This study examined differences in the appraisal and thought control strategies associated with the perceived control of unwanted sexual and non-sexual intrusive thoughts. Eleven appraisal dimensions, subjective physiological arousal and 10 thought control strategies were measured in 171 university students who were administered the Revised Obsessive Intrusions Inventory-Sex Version, a self-rep...

Abstract The use of reduced‐order models (ROMs) in physics‐based modeling and simulation almost always involves the linear reduced basis (RB) methods such as proper orthogonal decomposition (POD). For some nonlinear problems, RB perform poorly, failing to provide an efficient subspace for solution space. manifolds ROMs has gained traction recent years, showing increased performance certain prob...

This research presents techniques developed for non-intrusive sensing and fault detection in reciprocating compressors driven by induction motors. These procedures are “non-intrusive” because they rely only on voltage and current signals measured on the compressor power cable. The electrical sensor based method allows for easy and non-intrusive determination of many fault sensitive signals that...

A new technique was developed to non-intrusively monitor the use of individual gas appliances in homes. It relied on a very sensitive master gas meter equipped with a pulse meter, data logger, and software. The procedure involves two steps: decomposition and identification of the end uses. The technique is about 95% accurate but the algorithms can still be confused by some relatively common sit...

Human eye tracking and gaze estimation is a new technology which acts as an interface between the user and the computer. Its main goal is to determine where a user is looking on the computer screen. Numerous methods have been developed to accomplish this task. However, they need expensive and proprietary hardware, or require the user to wear a device on his/her head, or place limitations on the...