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Self-archiving publications

This chapter discusses the historical development, current practice and future prospects of the self-archiving of research papers in open-access repositories (so-called 'e-print archives'). It describes how the development of interoperable e-print repositories in a number of subject communities has shown that self-archiving can benefit academic researchers (and potentially others) by enabling quick and easy access to the research literature and therefore maximising the impact potential of papers. Realising that the possible benefits are high and the technical entry barriers low, many organisations such as universities have recently tried to encourage widespread self-archiving by setting up institutional repositories. However, major barriers to self-archiving remain - most of them cultural and managerial. There are concerns about quality control, intellectual property rights, disturbing the publishing status quo, and workload. Ways in which these issues are currently being addressed are discussed in this chapter. A number of self-archiving initiatives in different countries have been set up to address the concerns and to kick-start e-print repository use. However, issues remain which require further investigation; those discussed in this chapter include discipline differences, definitions of 'publication', versioning problems, digital preservation, costing and funding models, and metadata standards. The ways in which these issues are resolved will be important in determining the future of self-archiving. Possible futures are discussed with particular reference to journal publishing and quality control. If widely adopted, self-archiving might come to assume a central place in the scholarly communication process, but a great deal of restructuring of the process needs to take place before this potential can be realised.
Design and Construction of Wireless Speaker Using Bluetooth

ABSTRACT The project is to design and construction of 2.4 GHz wireless system, to transmit stereo audio from a 3.5 mm jack to play on a speaker. The transmitter will convert the audio from analog to digital with an Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) and transmit this digital data via a 2.4 GHz transmitter. The aim of the project is to design a system that will receive wireless stereo audio from a source and give an output useful for both indoor and outdoor purposes. The objectives of the project are to design and construct a low power transmitter so that it can be powered with 9V battery or PSU and be small and portable and to produce enough power to speakers to have “loud” music while limiting noise and distortion. The stereo amplifier used in this design is the MAX98400A Class D amplifier. An available class AB linear amplifier is an option for this project, but the higher-efficiency Class D amplifier consumes less power and dissipates much less heat. This amplifier exhibits a high 107-dB signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). This design uses a Nokia BH-214 Bluetooth stereo headset. It has the 3.5-mm audio connector, making it very easy to take audio signals from a headset’s printed-circuit board (PCB) and feed signals to the stereo audio amplifier. Keywords: Design; Construction; Wireless; Speaker; Bluetooth
Overhead in Communication Systems as the Cost of Constraints

by Brian P. Dunn This dissertation develops a perspective for studying overhead in communication systems that contrasts the traditional viewpoint that overhead is the “nondata” portion of transmissions. By viewing overhead as the cost of constraints imposed on a system, information-theoretic techniques can be used to obtain fundamental limits on system performance. In principle, protocol overhead in practical implementations can then be benchmarked against these fundamental limits in order to identify opportunities for improvement. We examine three sources of overhead that have been studied in both information theory and networking using different models and metrics. For multi-access communication systems, we compute constrained capacity regions for two binary additive channels with feedback and develop inner and outer bounds on the capacity region of the packet collision channel with feedback that appear to be tight numerically. We develop bounds on the protocol overhead required to meet an average delay constraint and then use these bounds to characterize rate-delay tradeoffs for communicating a bursty source over a noisy channel. Finally, we study information-theoretic security in timing channels and show that non-zero secrecy rates can be achieved over the wiretap timing channel using a deterministic encoder.
Power supply for silent discharge type load

Since silent discharge in gas has been recognized as one of the most effective ways for ozone, ultraviolet and excimer laser generation, development of low cost and high effective driver for silent discharge load becomes a task of great importance. This paper presents a switched-mode power supply designed for such a type of load. A voltage source type resonant inverter operating under ZVS (zero voltage switching) principle and developed for driving a silent discharge (SD) type high-frequency ozone generation tube is introduced. PDM (pulse density modulation) and PFM (pulse frequency modulation) hybrid control strategy applied in this inverter allows achievement of zero voltage switching in all power regulating ranges (10-100%) that reduces total switching losses and EMI noises and increases total system efficiency. The developed inverter type ozonizer system has superior performances, simple power regulating scheme and appears to be promising in industrial ozone generation applications, however the same principles can be applied in the domestic units with lower power, which will be widely applied in the near future. The developed scheme has proven high performances for the ozone generation system both by simulation and experiment and now it is under implementation for the ultraviolet generating system. This paper introduces the design principles of such a power supply along with its structure, regulation method and operating performances.
Analysis of incomplete charge transfer effects in a CMOS image sensor

