cognitive scientists have discovered that people's intuitive inferences and probability judgments do not strictly conform to the laws of logic or mathematics, and that people are willing to provide plausible explanations for random events. This article examines the role these phenomena might have in software development, ultimately concluding that what are cast as one-sided software development guidelines often can be recast beneficially as two-sided trade-offs
Teoria dos jogos aplicada à tomada de decisões em processos flexíveis de manufatura

A Teoria de Controle Supervisorio (TCS) e uma abordagem que permite a sintese automatica de controladores para processos industriais, que se comportam de maneira robusta, sem bloqueios e de acordo com um conjunto de requisitos pre especificados. Apesar de sua solidez teorica, a TCS diretamente nao atribui flexibilidade aos sistemas de controle resultantes. A TCS habilita, em cada estado, um conjunto de eventos, mas nao permite decidir sobre as escolhas e prioridades dentro desse conjunto possivel. Como essa caracteristica predomina e dirige os sistemas modernos de manufatura flexivel, passa a ser necessario enriquecer a TCS com novas estruturas que permitam lidar com tais caracteristicas, tornando-a assim aplicavel ao atual conceito de controle industrial. Este trabalho se propoe a abordar um processo flexivel de manufatura como um jogo por turnos. Dessa forma, ser ˜ao utilizadas tecnicas e estruturas provenientes da Teoria dos Jogos como metodo para tomada de decisoes sobre processos flexiveis, possibilitando a alteracao da sequencia de producao dinamicamente.
Évaluation et consolidation d'un réseau lexical grâce à un assistant ludique pour le " mot sur le bout de la langue "

Depuis septembre 2007, un reseau lexical de grande taille pour le Francais est en cours de construction a l'aide de methodes fondees sur des formes de consensus populaire obtenu via des jeux (projet JeuxDeMots). L'intervention d'experts humains est marginale en ce qu'elle represente moins de 0,5% des relations du reseau et se limite a des corrections, a des ajustements ainsi qu'a la validation des sens de termes. Pour evaluer la qualite de cette ressource construite par des participants de jeu (utilisateurs non experts) nous adoptons une demarche similaire a celle de sa construction, a savoir, la ressource doit etre validee sur un vocabulaire de classe ouverte, par des non-experts, de facon stable (persistante dans le temps). Pour ce faire, nous proposons de verifier si notre ressource est capable de servir de support a la resolution du probleme nomme 'Mot sur le Bout de la Langue' (MBL). A l'instar de JeuxdeMots, l'outil developpe peut etre vu comme un jeu en ligne. Tout comme ce dernier, il permet d'acquerir de nouvelles relations, constituant ainsi un enrichissement de notre reseau lexical
Application of improved LCL filter topology in active power filter

In order to optimize performances of shunt active power filter of harmonic compensation,attenuation ratio for switching ripple,stability and power losses,an improved LCL filter topology was presented based on the analysis of the frequency characteristics of the LCL filter,in which a switching-ripple shunt branch and a series-inductor were adopted to the damping resistor to reduce the power losses dramatically.With the improvement,the active power filter inherits both static and dynamic excellent performances.Simulation results validate the correctness and feasibility of the proposed topology.
Software project effort estimation using genetic programming

Knowing the estimated cost of a software project early in the development cycle is a valuable asset for management. In this paper, an evolutionary computation method, grammar guided genetic programming (GGGP), is used to fit models, with the aim of improving the prediction of software development costs. Valuable results are obtained, significantly better than those obtained by simple linear regression. In this research, GGGP, because of its flexibility and the ability of incorporating background knowledge, also shows great potential in being applied in other software engineering modeling problems.
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Graphical methods in RNA structure matching

Huang, Jiajie. Ph.D., Purdue University, August 2016. Graphical Methods in RNA Structure Matching. Major Professor: Michael Gribskov. Eukaryotic genomes are pervasively transcribed (1); almost every base can be found in an RNA transcript. This is a surprising observation since most of the genome does not encode proteins. This RNA must serve an important regulatory function important because producing non-coding RNA is an energy intensive process, and in the absence of strong selection one would expect it to disappear. RNA families with common functions have specifically conserved structural motifs, which are directly related to the functional roles of RNA in catalysis and regulation. Because the conserved structures depend on base-pairing, similar RNA structures may have little or no detectable sequence similarity, making the identification of conserved RNAs difficult. This is a particularly serious problem when studying regulatory structures in RNA. In many cases, such as that of cellular internal ribosome entry sites (2), although we can identify RNAs that have similar regulatory responses, it is difficult to tell whether the RNAs have common structural features using current methods. Available tools for identifying common structures based on RNA sequence suffer from one or more of the following problems: they do not consider pseudoknots, which are important
Hydraulique pour l’ingénieur généraliste

