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Structural Health Monitoring by Bayesian Updating

The problems of structural damage detection and reliability assessment are closely related, and should be dealt with in a unified approach. In fact, the health monitoring of a damaged construction requires both damage detection and the assessment of the effects of damages on the life-cycle reliability. In this paper, a complete procedure for structural health monitoring is briefly illustrated and applied. The problem of damage detection is dealt with by an identification technique with unknown input; a Bayesian model updating procedure, based on an adaptive Markov Chain Monte Carlo method, is adopted to quantify, in probabilistic terms, the structural damage based on data from monitoring. An advanced simulation technique, Subset Simulation, is then used to assess the probability of exceeding any structural response level taking into account the various sources of uncertainty. It is observed that the Bayesian approach is really efficient in characterizing the structural damage and its effects.
Investigating Auditory Human-Machine Interaction: Analysis and Classification of Sounds Commonly Used by Consumer Devices

Many common consumer devices use a short sound indication for declaring various modes of their functionality, such as the start and the end of their operation. This is likely to result in an instantaneous and intuitive auditory human-machine interaction, imputing a semantic content to the sounds used. In this work we investigate sound patterns mapped to “Start” and “End” of operation manifestations and explore the possibility such semantics’ perception to be based either on users prior auditory training or on sound patterns that naturally convey appropriate information. To this aim, listening and machine learning tests were conducted. The obtained results indicate a strong relation between acoustic cues and semantics along with no need of prior knowledge for message conveyance.
Liens entre troubles du sommeil et des rythmes circadiens et composantes du syndrome métabolique dans les troubles bipolaires

Introduction : les patients atteints de troubles bipolaires (TB) en remission presentent des troubles du sommeil et des anomalies des rythmes circadiens, qui ont des repercussions importantes sur leur sante. D’autre part, la prevalence du syndrome metabolique chez ces patients est plus elevee que dans la population generale, et les facteurs qui y contribuent sont encore mal determines. L’hypothese de cette these est qu’il existe un lien entre ces troubles du sommeil et des rythmes et les composantes du syndrome metabolique dans les TB. De telles associations ont deja ete retrouvees dans la litterature. Cependant les etudes dans ce domaine sont rares, et aucune ne se penche sur le syndrome metabolique dans son ensemble. Dans la population generale ces liens ont pourtant ete etudies, et les hypotheses physiopathologiques qui les soutiennent comprennent des phenomenes hormonaux et inflammatoires. Objectif : etudier, dans une population de 67 patients bipolaires en remission, l’association entre l’efficacite du sommeil (EF) et le M10 onset mesures par actigraphie, avec les composantes du syndrome metabolique et l’IMC. Les criteres de jugement secondaires etaient l’indice de fragmentation du sommeil (IF) et l’amplitude de l’activite. Resultats : nous retrouvions une association significative entre l’EF et le taux de triglycerides, et entre le M10 onset et la pression arterielle systolique (PAS). De plus, nous trouvions une association significative entre l’IF et la PAS. Ces liens ne semblent pas dependant de facteurs confondants tels que le risque d’OSA, le tabagisme actuel, la prescription d’APA. Conclusion : ces resultats exploratoires meritent d’etre explores dans des etudes plus larges, car ils permettent une meilleure comprehension de la physiopathologie du syndrome metabolique dans une population particulierement vulnerable et peuvent ouvrir la voie a de nouvelles therapeutiques dans les TB.
Shattering the Glass Ceiling: The Woman Manager

The 1990s - Women in Management and Business An Overview Occupational Stress and the Female Executive Acquiring "Appropriate" Managerial Skills Personality and Behaviour Resisting "Hurry Sickness" The Roles that Women Play Relationships at Work Blocked Promotion and Career Development Jumping Through Hoops Walking the Tightrope Between Work and Home Positive Approaches to Helping Women into Management
Adaptive array processing for multiple microphone hearing aids

