Three General Determinants of Support-Systems

2015 ◽  
Vol 794 ◽  
pp. 555-562 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Weidner ◽  
Athanasios Karafillidis
Keyword(s):  
Support Systems ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Classification Procedure ◽  
Research Institutes ◽  
General Manner ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Technical Systems

Different research institutes and companies are developing technical systems to support or assist people at work and in daily life. The technical systems can be used for a wide range of different applications. Moreover, the systems have different forms with respect to their application. This paper will analyse and classify different forms of such systems in a general manner. The classification procedure will be illustrated by exemplary solutions.

scholarly journals Grasp to See—Object Classification Using Flexion Glove with Support Vector Machine

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 1461
Author(s):  
Shun-Hsin Yu ◽  
Jen-Shuo Chang ◽  
Chia-Hung Dylan Tsai
Keyword(s):  
Support Vector Machine ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Object Classification ◽  
Target Object ◽  
The Other ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Dark Space ◽  
Flex Sensors ◽  
Shape And Size

This paper proposes an object classification method using a flexion glove and machine learning. The classification is performed based on the information obtained from a single grasp on a target object. The flexion glove is developed with five flex sensors mounted on five finger sleeves, and is used for measuring the flexion of individual fingers while grasping an object. Flexion signals are divided into three phases, and they are the phases of picking, holding and releasing, respectively. Grasping features are extracted from the phase of holding for training the support vector machine. Two sets of objects are prepared for the classification test. One is printed-object set and the other is daily-life object set. The printed-object set is for investigating the patterns of grasping with specified shape and size, while the daily-life object set includes nine objects randomly chosen from daily life for demonstrating that the proposed method can be used to identify a wide range of objects. According to the results, the accuracy of the classifications are achieved 95.56% and 88.89% for the sets of printed objects and daily-life objects, respectively. A flexion glove which can perform object classification is successfully developed in this work and is aimed at potential grasp-to-see applications, such as visual impairment aid and recognition in dark space.

Opium and the Romantics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Morrison
Keyword(s):  
Samuel Taylor Coleridge ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
John Keats ◽  
Medical Community ◽  
Thomas De Quincey ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Minor Ailments

Opium was an unremarkable part of daily life in Romantic Britain. It was highly prized by the medical community as a painkiller, and people of every age and class actively and unselfconsciously used it to treat a wide range of major and minor ailments. The Romantic age, however, also marks the crucial moment when British opium-eaters began to celebrate the drug, not for its medicinal powers, but for its recreational properties, as seen especially in the works of John Keats, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Thomas De Quincey.

Hybrid Craft: Showcase of Physical and Digital Integration of Design and Craft Skills

Leonardo ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 384-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amit Zoran ◽  
Seppo O. Valjakka ◽  
Brian Chan ◽  
Atar Brosh ◽  
Rab Gordon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Interactive Design ◽  
Human Skill ◽  
Research Institutes ◽  
Digital Integration ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Maker Culture ◽  
Craft Skills ◽  
Commercial Organizations

This article introduces the Hybrid Craft exhibition, positioning 15 hybrid projects in the context of today’s Maker culture. Each project demonstrates a unique integration of contemporary making practice with traditional craft. The presenters in the show represent a wide range of professional backgrounds: independent makers, students and teachers, designers associated with research institutes, and commercial organizations. The background of Hybrid Craft, the makers and their works, including tool-making, jewelry, bowl-making and interactive design, are presented. The discussion focuses on integrating human skill and design to introduce a diverse portfolio of technologies used in this hybrid making process.

scholarly journals JTrack: A Digital Biomarker Platform for Remote Monitoring of Daily-Life Behaviour in Health and Disease

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehran Sahandi Far ◽  
Michael Stolz ◽  
Jona M. Fischer ◽  
Simon B. Eickhoff ◽  
Juergen Dukart
Keyword(s):  
Data Management ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Remote Monitoring ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Smartphone Application ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Motion Sensors ◽  
General Data Protection Regulation ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Health And Disease

