The integrated EU-project DECOS aims at the provision of enabling technologies to move from federated to integrated distributed architectures in order to reduce development, validation and maintenance costs, and to increase the dependability of embedded applications in various application domains. A major concern is the development of an integrated tool-chain accompanying the system development...

This study focused on investigating various existing types of offshore jacket substructures along with a proposed twisted-tripod jacket type (modified jacket (MJ)-structures). The architectures of the three-leg structure, as well as the patented twisted jacket structure motivated the design of the proposed MJ-structures. The dimensions of the structures were designed iteratively using static st...

Most data warehouse deployments are not prepared to scale automatically, although some applications have large or increasing requirements concerning data volume, processing times, data rates, freshness and need for fast responses. The solution is to use parallel architectures and mechanisms to speed-up data integration and to handle fresh data efficiently. Those parallel approaches should scale...

BACKGROUND Studies that have combined accelerometers and global positioning systems (GPS) to identify walking have done so in carefully controlled conditions. This study tested algorithms for identifying walking trips from accelerometer and GPS data in free-living conditions. The study also assessed the accuracy of the locations where walking occurred compared with what participants reported in...

This paper presents the method of our submission for THUMOS15 action recognition challenge. We propose a new action recognition system by exploiting very deep twostream ConvNets and Fisher vector representation of iDT features. Specifically, we utilize those successful very deep architectures in images such as GoogLeNet and VGGNet to design the two-stream ConvNets. From our experiments, we see ...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this investigation is to evaluate binary prediction methods for predicting disease status using high-dimensional genomic data. The central hypothesis is that the Bayesian network (BN)-based method called efficient Bayesian multivariate classifier (EBMC) will do well at this task because EBMC builds on BN-based methods that have performed well at learning epistatic int...

A hardware simulator facilitates the test and validation cycles by replicating channel artifacts in a controllable and repeatable laboratory environment. Thus, it makes possible to ensure the same test conditions in order to compare the performance of various equipments. This paper presents new frequency domain and time domain architectures of the digital block of a hardware simulator of MIMO p...

has been approved by the Examining Committee for the thesis requirement for the Interdisciplinary Studies-Master of Science degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology at the May 2014 graduation. ii In memory of my grandfathers, Abel Garcia and Daniel Lopez iii A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor English Proverb iv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I will like to acknowledge my mentor Dr. Fuentes for allowing ...

The design and validation of a magnetic particle spectrometer (MPS) system used to study the linear and nonlinear behavior of magnetic nanoparticle suspensions is presented. The MPS characterizes the suspension dynamic response, both due to relaxation and saturation effects, which depends on the magnetic particles and their environment. The system applies sinusoidal excitation magnetic fields v...

At NASA, and in everyday life experience, there are multiple examples of equipment that has passed through a rigorous requirements validation process, but which nevertheless is shown to have major usability difficulties upon implementation and actual use. At NASA, these usability difficulties can have a major impact on very precious resources— crew time on-orbit and the time of ground controlle...