Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Application of KALYPSO as a Diagnostic Tool for Beam and Spectral Analysis

KALYPSO is a novel detector capable of operating at frame rates up to 12 MHz developed and tested at the institute of data processing and electronics (IPE) and employed at Karlsruhe Research Accelerator (KARA) which is part of the Test Facility and Synchrotron Radiation Source KIT. This detector consists of silicon, InGaAs, PbS, or PbSe line array sensor with spectral sensitivity from 350 nm to 5000 nm. The unprecedented frame rate of this detector is achieved by a custom-designed ASIC readout chip. The FPGA-readout architecture enables continuous data acquisition and real-time data processing. Such a detector has various applications in the fields of beam diagnostics and spectral analysis. KALYPSO is currently employed at various synchrotron facilities for electro-optical spectral decoding (EOSD) to study the longitudinal profile of the electron beam, to study the energy spread of the electron beam, tuning of free-electron lasers (FELs), and also in characterizing laser spectra. This contribution will present an overview of the results from the mentioned applications.
Relationship between Change Management and the Implementation of the Human Resource Information System in Isiolo County Government, Kenya

Purpose: To establish the relationship between change management and the implementation of the human resource information system in Isiolo County Government, Kenya. Methodology: This study was conducted in Isiolo County. Descriptive research design was used by the study to collect a total of 654 Employees of the county government of Isiolo who were the target population. The study employed stratified random sampling to select 30% of the employees in each stratum to obtain a sample of 196 employees of the county government. Data was collected using questionnaires. Data was then analyzed through SPSS version 23. The overall results were presented through inferential statistics such as regression, correlation and descriptive statistics frequencies and percentages. The data was presented using tables. Results: The study found out that there is a relationship between change management and the implementation of the human resource information system in Isiolo County Government, Kenya. Change management had an R value of 0.791 and R square value of 0.627. This indicated that change management influenced 63% on implementation of HRIS. The other 37% remaining were determined by other factors. This indicated that change management was part of a key ingredient towards implementation of HRIS. It was found that change management had a relationship with implementation of HRIS. Unique contribution to theory, policy and practice: The study concluded that even though change management was necessary to effectively implement HRIS some employees did not feel the need for change management. This was because the employees felt that they were okay with the current system and norms. The leadership did not articulately involve them in the vision attainment hence the main reason of employees not seeing the bigger picture. Therefore, the management should be more open minded and communicate frequently with the staff on where exactly the county was headed and what was needed to attain its vision and goals. Once the employees understand and internalize these things, it would motivate them to put effort so as to be part of realizing the vision.
Economic modelling for statistical process control subject to a general quality deterioration

The applications of control chart have traditionally focused on the detection of step shifts in process mean. However, changes are usually gradual, not as perfect step shifts. The common consideration of a shift as a step function does not always adequately describe what actually happens in practice. Hence, there is a need for more realistic assumptions to be incorporated. This paper employs a Markov chain approach and provides a way to quantitatively measure the economic performance of control charts in the presence of a more general quality deterioration mechanism. The finite production run is considered in the model as it has become a very important production mode at present and the process failure mechanism is described by geometric distribution. The chart properties, particularly on the issues of the quality deterioration mechanism, are investigated. The findings provide critical insights on the use of step shift assumption when designing control charts.
Urban streetscape design

Streets are an important part of urban infrastructure. Streets are means of transport and connections to many places whether we walk, cycle use public transit or drive but they are also places in their own right, not just passages from one location to another. Streetscapes are the visual elements of a street including the road, open public spaces, the building fabric, trees, lighting, street furniture, signage and everything else that creates a street's identity. In other words, it's all that we see in the street - the complete scene. This volume includes chapters on the streetscape design, types and characteristics, streetscape elements and sustainable design followed by 33 projects from around the world.
Multi processor system on chip platform and studying of the best architecture and software solution for an application

" This thesis is dedicated to my parents, Erica and all my dear friends. It wouldn't be possible to finish it without all the love I have received. " Acknowledgements The author wishes to thank: (i) Prof. Luca Benini for his high-level supervision and continuous support, in that no knowledge is possible without a master to follow; (ii) Ing.tino Ruggiero for his sincere friendship; (iii) All the " unnamed " students that have contributed to this work.
Flow induced pulsations generated in corrugated tubes

