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The University of Maine Ocean Observing System (UMOOS), a member of the Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal and Ocean Observing Systems (NERACOOS), has been operated by the University of Maine's Physical Oceanography Group (PhOG) since 2001. UMOOS currently maintains five real-time data buoys in the coastal Gulf of Maine (GoM) and two in the offshore GoM. Since September 2013, PhOG has been...
Usability is one of the aspects that need to be highlighted to determine the quality of an information system (IS). Usable system will ensure the users' interests in using the system especially in education field. Previously, MobileSchool system has been developed for secondary schools communities including school administrators, teachers, students and parents. This paper presents the usability study...
Loss of balance leads to increased likelihood of falling for human locomotion. Determining the likelihood of falling for skiing locomotion is challenging because, unlike walking, normal locomotion is not clearly defined. One of the first learned styles of skiing is wedge style (WS). WS affords relatively easier balancing and speed control due to a wide base of support and greater resistance to forward...
The Biomedical Engineering (BME) curriculum at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) has undergone at least four major transformations since the founding of the BME undergraduate program in 1974. This work is a critical assessment of the curriculum from the point of view of its results as derived from an analysis of, among other resources, institutional databases on students, graduates and their...
Dyadic brain interactions during eye contact engage multiple processes and recruit multiple networks. To fully characterize these concurrent activities, it's essential to establish the neural basis for reciprocal social interaction. So far most approaches in this pursuit suffered from the limitations in either insufficient dyadic test instruments or entwined reciprocal and non-reciprocal cerebral...
Compressed air supply and demand strategies have received significant attention since integrated demand management was initiated by Eskom. Due to the expensive nature of this vastly utilised energy carrier, every increase in the efficiency of a system is needed. Usually controlling the compressed air demand resulted in a reduced need for supply, ultimately leading to energy savings. The majority of...
Singing songs is one of the most popular amusements in Japan. We sing many kinds of songs at occasions such as karaoke. However, it is difficult for most of Japanese native speakers to sing English songs because of difference of phone inventory of the two languages. Nowadays, there are numerous studies of CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) systems including the training of English pronunciation,...
Blind people need guide tools to help them walk safely. The traditional guide tool is a guide rod. However, the guide rods always have shortages. With the development of technology, the electronic guide instrument for blind people has been designed. In this paper, infrared sensors are used to detect road information, and the information is analyzed by recognition algorithm. Then the electronic device...
As a kind of parallel light, sunlight can be used for positioning. Light sensors are attached to each side of an octagona cylinder to achieve solar orientation. By theoretical analysis, design and test of a prototype, a fixed structure test method for sun orientation is verified. The instrument presented can be a foundation of new navigation device.
Quality can be defined as the level of adequacy between the final product and its specification. Software industries use many testing methodologies to assure the high-quality of their software. Code coverage is one of these methodologies usually applied to test the expected (normal) behavior of software. Exception handling structures mainly appear in software code to deal with problems caused by unexpected...
Online music services have been popular for end users to obtain music, where user interests, as reflected by their downloading records, are crucial for service providers to understand users and thus to provide personalization. However, the raw downloading records are of huge volume and difficult to analyze intuitively. We study a visualization approach to analyzing downloading records so as to present...
Controlling of liquid level in Nonlinear spherical is a difficult task in industries. It is highly non linear because of its shape. This paper represents a micro controller based Nonlinear tank level monitor and controlling system using LabVIEW(Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench). Differential Pressure Transmitter (DPT) measures the level and it gives the corresponding analog voltage...
This paper reveals a computer aided system aimed at automatically segmenting brain tumors from MRI images is proposed, using bounding box-Active contour and Random walker algorithm. This method performs fast and accurate segmentation results by segmenting the most dissimilar regions of a tumor image. This paper overviews the benefits of automatic segmentation than the manual segmentation algorithms...
Binary Batch Distillation Column Pilot Plant available with us was running with Local Programmable Logic Controller (PLC). Performance enhancement of plant is done with two different aspects that are 1. To operate plant by different modes of control that is by different remote controllers. 2. To enhance the performance of product point of view that is quality of product, time required for the process...
Modular addition and multiplication plays an important role in data encryption standard. In this paper a new VLS I circuit architectures for addition and multiplication of modulo 2n+1 are presented, which allows the implementation of highly efficient combinational circuits for modular arithmetic. The architecture for adder and multipliers are based on Diminished-1 representation. To realize the architecture...
SpaceFibre is a high-speed data-link technology being developed by the University of Dundee for ESA to support spacecraft onboard data-handling applications. SpaceFibre operates at 2.5 Gbits/s, can run over fibre optic or electrical media, provides galvanic isolation, includes Quality of Service (QoS) and Fault Detection Isolation and Recovery (FDIR) support, and provides low-latency signalling. It...
Image registration refers to transforming one image with reference to another. Image registration has become one of the key applications in medical imaging, as medical images captured by different devices often leads to distortion. In our present work, we have studied the effect of four different registration techniques, namely 1) rigid transformation based, 2) affine transformation based, 3) b-splines...
This paper tries to study the issues and challenges for developing a Named Entity Recognition (NER) system for a resource scarce language of north east India. Kokborok a language spoken in the state of Tripura is taken as the target language in developing our NER system. Kokborok is an under resource language and not much digital work is available. We have used the frequency based approach to test...
Overlay network is built on top of one or more existing networks to enhance the performance of the network. Nodes in the overlay network overcome path outages during link failure within short duration to avoid congestion, delay and data loss. However theoretically if overlay nodes are substituted for every other node in the underlay network, it may leads to oversized memory and also it complicates...
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