Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Virtual Reality for enhanced teaching of conceptual design development

Author Summary: A key component of the Swansea University Year 1 Civil Engineering training is based around the exploration and development of imaginative, viable Civil Engineering conceptual solutions to problems. In industry, conventional methods for conceptual design communication, such as sketching, physical modelling or 2D CAD drawings are now being superseded by 3D and 4D (space + time) computer modelling and visualisation methods, which go hand-in-hand with the growing industry adoption of building information modelling (BIM) (National Institute of Building Sciences, 2018). This study seeks to further enhance Year 1 Civil Engineering students’ understanding of and interaction with 3D conceptual design, by introducing interactive VR as part of a computer laboratory based activity within the “conceptual design” module. This study is based on the expectation that the introduction of immersive conceptual design and interaction will allow the students to more fully engage in the concept evolution stage of design. Furthermore, in comparison with the more common CAD methods, where students would look at a 2D computer screen to develop a 3D object, it is envisaged that through immersion in VR, students’ spatial awareness of aspects of the conceptual design could be greatly enhanced.This study found that after developing basics skills in the 3D building information modelling software Autodesk Revit, students were capable of utilising traditional 2D building plans and elevations to develop from scratch their own detailed 3D model of an existing multi-storey building on the Swansea University Bay Campus, the Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI) Building. The addition of VR-interactivity whilst developing the 3D model enabled students to identify anomalies otherwise not easily identifiable in their models, and also permitted students to develop much better understanding of the scale of typical structural elements such as slabs, beams and columns (for which they learn simple techniques for preliminary sizing in Year 1) in relation to other more familiar building elements, such as doors and windows, and 3D arrangement of interior structures such as staircases within the building. All the participants in the study reported that using VR enhanced their experience of the conceptual design building development exercise.
Integrating Free Open Source Hardware as Educational Tool to Investigate the RLC Circuit Time Response

In this work the experimental identification to a step response of a series RLC circuit is presented using Arduino open source software and hardware. The low cost for developing the experimental setup makes it attractive to be implemented as an educational tool in the analysis of electric circuits. A comparison between experimental results using the Arduino board and a mathematical modeling implemented in SCILAB is presented.
Kasvajate tüvirakud – kas mõtteviisi muutus?

Viimase neljakumne aasta jooksul on meie teadmised kasvajate geneetikast, onkogeenide ja kasvajate supressorgeenide olemusest ning tegevusmehhanismidest olulisel maaral edenenud. Ometigi ei ole probleemi loplikule lahendusele palju lahemale joutud ning seetottu otsitakse lisaks geneetilisele kontseptsioonile ka alternatiivseid vaatenurki. Kasvaja tuvirakkude kontseptsioon on uus voimalik lahenemine kasvajaprotsesside moistmisele ja seetottu ka diagnoosile ning ravile. Selle kohaselt ei ole kasvajad mitte niivord meie „geenide haigused“, vaid eelkoige haired rakkude individuaalses arengus. Kasvajate rakumass ei ole homogeenne, vaid koosneb erineval arenguastmel olevatest rakkudest ning vaid usna vaike osa neist, kasvaja tuvirakud, on need, kes kannavad edasi kasvaja fenotuupi ning tekitavad metastaase. Artiklis on kirjeldatud kasvajate tuviraku kontseptsiooni konkreetse naite, rinnanaarmekasvaja kontekstis. Eesti Arst 2011; 90(10):474–480
Low-Latency Scheduling in MPTCP

The demand for mobile communication is continuously increasing, and mobile devices are now the communication device of choice for many people. To guarantee connectivity and performance, mobile devices are typically equipped with multiple interfaces. To this end, exploiting multiple available interfaces is also a crucial aspect of the upcoming 5G standard for reducing costs, easing network management, and providing a good user experience. Multi-path protocols, such as multi-path TCP (MPTCP), can be used to provide performance optimization through load-balancing and resilience to coverage drops and link failures, however, they do not automatically guarantee better performance. For instance, low-latency communication has been proven hard to achieve when a device has network interfaces with asymmetric capacity and delay (e.g., LTE and WLAN). For multi-path communication, the data scheduler is vital to provide low latency, since it decides over which network interface to send individual data segments. In this paper, we focus on the MPTCP scheduler with the goal of providing a good user experience for latency-sensitive applications when interface quality is asymmetric. After an initial assessment of existing scheduling algorithms, we present two novel scheduling techniques: the block estimation (BLEST) scheduler and the shortest transmission time first (STTF) scheduler. BLEST and STTF are compared with existing schedulers in both emulated and real-world environments and are shown to reduce web object transmission times with up to 51% and provide 45% faster communication for interactive applications, compared with MPTCP’s default scheduler.
Estudio antropológico de las cremaciones de la necrópolis vacceo-romana de Pintia (Padilla de Duero, Valladolid)