Corrugated tubes can produce a tonal noise when used for gas transport, for instance in the case of flexible risers. The whistling sound is generated by shear layer instability due to the boundary layer separation at each corrugation. This whistling is examined by investigating the frequency, amplitude and onset of the pulsations generated by 2” artificially corrugated tubes and cable feeds. Special attention is given to the influence of the geometry of the corrugations and to the influence of the boundary conditions of the tubes. Two distinct modes are measured. One high mode with a typical Strouhal number Sr=0.35 and one with a Strouhal number of Sr=0.1. The relative length scale for the corrugations to be used in the Strouhal number is a modified gap width, which is the gap width excluding the downstream edge radius. The exact Strouhal number for a corrugation is furthermore dependent on details of the corrugation. The propagation of acoustic waves in the corrugated pipes are subjected to a reduction in the effective speed of sound and an increased damping due the increased pressure drop. The effective speed of sound is reduced due to the added impedance of the corrugation volumes. The damping can be described by adding a frictional pressure drop to the visco-thermal damping. For the visco-thermal damping it was assumed that the corrugated pipe was a smooth pipe. With these assumptions the damping could be matched to the measurements within 10%.
Efecto de la calidad espectral sobre el desarrollo vegetal de Salvia splendens variedad Vista Red and White

espanolTres diferentes calidades de luz fueron analizadas sobre una especie ornamental de importancia economica y comercial: Salvia splendens o Scarlet Sage (variedad Vista Red & White de PanAmerican Seeds©), mediante la utilizacion de tres distintas fuentes de luz artificial (azul tipo LED, purpura tipo LED y fluorescente) para modificar el ambiente de crecimiento de cada una de ellas. La investigacion abarco el analisis de la duracion de dias a floracion, la altura, el diametro, numero de brotes y valores SPAD. Estudios existentes acerca del efecto de la calidad espectral sobre el desarrollo vegetal demuestran que hay alteraciones significativas en variables fotomorfogenicas y de crecimiento vegetal. Por ejemplo en el peso seco de la planta, altura, longitud entrenudos, numero de brotes, duracion del periodo de floracion, numero de estomas por planta y cantidad de almidones y azucares reductores. Sin embargo, en el estudio realizado se encontro que la calidad espectral proporcionada con luz suplementaria solo tiene efecto en los dias a floracion, comparado con el tratamiento testigo, puesto que reduce en una semana la floracion, pero, no hay diferencia entre los tres diferentes tratamientos con luz suplementaria. La demas variables analizadas (numero de brotes, altura, diametro promedio y valores SPAD) no tienen un efecto significativo por la calidad espectral utilizada (p>0.05). El estudio fue realizado en el invernadero academico del Tecnologico de Monterrey, ubicado en Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico; durante el periodo de Agosto-Diciembre, 2013. EnglishThree different qualities of light were analyzed on ornamental specie of economic and commercial importance: Salvia splendens or Scarlet Sage (variety Red & White of PanAmerican Seeds©), using three different sources of artificial light (blue-LED, purple- LED and fluorescent) to modify the growth environment of each one. The investigation covered analysis of days to flowering, height, diameter, number of buds and SPAD values. Existing studies on the effect of spectral quality on plant growth show that exist significant alterations on variables in photomorphogenic and plant development. For example: the dry weight of the plant, height, internode length, number of buds, flowering duration, number of stomata per plant and amount of reducing sugars and starches. However, in this study it was found that the spectral quality provided with supplementary light only has effect in days to flowering compared with control treatment, because reduce in one week the flowering days, but, has not effect between supplementary lighting treatments. Others variables studied (buds number, height, diameter and values SPAD) had not significant effect by quality spectral used (p>0.05). The study was made in the academic greenhouse ITESM, located in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, during the period of August to December 2013.
An Evaluation of Gaze and EEG-Based Control of a Mobile Robot

