Non-intrusive and automatic raw part alignment for machining process is a current challenge for industry, due to the high cost of bad machining. The use of artificial markers, such as coded-targets (CT) provides a promising technique to be applied within industrial environments due to its robustness, non-intrusive nature and low cost. In this paper, an CT identification and decoding algorithm i...

In this paper we discuss the problem of privacy and information disclosure in ubiquitous and pervasive computing environments. We describe a framework that uses context information to selectively disclose personal information to service providers while keeping the humancomputer interaction non-intrusive. For each interaction with a service provider, our framework will take previously disclosed ...

Home absence detection is an emerging field on smart home installations. Identifying whether or not the residents of house are present, important in numerous scenarios. Possible scenarios include but limited to: elderly people living alone, suffering from dementia, quarantine. The majority published papers focus either pressure/door sensors cameras order to detect outing events. Although aforem...

The semi-classical model of atom-field interaction has been fully studied for some multilevel atoms, e.g. Vee, L, Cascade X , Y, and inverted Y and so on. This issue is developed into the full-quantum electrodynamics formalism, where the probe and coupling electromagnetic fields are quantized. In this article, we investigate the full-quantum model of absorption and dispersion spectrum of trappe...

BACKGROUND Hurricane Katrina devastated the Mississippi Gulf Coast in August 2005. Intrusive re-experiencing is a common posttraumatic stress symptom. However, young children with limited introspection skills might have difficulties identifying their intrusive thoughts. METHOD A sample of 165 5- to 9-year-old children were surveyed about their unwanted intrusive thoughts and their knowledge a...

Recent evidence suggests that an interaction of noradrenaline (NE) and cortisol (CORT) during encoding leads to greater consolidation of emotional memories. Convergent models of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) suggest the release of CORT and NE lead to greater intrusive memories in PTSD. This study examined the effect of NE and CORT during encoding on recall and intrusive memories in PTSD....

Unwanted intrusive thoughts play an integral role in a number of different disorders including obsessive-compulsive disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder and substance use and abuse disorders. The objectives of this study were twofold. First, we examined intrusive thoughts and impulses in a student and incarcerated sample. Second, in an effort to better understand the non-universality of the ...

Abstract: This paper presents and compares the results obtained using several methods for Stochastic Computations, used in Uncertainty Quantification. We practically present the methods using a simple ODE model. The focus is on both intrusive and non-intrusive methods, namely the Monte Carlo method, along with methods based on generalized polynomial chaos(gPC) methodology. Moreover, we asses th...

Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) have emerged as the optimal solution to address urban mobility challenges. However, effectively implement ITS, detailed traffic flow statistics are imperative. Various solutions been proposed, including intrusive/non-intrusive sensors and compute vision-based solutions. these limitations in number of measured parameters, cost or performance under differe...