Objectives: Parental responses to children’s negative emotions play a key role in developing emotional competence. Poor emotional competence has been linked to disruptive behavior problems in children. The Tuning in to Kids program is a new emotion-focused parenting intervention for preschoolers. The Tuning in to Kids aims to improve children’s behavior by changing mothers’ em...

This paper proposes a realization method of high accuracy 2-D variable IIR digital filters with real coefficients. The proposed method uses the reduced-dimensional decomposition form as a prototype structure of 2-D variable digital filters to suppress the degradation of tuning accuracy due to the linear approximation of variable coefficients. Furthermore, the 1-D subfilters of the prototype fil...

The calibration of today’s spark ignition (SI) engine control systems is a complex and costintensive procedure. To cope with increasing demands in performance issues on the one hand and lowering costs on the other hand, a design procedure combining an approximate simulation model with a self tuning algorithm has been developed. In this paper a performance indices based self tuning method for SI...

The enormous and growing complexity of today's high-end systems has increased the already significant challenges of obtaining high performance on today's equally complex scientific applications. Application scientists are faced with a daunting challenge in tuning their codes to exploit performance-enhancing architectural features. The Performance Engineering Research Institute (PERI) is working...

Self-* systems are self-organizing, self-configuring, self-healing, self-tuning and, in general, selfmanaging. Ursa Minor is a large-scale storage infrastructure being designed and deployed at Carnegie Mellon University, with the goal of taking steps towards the self-* ideal. This paper discusses our early experiences with one specific aspect of storage management: performance tuning and projec...