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RFID inspired wireless microsensors for structural health monitoring
Venue: 2016 IEEE Aerospace Conference

Organizations and assets employ structural health monitoring (SHM) techniques to collect data suitable for fault detection, non destructive evaluation, system health tracking, and condition based maintenance. The additional costs of these monitoring systems are justified based on improved efficiency, longer equipment lifetime, and enhanced safety levels. However, the installation and maintenance cost of a wired sensor node has limited the proliferation of these technologies. The evolution of inexpensive wireless communication, with installation costs being a fraction of a wired sensor point, as well as the elimination of manual checking and associated labor costs, has increased the application of SHM and process monitoring in a greater percentage of critical components, as well as additional medium and low importance equipment. However, there is currently a significant lack of wireless sensor technologies that can operate maintenance free for extended periods of time in harsh environments and embedded deep within structures. Low cost, low profile, battery less radio frequency identification (RFID) based wireless monitoring systems integrating MEMS devices with inductive coupling, RF backscatter, and wireless power transfer approaches, similar to those that have enabled the proliferation of RFID technology, have the potential to allow SHM within environments not conducive to electronics or batteries, such as in applications requiring operation at high or low temperature extremes, monitoring in caustic environments, operation in radiation environments, and permanent embedding within structures. This paper will present RFID inspired wireless microsensors for corrosion monitoring, strain sensing, and impact detection utilizing MEMS based sensors to achieve low profile, small form factor, and robust devices. Corrosion monitoring devices utilize microfabricated arrays of electrical resistance probes, as well as nanolaminated mass loss coupons. Strain and impact detection devices employ on micromachined piezoelectric materials. When coupled to RFID inspired wireless approaches, the resulting sensor "tags" are small, thin, and inexpensive, while also realizable in material systems suitable for harsh environment operation.
A Multi Disciplinary Framework for Continuous Biomedical Monitoring Using Low Power Passive RFID Based Wireless Wearable Sensors
Venue: 2016 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP)

We have applied passive Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) typically used for inventory management, to implement a novel knit fabric strain gauge assembly using conductive thread. As the fabric antenna is stretched, the strength of the received signal varies, yielding potential for wearable, wireless, powerless smart garment devices based on small and inexpensive passive RFID technology. Knit fabric sensors and other RFID biosensors can enable comfortable, continuous monitoring of biofeedback, but requires an integrated framework consisting of antenna modeling and fabrication, signal processing and machine learning on the noisy wireless signal, secure HIPAA compliant data storage, visualization and human factors, and integration with existing medical devices and electronic health records (EHR) systems. We present a multidisciplinary, end to end framework to study, model, develop, and deploy RFID based biosensors.
Rousseau on Freedom in Commercial Society

Rousseau consistently declares that commercial society prevents us from being free because it makes us dependent on others and on endless desires in ways we cannot control. Yet, in Emile, Rousseau makes the surprising claim that it is possible for an elite to be free in commercial society. This possibility reveals a third way between the model of man and of citizen, that is, the model of natural man in society. I argue that it provides an original way of resisting dependence through a combination of distance from corrupt values and adaptation to the mechanisms of the economic market. Emile's ultimate function, however, is critical in addition to being practical and pedagogical. By following Emile's experiences, the reader learns the unbearably high cost of commercial society: Freedom within it is impoverished and available only to the few.
Times of uncertainty in Europe: migration feedback loops in four Moroccan regions

Over the 20th century, Morocco has become one of the world's major emigration countries. But since 2000, growing immigration and settlement of migrants from sub Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and Europe confronts Morocco with an entirely new set of social, cultural, political and legal issues. This book explores how continued emigration and increasing immigration is transforming contemporary Moroccan society, with a particular emphasis on the way the Moroccan state is dealing with shifting migratory realities. The authors of this collective volume embark on a dialogue between theory and empirical research, showcasing how contemporary migration theories help understanding recent trends in Moroccan migration, and, vice versa, how the specific Moroccan case enriches migration theory. This perspective helps to overcome the still predominant Western centric research view that artificially divide the world into 'receiving' and 'sending' countries and largely disregards the dynamics of and experiences with migration in countries in the Global South. This book was previously published as a special issue of The Journal of North African Studies.
An efficient metaheuristic optimization approach to the problem of PID tuning for automatic voltage regulator systems
Venue: 2016 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM)