Health-related data being collected by smartphones offer a promising complementary approach to in-clinic assessments. Despite recent contributions, the trade-off between privacy, optimization, stability and research-grade data quality is not well met by existing platforms. Here we introduce the JTrack platform as a secure, reliable and extendable open-source solution for remote monitoring in daily-life and digital-phenotyping. JTrack is an open-source (released under open-source Apache 2.0 licenses) platform for remote assessment of digital biomarkers (DB) in neurological, psychiatric and other indications. JTrack is developed and maintained to comply with security, privacy and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements. A wide range of anonymized measurements from motion-sensors, social and physical activities and geolocation information can be collected in either active or passive modes by using JTrack Android-based smartphone application. JTrack also provides an online study management dashboard to monitor data collection across studies. To facilitate scaling, reproducibility, data management and sharing we integrated DataLad as a data management infrastructure. Smartphone-based Digital Biomarker data may provide valuable insight into daily-life behaviour in health and disease. As illustrated using sample data, JTrack provides as an easy and reliable open-source solution for collection of such information.

Synthesis of an algorithm for increasing the detection range of signals from radio-electronic means by means of radio control based on the estimated-correlation-compensation processing of signals with an unknown shape and additive noise in the receiving channel

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
А.А. Boldyrev ◽  
А.А. Buben’shikov ◽  
D.I. Boldyrev
Keyword(s):  
False Alarm ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Internal Noise ◽  
Probability Of Detection ◽  
Detection Range ◽  
Signal Noise ◽  
Radio Electronic ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Technical Systems

In modern conditions of rapid development of telecommunication technologies radio engineering means of different function are used everywhere in all spheres of ability to live of the person. Thus organizational-technical systems of civil appointment and power departments use the wide nomenclature of radio-electronic means of various classes with a wide spectrum of parameters, kinds of radiations and operating modes. In turn, it causes formation of difficult electromagnetic conditions in administrative-industrial regions and their near environment. The primary goal of services of radio control in these conditions is control over correctness of use by organizational-technical systems of the allocated resource of a radiofrequency spectrum and the parameters radiating of radio-electronic means. One of the main difficulties with which means of radio control in the course of the analysis of electromagnetic conditions in the set territorial area face a considerable quantity of radiating radio-electronic means with various parameters in a wide range of the relation a signal/noise, and also presence of stirring influence of any hindrances is. These factors make rigid demands to indicators of quality of functioning of panoramic detectors-direction finders which make a basis of mobile and stationary means of radio control. One of the basic indicators of quality of panoramic detectors-direction finders of means of radio control is range of detection of the radio-electronic means, defined by the set level of sensitivity and demanded values of probabilities of detection and a false alarm. Authors in article result results of working out of algorithm of increase of range of detection of signals by means of radio control on the basis of an estimated-correlation-compensatory way of measurement and indemnification of average capacity of additive hindrances in the reception channel. By results of the researches spent in article it is shown that: the increase in average capacity of cumulative external inadvertent and deliberate hindrances for the set typical initial data leads in VHF a range to reduction of range of detection of radio-electronic means not less, than in 1,4 times from the demanded; at demanded value of probability of detection, for example, and probabilities of a false alarm, at relative level of external set of a hindrance the panoramic detectors-direction finder of means of radio control with the realised procedure of measurement and indemnification of average value of capacity (dispersion) of inadvertent, deliberate hindrances and internal noise allows to lower the requirement to the threshold relation a signal/(noise) (on pressure) more, than in 1,3 times that will allow to approach value of range of detection to a reference value.

Approximation of the distribution of time parameters for performing verification work in the simulation of metrological support systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.A. Krasavina ◽  
◽  
I.V. Krasavin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Metrological Support ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Time Parameters ◽  
Technical Systems

Metrological bases of approximation are proposed processes of verification works of metrological-ensuring at- simulation of organizational and technical systems.