espanolTras situar a los vacceos y a sus rituales funerarios, cronologica y geograficamente, procederemos a analizar las 85 cremaciones provenientes de las campanas de excavacion XVIII-XXII (2007-2011) realizadas en la necropolis de Las Ruedas, ocupada desde finales del siglo V a.C. hasta el siglo II d.C.; correspondiente al oppidum vacceo-romano de Pintia (Padilla de Duero, Penafiel). El ritual vacceo normativo comportaba la cremacion del cadaver y su deposito en urna cineraria colocada en hoyo abierto. La creencia en la inmortalidad les llevo a trasladar al ambito de ultratumba los elementos que en vida simbolizaron su estatus; asi como a incluir frecuentemente vituallas viaticas para el Mas Alla. Asi, los ajuares depositados en las tumbas, de haberlos, indicarian el sexo, la edad y la posicion social del cremado (1). Pretendemos la descripcion de los hallazgos (todos huesos frescos), la caracterizacion de los individuos (la mayoria adultos) a los que correspondieron estos restos y la confirmacion de los comportamientos preestablecidos. Destacamos la escasa paleopatologia encontrada: una artrosis vertebral, una lesion en una cabeza humeral izquierda, un metatarsiano con exostosis, una caries molar, una periodontitis maxilar y una posible lesion osteolitica. Y el hallazgo de fragmentos oseos tenidos de naranja por posibles ajuares de hierro en 9 tumbas y tenidos de verde por posibles ajuares con compuestos de cobre en 3. EnglishAfter placing the vacceos and their funeral rituals chronologically and geographically , we will analyze the 85 cremations from the excavation campaigns XVIII- XXII ( 2007-2011) did in the necropolis de Las Ruedas , occupied since the end of V century BC to the second century AD , corresponding to vacceo -Roman oppidum of Pintia (Padilla de Duero, Penafiel). The regulatory vacceo ritual behave cremation of the body and deposit in cinerary urn placed in the open hole. The belief in immortality led them to move to the realm of otherworldly elements that symbolized their status in life, and often include a viatical victuals for the Hereafter. Thus, the grave goods deposited in the tombs, if any, indicate the sex, age and social position cremated. We intend the description of the findings (all fresh bones), the characterization of individuals (mostly adults) that corresponded these remains and confirmation of the preset behavior. We emphasize the limited paleophatology found: a spinal osteoarthritis, an injured left humeral head, a metatarsal exostosis, a molar caries, periodontitis maxillary, and a possible osteolytic lesion. And the discovery of bone fragments stained orange by iron ornaments possible 9 tombs and stained green by ornaments possible with copper compounds in 3.
Experiencias docentes en la integración de la interacción persona-ordenador en la telerrobótica asistencial

Pere Ponsa Grupo de Ingenieria del Conocimiento Escuela Politecnica Superior de Ingenieria de Vilanova i la Geltru 08800 Vilanova i la Geltru pedro.ponsa@upc.edu Daniel Guasch Catedra de Accesibilidad Universitat Politecnica Catalunya 08800 Vilanova i la Geltru daniel.guasch@upc.edu Beatriz Amante Dpto. de Proyectos de Ingenieria Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenierias Industrial e Aeronautica de Terrassa 08222 Terrassa beatriz.amante@upc.edu
Real-time detection of P300 brain events: brain-computer interfaces for EEG-based communication aids

xiv Chapter 1: Introduction 1 1.1. Motivation 2 1.2. Research Scope and Focus 3 1.3. Research Questions 4 1.4. Contributions of the Study 4 1.5. Study structure 5 Chapter 2: Literature Review of BCIs 7 2.
Real-Time Image Registration Using a Raspberry Pi

Image registration is the method of determining the geometric transformation between two related images, each approach to image registration has its specific use, advantages and disadvantages dependent upon the intended application. The Raspberry Pi is a relatively new, cheap and compact hardware platform designed to be a complete, self-contained computer. This project implements an adapted 1 bit image registration technique using Matlab and a Raspberry Pi separately to determine the relative location of the system in real time. This project also assesses the performance of the adapted algorithm and the suitability of the Raspberry Pi for Image registration.
Review on fault diagnosis model in automobile

Technological sophistication is growing day by day, that is embedded in the vehicle systems. A complex system interacts with its surrounding which executes many set of tasks by maintaining its performance. Any change in a system other than its acceptable performance or anything which is not tolerable is treated as a fault. So fault detection and diagnosis becomes necessary in system or component malfunction and thus decreasing the downtime of the system. Fault diagnosis includes necessary facts that are used to identify the faults encountered in the process. Various models have developed to map the hierarchical system-level fault diagnostic information consisting of causal dependencies between observable symptoms and failure modes that are associated with a system. In this paper, various areas are discussed that are involved in fault diagnosis and detection model related to the automobile domain. This survey mainly concentrate on which source is better for constructing fault diagnosis model. Text driven model is found to be reliable for creating D-matrix model to maintain accuracy.
Diving in Web Engineering: Definition of Words