PID controllers are widely used in industry because of their remarkable effectiveness and simplicity of implementation. The PID parameters can smartly be tuned using random search optimization algorithms. This article aims to introduce a high accuracy and high speed of convergence Vector Based Swarm Optimization (VBSO) algorithm, which is able to suitably orient solutions towards global optimum. To demonstrate its effectiveness, the VBSO is applied to two set of case studies: benchmark functions and Automatic Voltage Regulator (AVR) systems. By applying it to 12 well known benchmark functions with different degrees of complexity. it is shown that the VBSO performs faster and more accurately than PSO and pPSA algorithms. Moreover, the VBSO is applied to the problem of tuning PID parameters for AVR systems. Considering several objective functions used in different research works, simulation results confirm that the proposed PID controllers perform better than those given by PSO, APSO, DE, MOL, and ABC algorithms.
The Ethics of Trusteeship and the Biography of Objects
Venue: Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement

Museum codes of ethics stress the importance of preservation, knowledge and access, but they remain silent on the justificatory framework of the duty of care museums have to the objects in their collections and on museums' obligations towards their public. In this essay I propose a triangular framework for understanding the duty of care museums have, according to which it is shaped by the need to negotiate an object's transit from past to future in such a way as to secure that object's future significance. The account provided of transit to the future is underwritten by a model of trust as entrusting. Hence, museums' duty to care for the objects in their collections is found to be grounded on the demands of the trust relationship, complemented by the respect that is necessary for effective negotiation of the transit from past to future.
The Role of Amache Family Objects in the Japanese American Internment Experience Examined Through Object Biography and Object Agency

This project investigates the meaning of Japanese American families' personal possessions associated with internment through the concepts of object biography and object agency. It uses material culture analysis to help anthropologists understand the Japanese American internment experience, specifically through a case study at Amache, the Japanese American internment camp in southeastern Colorado. Five semi structured phone interviews, and one structured email interview, are the primary data used to explore the importance of material culture associated with the site and to help preserve the cultural heritage of Amache. Object agency and object biography are key components of the new material culture theory. In this project, object biography concerns how examining different meanings, values, uses, and contexts over time can help anthropologists better understand the Japanese American internment experience. Object agency involves analyzing the relationship between former internees' families and their personal possessions. One of the crucial ways to investigate this concept is understanding why museum donors decided to donate their family items to a museum. It also involves why objects were donated specifically to the Amache museum, instead of to other museums that have Japanese American collections. This thesis suggests there are multiple patterns and themes in the relationships between museum donors and their objects that relate to the Japanese American internment experience.
Interactive Spaces: Model for Motion based Music Applications

With the extensive utilization of touch screens, smartphones and various reactive surfaces, reality based and intuitive interaction styles have now become customary. The employment of larger interactive areas, like floors or peripersonal three dimensional spaces, further increase the reality based interaction affordances, allowing full body involvement and the development of a co located, shared user experience. Embodied and spatial cognition play a fundamental role for the interaction in this kind of spaces, where users act in the reality with no device in the hands and obtain an audio and graphical output depending on their movements. Starting from the early experiments of Myron Krueger in 1971, responsive floors have been developed through various technologies including sensorized tiles and computer vision systems, to be employed in learn ing environments, entertainment, games and rehabilitation. Responsive floors allow the spatial representation of concepts and for this reason are suitable for immediate communication and engagement. As many musical features have meaningful spatial representations, they can easily be reproduced in the physical space through a conceptual blending approach and be made available to a great number of users. This is the key idea for the design of the original music applications presented in this thesis. The applications, devoted to music learning, production and active listening, introduce a novel creative approach to music, which can be further assumed as a general paradigm for the design of motion based learning environments. Application assessment with upper elementary and high school students has proved that users engagement and bodily inter action have a high learning power, which can be a valid resource for deeper music knowledge and more creative learning processes. Although further interface tests showed that touch screen interaction performs better than full body interaction, some important guidelines for the design of reactive floors applications have been obtained on the basis of these test results. Moreover, the conceptual framework developed for the design of music applications can represent a valid paradigm also in the general field of human computer interaction.
Universal Composition with Responsive Environments
Venue: ASIACRYPT