JuTrack: A Digital Biomarker Platform for Remote Monitoring in Neuropsychiatric and Psychiatric Diseases (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehran Sahandi Far ◽  
Michael Stolz ◽  
Jona Marcus Fischer ◽  
Simon B Eickhoff ◽  
Juergen Dukart
Keyword(s):  
Data Management ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Remote Monitoring ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Smartphone Application ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Motion Sensors ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
General Data Protection Regulation ◽  
Wide Range

BACKGROUND Health-related data being collected by smartphones offer a promising complementary approach to in-clinic assessments. OBJECTIVE Here we introduce the JuTrack platform as a secure, reliable and extendable open-source solution for remote monitoring in daily-life and digital phenotyping. METHODS JuTrack consists of an Android-based smartphone application and a web-based project management dashboard. A wide range of anonymized measurements from motion-sensors, social and physical activities and geolocation information can be collected in either active or passive modes. The dashboard also provides management tools to monitor and manage data collection across studies. To facilitate scaling, reproducibility, data management and sharing we integrated DataLad as a data management infrastructure. JuTrack was developed to comply with security, privacy and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements. RESULTS JuTrack is an open-source (released under open-source Apache 2.0 licenses) platform for remote assessment of digital biomarkers (DB) in neurological, psychiatric and other indications. The main components of the JuTrack platform and examples of data being collected using JuTrack are presented here. CONCLUSIONS Smartphone-based Digital Biomarker data may provide valuable insight into daily life behaviour in health and disease. JuTrack provides an easy and reliable open-source solution for collection of such data.

PEERING INTO THE DUSTY CORNERS: MICRO-DEBRIS ANALYSIS AND USE OF SPACE AT THE SITE OF ABU TBEIRAH (NASIRIYAH, IRAQ)

Iraq ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 80 ◽  
pp. 79-111
Author(s):  
Susanna Cereda ◽  
Licia Romano
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Economic Structure ◽  
Use Of Space ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
University Of Rome

Excavations carried out in the last five years by “La Sapienza” University of Rome and Iraqi teams at the site of Abu Tbeirah (Nasiriyah, Iraq) exposed a large multi-phased mud-brick building (Building A), internally articulated into various rooms with different purposes, which probably hosted a wide range of activities. This building presents an opportunity to investigate the use of these spaces in order to glimpse the daily life and the socio-economic structure of its past inhabitants. In this paper we present the preliminary outcomes of this study, based on the results of a micro-debris analysis that looked at the distribution of the material residues embedded within the floor of Room 5 of the building.

scholarly journals The Threat of Computer Crime: Identifying the Problem and Formulating a Response at Force Level

1998 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-34
Author(s):  
Andy Bliss ◽  
Clive Harfield
Keyword(s):  
Working Group ◽  
Potential Problem ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Support Staff ◽  
Computer Crime ◽  
Force Level ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
To Come ◽  
Police Forces

Computers impact on many aspects of daily life and increasingly are utilized in a wide range of criminal activities. They facilitate actions which might come to be considered criminal but which, as yet, are not illegal and they have affected the nature of victimization. Inevitably police forces are having to come to terms with this new phenomenon. This article presents research undertaken by Sussex Police in identifying the extent of the potential problem (elsewhere previous studies have focused on the nature of the problem) and in formulating a response. The work was undertaken by a Computer Crime Working Group of 15 officers and specialist support staff, including the present authors. The Group's Report was submitted to the Sussex Police Crime Management Sub-Committee in December 1996.

«Oттeпeль»: экoнoмикa и пoвceднeвнocть

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 338-374
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Scientific Revolution ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Price Policy ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Consumer Services ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
In The Beginning

This article investigates the influence of Soviet economic policy on the daily life of Siberian townspeople in the 1960s using a wide range of official and personal sources. In particular, it examines how the Soviet state provided the population with food, enacted price policy and currency reform, and implemented housing programs and consumer services. This article also employs popular memoirs to explore the involvement of the scientific revolution in the beginning of the formation of a socially oriented economy. It also provides a novel perspective on the changes that impacted the everyday lives of ordinary people during the period of Khrushchev’s “Thaw.”

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