Hearing-aid users often have difficulty functioning in acoustic environments with many sound sources and/or substantial reverberation. It may be possible to improve hearing aids (and other sensory aids, such as cochlear implants or tactile aids for the deaf) by using multiple microphones to distinguish between spatially-separate sources of sound in a room. This thesis examines adaptive beamforming as one method for combining the signals from an array of head-mounted microphones to form one signal in which a particular sound source is emphasized relative to all other sources. In theoretical work, bounds on the performance of adaptive beamformers are calculated for head-sized line arrays in stationary, anechoic environments with isotropic and multiple-discrete-source interference. Substantial performance gains relative to a single microphone or to conventional, non-adaptive beamforming are possible, depending on the interference, allowable sensitivity to sensor noise, array orientation, and number of microphones. Endfire orientations often outperform broadside orientations and using more that about 5 microphones in a line array does not improve performance. In experimental work, the intelligibility of target speech is measured for a twomicrophone beamformer operating in simulated environments with one interference source and different amounts of reverberation. Compared to a single microphone, beamforming improves the effective target-to-interference ratio by 30, 14, and 0 dB in anechoic, moderate, and severe reverberation. In no case does beamforming lead to worse performance than human binaural listening. Thesis Supervisor: Nathaniel Durlach Title: Senior Scientist __ _ _ _ I_ __ I _ _I I I __ I I _____
Robust Controller Design of Nuclear Power Reactor by Parametric Method

The robust controller for the nuclear reactor power control system is designed. Since the reactor model is not exact, it is necessary to design the robust controller that can work in the real situations of perturbations. The reactor model is described in the form of transfer function and the bound of each coefficient is determined to set up the linear interval system. By the Kharitonov and the edge theorem, a frequency based design template is made and applied to the determination of the controller. The controller designed by this method is simpler than that obtained by the H. Although the controller is designed with the basis of high power, it could be used even at low power.n at low power.
Recruiting intensity

When hiring new workers, employers use a wide variety of different recruiting methods in addition to posting a vacancy announcement, such as adjusting education, experience or technical requirements, or offering higher wages. The intensity with which employers make use of these alternative methods can vary widely depending on a firm’s performance and with the business cycle. In fact, persistently low recruiting intensity partly helps to explain the sluggish pace of the growth of jobs in the US economy following the Great Recession of 2007–2009.
A Comparison of Perioperative Hemodynamic Stability with Amlodipine and Telmisartan during Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy in known Hypertensive Patients

A Comparison of Perioperative Hemodynamic Stability with Amlodipine and Telmisartan during Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy in known Hypertensive Patients Mandeep Manohar Harison Madia, Atul Kumar Singh, Subhdeep Manohar Wrangler Richi, Ram Badan Singh Junior Resident, Department of Anaesthesiology, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Assistant Professor, Department of Anaesthesiology, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Senior Resident, Department of Anaesthesiology, Rajkiye Medical College, Orai, Professor, Department of Anaesthesiology, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. Background: There are many antihypertensive agents available for optimal control of elevated blood pressure. The agent with better safety profile and minimal side effects are the agents of choice. The aim of this study is to compare the perioperative hemodynamics stability with Amlodipine and Telmisartan during laparoscopic cholecystectomy in known hypertensive patients. Subjects and Methods: A comparative, prospective, randomized interventional study was conducted in 60 known hypertensive patients of either sex of ASA PS II and III class, aged 40-70 years undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Patients were randomly allocated to Group A: taking Amlodipine 5 mg once daily, and Group B: taking Telmisartan 40 mg once daily. Hemodynamic monitoring was done including heart rate (HR), systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), mean arterial pressure and brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) as cardiac marker. Results: Among the hemodynamic variables there was significant difference (p-value<0.05) in heart rate, mean arterial pressure, brain natriuretic peptide. Heart rate, mean arterial pressure was better controlled in patients receiving Telmisartan. Rise in BNP level was significantly less during intraoperative period in patients receiving Telmisartan. HR, SBP, DBP and demographic profile were comparable between two groups. Conclusion: One of the major responsibility of anaesthesiologist is to maintain hemodynamic stability during intra-operative and postoperative period. Hemodynamic stability if not managed successfully particularly in hypertensive patients can lead to poor outcomes during intra-operative and post-operative period. Antihypertensive medications are administered for at least 1-2 weeks for returning of normal autoregulation and optimum blood pressure control. Telmisartan has better control over blood pressure in comparison to amlodipine.
Mindful Attunement

Mindful attunement is the integration of mindful awareness and healthy, sustainable connection with both the internal and external experiences of self that drives intentional thinking and behaviors that support well-being. This chapter details how physiology, emotions, and cognitions influence a sense of internal integration and attunement. Mindful self-care is introduced as a method for cultivating mindful attunement among the internal aspects of self, within the context of external (e.g., social) challenges using the attuned representation model of self (ARMS). The connections between mindful attunement, mindful self-care, and positive embodiment are illustrated using case examples. The Mindful Self-Care Scale, a tool for the assessment of the aspects of self-care addressing each area of the ARMS through actionable practices, is reviewed. This chapter ends by detailing the mindful self-care process, which involves mindful awareness of self-care as essential to well-being, assessment of self-care domains, assessment-driven self-care goal setting, and engagement in self-care.
Improving Disaster Management: The Role of IT in Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery

Information technology (IT) has the potential to play a critical role in managing natural and human made disasters. Damage to communications infrastructure, along with other communications problems exacerbated the difficulties in carrying out response and recovery efforts following Hurricane Katrina. To assist government planning in this area, the Congress, in the E-government Act of 2002, directed the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to request the NRC to conduct a study on the application of IT to disaster management. This report characterizes disaster management providing a framework for considering the range and nature of information and communication needs; presents a vision of the potential for IT to improve disaster management; provides an analysis of structural, organizational, and other non-technical barriers to the acquisition, adoption, and effective use of IT in disaster; and offers an outline of a research program aimed at strengthening IT-enabled capabilities for disaster management.
Action Selection in a hypothetical house robot: Using those RL numbers

Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods, in contrast to many forms of machine learning, build up value functions for actions. That is, an agent not only knows `what' it wants to do, it also knows `how much' it wants to do it. Traditionally, the latter are used to produce the former and are then ignored, since the agent is assumed to act alone. But the latter numbers contain useful information - they tell us how much the agent will suffer if its action is not executed (perhaps not much). They tell us which actions the agent can compromise on and which it cannot. It is clear that many interesting systems possess multiple parallel and conflicting goals, all demanding attention, and none of which can be fully satisfied expect at the expense of others. Animals are the prime example of such systems. In [Humphrys, 1995], I introduced the W-learning algorithms, showing one method of resolving competition among behaviors automatically by reference to their RL values. The scheme has the unusal feature that behaviors are at all times in selfish pursuit of their own goals and have no explicit concept of cooperation, despite residing in the same body. In this paper, I apply W-learning to the world of a hypothetical house robot, which doubles as family toy, movile security camera, mobile smoke alarm and occasional vacuum cleaner. I show how a W-learning community of behaviors inside the robot will support a robust behavior pattern, capabable of opportunistic behavior, avoiding dithering, and allowing for the concept of default behavior and expression of low-priority goals.
Antennas and Propagation for Wireless Communication Systems

From the Publisher: This title introduces the basic concepts and specific applications of antennas and propagation to wireless systems, covering terrestrial and satellite radio systems in both mobile and fixed contexts. Includes: Illustrations of the significance and effect of the wireless propagation channelOverview of the fundamental electromagnetic principles underlying propagation and antennasBasic concepts of antennas and their application to specific wireless systemsPropagation measurement, modeling, and predication for fixed links for macrocells, microcells, picocells, and megacellsNarrowband and wideband channel modeling and the effect of the channel on communication system performanceMehtods that overcome and transform channel impairments to enhance performance using diversity, adaptive antennas, and equalizersExamples of real-world practical system problems of communications design and operationExtensive worked examplesEnd-chapter questionsTopical and relevant information for and about the wireless communications industry.
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Origins of saturation in a traveling wave tube

Power saturation in traveling wave tubes (TWT), induced by the non-linearity of electron-wave interaction, limits the efficiency of such amplifiers, and distorts amplified signals. The origin of this saturation has been widely investigated, and many ways have been explored to limit the saturation. A Lagrangian model to study the different aspects of power saturation and phase dispersion in TWTs is presented here. This work contributes to the understanding of saturation and phase distortion in TWTs. It underlines the first order role of inertial saturation, whose origin lies in the intrinsic non-linearity of electron/wave interactions.
Comparison of Computer-Generated and Simulated Motion Picture Displays in a Driving Simulation

An automotive driving simulator with a computer-generated display system, three axes of physical motion (roll, yaw, and lateral translation), sound, and vibration cues was used to investigate and compare human psychomotor response and vehicle response to different types of displays and motion cues. Subjects drove the simulator under four levels of displays; three being simulated preprogrammed motion picture displays (MPDS), one being the standard computer-generated display (CGDS). Motion and no-motion conditions were instituted at each display level. Each data run included lane-keeping and lane-changing tasks for various simulated highway conditions. During lane changes under MPDS conditions, both preprogrammed and nonpreprogrammed simulator conditions were examined. Seven dependent variables were used to measure performance. Results of the experiment show that one level of the simulated preprogrammed MPDS produced performance similar to that of a CGDS in all seven measures, whereas the other levels differed significantly. This suggests that using a properly instrumented preprogrammed MPDS will not compromise experimental results for certain research and educational experiments, and that in many cases an economical simulation using an MPDS would be adequate.
Application-aware resource management in wireless and visual sensor networks

