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The Problem Of Groundwater And Wood Piles In Boston, An Unending Need For Vigilant Surveillance

The stately rowhouse buildings in many areas of Boston were founded on wood piles in the 1800s.Preservation of wood pile foundations requires that groundwater levels remain high enough to inundate the tops of wood pile foundations.This has become a major problem in some areas of the Back Bay, the South End and Fenway neighborhoods of Boston.Costs for wood pile repair in the last 25 years totals more than $20 million.Old infrastructure and impervious surfaces are primary sources that have been identified as leading to lowering of groundwater.City government has established the Boston Groundwater Trust to measure and report groundwater levels, which now uses a network of 800 observation wells.However, the elevation of wood pile tops is not reliably known.Research is underway to investigate possible use of remote sensing methods.Recharging is also being required at new developments and major renovations, but more recharging needs to be done by individual property owners as well.A program to aggressively search for the causes of lowered groundwater and make necessary repairs to infrastructure and building basements is underway.Much of the 'leg-work' has been done by co-op students from the Wentworth civil engineering technology program, who have searched for observation wells, monitored observation well installations, measured water levels in wells eight times a year, investigated recharge systems to replenish groundwater, made numerous grain size tests on fill samples and most recently designed an alternative and far less expensive 'foundation replacement' system.The groundwater and wood pile problems are unique in their extent throughout Boston's filled land areas, which leaves us with a never-ending need for vigilant surveillance in the struggle to preserve these vital foundations for thousands of rowhouse buildings.
Suburban Outdoor Challenge For Autonomous Mobile Robots

An outdoor robot design contest, the Mini Grand Challenge, was developed at the Penn State Abington campus to promote advances in robotics education, computer vision, and rapid prototyping.The contest is partly inspired by the DARPA Grand Challenge, but our contest emphasizes low-cost hardware and software solutions, accessibility, spectator interaction, and education.The contest requires autonomous mobile robots to navigate unmarked, paved pathways on a suburban college campus and reach GPS waypoints.Robots must avoid obstacles and robots are also awarded points for interacting and entertaining spectators.A successful robot platform constructed for less than $300 and controlled by a laptop running MATLAB software was developed by undergraduate students.The contest, offered annually, was first offered in 2005 and is open to students at all levels of education (K-12 and college) and beyond.This contest can be used to successfully introduce computer vision and other robot technologies into the undergraduate curriculum.
Free Books: Why All My Students Buy, Read, And Keep The Textbook

Abstract NOTE: The first page of text has been automatically extracted and included below in lieu of an abstract Session 2288 Free Books; Why all my Students Buy, Read and Keep the Textbook Hugh Jack, Associate Professor Padnos School of Engineering Grand Valley State University Grand Rapids, MI email: jackh@gvsu.edu 1. Introduction Books command a special reverence within the academic world, and I am not exempt from their power. In my case, I have approximately 29 cubic feet of shelf space allocated to books that I own and need regularly. At one time or another I have actually read many of them, but now 'regular' usage means a few pages are needed for reference once every few months, or years. There are another 15 cubic feet of books stored in boxes because they are only needed for irregular usage. Before the advent of the Internet, paper was the best medium for transferring information in forms such as books. At this point it still offers some tactile stimulation, but it lacks the convenience and power of an electronic form. In practical terms each book only needs a few megabytes of disk space. I could fit my entire collection of books on a few CDs or easily lose the entire collection on my hard drive. The best reason for books to be in paper form it to control how they are distributed. Given the benefits, it is inevitable that people will prefer to adopt books that are freed from paper. Our students have grown up in an environment where most information can be found with a few well chosen mouse clicks. Many no longer (or ever did) see the library as the best place to find answers. From their perspective, most of the information they have ever 'needed' could be found on the Internet, and was free! This is illustrated by the increasing number of students who don't buy required books, or students who sell back books at the end of a course [4]. This has prompted some creative responses from publishers, such as consumable textbooks and frequently renumber- ing homework problems. But, the root of the problem is in a mismatch between the widening gap between the cost of textbooks and the economic value perceived by the students. The solution is to free the books from the financial costs. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education
Pulling It All Together: Preparing Software Engineering Students For The Real World