Context: Patients with diseases such as locked in syndrome or motor neuron are paralyzed and they need special care. To reduce the cost of their care, systems need to be designed where human involvement is minimal and affected people can perform their daily life activities independently. To assess the feasibility and robustness of combinations of input modalities, mobile robot (Spinosaurus) navigation is controlled by a combination of Eye gaze tracking and other input modalities. Objectives: Our aim is to control the robot using EEG brain signals and eye gaze tracking simultaneously. Different combinations of input modalities are used to control the robot and turret movement and then we find out which combination of control technique mapped to control command is most effective. Methods: The method includes developing the interface and control software. An experiment involving 15 participants was conducted to evaluate control of the mobile robot using a combination of eye tracker and other input modalities. Subjects were required to drive the mobile robot from a starting point to a goal along a pre-defined path. At the end of experiment, a sense of presence questionnaire was distributed among the participants to take their feedback. A qualitative pilot study was performed to find out how a low cost commercial EEG headset, the Emotiv EPOCTM, can be used for motion control of a mobile robot at the end. Results: Our study results showed that the Mouse/Keyboard combination was the most effective for controlling the robot motion and turret mounted camera respectively. In experimental evaluation, the Keyboard/Eye Tracker combination improved the performance by 9%. 86% of participants found that turret mounted camera was useful and provided great assistance in robot navigation. Our qualitative pilot study of the Emotiv EPOCTM demonstrated different ways to train the headset for different actions. Conclusions: In this study, we concluded that different combinations of control techniques could be used to control the devices e.g. a mobile robot or a powered wheelchair. Gaze-based control was found to be comparable with the use of a mouse and keyboard; EEG-based control was found to need a lot of training time and was difficult to train. Our pilot study suggested that using facial expressions to train the Emotiv EPOCTM was an efficient and effective way to train it.
Haptic Data Reduction and Protection in Multimodal Virtual Environments

The emerging field of haptics, which enables the sensing and manipulation of virtual environments through touch, is recognized as an important element in the area of human computer interaction. Many of its applications, including medical training, rehabilitation, security, entertainment, etc. involve the transmission, storage, protection, and analysis of haptic information. However, the multi-dimensional and time-varying nature of haptic data along with the fact that high sampling frequencies are required when generating haptic signals, motivate the research of haptic data reduction. This thesis discusses two important and related topics: data reduction and protection in multimodal visual-haptic virtual environments. The focus of the first topic is on the design, evaluation, and analysis of haptic data reduction techniques in order to: (1) Improve packet transmission in telehaptic systems, and (2) reduce the dimensionality of the inherently large haptic datasets. In the former case, robust perception-based data reduction methods in 3and 6-degree-of-freedom telehaptic systems are derived. The proposed techniques are evaluated in different experimental settings, including a haptic-enabled telesurgery simulation, and demonstrate a significant reduction in haptic data traffic while maintaining a high-quality telehaptic experience. In the latter case, data reduction in haptic information analysis problems is investigated. Specifically, data reduction methods are presented within the context of haptic data mining and knowledge discovery to help facilitate the analysis of the inherently high-dimensional haptic datasets. Experiments using datasets of haptic-based handwritten signatures demonstrate the accuracy of the techniques in reducing the high dimensionality of haptic feature spaces. The protection of haptic information through digital watermarking is also investigated in this thesis due to its conceptual similarity to haptic data reduction and compression. A foundational study is conducted to examine the role of multisensory feedback in the perception of a watermark embedded in a haptic-enabled 3D virtual surface. In particular, the analysis aims to answer numerous important questions in this brand-new research area, including: Do water-
Mainstream Value Information Push Strategy on Chinese Aggregation News Platform: Evolution, Modelling and Analysis

At present, most news aggregation platforms use personalized recommendation technology to push information in China, which is likely to cause the phenomenon of information cocoons. In order to alleviate the occurrence of this phenomenon, this paper studies the issue of mainstream value information push from different perspectives, which can be used as a supplement for personalized recommendation technology to promote the diffusion of mainstream value information. First, we constructed an evolutionary game model to simulate the game process between news aggregation platforms and users. Through the results of evolutionary analysis, the news platform can be guided at a macro level to formulate mainstream value information push strategies by adjusting model parameters. Second, we conducted research on user behavior, and the results show that different user groups have different demands for mainstream value information. Third, we constructed two models from the perspective of user demands and platform revenue. Experiments show that user sensitivity to mainstream value information σ and platform evaluation factors val are important for finding the number of mainstream information pushes on each page. Finally, we investigated the effect of the mainstream value information from Toutiao. The survey results are consistent with the viewpoints presented in this paper.
Development of Reliable V2V System Based on WAVE

This paper proposes a dynamic congestion control algorithm for a reliable message transmission in vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication environment based on IEEE 802.11p WAVE (Wireless Access in Vehicle Environment) technology. Each vehicle periodically exchanges its status information like a position, speed and brake control with other vehicles within a communication range. Without any control, each vehicle always uses the maximum transmitting power and data rate. From the authors' experiments, at heavy traffic flow, the higher transmitting power and the higher data rate make the wireless channel contentions and packet collisions more serious. In this paper, the authors propose the mean-based dynamic data rate control algorithm and the phase control using Epoch to mitigate the congestion. The performance evaluations in Qualnet confirm that the proposed algorithm achieves better communication performance than the existing solutions and is more robust to the hidden terminal problems.
New design approach of antennas with integrated coupled resonator filters

