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Development of a novel angular sensor for medical tracking systems

Minimally Invasive Surgery procedures, which were, in the past, usually performed via manual intervention of human beings, are nowadays more often supported by robotic system, enabling to overcome the limitations that surgeons can encounter. Since the safety of these types of procedures strongly depends on their achievable precision, the sensors responsible for the tracking of the robotic system are required to be highly accurate and reliable. The MIRACLE (Minimally Invasive Robot-Assisted Computer-guided LaserosteotomE) project, which is conducted at the University of Basel, aims to develop a surgical platform including a robotic endoscope that allows contact-free bone surgery using laser light. Because state-of-the-art optical tracking systems require line-of-sight, these kinds of sensors are not a feasible option in the frame of the MIRACLE project. For this reason, part of the research of MIRACLE is focused on the development of a new tracking concept to control the position and the orientation of the laser end effector as well as the entire shape of the endoscope, inside the patient's body. A potential solution is based on an opto-mechanic angular sensor (shadow sensor), called ASTRAS (Angular Sensor for TRAcking System), which essentially consists of an image sensor, a shadow mask, a mirror, and an LED. Placing several ASTRAS at each joint of an articulated robot, and measuring the angles at these positions, allows to reconstruct the shape of the endoscope. However, ASTRAS is operation in the range of ±15°, limiting the proper utilization of the robot. Consequently, the topic of this thesis project was to design and characterize a new prototype of ASTRAS, extending its measurement range to 360°. The new version of ASTRAS is called ASTRAS360 and is based on the use of several mirrors simultaneously. Realized from sketch, using the 3D printing technology, this system uses color filters to encode the light and, therefore, allows to extend measuring range of the sensor. In parallel, the software responsible for the data analysis and angular estimation was also designed. To test the performance of ASTRAS360, a motorized characterization setup was built. The latter, consisting of a highly accurate optical rotary encoder, was used as calibration standard. ASTRAS360 resulted to be a highly precise absolute encoder system with a linearity error in the range of 10 arcsec.
Pose Switch-based Convolutional Neural Network for Clothing Analysis in Visual Surveillance Environment

Recognizing pedestrian clothing types and styles in outdoor scenes and totally uncontrolled conditions is appealing to emerging applications such as security, intelligent customer profile analysis and computer-aided fashion design. Recognition of clothing categories from videos remains a challenge, mainly due to the poor data resolution and the data covariates that compromise the effectiveness of automated image analysis techniques (e.g., poses, shadows and partial occlusions). While state-of-the-art methods typically analyze clothing attributes without paying attention to variation of human poses, here we claim for the importance of a feature representation derived from human poses to improve classification rate. Estimating the pose of pedestrians is important to fed guided features into recognizing system. In this paper, we introduce pose switch-based convolutional neural network for recognizing the types of clothes of pedestrians, using data acquired in crowded urban environments. In particular, we compare the effectiveness attained when using CNNs without respect to human poses variant, and assess the improvements in performance attained by pose feature extraction. The observed results enable us to conclude that pose information can improve the performance of clothing recognition system. We focus on the key role of pose information in pedestrian clothing analysis, which can be employed as an interesting topic for further works.
Identifikasi Genangan Banjir yang Terjadi di Kecamatan Cikampek, Kabupaten Karawang

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cikampek District is one of the sub-districts in the Karawang Regency located in the Southeast part of the Karawang Regency area. Cikampek sub-district is one of the areas that is growing rapidly due to the development of industrial allotment areas and urban settlements. This study aims to determine the flood inundation that must be addressed immediately. The research method was carried out by observation in the field and interviews with related parties. Based on the results of research in the District of Cikampek, there was inundation with an area of 274 Ha, inundation height of 10-40 cm, drainage time of 3 hours / day, and inundation frequency (9 times / year) due to overflow of secondary drainage channel namely Cikaranggelam River. There are three priority areas that the drainage system must immediately address, namely Desa Cikampek Selatan, Dawuan Tengah and Dawuan Barat.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
We Don’t Eat Our Classmates by R.T. Higgins