Web-based application development now has reached a stage of mature fields of study. Many work as been found, that intend to create or design methodologies, frameworks tools that will allow the ease development of web application. As many fields in growing process, lot of words which come out had been used by practitioners and even researchers in different manner, and even one word means many things on the same time in different context. When communicating in an active web application development environment, this question comes often from colleagues: Are we talking about the same? Web Development paradigms and vocabulary has to be clearly understood. This comprehension objective is to fulfill the need on communication and writing documentation of this fast and changing sector. The current paper is an introduction of what as to be a basic understanding for people looking to work in web development field. It provides a definition of the keyword that will allow a well immersion in the current movement. We believe that having a structure definition about terms is the first step that leads people on providing good solution that fit to web era.
Evolving research trends in

The cross-disciplinary nature of bioinformatics entails co-evolution with other biomedical disciplines, whereby some bioinformatics applications become popular in certain disciplines and, in turn, these disciplines influence the focus of future bioinformatics development efforts. We observe here that the growth of computational approaches within various biomedical disciplines is not merely a reflection of a general extended usage of computers and the Internet, but due to the production of useful bioinformatics databases and methods for the rest of the biomedical scientific community. We have used the abstracts stored both in the MEDLINE database of biomedical literature and in NIH-funded project grants, to quantify two effects. First, we examine the biomedical literature as a whole and find that the use of computational methods has become increasingly prevalent across biomedical disciplines over the past three decades, while use of databases and the Internet have been rapidly increasing over the past decade. Second, we study the recent trends in the use of bioinformatics topics. We observe that molecular sequence databases are a widely adopted contribution in biomedicine from the field of bioinformatics, and that microarray analysis is one of the major new topics engaged by the bioinformatics community. Via this analysis, we were able to identify areas of rapid growth in the use of informatics to aid in curriculum planning, development of computational infrastructure and strategies for workforce education and funding.
Fit for purpose? A metascientific analysis of metabolomics data in public repositories

Metabolomics is the study of metabolites and metabolic processes. Due to the diversity of structures and polarities of metabolites, no single analytical technique is able to measure the entire metabolome — instead a varied set of experimental designs and instrumental technologies are used to measure specific portions. This has led to the development of many distinct data analysis and processing methods and software. There is hope that metabolomics can be utilized for clinical applications, in toxicology and to measure the exposome. However, for these applications to be realised data must be high quality, sufficiently standardised and annotated, and FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reproducible). For this purpose, it is also important that standardised, FAIR software workflows are available. There has also recently been much concern over the reproducibility of scientific research, which FAIR and open data, and workflows can help to address. To this end, this thesis aims to assess current practices and standards of sharing data within the field of metabolomics, using metascientific approaches. The types of functions of software for processing and analysing metabolomics data is also assessed. Reporting standards are designed to ensure that the minimum information required to understand and interpret the results of analysis are reported. However, poor reporting standards are ignored and not complied with. Compliance to the biological context Metabolomics Standards Initiative (MSI) guidelines was examined, in order to investigate their timeliness. The state of open data within the metabolomics community was examined by investigating how much publicly available metabolomics data there is and where has it been deposited. To explore whether journal data sharing policies are driving open metabolomics data, which journals publish articles that have their underlying data made open was also examined. However, open data alone is not inherently useful: if data is incomplete, lacking in quality or missing crucial metadata, it is not valuable. Conversely, if data are reused, this can demonstrate the worth of public data archiving. Levels of reuse of public metabolomics data were therefore examined.
Caracterización acústica de la antigua capilla de Mora de Cádiz

This paper presents the experimental results of the acoustic quality parameters measured in the chapel of the former Mora Hospital, currently the assembly room of the Economics and Business Faculty at Cádiz University. The study aims to characterize its acoustic field with view to a possible restoration suitable for the university activities performed in this enclosure. The impulse responses in the space have been obtained through sinusoidal logarithmic sweeps and modulated stationary noise signals have also been used to evaluate speech intelligibility. Finally, the spectral behaviour between 125 and 4000 Hz for each parameter and its spatial distribution are assessed.
Narrative world creation with assisted environment filling

