This is essentially an archival document that summarizes the results of several tests performed at the Draper Laboratory on extended-range straightness monitor systems during the GEM Muon Alignment R&D activity. Two systems are discussed; standard 3-point LED/Lens/Quad-cell Straight Line Monitors (SLM) with multi-LED blocks, and the Video Straightness Monitor (VSM). Included are measurements of...

Caveolae are becoming increasingly recognized as an important organizational structure for a variety of signal and energy-transducing systems in vascular smooth muscle (VSM). In this review, we discuss the emerging role of the caveolins in organizing and modulating the basic functions of smooth muscle: contraction, growth/proliferation, and the energetic support systems that support these funct...

Virtual system methodology (VSM) tries to extend system inquiring processes beyond the scope of soft systems methodology, and thus make it applicable to the whirling dynamics of social complexity. At the core of VSM is the process of virtual semiosis, the use of various signs and sign structures while making sense of the emergent behavior of a complex dynamic system as a whole. VSM applies virt...

Silicon samples sputtered with multiple magnetic layers can be characterized by using x-ray diffraction (XRD), vibrating sample magnetometry (VSM), and magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) techniques. XRD identifies the crystallographic structures and chemical composition of the unknown layers. VSM measures the change in magnetic moment versus applied field, thus giving the information needed to ...

This paper addresses the issue of motion-based description of video contents within the framework of the future MPEG-7 standard. A family of velocity-based similarity measures (VSM) is defined, involving a generic distance function which can be specified according to the query type. VSM computation complexity, spatio-temporal alignment problems and translational and homogenous motion component ...

In this paper we present a new semantic smoothing vector space kernel (S-VSM) for text documents clustering. In the suggested approach semantic relatedness between words is used to smooth the similarity and the representation of text documents. The basic hypothesis examined is that considering semantic relatedness between two text documents may improve the performance of the text document clust...

Information technology governance has become a key issue for organizations as IT decision-making authority and responsibility is devolved away from a central IT function to local IT units and increasingly out of the remit of IT specialists altogether. Research to date has either been conceptual treatises on the issue, or recounts the structures and mechanisms that are currently in place in the ...

It took the author 30 years to develop the Viable System Model, which sets out to explain how systems are viable – that is, capable of independent existence. He wanted to elucidate the laws of viability in order to facilitate the management task, and did so in a stream of papers and three (of his ten) books. Much misunderstanding about the VSM and its use seems to exist; especially its methodol...

Due to continuous growth in electric demand and increasing connection of renewable energy, the power systems are being operated with smaller stability margins. Therefore, a sufficient loading margin is essential maintain system secure ensure voltage stability. To this end, paper studies joint optimization transmission capacity wind investment problem, unique feature which incorporating (VSM) pl...

In this paper, we survey various user-centred or context-based biomedical health information retrieval systems. We present and discuss the performance of systems submitted in CLEF eHealth 2014 Task 3 for this purpose. We classify and focus on comparing the two most prevalent retrieval models in biomedical information retrieval namely: Language Model (LM) and Vector Space Model (VSM). We also re...