Wireless Sensor Networks continue to gain tremendous popularity, as evidenced by the increasing number of applications for these networks. The limiting factors of the sensor nodes, such as their finite energy supplies and their moderate processing abilities, as well as the unreliable wireless medium restrict the performance of wireless sensor networks. In this dissertation, we explore application-aware techniques for managing the limited resources available to wireless sensor networks, focusing on ways to maximize the network lifetime for clustered sensor networks and visual sensor networks. We begin by focusing on a hierarchical cluster-based sensor network architecture, which reduces the network’s need for resources through data aggregation and a reduction of the communication overhead. In order to provide balanced energy consumption in clustered sensor networks, we introduce novel methods for network organization based on unequal size clusters, as opposed to the generally accepted equal-size clustering approach. In sensor networks that are constrained by coverage-preserving requirements we explore the use of application-aware (i.e., coverage-aware) metrics for cluster head, router, and active node role assignment. We believe that the real potential of wireless sensor networks lies in their integration with various sensing technologies and research disciplines, which will trigger widespread use of sensor networks in a number of specific applications. Thus, we adopt these ideas of application-aware resource allocation specifically for visual sensor networks. The higher demands for the network’s resources, the tighter QoS requirements, and the unique camera sensing capabilities are the main reasons why these types of networks are different and more challenging than existing (“traditional”) sensor networks. We examine the impact of camera-specific sensing characteristics on the network’s behavior in the case when a routing pro-
MOMENTOS SOCIOTÉCNICOS DA ORGANIZAÇÃOTRANSFORMADA POR SISTEMAS INTEGRADOS DE GESTÃO: O CASO DAS ROTINAS INDIVIDUAIS DE TRABALHO EM UNIVERSIDADE

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation drives nontrivial organizational changes that impact an individual’s work processes. This research maps out such an impact by means of a survey and in-depth interviews with employees of a large private university in Southern Brazil that has implemented a landmark ERP project. Eleven latent socio-technical factors supposedly describe ERP impact in universities – motivation , work standardization , information structure , managerial control , organogram , customer satisfaction , technological infrastructure , functions , user interface , productivity , and human development . Significant impact was observed in only four factors (motivation, work standardization, information structure, and managerial control), but the fact that the system was at its initial stages of adoption may have moderated the results. Given some unique attributes of the case under analysis (reported by the technology vendor as an international benchmark henceforth) and the research strategy that was adopted (qualitative investigation after multivariate statistics), the findings are quite original and of considerable importance to guide researchers and practitioners in understanding the organizational factors that may be affected by ERP implementation in universities.
Ancillary-service details: regulation, load following, and generator response

The purpose of this report is to examine empirically these intrahour and interhour load changes and the responses of a utility`s generating resources to those load changes. We analyze data, primarily from one control area, to see how it maintains ACE close to zero in an effort to meet the A1 and A2 criteria. Overall, we estimate that load following costs US electric utilities over one billion dollars a year. We first test alternative ways to identify trends over multihour periods using both regression analysis and rolling averages. Then, we consider several metrics for intrahour load following. Next we examine characteristics of load following for different time-averaging periods and compare the dynamics of loads and load following generation across these time periods. Finally, we consider the contribution of each load to the total load following requirements of the control area.
Self-Efficacy toward Educational Technology: The Application in Taiwan Teacher Education

In the twenty-first century, the rapid growth of information technologies has transformed the capacity of educational institutes to deliver educational and training programs. New technologies provide public accessibility to a vast variety of educational resources and learning opportunities. Technology integration in education can enhance learning and teaching. The quality of teaching, learning, researching, and course offerings must be considered in Taiwan teacher education. The learner's self-efficacy could undermine a valuable program if not recognized and dealt with in advance. The overall purpose of this paper is to discuss the application of self-efficacy in Taiwan teacher education. It should be considered and planned for before initiating programs to avoid potential roadblocks and to maximize returns in Taiwan teacher education toward computer technology.