Games such as Skyrim use a narrative world, which is a game world that is used to tell stories. Creating narrative worlds is a time-consuming process because of the collaboration of writers, 3D artists and game designers, the story adjusting the world over time and the requirement for diverse and interesting environments. This thesis focuses on solving these problems. First, the manual approach was designed that allows the manual creation of a narrative world, while focusing on filling environments. Secondly, the assisted approach builds on the manual approach and is able to assist a designer in making the decisions necessary to fill environments. The manual approach uses a set of objects with explicit relationships, created following a modular approach. The manual approach incorporates a discrete and sequential timeline of events, with each event connected to a single location, directly into the process. Several actions are used to fill the narrative world for each point in time of the timeline. The assisted approach offers assistance for each decision of the actions. Due to computational complexity, each decision is assisted independently. The discrete decisions are evaluated and ordered through the use of weighted criteria. The continuous decisions, the placement of objects, requires generation of options, which is done through an adaptation of Merrell et al. [2011]’s GPGPU algorithm. A usability study was conducted to test the effectiveness of the assisted approach compared to the manual approach. Results were collected through a creativity support index (CSI), a questionnaire on the assisted approach and quantitative measurements on object usage and time taken for actions and locations. The manual approach scored better in the CSI results than the assisted approach. The final questionnaire showed that this was caused by automation results not matching the user’s expectations as these differ, at least, per user and location type. The following conclusions are made. First, explicit relationships allow direct insight in how objects interact. Secondly, the usability study results supports the iterative process employed by, both our, and many other creative process approaches. Finally, in general, it is difficult to provide valuable assistance as expectations differ greatly. The incorporation of uncertainty into the assistance can help lessen this problem.
Effect of Cryosoaking Time on Transition in Wear Mechanism of M2 Tool Steel

Specimens of M2 were hardened (H) by quenching at 1200°C, triple tempered (TTT) at 400°C, and then cryogenically (C) treated at minus 185°C for varying lengths of time interval starting from 4 hours to 48 hours of cryosoaking followed by soft tempering at 100°C to relieve cold stresses (HTC). Underlying wear mechanism, hardness, and impact energy were studied and optimum cryosoaking time was established. It was felt that wear resistance of cryogenically treated material was influenced by the so-called tertiary carbides possibly produced as a result of cryogenic treatment.
IMPROVED PREDICTION OF FLAPPING WING AERIAL VEHICLE PERFORMANCE THROUGH COMPONENT INTERACTION MODELING

Title of Dissertation: IMPROVED PREDICTION OF FLAPPING WING AERIAL VEHICLE PERFORMANCE THROUGH COMPONENT INTERACTION MODELING John William Gerdes III, Doctor of Philosophy, 2018 Dissertation directed by: Professor, Dr. Satyandra K. Gupta, Mechanical Engineering, Institute for Systems Research Flapping wing aerial vehicles offer the promise of versatile performance, however prediction of flapping wing aerial vehicle performance is a challenging task because of complex interconnectedness in vehicle functionality. To address this challenge, performance is estimated by using component-level modeling as a foundation. Experimental characterization of the drive motors, battery, and wings is performed to identify important functional characteristics and enable selection of appropriate modeling techniques. Component-level models are then generated that capture the performance of each vehicle component. Validation of each component-level model shows where errors are eliminated by capturing important dynamic functionality. System-level modeling is then performed by creating linkages between componentlevel models that have already been individually validated through experimental testing, leading to real-world functional constraints that are realized and correctly modeled at the system level. The result of this methodology is a system-level performance prediction that offers the ability to explore the effects of changing vehicle components as well as changing functional properties, while maintaining computational tractability. Simulated results are compared to experimental flight test data collected with an instrumented flapping wing aerial vehicle, and are shown to offer good accuracy in estimation of system-level performance properties. IMPROVED PREDICTION OF FLAPPING WING AERIAL VEHICLE PERFORMANCE THROUGH COMPONENT INTERACTION MODELING
Study on Advantages of Treating Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus with Baduanjin for Aerobic Exercise

Objective: To study the advantages of Baduanjin treating type 2 diabetes mellitus.Methods: Two hundred and sixteen diabetics were allocated into four groups: Baduanjin group,general aerobic exercise group,Tai Chi Chuan group,control group.The experiment was divided into strengthening treatment period and self-discipline treatment period.Blood samples were collected three times for FPG,HbA1c,TC and HDL-C.The number and time exercise were recorded four groups in two periods.Results: In strengthening period,the results of three treatment groups showed a decrease(P 0.05) in FPG,HbA1c,TC and HDL-C levels and a increase in quality of life level(P 0.05). But there was difference in the number and time exercise.In strengthening period,it was showed that Baduanjin group only kept the performance of index and exercise.Conclusion: Baduanjin,Tai Chi Chuan and general aerobic exercise were conducive to treat type 2 diabetes.Baduanjin was the easiest to be persisted in them.