In universal composability frameworks, adversaries or environments and protocols/ideal functionalities often have to exchange meta information on the network interface, such as algorithms, keys, signatures, ciphertexts, signaling information, and corruption related messages. For these purely modeling related messages, which do not reflect actual network communication, it would often be very reasonable and natural for adversaries/environments to provide the requested information immediately or give control back to the protocol/functionality immediately after having received some information. However, in none of the existing models for universal composability is this guaranteed. We call this the non responsiveness problem. As we will discuss in the paper, while formally non responsiveness does not invalidate any of the universal composability models, it has many disadvantages, such as unnecessarily complex specifications and less expressivity. Also, this problem has often been ignored in the literature, leading to ill defined and flawed specifications. Protocol designers really should not have to care about this problem at all, but currently they have to: giving the adversary/environment the option to not respond immediately to modeling related requests does not translate to any real attack scenario. This paper solves the non responsiveness problem and its negative consequences completely, by avoiding this artificial modeling problem altogether. We propose the new concepts of responsive environments and adversaries. Such environments and adversaries must provide a valid response to modeling related requests before any other protocol/functionality is activated. Hence, protocol designers do no longer have to worry about artifacts resulting from such requests not being answered promptly. Our concepts apply to all existing models for universal composability, as exemplified for the UC, GNUC, and IITM models, with full definitions and proofs simulation relations, transitivity, equivalence of various simulation notions, and composition theorems provided for the IITM model.
Experimental Design of a UCAV Based High Energy Laser Weapon

The deployment of a High Energy Laser (HEL) weapon in an airborne platform is a challenging task due to size, weight, and power (SWaP) constraints. Recent technology innovations, however, promise that such HEL development may be a reality in the near future. This study models an Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV) armed with a HEL weapon and simulates the laser beams atmospheric propagation. The Design of Experiments (DOE) methodology is then applied to determine the significance of the UCAV HEL design parameters and their effect on the lethality of the weapon. The weight and energy requirements of two design alternatives are estimated, and the HEL output power is tabulated in relation to the UCAV endurance. Additional simulation shows the effects that platform jitter and beam quality have on the weapon lethality.
Shopping and Tourism in Turkey: The Perfect Combination

Shopping tourism has been known to boost the appeal of destinations, generate local economic growth by creating new sources of revenue, stimulate local production, and support the development of the retail sector in destination areas. For these reasons, local authorities, including the ones in Turkey, support the development of a diversity of shopping venues. The purpose of this chapter is to assess Turkey's potential for shopping tourism and to gauge the importance of different types of shopping outlets in attracting international tourists. Situated at the intersection of major trade routes between Europe and Asia, Turkey has always been an important destination for shopping. Tourists shop in Turkey for very different reasons. We found that these reasons and the nationality of the tourists are important determinants of the type of shopping outlets such international tourists to Turkey prefer to patronize. For example, most cross border shoppers are looking for bargains and prefer to visit wholesale outlets and neighborhood bazaars. Western tourists, in general, shop for souvenirs and for the cultural experience, so they will prefer traditional markets (bazaars) while tourist shoppers from developing countries look for quality merchandise and brands in modern shopping malls. The combination of different types of outlets (malls, bazaars, wholesale, etc. provides great opportunities for anyone who decides to visit Turkey, regardless of whether shopping is their primary or secondary motivation for travel. We also found that, of all international visitors, tourists from the Middle East have the greatest propensity to shop while visiting Turkey, and we suggest that more studies are needed on the shopping behavior and shopping satisfaction of this group, in order to better understand their particular needs and concerns. Knowing them, the authorities could better focus their efforts, so as to provide tourists from the Middle East with a remarkable shopping and travel experience, thus providing them with an incentive to return.
Are Travel Agencies Ready for Accessible Tourism in Turkey? The Tendencies andExpectations of Travel Agencies as Supply Side of Accessible Tourism in Turkey

The number of disabled people, who have been called the world's largest minority by International United Nations Organization, shall increase even further as the world's population ages; the older generations are the greatest individuals at risk of becoming disabled. Because of increasing and reaching a large number of people with disabilities, it should form an important subject of attention for the tourism industry of the World and Turkey. The aim of this research is to determine the tendencies and expectations of travel agencies involved in the supply side of tourism. In this study, it was determined that travel enterprises did not regularly have special services devoted to disabled people, but they were able to offer solutions to the problems encountered by disabled people during travel. It was seen that travel agencies were not ready to accommodate the tourism needs of disabled people or, in other words, engage in accessible tourism.
HEALTH TOURISM IN TURKEY: A STUDY ON NEWSPAPERS