The major problems of our work are not so much technological as sociological in nature."So reads the self-proscribed thesis for DeMarco & Lister's landmark book, Peopleware.In most development organizations managers spend most of their time solving technical problems, instead of addressing the political & interpersonal issues that are the real culprits for the high failure rate of software projects.Similarly, we teach our students the virtues of use-cases and spiral development models, frequently ignoring the true keystones of student success in the project world: teamwork, collaboration and the processes that tie everything together.There are really two objectives for this paper.One is to describe a method for teaching process, quality and measurement in a way that is engaging and enables students to really internalize the material.The second objective is to describe an approach that helps students understand (and experience) the role and importance of sociological issues and how to address them in a way that substantially increases the probability of project and personal success.It is based on the premise that software engineering is so much more than the technical disciplines.
Students With Calculus Credit: What Can We Do?

Over the years more and more students are taking calculus in high school.This has caused a problem at colleges and universities because every high school calculus course is different and some students have AP calculus while others don't.In this paper we will discuss a summer class we have taught since 1982 called Fast Track Calculus.The class was specifically designed for students who have had a year of high school calculus, but have either not had an AP calculus course and thus can not receive college credit; or have taken an AP calculus course, but want to move on more quickly.The class lasts five weeks and covers all of the material we cover in our calculus sequence.In the paper we will discuss the requirements for admittance into the program, the syllabus, the advantages to the students who take the course, and the outcomes of the students who have taken the course.
The National Project For The Innovative Development Of The Higher Engineering Education In Russia

Abstract NOTE: The first page of text has been automatically extracted and included below in lieu of an abstract THE NATIONAL PROJECT FOR THE INNOVATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF THE HIGHER ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN RUSSIA Abstract The new priority national project started in Russia in 2005, the main objective of this project being the realization by engineering universities of certain complex programs for perfection of academic and scientific activities. As a result, an effective segment of the national innovative system is to be formed on the basis of the leading technical universities of the Russian Federation. Selection of the project participants is done in the form of an open competition, and universities – the winners of this competition – receive a governmental grant in the amount from two to five annual budgets for the period of two years. The programs, being realized by these universities, envisage a whole complex of pedagogical innovations, including such as: - introduction of a two-level system “bachelor-master”; - introduction of a credit-modular construction of academic programs; - wide usage of information technologies and active (involved) methods of teaching; - combination of academic, scientific and practical (production) activities; - evaluation of the quality of education on the basis of actual competencies. Priority support is given to training of engineers in the spheres of nanomaterials, nanotechnologies, microelectronics, power engineering and energy saving, info- communicational technologies, aerospace technologies, new materials, etc. The project also provides for institutional transformations with establishment in engineering universities of scientific-educational centers and innovative infrastructure. The national project, which is nowadays being realized in Russia, is a pilot one; a new generation of the state educational standards of the higher engineering education is being worked out on the basis of this project. These standards will determine the content, methodical and resource provision of higher engineering education, as well as principles and forms of monitoring and control of results of academic process. The modern innovative changes in the national system of the higher engineering education in Russia are specified in more detail below in the present paper of the Russian Association of Engineering Universities. Necessity of changes in the higher engineering education in Russia Unfortunately we have to state that both traditional Russian governmental universities and newly established non-governmental universities together with Russian business (which is mainly concentrated in the sphere of primary product) turned out to be incapable of creating a strategy for the necessary large-scale transformations in the post-soviet system of university education, as well as of reforming this system under new conditions of market economy. Regardless of certain successful achievements of some universities, at present the Russian
Inequality, Privatization, and Democratic Institutions in Developing Countries