In the majority of microwave receiving and transmitting systems, a requirement is to have a filter immediately adjacent to the antenna or antenna array. This thesis presents a new methodology for antenna design where a filter is either fully or partially integrated with the antenna elements. The design of this antenna-filter follows the well-established coupled-resonator filter design theory, in which each resonator can not only be used as a filter element but also as a radiator. In order to verify the concept, a two-port bandpass filter designed using dipole antennas is the first work in this thesis to verify the use of dipole antennas as resonators. The coupling matrix has been used to obtain the filter response. One port antenna-filters made out of one, two and three dipoles. The method has also been utilised to implement X-band waveguide components which consist of an antenna-filter, antenna power divider and an antenna-diplexer. The calculation, simulation and measurement results are in good agreement. These proposed components has been designed, simulated, fabricated and measured. They have provided verification of the method, showing the antenna and filter theories and can be applied to miniaturise these components for use in the wireless communication and radar systems.
Design, When Everybody Designs: An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation

In a changing world everyone designs: each individual person and each collective subject, from enterprises to institutions, from communities to cities and regions, must define and enhance a life project. Sometimes these projects generate unprecedented solutions; sometimes they converge on common goals and realize larger transformations. As Ezio Manzini describes in this book, we are witnessing a wave of social innovations as these changes unfold -- an expansive open co-design process in which new solutions are suggested and new meanings are created. Manzini distinguishes between diffuse design (performed by everybody) and expert design (performed by those who have been trained as designers) and describes how they interact. He maps what design experts can do to trigger and support meaningful social changes, focusing on emerging forms of collaboration. These range from community-supported agriculture in China to digital platforms for medical care in Canada; from interactive storytelling in India to collaborative housing in Milan. These cases illustrate how expert designers can support these collaborations -- making their existence more probable, their practice easier, their diffusion and their convergence in larger projects more effective. Manzini draws the first comprehensive picture of design for social innovation: the most dynamic field of action for both expert and nonexpert designers in the coming decades.
Optimizing Real-Time Performance of 3D Virtual Mining Environment with MultiGen Creator

System optimization plays a crucial role in developing VR system after 3D modeling, affecting the system's Immersion and Interaction performance enormously. In this article, several key techniques of optimizing a virtual mining system were discussed: optimizing 3D models to keep the polygon number in VR system within target hardware's processing ability;optimizing texture database to save texture memory with perfect visual effect; optimizing database hierarchy structure to accelerate model retrieval; and optimizing LOD hierarchy structure to speed up rendering~
Dynamic operator instructions based on augmented reality and expert systems

Augmented reality is currently a hot research topic within manufacturing and a great potential of the technique is seen. In this study, we aim to increase the knowledge of the adaptation and usability of augmented reality for the training of operators. We propose an approach of using dynamic information content that is automatically adjusted to the individual operator and his/her learning progress for increased efficiency and shorter learning times. The approach make use of the concept of expert systems from the field of artificial intelligence for determine the information content on-line. We develop a framework called "Augmented Reality Expert System" (ARES) that combines AR and expert systems. A proof-of-concept evaluation of the framework is presented in the paper and possible future extensions are discussed.
Issues and Challenges in Evaluating Community Impact Study on Knowledge Transfer Program: Researchers’ Reflection

Knowledge Transfer Program (KTP) is Malaysian government’s initiative to transfer the required skills and knowledge from higher education institutions to the community. Evaluation of the KTP is part of the agenda to examine the impacts of the KTP on society. This study is among the pioneer researches to analyze the issues in conducting the community impact study. The study adopted qualitativ e research design using researcher’s reflexivity approach. A total of 16 KTP communities’ projects for the first rolling (2011 – 2013) were examined. The findings indicate that there are five core issues that emerged through the reflexive process of conducting the study. They include absence of database, timeframe, multiple beneficiaries and poor assessment of community needs. These issues equally are important for stakeholders, researchers and practitioners. Few recommendations are also put forward to improve the community project evaluation in the future. index in effort to determine relevance impact of KTP on community. This research consists of six main variables, (a) apply; (b) sustain; (c)influence; (d) mentoring; (e) objective benefit; and (f) subjective benefit. These were identified based on the combination of the literature and expert feedback from the research team. In addition, two subscales were introduced under the objective benefit