L’ouvrage s’adresse aux ingenieurs generalistes, agents de maitrise ou etudiants de licence qui n’ont pas obligatoirement suivi de formation en mecanique des fluides ou en mecanique des milieux continus. Un effort est fait pour faire appel aux notions de physique et de mathematiques les plus simples pour expliquer les concepts de base de l’hydraulique en vue de leurs applications a des situations concretes. L’ouvrage presente les principaux concepts utiles pour comprendre, decrire et calculer les phenomenes les plus courants rencontres dans les applications pratiques faisant in­tervenir l’hydraulique. Le premier chapitre est un rappel d’hydrostatique qui debouche sur la notion de travail fourni par une presse hydraulique. Le passage a la puissance d’une centrale hydroelectrique en regime stationnaire met en evidence la notion de pertes de charge qui est au cœur de l’ouvrage. Le chapitre 2 definit la charge hydrau­lique pour les ecoulements souterrains, en charge ou a surface libre. La loi de Darcy pour les ecoulements dans des milieux poreux est illustree par quelques exemples. Le chapitre 3 relie les pertes de charge au frottement sur les parois. Le coefficient de frot­tement est presente a l’aide d’une analyse dimensionnelle. Sa determination a l’aide du diagramme de Moody est illustree a l’aide d’exemples concrets. Le chapitre 4 traite de l’hydraulique en charge a l’aide des formules de Colebrook ou de Hazen-Williams. Le chapitre 5 traite de l’hydraulique a surface libre a l’aide de la formule de Manning-Strickler, presentee a partir des regimes rugueux du diagramme de Moody. Les notions de nombre de Froude, de hauteurs critique ou normale, de regime fluvial ou torrentiel et de courbes de remous y sont presentees. Les regimes instationnaires sont abordes au chapitre 6 sous l’angle des petites intumescences pour les ecoulements a surface libre et des coups de beliers pour les ecoulements en charge. Le dernier chapitre ouvre vers des sujets comme les lois de debits a travers des orifices et des deversoirs ou la determination du point de fonctionnement d’un reseau hydraulique alimente par une pompe. Ces notions sont illustrees a l’aide d’une maquette hydraulique concue pour cet ouvrage.
Prism: Portion of Resources in Phase-Level Using Map-Reduce In Hadoop

MapReduce is programming apparatus for Hadoop cluster. While allocating resources, MapReduce hastwo levels: Task-level and Phase-level. These levels should be acclimated to analysis achievement of anniversary job. Thereis a limitation with allocating assets at Task-level. So it affects data-locality of a accurate job. Wepresent algorithm alleged PRISM: which presents at the Phase-level. It is alleged as Phase-level scheduling. Inthe Phase-level, if we wish to agenda a job for the accustomed assorted ability requirements. So actuality we findthat, PRISM achieves abstracts belt in array of clusters. This scheduling algorithm may improves executionof one server that is affiliated to abounding bulge it is aswell alleged as parallelism, and aswell improves resourceconsumption with account to time. This algorithm is alone applicative in the active time of hadoopschedulers. Active time of job is 1.3 time faster than accepted hadoop scheduler.
Implementation of Hand-Gesture Interface to manipulate a 3D Object of Augmented Reality

A hand-gesture interface to manipulate a 3D object of augmented reality is implemented by recognizing the user hand-gesture in this paper. Proposed method extracts the hand region from real image, and creates augmented object by hand marker recognized user hand-gesture. Also, 3D object manipulation corresponding to user hand-gesture is performed by analyzing a hand region ratio, a numbet of finger and a variation ratio of hand region center. In order to evaluate the performance of the our proposed method, after making a 3D object by using the OpenGL library, all processing tasks are implemented by using the Intel OpenCV library and C++ language. As a result, the proposed method showed the average 90% recognition ratio by the user command-modes successfully.
Power Donuts in Overhead Lines for DynamicThermal Rating Measurement, Prediction andElectric Power Line Monitoring