Privatization of state-owned enterprises in low- and middle-income countries is regarded as an indispensable first step for the consolidation of national accounts, the development of financial markets, and the improvement of firms’ efficiency. However, privatizations may also have a relevant distributional impact, particularly in developing countries, where proceedings from privatization may be a sizable resource for redistribution. This article is a first attempt to investigate the relationship between privatization and income inequality, focusing on the role of democratic institutions. We find that an increase in privatization proceeds is correlated with a reduction in income inequality in countries where representative political institutions are mature.
A Comprehensive Examination of Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is a burgeoning technology that has ushered in a new era by allowing for a logical computational approach. Over a concept that delivers on-demand services online, it has revolutionized the mechanics of IT consumption. Unlike traditional hosting, cloud services are priced for per basis and may rise or decline in response to feedback. Such services are typically totally managed by cloud service providers and demand only a home computer with an internet connection from users. This model has got the attention of researchers, capitalists, and operators in latest days, with most of them presenting a range of cloud computing, frameworks, and ideas, resulting in a diversity of definitions, requirements, and models. Despite the excitement and development in the field, questions around privacy and security, service discovery partnerships, sharing of resources, and pricing have created additional worries about the model's genuine merits. Deny the reality that infrastructure is predicated on such a 50-year-old business plan, evidence from this study reveals that this still needs to expand and overcome present limits that impede it from fulfilling its full potential. We analyze the top of the line in cloud applications in this study with the purpose of uncovering improvements, gaps, and new difficulties.
Parsing and Creating JSON Objects with Gson

Gson is another API for parsing and creating JSON objects. Chapter 9 explores the latest version of this open-source Google product.
A vector-based watermarking scheme for 3D models using block rearrangements

Watermarking schemes help to secure the ownership, authenticity, and copyright-related security issues of electronic data. Digital watermarking is used to enhance the copyright protection of the 3D models thus overcoming the integrity violations. An efficient, robust, semi-blind computationally secure DWT-based watermarking is proposed for 3D models. Firstly, a block segmentation of the vertices is performed on the horizontally or vertically scrambled host 3D model. The secret watermark is embedded into the lower frequency band of each segment using Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). The proposed scheme employs block rearrangement to scramble the host 3D model so as to enhance the security and fidelity of the embedded watermark. Reverse scrambling and inverse DWT is accomplished for constructing the watermarked model. Semi-blind extraction process achieved a successful retrieval of the secret watermark from the watermarked 3D model. A simulation study with a variety of 3D models evidenced the performance of the proposed watermarking scheme in terms of geometrical attacks, robustness and degradation affect.
Hand Motion Based Voice Declaration Framework

Micro controller essentially based representing muted one and hard of hearing is intended to offer the signs that are preloaded inside the gadget. it's microcontroller-based gadget, which gives the alarm sounds essentially by utilizing Hand motion gadget, that are given some reclassified messages like mentioning water, wash territory and so forth.., here the individual will basically offer the predefined motion that shows the indication of Water(example) at that point the gadget sounds steady with some yield volume. Microcontroller is that the core of the gadget. It stores the data of needs of the individual. All together that it will manufacture utilization of learning keep at whatever point the individual uses this gadget. This gadget helps tragically challenged people to declare their necessities. By this the one that is near will see their need and encourage them. This ensures an opportunity to get a handle on each other and simplicity in correspondence. This gadget is intended to create with a bigger preferred position assembling voice-based declaration for the clients i.e., the client gets the voice that articulates his need as and once it's required. "Discourse" and "signals" are the articulation that are to a great extent used in correspondence between humans. Learning of their utilization starts with the essential long periods of life. In human correspondence, the utilization of discourse and signals is completely planned. Machine motion and language acknowledgment is concerning acknowledgment of motions and language utilizing gloves.
Taking into account Qualitative and Textual Variables in Hierarchical Ascending Clustering (HAC)

In Machine Learning, the clustering methods are the mains unsupervised methods. Their objectives is to partition a set of objects in some homogeneously groups. Clustering methods in general and more particularly Hierarchical Ascending Clustering (HAC) techniques are based on metrics and ultra-metrics. Metrics are used to evaluate the similarities between two objects; and ultra-metrics are used to estimate the similarity of two groups or the similarity of an element and a group. The main characteristic of these metrics and ultra-metrics is the fact that they are only adapted to numerical variables or can be reduced to them. With the advent of Data Mining and Data Science, most of the datasets to be analyzed contain different types of variables. In the same dataset, we can find numeric attributes, qualitative variables and free text fields very often together. Despite this diversity of variables in the same dataset, the existed clustering methods are generally build to use only an unique kind of attribute. In this paper, we propose an approach to take account different types of attributes in the same clustering method. The method proposed is a variant of HAC methods that can take into account both numerical, qualitative and textual data. Our approach is based on a metric call Phi-Similarity we developed in order to estimate the proximity of two objects, each of them is describe by a vector of attributes of different types. The developed method will be implemented with the scientific computing language R and applied to real survey data. A comparison of the results will be made with HAC techniques based on classical metrics with the Ward criterion as aggregation criteria. For classical algorithms, we will limit ourselves to the variables of the database compatible with them. This work of comparison will highlight the gain in precision in terms of classification brought by our method compared to the classic versions of HAC
Upcoming meetings