Higgins, Ryan T. We Don’t Eat Our Classmates. Disney-Hyperion, 2018.&#x0D; Ryan T. Higgins writes highly rated children’s books dealing with common elementary school conflicts. The picture book, We Don’t Eat Our Classmates, will capture all readers, no matter the age. The main character, Penelope, is an adorable T-rex who wears pink coveralls. She was designed by the illustrator and a group of children so it has features that will appeal to all and capture your heart immediately. Penelope is a having a rough first day of school because she keeps eating all her classmates; she struggles with fitting in but learns that it is not fun when you get bit. The story uses humorous hyperboles and the element of surprise that will keep the reader engaged until the end of the story. The humour is exemplified through the beautifully illustrated representations of the story. The illustrations capture the situations through simple images that show the character’s expressions and intentionally incorporate colours to emphasize the characters or the problem at hand.&#x0D; This picture book would make a fantastic addition to any early elementary classroom and would make a great read aloud because it uses humour to address the themes of new students, making friends, and learning to treat others the way you want to be treated. Its huge font will allow younger readers to follow along. The humour and overemphasis in the story is what makes it a truly engaging and fun read while hitting on the feelings of being different and excluded that many students face.&#x0D; Highly Recommended: 4 out of 4 starsReviewer: Haley Oliver&#x0D; Haley Oliver is a fourth year Bachelor of Elementary Education student at the University of Alberta. She is interested in encouraging young child to love reading through entertaining and meaningful literature.
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한중사전의 품사정보 기술방안에 대한 연구 ―한중 품사 불일치 현상을 중심으로

When learning a foreign language, one should understand the language''s system and function properly so that there will be no problems in terms of communication. However, there are many differences between the Korean sales system and the Chinese sales system. Chinese learners feel a lot of confusion, especially because of the mismatch in sales between Korean and Chinese. This study summarizes and presents the phenomenon of sales discrepancies in the translation process between Korean and Chinese, and presents a detailed example of the Korea-China dictionary technical measures on sales discrepancies so that Chinese learners of Korean can more easily and accurately grasp sales information.
Watch Regulated Medical Heli-Carriage Using DCS Automation

Abstract In 21st century, the medical industry is tending to reach its pinnacle, unattended and ignored medical emergencies still remain a loophole in the system. Hence this paper proposes the idea of medical heli-carriage. The proposed system promises to reach the patient irrespective of local traffic conditions, variable terrains and climatic conditions. It employs solar power as the primary energy source and also has sufficient battery backup in case of inadequate solar energy. Under any unlikely event of technical fault in the system, it will acknowledge the nearest medical heli-carriage available and the task will be rescheduled to the latter. It will be capable of carrying first aid medical instruments along with two institutional staffs and the patient. Under any critical situation, the patient will tap on the smart watch, which will send a signal to the nearest hospital. The GPS location of the received signal will be tracked by the hospital and fed into the heli-carriage so that it can reach the very location to the earliest. Hence, the system can prove out to be a revolutionary step in the modern medical industry.
Bayesian Optimization for Parameter Tuning of Recommendation Systems

This research explores parameter optimization algorithms for recommender systems at retailers. Since evaluating the performance of a recommender is often expensive both in time and financial aspect, it is required that the optimization algorithm uses as little tests as possible. We tested several methods all in the field of Bayesian optimization: a Gaussian Process approach with a Matern and squared exponential covariance prior and a Tree Parzen Estimator approach with both a normal and uniform prior. The methods use an acquisition function, which determines the next parameter setting that will be evaluated. This research tested a new acquisition function (dynamic expected improvement) that is an adaptation to the popular expected improvement function. It was found that the TPE algorithm consistently finds better optimal values than the Gaussian Process approach. Moreover, the high impact of the prior selection is underlined by the results. It was also found that the dynamic expected improvement acquisition function performs worse than the regular expected improvement acquisition function, but could still have potential for applications with smooth objective functions.
Russian word order of a transitive verb and its pronominal object

Russian is known as a SVO language. However, a general word order of a transitive verb and its pronominal object is not VO, but OV. This pronominal object has been syntactically regarded as Low Topic or Middle-Field Topic, and the SOV word order is introduced in Russian language textbooks. Russian native speakers, nevertheless, use SVO word order with the pronominal object. Thus this study explores why SVO word order is possible when a pronoun is an object. Even though the pronoun object is located at the end of the sentence, examples of SVO word order can be found to be context-neutral. By digitizing the voice information, we were able to find data with accurate accent patterns. In other words, it can be analyzed that SVO word order with a pronoun object is contextneutral when the pronoun loses its stress and becomes a clitic.
LibGuides: Research Workshop, Getting Started, Allegheny: Evaluating Resources

This guide for introductory level students highlights resources available on the library website including OneSearch, finding datatbases by subject and citing sources for the Allegheny Campus Research Workshops.
Approaches to Criteria Development Evaluating Efficiency of Innovative Forms of Teaching a Foreign Language