A method to judge complete charger transfer is proposed for a four-transistor CMOS image sensor with a large pixel size. Based on the emission current theory, a qualitative photoresponse model is established to the preliminary prediction. Further analysis of noise for incomplete charge transfer predicts the noise variation. The test pixels were fabricated in a specialized 0.18 μm CMOS image sensor process and two different processes of buried N layer implantation are compared. The trend prediction corresponds with the test results, especially as it can distinguish an unobvious incomplete charge transfer. The method helps us judge whether the charge transfer time satisfies the requirements of the readout circuit for the given process especially for pixels of a large size.
The application of mass spectrometry to the study of mixing processes in confined and unconfined gas flows

Summary This paper describes a novel flow tracing technique which has been developed to obtain data on mixing and dispersion processes in gaseous flow systems. Tracer gas is injected at low flow rates into an air stream. Choice of tracer gas — primary fluid combination in relation to gas properties and detection techniques is discussed. The mode of operation of the mass spectrometer is described together with the sampling system. Analysis of samples drawn from the flow field provides tracer gas concentration profiles throughout the flow and these may be used to yield information on mixing rates. Two examples are given which illustrate the use of the method.
Parameter Sensitivity Analysis : Symbolic Computation for Large Multibody Systems

The purpose of the present research relates to the sensitivity analysis of complex multibody models involving a large number of bodies and nonlinear kinematic loops and/or force constitutive laws. The envisaged applications being in the field of vehicle dynamics, the parameters of interest will mainly concern suspension elements. An important issue of the research is to consider objective functions which involve complete time integrations along a given trajectory, for instance to quantify the sensitivities of drivers with respect to comfort, stability and harshness. On one hand, the accuracy of the various derivatives computation can be greatly enhanced thanks to the symbolic capabilities of the ROBOTRAN multibody program [5]. On the other hand, the computational efficiency of the process also takes advantage of the recursive formulation of the multibody equations of motion. Indeed, the latter must be time integrated with respect to both the generalized coordinates and their derivatives with respect to the parameters, when using the so-called direct method underlying sensitivity analysis. The current paper especially focuses on the parameter sensitivity computation for large multibody applications, via the recursive formulation of constrained systems direct dynamics, symbolically generated by ROBOTRAN.
Results overview

1. C. Lu, R. Krishna, M. Bernstein, and L. Fei-Fei. Visual relationship detection with language priors. In ECCV, 2016. 2. B. A. Plummer, et al. Flickr30k entities: Collecting region-to-phrase correspondences for richer image-tosentence models. IJCV, 2016. 3. J. Johnson, R. Krishna, M. Stark, L. -J. Li, D. A. Shamma, M. Bernstein, and L. Fei-Fei. Image retrieval using scene graphs. In CVPR, 2015. Nape Visual Relationship Detection with Multiple Cues
Cuando el lenguaje excluye: consideraciones sobre el lenguaje no binario indirecto

Aunque las personas no binarias existimos en diversas culturas desde hace siglos, es un hecho indiscutible que nuestra visibilidad y representación está aumentando en todos los ámbitos. Con este aumento vienen retos lingüísticos para las personas que no forman parte de nuestra comunidad pero que quieren o deben hablar de nosotres, como reporteres o traductores que, con frecuencia, reproducen información sin tener contacto directo con los sujetos de ese discurso. Esta falta de familiaridad puede repercutir de manera negativa en obras cuyo proceso creativo incluyó documentación extensa y puede dejar al margen a las personas no binarias que formen parte del público objetivo. Este artículo trata varios casos de traducciones problemáticas o erróneas relacionadas con el lenguaje no binario indirecto (LNI) para ilustrar los problemas que también supone el LNI en la comunicación, traducida o no.
Water For People and USEPA—CREATING HEALTHY PARTNERSHIPS with Africa's urban poor

In the settlement and squatter areas of African cities, the urban poor, particularly children, face untold health risks from raw sewage, unsafe water, and solid waste. Safe drinking water is often nonexistent, and the water of questionable quality that is available may be touted as “safe” by vendors and sold at a price few can afford. The needs of the urban poor are mounting as the inevitable migration of people from rural areas to the cities continues. Land tenure is rare; financing and constructing homes, water systems, and other infrastructure are risky ventures. Municipalities are not equipped, financially or technically, to meet the basic water and sanitation needs of this growing population. WATER For PEOPLE and the US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of International Activities, have joined forces to make a difference. In October 2000, they launched the Water For Africa partnership to help bring safe, sustainable drinking water to Africa's urban poor. Education, capacity‐building, and collaborative work with local stakeholder groups are under way in Malawi, Zambia, Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania. The social cohesion that is sometimes taken for granted in rural development projects is often absent because of the great diversity in religion, culture, and ethnicity, making settlement areas complicated environments in which to operate. To determine the assistance best suited for this complex environment, Water For Africa includes extensive evaluation in every project.
Building on lessons learned : too high hopes without HOPE VI?