The Power Donut is a state of the art instrumentation platform designed for data acquisition and data logging applications on high voltage, overhead conductor systems. The Power Donut2 is completely self-contained. it is self-powered, it measures current ,voltage, MW, MVars, MWh ,conductor temperatures, stores data on board, and it transmits data on demand using a radio modem. The integration of a power line sensor network (PLSN) has been proposed to monitor such a utility asset’s status for maximizing existing power grid utilization with minimal risk of degradation and for extending the lifetime of said assets. The included sensors and wireless data communications system allow for the transmission of data pertinent to determining the ampacity of assets. Six USi Power Donut devices were used on 220 Kv transmission lines of a utility partner.The technology used inside the "donut" is a Motorola G24 cellular telephone module. The G24 unit is installed in the "Power Supply" pocket. The G24 product provides “2.5 G” service.
An experimental design for evaluating the maintainability of aspect-oriented models enhanced with domain-specific constructs

Abstraction, modularity and composability are considered to be the fundamental properties behind aspect-oriented software development and aspect-oriented modeling (AOM) in particular. The same properties are expected to be supported through the use of domain-specific modeling languages (DSMLs). However, little research is done to investigate the symbiosis between the two paradigms. In this position paper we firstly present the key challenges for the successful integration of DSMLs with an AOM approach. Furthermore, we elaborate in detail on the question whether leveraging on aspect-oriented programming languages offers benefits over the use of traditional model composition. We propose an experimental approach to evaluate these alternatives.ion, modularity and composability are considered to be the fundamental properties behind aspect-oriented software development and aspect-oriented modeling (AOM) in particular. The same properties are expected to be supported through the use of domain-specific modeling languages (DSMLs). However, little research is done to investigate the symbiosis between the two paradigms. In this position paper we firstly present the key challenges for the successful integration of DSMLs with an AOM approach. Furthermore, we elaborate in detail on the question whether leveraging on aspect-oriented programming languages offers benefits over the use of traditional model composition. We propose an experimental approach to evaluate these alternatives.
Études de la mise en oeuvre matérielle d’une transmission sans fil combinant retournement temporel et OFDM

L’essor spectaculaire des systemes de communications sans fil a entraine une forte augmentation du trafic des donnees qui ne devrait cesser de croitre au cours des prochaines annees. La future generation de reseaux cellulaires (5G) doit etre capable de supporter cette croissance du trafic, tout en presentant une consommation energetique reduite par rapport aux reseaux existants. Parmi les differentes technologies etudiees, le retournement temporel (RT) se presente comme un serieux candidat pour repondre a ces contraintes. En effet, les nombreuses etudes theoriques sur le sujet ont montre que la combinaison du RT et de l’OFDM possede des performances interessantes, notamment grâce a ses proprietes de compression temporelle et de focalisation spatiale. Cependant, les hypotheses prises dans les etudes theoriques ne sont pas toujours compatibles avec la realisation pratique d’un tel systeme. L’objectif de ces travaux de these est donc de proposer des solutions aux hypotheses non realistes, afin de les mettre en oeuvre dans la realisation d’un prototype combinant RT et OFDM dans un contexte MISO. Dans un premier temps, la mise en oeuvre de l’estimation du canal au niveau de l’emetteur et de la synchronisation du systeme MISO RT-OFDM est etudiee. Ensuite, une solution de calibration au niveau de l’emetteur est proposee pour compenser le caractere non reciproque du canal de propagation vu de la bande de base. L’ensemble de ces solutions ainsi que les proprietes de focalisation du RT sont valides a partir de mesures experimentales sur le prototype realise. Enfin, la mise en oeuvre du premier prototype de modulation spatiale a la reception utilisant le RT est presentee.
Effects of Augmented Reality Games on the Upper Extremity Function and Stress of Stroke Patients

To examine the effects of an augmented reality game on upper extremity function and stress in stroke patients with upper extremity function difficulty. Twenty stroke patients were randomized into a control group of 10 subjects and an experimental group of 10 subjects. The control group received conventional occupational therapy, while the experimental group received the same conventional occupational therapy as for the control group but also played an augmented reality game for 30 minutes per session, three times a week over the course of 8 weeks. The subjects were evaluated using the manual function test (MFT) and CMS-10 (Compact Measuring System) for their upper extremity functions and using the stress scale for psychological factors before and after the intervention. MFT showed significant differences before and after the experiment in both groups (p .05). The range of motion of the elbow joint showed significant differences before and after the experiment in the experimental group only (p<.05). The intragroup and intergroup changes in stress showed significant differences before and after the experiment only in the experimental group (p<.05). The findings of this study revealed that augmented reality games are effective in the improvement of upper extremity function and reduction of stress in stroke patients.
Anomaly Based Intrusion Detection Network System