The urgency of the problem under study is due to the intensive development of information technologies and their ubiquitous distribution, which had a significant impact on the educational system, the development of new teaching aids and forms of organization of the educational process, such as distance learning. The development of IT encourages educational organizations to use innovative forms of education, for example, the use of robots as teachers or their assistants. In this regard, there is the problem of developing universal criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of the educational process, organized using these tools. The purpose of the article is to develop universal criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of the process of learning a foreign language, which can be used for a comparative analysis of various innovative means and forms of education. The leading approach to the study of this issue is a survey of an expert group and an analysis of existing works on this topic. The article also presents the results of a comparative analysis using these criteria of three forms of education: training with the presence of a teacher, distance learning and training with the help of a robot teacher. As a result of the study, universal criteria were developed for evaluating the effectiveness of the process of learning a foreign language, each of which was provided with a weighting factor, which made it possible to correctly process the results of a comparative analysis of various innovative forms of education. Article materials can be useful for teachers of foreign languages and educational organizations.
FOE-based Regularization for Optical Flow Estimation from an In-vehicle Event Camera

Optical flow estimation from an in-vehicle camera is an important task in automatic driving and advanced driver-assistance systems. However, there is a problem that optical flow estimation is mistakable with high contrast and high speed. Event camera can overcome these situations because it reports only the per-pixel intensity change with high dynamic range and low latency. However, the L1 smoothness regularization in the conventional optical flow estimation method is not suitable for radial optical flow in the driving scene. Therefore, we propose to use the focus of expansion (FOE) for regularization of optical flow estimation in event camera. The FOE is defined as the intersection of the translation vector of the camera and the image plane. The optical flow becomes radial from the FOE excluding the rotational component. Using the property, the optical flow can be regularized in the correct direction in the optimization process. We demonstrated that the optical flow was improved by introducing our regularization using the public dataset.
uggggh all the awesome interactives on ReadWriteThink ...

....uggggh all the awesome interactives on ReadWriteThink are written in flash and won't work on Modern browsers anymore....hope one day they get updated #nctevillage #literacies
Design and evaluation of usability elements and user experience enhancements of a gamified system for Computer Science learning

El uso de la tecnologia en entornos educativos es cada vez mas relevante, especialmente para carreras como la informatica, que dependen en gran medida de las herramientas y tecnicas de autoaprendizaje. La gamificacion ha cobrado especial interes a medida que mas cursos en linea y plataformas de aprendizaje en linea utilizan este enfoque para lograr la participacion del usuario y en general, una experiencia mas agradable. Tambien es un campo de investigacion atractivo para evaluar en que entornos pueden mejorar realmente la experiencia del usuario de una aplicacion. La primera parte de este estudio presenta una revision detallada del estado de la gamificacion y la experiencia del usuario en la educacion, los beneficios que presenta en el proceso de aprendizaje, los aspectos de usabilidad de la misma y como evaluar sus implementaciones. Ademas, se realiza una evaluacion de una plataforma web actualmente implementada que usa gamificacion, encontrando sus fallas y posibles areas de mejora con respecto a la usabilidad. Los hallazgos de esta parte sirven como base para la solucion de diseno de propuestas que intenta mejorar la interaccion de los usuarios con el sistema para continuar logrando motivacion, participacion y disfrute en el proceso de aprendizaje de los cursos de informatica. Los resultados de la solucion propuesta se compararon con las heuristicas de usabilidad, lo que muestra una mejora en la usabilidad de la interfaz de usuario y la experiencia general del usuario.---ABSTRACT---The use of technology in educational environments is increasingly relevant, especially for careers like computer science, that heavily rely on self-learning tools and techniques. Gamification has become of particular interest as more online courses and e-learning platforms use this approach to gain user engagement, and overall a more enjoyable experience. It also is an attractive field of research to evaluate in which environments they can actually enhance the user experience of an application. The first part of this study presents a detailed review of the state of gamification and user experience in education, the benefits it presents in the learning process, the usability aspects of it and how to evaluate its implementations. Further, an evaluation of a currently implemented web-based platform using gamification is performed, finding its flaws and possible areas of improvement regarding usability. The findings from this part serves as a foundation for proposal design solution which attempts to enhance the interaction of the users with the system in order to continue to achieve motivation, engagement, and enjoyment in the learning process of computer science courses. The results of the proposed solution were compared against usability heuristics, showing an improvement in the user interface usability and overall user experience.
Leveraging a Free Enterprise Printing Software Solution to Reduce Cost and Increase Revenue: Print Logger by PaperCut

Leveraging a free enterprise printing software solution to reduce cost and increase revenue tells the story of Valley Forge Military Academy & College's process of identifying the need for a printing solution, weighing the options, and selecting a suitable solution for minimal cost (free software and minimal staff time). VFMAC is a small suburban campus consisting of an Academy (grades 7-12—all-boy, college-prep) and a junior college (co-ed, high transfer) located about 20 miles west of Philadelphia, PA.
Harmony search based on improved partial opposition-based learning

