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Differentiating Type Of Muscle Movement Via Ar Modeling And Neural Network Classification, Beki̇r Karlik

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The aim of this study is to classify electromyogram (EMG) signals for controlling multifunction proshetic devices. An artificial neural network (ANN) implementation was used for this purpose. Autoregressive (AR) parameters of $a_1, a_2, a_3, a_4$ and their signal power obtained from different arm muscle motions were applied to the input of ANN, which is a multilayer perceptron. At the output layer, for 5000 iterations, six movements were distinguished at a high accuracy of 97.6%.

Carcieri's Self-Described Progressive Critique Of The Aclu On Proposition 209: A Conservative Response, David Benjamin Oppenheimer

Santa Clara Law Review

No abstract provided.

Online Service Providers And The Digital Millennium Copyright Act: Are Copyright Owners Adequately Protected?, Brandon K. Murai

Santa Clara Law Review

No abstract provided.

Legal Aspects Of The Year 2000 Problem, James Blythe Hodge, Grant P. Fondo, Grant P. Fondo

Santa Clara Law Review

No abstract provided.

Monitoring The 1996 Drought Using The Standardized Precipitation Index, Michael J. Hayes, Mark D. Svoboda, Donald A. Wilhite, Olga V. Vanyarkho

National Drought Mitigation Center: Faculty Publications

Droughts are difficult to detect and monitor. Drought indices, most commonly the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI), have been used with limited success as operational drought monitoring tools and triggers for policy responses. Recently, a new index, the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), was developed to improve drought detection and monitoring capabilities. The SPI has several characteristics that are an improvement over previous indices, including its simplicity and temporal flexibility, that allow its application for water resources on all timescales. In this article, the 1996 drought in the southern plains and southwestern United States is examined using the SPI. A series …

Honey Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) As Vectors Of Bacillus Thuringiensis For Control Of Banded Sunflower Moth (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), Jawahar L. Jyoti, Gary J. Brewer

Department of Entomology: Faculty Publications

A study was conducted in 1996 and 1997 to determine if honey bees, Apis mellifera L., could vector Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner variety kurstaki from hives equipped with a pathogen applicator to sunflower capitula and if the amount of B. thuringiensis deposited on the capitula would be sufficient to control the banded sunflower moth, Cochylis hospes Walsingham. The study demonstrated that honey bees became contaminated with B. thuringiensis as they exited hives equipped with filled pathogen applicators and deposited enough B. thuringiensis on the capitula to cause banded sunflower moth larval mortality. When 2 methods of applying B. thuringiensis were compared, …

Reflections [Complete Issue : Second Quarter 1999], Sigma Theta Tau International, Jo Manion, Ann Van Slyck, Kathleen Vollman, Marie Manthey, Melodie Chenevert, Mariah A. Taylor, Carol Imbriano, Cecelia Grindel

Sigma Past Publishing - Reflections Magazine

Publishing History: Print issues of Reflections magazine were published from 1975 to 1999 and its successor, Reflections on Nursing Leadership (RNL) began publication in 2000. RNL migrated to an online format, http://www.reflectionsonnursingleadership.org, in 2006 and continues today.

RNL is a member benefit of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI). The historical print issues have been made openly available.

Publishing Frequency: Quarterly until its transition to online. It’s now updated virtually every day.

Format: Print, 1975 - 2005; Online, 2006 - present

Feature Articles in this Issue:

The Clinic of Last Resort

Change From Within

The …

The Spillikin (Vol. 16), Valparaiso University

The Spillikin - The Christ College Newsletter

No abstract provided.

No. 4, Archaeological Investigations At Three Sites Near Arlington, State Route 385 (Paul Barrett Parkway), Shelby County, Tennessee, Guy G. Weaver, Tennessee. Department Of Environment & Conservation.

TDOT Archaeology Publications

No abstract provided.

No. 5, Archaeological Investigations Of Site 40wy87, Wayne County, Tennessee, Gerald P. Smith, Tennessee. Department Of Environment & Conservation.

TDOT Archaeology Publications

No abstract provided.

Resources- Jan/Feb. 1999, Osp Staff

Resources, from the Office of Sponsored Programs

No abstract provided.

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Turkish Journal of Zoology

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Turkish Journal of Zoology

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Turkish Journal of Zoology

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Pi And Pid Controller Tuning Rules For Time Delay Processes: A Summary. Part 2: Pid Controller Tuning Rules, Aidan O'Dwyer

Conference papers

A summary of tuning rules for the PID control of single input, single output (SISO) processes with time delay, modeled in stable first order lag plus time delay (FOLPD) form, is provided in this part of the paper.

Diseases Of Meaning, Manifestations Of Health, And Metaphor, Peter J. Whitehouse

Faculty Scholarship

Disease and health are commonly thought of as distinct opposites. We propose a different view in which both may be seen to be facets of healthy functioning, each necessary for the other, each giving rise to the other. Thus, disease may be thought of as a manifestation of health. It is the healthy response of an organism striving to maintain physical, psychologic, and spiritual equilibrium. Disease is not necessarily to be avoided, blocked, or suppressed. Rather, it should be understood to be a process of transformation. The process should therefore be facilitated because it is an integral part of the …

International Private Law - Heading Toward The Millennium, Harold S. Burman

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Vietnam's Legal Framework For Foreign Investment, Pham Van Thuyet

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.