By providing substantial grants to public housing authorities to demolish and rebuild distressed public housing and provide services to public housing residents, the HOPE VI program has helped transform these developments and their surrounding communities since 1992. HOPE VI has not only brought public and private investment to distressed neighborhoods but also has played an important role in increasing development capacity for housing authorities and HUD. In spite of the successful completion of many projects in the last decade, arguments have been made that HOPE VI is not only too expensive and too slow but is no longer needed. Housing advocates have also argued that there are programmatic flaws that must be reformed. The Bush Administration has sought to cut HOPE VI from the federal budget for the last four fiscal years. Congress has reinstated it each year, albeit at lower and lower funding levels, but the future of HOPE VI is uncertain at best. As the only funding program specifically designed to meet the needs of distressed public housing and its very low-income residents, HOPE VI is not easily replaced. Despite the challenges, many housing authorities and their partners are attempting to assemble funding for desperately needed public housing redevelopment projects. Interviews with housing authorities, developers, and consultants provide an understanding of the strategies that housing authorities are using to make these “post-HOPE VI” projects work. Housing authorities and their public and private partners have crafted innovations intended to replicate HOPE VI results, but without HOPE VI funds, these projects will only be possible through the piecemeal assembly of public and private funds and are likely to lack the holistic approach and broader vision enabled by HOPE VI. Without seed capital and without the flexibility to be creative, public housing authorities will have a limited ability to build on their entrepreneurial skills, partner with the private sector, and meet the needs of their residents and capital assets. Killing one of the few innovative government programs to emerge in the last decade is a waste and does not bode well for the future of very low-income families—a “HOPE VII” program is needed to build on the public learning achieved during HOPE VI and these early post-HOPE VI efforts. Thesis Supervisor: Langley Keyes Title: Ford Professor of City and Regional Planning
Design Methodologies and CAD for Emerging Nanotechnologies

Keywords: nanotechnology ; emerging ; 3D monolithic integration ; silicon nanowires ; carbon nanotubes ; design ; process ; layout ; ambipolarity ; robust design techniques ; placement ; physical design ; synthesis ; algorithms These Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne EPFL, n° 5797 (2013)Programme doctoral Microsystemes et MicroelectroniqueFaculte informatique et communicationsInstitut des systemes informatiques et multimediasLaboratoire des systemes integres (IC/STI)Jury: D. Atienza Alonso (president), Y. Leblebici, I. O'Connor, V.F. Pavlidis Public defense: 2013-7-4 Reference doi:10.5075/epfl-thesis-5797Print copy in library catalog Record created on 2013-06-26, modified on 2016-08-09
“Revolution? What Revolution?” Successes and Limits of Computing Technologies in Philosophy and Religion

Computing technologies like other technological innovations in the modern West are inevitably introduced with the rhetoric of "revolution". Especially during the 1980s (the PC revolution) and 1990s (the Internet and Web revolutions), enthusiasts insistently celebrated radical changesâ€” changes ostensibly inevitable and certainly as radical as those brought about by the invention of the printing press, if not the discovery of fire. These enthusiasms now seem very "1990sâ€? â€”in part as the revolution stumbled with the dot.com failures and the devastating impacts of 9/11. Moreover, as I will sketch out below, the patterns of diffusion and impact in philosophy and religion show both tremendous success, as certain revolutionary promises are indeed keptâ€”as well as (sometimes spectacular) failures. Perhaps we use revolutionary rhetoric less frequently because the revolution has indeed succeeded: computing technologies, and many of the powers and potentials they bring us as scholars and religionists have become so ubiquitous and normal that they no longer seem "revolutionary at all. At the same time, many of the early hopes and promises instantiated in such specific projects as Artificial Intelligence and anticipations of virtual religious communities only have been dashed against the apparently intractable limits of even these most remarkable technologies. While these failures are usually forgotten they leave in their wake a clearer sense of what these new technologies can, and cannot do.
Timber Building in Britain

This beautiful book is in four sections: the first on types of timber construction -- walls, roofs, floors; the second part comprises a remarkable illustrated Glossary of terms used in timber building; part three is an illustrated chronological survey of timber buildings from Saxon times up to the nineteenth century; part four covers regional variations in building types backed up by six distribution maps. Virtually every page has at least one illustration.
-Colorless- Artificial Reverberation

Electronic devices are widely used to introduce in sound signals an artificial reverberation subjectively similar to that caused by multiple reflections in a room. Attention is focused on those devices employing delay loops. Usually, these devices have a comb-like frequency response which adds an undesired "color" to the sound quality. Also, for a given reverberation time, the density of echoes is far below that encountered in a room, giving rise to a noticeable flutter effect in transient sounds. A class of all-pass filters is described which may be employed in cascade to obtain "colorless" reverberation with high echo density.
Implementation of an AmI system in a Manufacturing SME

