During two terms of a fluid power engineering course, four formative and summative course assessments, weekly e-mail feedback journals, midterm e-surveys, focus groups, and departmental student evaluation of instruction (SEI) forms, were used to assess student perceptions of their learning and the instruction methods used. The weekly e-mail feedback journals and midterm e-surveys enabled severa...

This report presents an analysis of the Rational R1000 Development System for Ada, also called the Rational Environment. The evaluation combined the use of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) methodology for evaluation of Ada environments, an analysis of functionality not covered by that methodology, and an assessment of the novel environment architecture of the Rational Environment. In ad...

Bursatec, the technology arm of Groupo Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (BMV, the Mexican Stock Exchange), recently completed a project that replaced three existing trading engines with one system developed in-house. Given the competitiveness of global financial markets and recent interest in Latin American economies, Bursatec needed a reliable, fast new system that could work ceaselessly throughout t...

figures displaying images of a cross-shaped phantom and of an axial slice of murine brain. SEI images were acquired using a novel variant of the hybrid Spatial/Temporal encoded (SE/TE) sequence, capable of producing T2 * compensated images by self-refocusing the effects of field inhomogeneities during the acquisition process itself. Figure 1 illustrates good reinstatement of the image achieved ...

Citizens often feel pressured to adopt the beliefs held by their peers, conforming to the views of the majority even in the absence of rational argument. However, few scholars have investigated the mechanisms underlying this “mindless” conformity to group pressure. Drawing on recent research in psychology, this manuscript puts forward a new theory of group influence called Social-Emotional Infl...

Assurance cases provide a structured method of explaining why a system has some desired property, for example, that the system is safe. But there is no agreed approach for explaining what degree of confidence one should have in the conclusions of such a case. This report defines a new concept, eliminative argumentation, that provides a philosophically grounded basis for assessing how much confi...

In this paper, we propose spatio-temporal silhouette representations, called silhouette energy image (SEI) and silhouette history image (SHI) to characterize motion and shape properties for recognition of human movements such as human actions, activities in daily life. The SEI and SHI are constructed by using the silhouette image sequence of an action. The span or difference of the end time and...

Specific emitter identification (SEI) plays an increasingly crucial and potential role in both military civilian scenarios. It refers to a process discriminate individual emitters from each other by analyzing extracted characteristics given radio signals. Deep learning (DL) deep neural networks (DNNs) can learn the hidden features of data build classifier automatically for decision making, whic...

Due to their low cost, suitable working potential and high stability, carbon materials have become an irreplaceable anode material for alkali ion batteries, such as lithium sodium batteries potassium batteries. During the initial charge, electrolyte is reduced form a solid interphase (SEI) on surface, which electron insulator but good conductor. Thus, stable surface passivation obtained, preven...