A great deal of researchers has concentrated on creating powerful systems for bundle questions, and a ton of magnificent methodologies have been proposed. Shockingly, the vast majority of the current strategies center around a little volume of information. The fast increment in information volume implies that customary techniques for bundle inquiries think that it’s hard to meet the expanding prerequisites. To take care of this issue, a novel advancement strategy for bundle inquiries (HPPQ) is proposed in this paper. In the first place, the information is preprocessed into locales. Information preprocessing portions the dataset into numerous subsets and the centroid of the subsets is utilized for bundle questions, this adequately diminishes the volume of hopeful outcomes. Besides, a proficient heuristic calculation is proposed (in particular IPOL-HS) in view of the preprocessing results. This enhances the nature of the applicant results in the iterative stage and enhances the intermingling rate of the heuristic calculation. At last, a system called HPR is proposed, which depends on an eager calculation and parallel handling to quicken the rate of inquiry. The test results demonstrate that our technique can essentially decrease time utilization contrasted and existing strategies.
PENGARUH AKTIVITAS BELAJAR DAN MEDIA PEMBELAJARAN BERBASIS BLOG TERHADAP HASIL BELAJAR

This study aims to determine the effect of learning activities and blog-based learning media on learning outcomes in Economic s Academic Subjects.  The method used in this research is quantitative research with an experimental approach. The sample used in this study was 67 students divided into experimental and control classes. Data collection was carried out from the results of the pretest, posttest and questionnaire distribution. Based on the results of the study there are positive effect of learning activities and blog-based learning media on learning outcomes. Keywords:  Learning Activities, Blog-Based Learning Media and Learning Outcomes.
CRYPTOGRAPHIC ALGORITHMS IN SPREADSHEETS

The article examines three well known cryptographic algorithm — Skytale, Caesar's cipher, Vigenere's cipher and the method of their implementation using spreadsheets. Functions on work with strings, such as calculation of string length, search of a substring position in a string, substring selection, concatenation are considered.
Pemanfaatan Media Pembelajaran Berbasis Teknologi (Powtoon) Dan Media Globe Untuk Meningkatkan Hasil Belajar IPS Siswa Kelas V Di SD N 01 Tawangmangu

Education is a very important and useful aspect of human life, many new breakthroughs have been made in the world of education in order to improve the quality of education. The use of instructional media is an innovation to improve the quality of education that can be done by improving student learning outcomes through the use of technology. The use of Powtoon media and Globe media is one way to improve student learning outcomes. This study aims to determine the effect of using media (Powtoon) and Globe media in improving social studies learning outcomes. This type of research is quantitative with experimental research designs. The results of the descriptive analysis showed that the average pretest of the experimental class was 43.36 and posttest 79.06. And the average results of the control class at the pretest was 52.5 and posttest 61.46. While based on the results of testing the hypothesis obtained by the value of sig. <0.05 (0,000 <0.05) so that Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted. Thus it can be concluded that the use of Powtoon media and Globe media influences the improvement of 5th grade social studies learning outcomes of students.
A Literature Review of Sentiment Analysis on Chinese Social Media

Abstract Weibo (The mainstream social media of China) has grown to a huge scale since founded in 2014 and has become a platform for most people today to access information and express opinions. By analysing comments and forwarded posts in Weibo, we can dig deeper into the users’ perceptions and opinions about products, which is of a great commercial value. This paper summarizes the related researches on the sentiment analysis of Weibo in China and abroad since 2013, and analyses the analysis of Weibo sentiment analysis based on different methods.
Enhancing Functionality with Assistive Error Visualisations in Encore

Compiler errors are an inevitable part of software development in compiled languages. Many compilers use very specific phrasing, which can be hard to understand by beginners, or programmers unfamil ...
Entity search: How to build virtual documents leveraging on graph embeddings

We develop an innovative method for the Information Retrieval Entity Search task. We propose a new approach that exploits graph embedding techniques and clustering in order to create the documents necessary for the retrieval, in particular we create a document for a set of related entities. The main advantage of our implementation is that our systems could return to the user not only entities that directly match the user query, but also relevant entities that are not explicitly mentioned.
Let's start writing our research proposal

This workshop will focus on 7 initial steps to start writing our thesis proposal •Designing interesting topic and title•Finding research gap and reflecting research novelty•Formulating research problem and objectives•Constructing convincing research background•Identifying research scope and limitation•Avoiding plagiarism through similarity checker•Checking language using online tool