SME are facing greater challenges due to increased labour cost and reduced cycle times. To adapt to this change more effectively and efficiently they need systems in place that adapt to change easily and seamlessly. This is the case in the customised product and service manufacturing SME sector. Ambient intelligence (AmI) has the ability to help SME to become more flexible to change and build on their already dynamic nature. The ability of the AmI system to adapt and learn in different situations is the key to maintaining the competitiveness in an organisation. This paper seeks to demonstrate the development and implementation of an AmI system in the manufacturing SME environment. It presents an AmI system in industry reference model that highlights the implicit and explicit interaction between the user, process and environment in an AmI system. The reference model is applied to a case study and the benefits arising from implementation are highlighted and discussed.
Photo- and Video-Based Ranging and Modeling

In this paper, we present our research on photoand video-based 3D ranging and modeling. We have constructed such a 3D ranging and modeling system, PhotoModel3D, that was made available for free, non-commercial use over the Web. The system has received over a hundred thousands Web visits and thousands of use in the past two years alone. Currently, we demo 900 3D models thus constructed using photos and videos contributed from anonymous users all over the world. Here, we describe the algorithms used in the 3D pipeline and present the results of a comparison study and an accuracy analysis of its performance.
An Investigation on Improvement of Yield Potential of TMP-2Composite Maize Gene Pool

This study was conducted at the Black Sea Agricultural Research Institute in Samsun- Turkey in 2005 and 2006. The aim of this research was to improve the yield potential of the TMP- 2 corn gene pool. A composite corn cultivar with high adaptation potential called 'Karadeniz Yildizi' in Turkish was enhanced using genetic source material (TMP-2). Nineteen maize source materials with high yield potential and similar agronomic traits to TMP-2 corn gene pool were obtained from Sakarya Agricultural Research Institute. These materials were then crossed with TMP-2 corn gene pool as female parents in 2005. Obtained hybrids were tested and experiment was conducted by randomized block design with three replications. Data was recorded for grain yield and yield components. In the experiment, the seeds of high yielding hybrids were mixed with seeds of TMP-2 gene pool at the rate of 5 % and used as male parents for next generation crossing.
Impact of project complexity factors on new product development cycle time

The aim of this paper if to investigate the factors driving project complexity in New Product Development (NPD) projects and how they impact on development cycle time. This issue has been addressed in two steps: (i) building a framework for project complexity in NPD projects, and (ii) evaluating their impact on development cycle time through a System Dynamics (SD) simulation model integrating these factors with the operational aspects of the project and its time performance The results indicate that project complexity is driven by four factors: Project Uncertainty, Product Newness, Product Interconnectivity, and Product Size. The simulation model output shows that an increase in project uncertainty has a significant impact on development cycle time. With regard to the remaining factors, they tend to impact development cycle time as they increase, however their impact is not significantly different in projects involving medium or high levels of these factors.
Angle Droop Design for Grid-Forming Inverters Considering Impacts of Virtual Impedance Control

Grid-forming inverters (GFMs) based on active power-frequency droop control and reactive power-voltage droop control have been developed in recent years, which can generate voltage and frequency references for islanded power systems or microgrids to improve system-wide synchronization and power-sharing capability. It is known that the control delays in GFMs may cause system harmonic instability. To eliminate this issue, virtual impedance techniques are normally adopted. This paper gives a comprehensive examination of the impacts of virtual impedance control block Zv in GFMs on system stability. It is revealed that although Zv is effective in eliminating system harmonic stability, it may ruin system synchronization stability as a side effect. To compensate for the negative impacts caused by Zv, an active power-angle control block is added into the conventional droop control. Design criteria are also proposed accordingly to ensure system stability over the entire frequency range. Simulations and experimental testing are conducted to validate the analysis and the proposed design guidelines. It can be concluded that the Zv control-caused grid-synchronization instability issues can be eliminated with an appropriate active power-angle droop design.
The determinants factors of accounting practitioner’s attitude towards the use of Malaysian Business Reporting System (MBRS)

MBRS is a new submission platform introduce by SSM that enable the submission filings in XBRL format in Malaysia. However, since the introducing of SSMxT in 2014, the issue of XBRL format adoption by companies in Malaysia is still questionable especially regarding the attitude of potential users towards the use of XBRL format. Therefore, this study is try to examine factors of user attitude towards the use of MBRS. Accounting practitioners has been choose as unit analysis of this study. The data was collect ed based on multiple response questionnaire and analysed by using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). The findings of this study shows that perceived usefulness, and perceived ease of use are the factors influencing the attitude of the acco unting practitioners to use MBRS.