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In order to understand the current level of university emergency capability, first introduced the subjective and objective environment faced by our universities, the content and current situation of university emergency management, the emergency capability assessment in universities. Secondly introduced the principle and method of applying catastrophe theory to assess emergency capability. Finally...
Generating region outlines from grayscale images using contour generation algorithms is one of the basic methods for image segmentation. The results can be used in 3D reconstruction from contours. The algorithm proposed in this paper which uses templates can effectively deal with the cases when contours pass through grid points and reach image boundaries.
According to the fire characteristics of building fire, the paper employed AHP (analytic hierarchy process) to establish building fire risk assessment system, including categories of factories, hotels, malls, schools and public amenities, based on the using properties of buildings. Meanwhile, the questionnaires and the cluster analysis were proposed to calculate the experts' weight coefficient, and...
This paper verifies and discusses the structure of charismatic leadership style of management layer of fire protection unit, and develops a measuring tool that has a good reliability and validity to measure charismatic leadership style with each department office's staff of eight fire protection squadrons as research objects, based on the questionnaire of charismatic leadership style that was compiled...
A fire safety evaluation index system of underground parking area was proposed. To solve the problem of uncertainty in underground parking area fire safety assessment, the paper introduced D-S evidence theory and AHP to the assessment. The weights of each index were obtained by AHP and the quantitative value of the security level of each evaluation index was calculated using the D-S evidence theory...
Microtubule gliding assays can be used to analyze the dynamics of microtubules driven by molecular motors on the glass surface from the viewpoint of soft matters and molecular robotics. Microtubule tracking requires methods of image processing, microtubule shape extraction and motion path search through the video frames of the gliding assays. A translation from a bit image to a mathematical image...
This paper presents the initial findings of a design cognition study involving two groups of high school juniors: those who have taken pre-engineering courses and those who have not. Equal numbers of dyad teams from both groups engaged in design-only sessions in which they generated solutions in response to the same design challenge. The design sessions were video and audio recorded. The recordings...
Despite the recognized importance of self-directed and lifelong learning for today's graduates, the processes by which learners become self-directed, and the roles that pedagogy and learning climate play in these processes, remain unclear. To better understand students' growth as lifelong learners, we conducted a two-year pilot study of engineering students at two institutions. The study approach...
Women represent more than 50% of the University students both in Europe and the United States. According to this, one might assume that the number of female students in Engineering might have been progressively increasing. But, the under-representation of women in engineering degrees has become a persistent problem. This work presents an analysis of women enrolment in engineering degrees at the Public...
This paper describes a large-scale study of student use and perceived value of videos of faculty lectures as an additional learning resource. The survey-based study was conducted with ∼2,300 college students in biology, chemistry, computer science, geology, and mathematics. The study provides a nuanced understanding of the nature and frequency of students' video usage; student perceptions of value...
The purpose of this research paper is to examine the relationship between self-concepts relating to two attributes necessary for successful engineers in today's society: creativity and global readiness. Some previous studies have shown a positive relationship exists between multicultural exposure and later creative performance. However, no studies were found that examine the relationship between students'...
Face Super-Resolution (SR) is the process of producing a high-resolution face image from a set of low-resolution face images. Most existing dictionary learning based algorithms suffer a high degree of computational complexity and noise sensitivity. To solve this problem, we proposed a novel face SR method based on non-local similarity and multi-scale linear combination (NLS-MLC). Multi-scale linear...
Visual and near infrared (VIS-NIR) face image matching, which is also called cross-spectral face matching in heterogeneous face recognition, is important for security application. However, most existing methods perform poorly in this scenario because of the cross-modality appearance differences. To address this problem, we propose a new method named multi-feature based Multi-view Smooth Discriminant...
The performance of MIMO system depends highly on the accuracy of channel state information and the inter-cell interference is one of the major restrictive factors influencing on the performance degradation in LTE systems. In this paper we propose a new method to work out the desired channel from the received signal. According to the similar principle, each interference channel is also obtained simultaneously,...
Interactive online learning environment with audiovisual multimedia has improved significantly in increasing learning effectiveness. However, for hearing-impaired students who have difficulties in internet multimedia systems associated with audio and visual information require further design to overcome their limitation. To this end, the present study develops an interactive online learning environment...
By using existing metal mesh technology we propose a new lens design that behaves in a similar way to a Wollaston Prism. That is, a device that separates out the two linear polarised states of the incident field and then focuses them separately on same focal plane. The design is an evolution of an existing GRIN lens based on the same technology. The proposed lens design has a diameter of 75mm while...
In this paper, an automatic visual inspection method based on supervised machine learning is proposed to assist rapid on-site evaluation (ROSE) for endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) biopsy. The aim of this method is to learn relations between content of cellular tissue including tumor cells and aspect of specimen image removed by the needle aspiration. For this purpose,...
Intensity of human causal induction is expressed by statistical models in cognitive science. A statistical index, pARIs, which is one of the models of human causal induction, has good performance on some tests. The form of pARIs is nearly equal to one of Jaccard index. However, it has not been known yet why pARIs can be related to intensity of human causal induction. In this study, we propose pARIX...
Mother love is essential for mother-child relationship, and is important for child's development. Despite of series of studies pertaining to the neural substrate of parental love, to date, however, no publication is found regarding the neural substrates of maternal love in shopping. In this study, we examined first-time mothers' brain activations in response to mother-related (purses, make-ups, and...
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