Artificial OrgansVolume 44, Issue 7 p. 766-766 UPCOMING MEETINGS Upcoming meetings First published: 21 June 2020 https://doi.org/10.1111/aor.13746Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume44, Issue7July 2020Pages 766-766 RelatedInformation
Serials Challenges and Solutions: The View from the Director’s Chair

Serials challenges, particularly the pricing of sci-tech serials have been with us for more than 20 years. These challenges continue to consume inordinate amounts of time of many persons in the academy. Are there solutions or are we destined to stay on the merry-go-round? Who are the players and what are their roles? [Article copies available for a fee from The Haworth Document Delivery Service: 1-800-HAWORTH. E-mail address: &lt;docdelivery@haworthpress.com&gt; Website: &lt;http://www.HaworthPress.com&gt;]
Designing and Implementing FPGA for AES

The execution of DES and triple DES is not possible on hardware platform because they consume huge memory space. We can use field programmable gate arrays in order to do the hardware implementation because of its low charge, advertising space and reconfiguration nature. This paper aims at reducing the delay by using pipeline for speeding up the process. The proposed pipeline structure has a characteristic of having round keys which during iterations of encryption are utilized and an encryption method is used for generating them in parallel. The overall delay related to a delay of coding of plaintext block is reduced. The simulation is done in VHDL by Xilinx and implementation is done on FPGA Spartan 3E.
Teaching Wearables

Wearables is a novel area in education, products and production. This cross-domain field is interesting from a teaching point of view. Students must learn and succeed in different areas, such as jewellery design, programming and prototyping. In this paper we present our planning and teaching of wearables classes since 2014. The paper reveals some failures which we have learned from. However, the focus of the paper is on the success of wearables teaching. We reveal our recipe to teach this very versatile, novel and challenging subject. The spark we get from teaching wearables derives from its multidisciplinary qualities. Wearables doesn’t necessarily fit any established domains, yet it has touchpoints in many. We have a mix of students from Jewellery Design and Computer Science in our classes. However, in this intersection lie many vital domains as jewellery, fashion, crafts, design, programming and electronics. Students with knowledge from these different domains worked in teams in our Wearables classes. In addition to having learned about their own domains, the students learned about user involvement in the design process, prototyping and pitching the concept.
Prediction using C4.5 Method and RFM Method for Selling Furniture

Based on sales transaction data in Borobudur Furniture, it can be seen that customer demand for furniture can be said to be large, therefore special methods are needed to estimate sales that are most in-demand by customers in the future, and also special methods used to provide customer loyalty ratings. The method used to predict sales is the C4.5 method, while the method used to provide customer ratings based on customer loyalty is the RFM method. Through the process of data mining with the C4.5 method, it was found that the five items most in demand by customers were wardrobe, office chairs, buffet tv, guest table, and sofa set. While using RapidMiner as a test, the precision results are 63.64%, 89.36% for recall and 60.81% for accuracy. While through the RFM analysis process that has been carried out, there are four categories of customers and the minimum RFM total point is 3 points while the maximum RFM total point is 12 points.
A Novel Algorithm of DS Evidence Fusion Based on Closeness Degree

Based on the concept of the closeness degree of fuzzy set, this paper proposes the closeness degree of evidence to measure the similarity between evidences, the closeness matrix and credibility degree are defined by closeness degree of evidence, the weight coefficient of each evidence is obtained by normalizing the credibility degree of evidence, then a novel algorithm of DS evidence fusion is obtained.Some numerical examples and comparisons of this paper demonstrate the effectiveness of the algorithm.
SPECKLE NOISE REDUCTION IN SAR IMAGES USING INFORMATION THEORY

Abstract. In this work, a new nonlocal means filter for single-look speckled data using the Shannon and Rényi entropies is proposed. The measure of similarity between a central window and patches of the image is based on a statistical test for comparing if two samples have the same entropy and hence have the same distribution.The results are encouraging, as the filtered image has better signal-to-noise ratio, it preserves the mean, and the edges are not severely blurred.