The purpose of this study is to identify how health tourism is approached in Turkey and to analyze the current situation by considering newspapers. Health tourism is becoming more important for countries in the economic and social aspects. Turkey is a country with many opportunities on this evolving branch of tourism. At the crossroads between East and West, Turkey is on its way to become the next "center of attraction" for the global health tourism market. In this study, health tourism was approached initially in a conceptual framework. Then, the previous studies regarding health tourism. In the last part, the paper news related to health tourism was analyzed through content and textual analysis. The population of the study was composed of the online papers which broadcast their archive. "Hurriyet" which is one of the newspaper with the widest circulation was used as the sample and the news with regard to "health tourism" between July 20, 2014 July 9, 2015 were examined. The study was conducted on 30 news.  Tourism, Health Tourism, Turkey, Newspapers.
The role of ICT self efficacy for students' ICT use and their achievement in a computer and information literacy test
Venue: Comput. Educ.

Students' self efficacy in using information and communication technology (ICT) is among the most important motivational constructs that are related to their ICT acceptance, use, and literacy. The present study attempts to generate new knowledge about the role of ICT self efficacy for students' ICT use and their computer and information literacy (CIL) Using the Norwegian data obtained from the International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS) in 2013 (Nz=z2410 students in grade level 9) we distinguish between self efficacy in basic and advanced ICT skills and examine the relations to students' ICT use for different purposes (school related task learning, study purposes, and recreation) and their achievement in a CIL test. The results show that: (1) self efficacy in basic ICT skills is positively related to CIL achievement, whereas self efficacy in advanced ICT skills shows a negative relation; (2) ICT use and ICT self efficacy are positively correlated for some of the ICT use purposes; (3) there is an indirect effects of ICT use on CIL achievement via ICT self efficacy; (4) this indirect effect holds for both female and male students. Our findings point to a potential mechanism that links ICT use, self efficacy, and CIL. Implications for future research and educational practice are discussed. ICT self efficacy and computer and information literacy (CIL) are correlated.ICT use for task learning and CIL are related via ICT self efficacy.ICT use for recreation and CIL are related via ICT self efficacy.The indirect effects hold for girls and boys.Self efficacy in basic and advanced ICT skills relate differently to CIL.
Academic motivation and information literacy self efficacy: The importance of a simple desire to know

Considered essential to lifelong learning, information literacy skills and information literacy self efficacy are associated with higher levels of student academic motivation. However, little is known about the interrelationships between the different types of academic motivation and information literacy self efficacy. This study investigates the relationships between these constructs. Data were collected using a questionnaire comprising existing scales. The questionnaire was administered to undergraduate students in an Australian higher education institution with a response rate of 58% resulting in 585 completed questionnaires. Both intrinsic and extrinsic academic motivation were found to be positively related to information literacy self efficacy, while amotivation was negatively related. The most important predictor of information literacy self efficacy was intrinsic motivation to know. Overall, all academic motivation types increased over time, including, unexpectedly, amotivation. Differences were apparent by gender. The need for higher education institutions to actively identify academically amotivated students and facilitate intrinsic academic motivation is discussed.
Application of a time delay neural network for predicting positive and negative links in social networks

The structure of online social networks cannot in most cases be defined only by the relationships among its members. The interuser relations on the website of social networks are often a mixture of positive and friendly interactions, such as trust and interest, and at the same time negative interactions, such as mistrust and lack of interest. One of the issues with signed social networks is the prediction of edge signs. Some of the most recent studies have tried to extract features of the users and their relations with their neighbors to solve this problem. The results of such works demonstrate a relative success for such efforts. The present paper is an effort to offer a rather new approach to solve the problem that has not been addressed yet. The approach uses the distributed time delay neural network to present a model capable of predicting the sign of hidden or unknown edges. The goal is to have the neural network trained by available data and then assess its efficiency of the network. Our implementation on the actual datasets of Slashdot media shows that the algorithm, while simple, has a higher rate of precision in comparison to other existing methods.