Network is information system implemented with a collection of interconnected components. Network Security is nothing but any activities designed to protect your network. Intrusion poses a serious security risk in a network environment. Anomaly based intrusion detection in networks is the problem of finding exceptional patterns in network traffic that do not conform to the expected normal behavior. An intrusion attempt is an unauthorized attempt to access the information or render a system unreliable or unusable. Therefore, it represents one of the efficient Data Mining algorithm called K-Means clustering and Naive Bayes classification for Anomaly Based Network Intrusion detection. This technique performs better in terms of detection rate.
Modular semantics for model-oriented design

Modern systems engineering mandates the integration of heterogeneous models in design and analysis. This has given rise to the notion of model-oriented design where specifications can be defined, translated, and composed. A common aspect that model-centered tools and languages share is the capability of using different models of computation together. As a result, the heterogeneous components of a particular system can be expressed in their most natural representation. We propose a framework that supports the representation of a variety of computational models. An important part to any representation is the provision of a formal semantics that defines its correctness. We accordingly define a precise and modular semantics that uses the notion of institutions to provide meaning to well-formed syntactic elements. Institutions relate specifications to mathematical models such as algebras and coalgebras. The formal semantics thus defined allows us to derive consistency of designs and to reason about system specifications. These specifications are written in the Rosetta language. Rosetta supports describing the ontology of a formalism or model of computation in specifications known as domains. A particular representation of a computational model depends on the chosen unifying semantic domain. We identify some unifying semantic domains to be static, state-based and trace-based. Each model of computation uses the vocabulary and semantics associated with these three semantic domains. We express the latter in Rosetta and then define several computational models by using the notion of extension of specifications. Specification relations such as translation and composition are also defined. A translation is a mechanism that relates specifications that use different paradigms. Composition involves constructing a specification from available, already defined specifications. When combined, translation and composition allow the reuse of specifications, the analysis of interaction between different heterogeneous views or components, and the specification of complex systems. We demonstrate this new heterogeneous design methodology with the specification of a system that includes both discrete and continuous dynamics. We also look at integrating different views, some functional and others non-functional, into a complete system.
Chapter 2. Systemic Functional approaches to second language acquisition in school settings

The Systemic-functional Linguistic model (SFL) (Halliday 2004), with its main focus on the explanation of language use in context, has been widely applied in educational settings around the world, both from research and pedagogical perspectives. However, the applications of SFL to foreign language acquisition at lower educational levels are still very scarce. This chapter provides an overview of SFL inspired foreign language classroom research at pre-primary, primary and secondary levels, with the application of two SFL models: Halliday’s (1975) functional model of child language development and genre and register theory. The chapter shows the advantages of SFL for the understanding of foreign language students’ use of lexico-grammatical features to convey different meanings and functions, as well as to participate in the registers and genres of academic disciplines. It also illustrates the role of SFL in SLA research and the interest of combining SFL and other compatible approaches in the study of SLA in educational contexts.
A Development of Motion Detection Based Serious Game "ChoDeungGangHo" for Physical Training

In this paper we propose a method to analyze user’s motion as a game command, and implement a sports serious game applied the motion analysis method as a command interpreter. Recently, various contents platforms appear in industrial market, the computer game contents plays an important role in these emerging platforms as a killer contents. The computer game has enough values as an independent major cultural product, moreover it has the potential to be applied in various other fields such as education, healthcare, training, and so on. It could motivate users to do something continuously
Future Approaches to Meet Complexity Requirements in Material Handling Systems

Large material handling systems (MHS) face a continuous increase of system load, availability as well as flexibility issues. New approaches are born aiming at mastering those complexity issues, most of them represent paradigm changes in the way, how MHS are planned, designed, installed and operated. De-central control approaches gain through the availability of RFID-technology a new dimension of potential, also known as the Internet Of Things (IOT). Swarm like architectures may be an answer to the physical representation of IOT-paradigm in real world MHS. In order to achieve the desired goals, the future requirements, the potential of the new approaches and the thresholds to be passed have to be analysed thoroughly.