An Intelligent Editor For Natural Language Processing Of Unrestricted Text, Demetrios George Glinos

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

The understanding of natural language by computational methods has been a continuing and elusive problem in artificial intelligence. In recent years there has been a resurgence in natural language processing research. Much of this work has been on empirical or corpus-based methods which use a data-driven approach to train systems on large amounts of real language data. Using corpus-based methods, the performance of part-of-speech (POS) taggers, which assign to the individual words of a sentence their appropriate part of speech category (e.g., noun, verb, preposition), now rivals human performance levels, achieving accuracies exceeding 95%. Such taggers have proved useful as …

Dynamic Modeling Of Pwm And Single-Switch Single-Stage Power Factor Correction Converters, Guangyong Zhu

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

The concept of averaging has been used extensively in the modeling of power electronic circuits to overcome their inherent time-variant nature. Among various methods, the PWM switch modeling approach is most widely accepted in the study of closed-loop stability and transient response because of its accuracy and simplicity. However, a non-ideal PWM switch model considering conduction losses is not available except for converters operating in continuous conduction mode (CCM) and under small ripple conditions. Modeling of conductor losses under large ripple conditions has not been reported in the open literature, especially when the converter operates in discontinuous conduction mode (DCM). …

Ingos As Political Actors, Makau Mutua

Journal Articles

No abstract provided.

Performance Study Of The 1911 Wright Brothers Model B Aircraft And Propeller, Robert Egenolf

Theses

A performance evaluation of the 1911 Wright Brothers Model B aircraft and propeller is to be presented. Background, contemporary aviation history, and the Wright analysis will precede the evaluation in order to recreate the situation in which the Brothers were operating. Following this brief history, theories regarding propellers will be examined in order to understand better an efficiency evaluation. Finally, theoretically generated data will be compared to the known values at the time of the Model B's flight. Theoretical data will be gathered from two sources; (1) a software program dedicated to the efficiency prediction of propellers, and (2) a …

Conference Proceedings, Times Are Changing: Flood Mitigation Technology, May 18-22, 1998, Association Of State Floodplain Managers. Conference

Natural Hazards Center Collection

Proceedings of the twenty-second annual conference of the Association of State Floodplain Managers held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from May 18 to 22, 1998.

Computer Use In K-12 Classrooms, Terry J. Shaw

Graduate Research Papers

This project has two components: a survey of educators to determine how technology is being used in K-12 classrooms and a web site of software, Internet sites, and contact person in each grade level and subject area. To discover the use of technology in the K-12 classroom, a survey was sent to 3,500 educators within the Area Education Agency 7 boundaries. The results of the survey have been published on a website and will serve as a place for teachers seeking guidance on what software and Internet sites are considered "best practice." The website is divided by academic disciplines and …

The Substantive Elements In The New Special Pleading Laws, Jeffrey A. Parness, Amy Leonetti, Austin Bartlett

Faculty Articles, Papers, and Other Scholarship

Recently there have emerged new special pleading standards applicable to discrete substantive law claims or to certain remedial requests. These norms often raise troubling procedure/substance questions in separation of powers and choice of law settings. The questions are especially difficult where the standards are hard to locate; to distinguish from nonpleading laws; and to differentiate by rationale(s). In the separation of powers setting, these questions must be approached only after undertaking a distinct and detailed analysis of each relevant government's allocation of lawmaking duties. American governments differ significantly in these allocations. In the choice of law setting, these questions can …

I/O-Conscious Tiling For Disk-Resident Data Sets, Mahmut Kandemir, Alok Choudhary, J. Ramanujam

Faculty Publications

This paper describes a tiling technique that can be used by application programmers and optimizing compilers to obtain I/O-efficient versions of regular scientific loop nests. Due to the particular characteristics of I/O operations, straightforward extension of the traditional tiling method to I/O-intensive programs may result in poor I/O performance. Therefore, the technique proposed in this paper customizes iteration space tiling for high I/O performance. The generated code results in huge savings in the number of I/O calls as well as the data volume transferred between the disk subsystem and main memory. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1999.

A Matrix-Based Approach To Global Locality Optimization, Mahmut Kandemir, Alok Choudhary, J. Ramanujam, Prith Banerjee

Faculty Publications

Global locality optimization is a technique for improving the cache performance of a sequence of loop nests through a combination of loop and data layout transformations. Pure loop transformations are restricted by data dependencies and may not be very successful in optimizing imperfectly nested loops and explicitly parallelized programs. Although pure data transformations are not constrained by data dependencies, the impact of a data transformation on an array might be program-wide; that is, it can affect all the references to that array in all the loop nests. Therefore, in this paper we argue for an integrated approach that employs both …

A Global Communication Optimization Technique Based On Data-Flow Analysis And Linear Algebra, M. Kandemir, P. Banerjee, A. Choudhary, J. Ramanujam, N. Shenoy

Faculty Publications

Reducing communication overhead is extremely important in distributed-memory message-passing architectures. In this article, we present a technique to improve communication that considers data access patterns of the entire program. Our approach is based on a combination of traditional data-flow analysis and a linear algebra framework, and it works on structured programs with conditional statements and nested loops but without arbitrary goto statements. The distinctive features of the solution are the accuracy in keeping communication set information, support for general alignments and distributions including block-cyclic distributions, and the ability to simulate some of the previous approaches with suitable modifications. We also …

Warm Water Formation And Escape In The Upper Tropical Atlantic Ocean - 2. A Numerical Model Study, Sang-Ki Lee, G. T. Csanady

CCPO Publications

We seek the simplest mass and heat balance scenario within the upper tropical Atlantic Ocean using a 2.5-layer numerical model, with the help of a newly suggested entrainment formula. The model ocean is driven by the seasonal wind and heat flux associated with the movement of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). The entrainment rate is scaled by the product of wind stress and shear at the bottom of the mixed layer. On an annual average, the northward transport of the tropical warm water is about 11 Sv, with roughly 10 Sv associated with entrainment of upper thermocline water. Out of …

Journal Of Mathematics And Science: Collaborative Explorations

Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations

No abstract provided.