Adjustment Module Research Articles

Intelligent Match of Emergency Plan Based on Chinese Keywords Extraction

This paper introduced an intelligent match method of emergency plan based on keywords extraction. Words frequency, part of speech and position of framework are taken as the keyword weight factors. Least-squares error linear estimate method is used to regulate the factors and calculate keywords weight. And Vector Space Model is set up to calculate the maximum similarity between plan texts to complete design of plan match. The expansible practical parameters adjustment module is provided to adapt to diversity of match plan with emphasis part. Compare with tf*idf, the experimental results show that the presented method is more promising in intelligent match method of emergency plan.

Establishment of Optimal Blade Clearance of Stainless Steel Rolling-Cut Shear and Test of Shearing Force Parameters

The purpose aims to improve the plate shearing section quality and metal yield by means of optimal blade clearance adjustment model of rolling-cut shear and accurate calculation of the maximum shearing force, as well as for the system optimization design, structure optimization design to provide important basis. A 3500 mm rolling shear of a large stainless steel factory was taken as the test object, and the blade clearance under different influence factors of the clearance value and the shearing section were tested. The optimized production accumulated data regression analysis and the rolling shear process of stainless steel shear test. The test results show that the optimal blade clearance adjustment module is a comprehensive function, which include steel plate thickness, material, temperature and shear plate volume. The shear stress at starting stage with the relative penetration depth increases affected by the above factors, and the fracture peak decreases rapidly after being cut into the roll phase constant.

JIGSAW: THE ISIS3 BUNDLE ADJUSTMENT FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY

Abstract. The Integrated Software for Imagers and Spectrometers (ISIS) package was developed by the Astrogeology Science Center of the U.S. Geological Survey in the late 1980s for the cartographic and scientific processing of planetary image data. Initial support was implemented for the Galileo NIMS instrument. Constantly evolving, ISIS has since added support for numerous missions, including most recently the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, MESSENGER, and Dawn missions, plus support for the Metric Cameras flown onboard Apollo 15, 16, and 17. To address the challenges posed by extraterrestrial photogrammetry, the ISIS3 bundle adjustment module, jigsaw, is evolving as well. Here, we report on the current state of jigsaw including improvements such as the implementation of sparse matrix methods, parameter weighting, error propagation, and automated robust outlier detection. Details from the recent processing of Apollo Metric Camera images and from recent missions such as LRO and MESSENGER are given. Finally, we outline future plans for jigsaw, including the implementation of sequential estimation; free network adjustment; augmentation of the functional model of the bundle adjustment to solve for camera interior orientation parameters and target body parameters of shape, spin axis position, and spin rate; the modeling of jitter in line scan sensors; and the combined adjustment of images from a variety of platforms.

A dynamic continental runoff routing model applied to the last Northern Hemisphere deglaciation

Abstract. We describe and evaluate a dynamical continental runoff routing model for the Northern Hemisphere that calculates the runoff pathways in response to topographic modifications due to changes in ice thickness and isostatic adjustment. The algorithm is based on the steepest gradient method and takes as simplifying assumption that depressions are filled at all times and water drains through the lowest outlet points. It also considers changes in water storage and lake drainage in post-processing mode that become important in the presence of large ice dammed proglacial lakes. Although applicable to other scenarios as well, the model was conceived to study the routing of freshwater fluxes during the last Northern Hemisphere deglaciation. For that specific application we simulated the Northern Hemisphere ice sheets with an existing 3-D thermomechanical ice sheet model, which calculates changes in topography due to changes in ice cover and isostatic adjustment, as well as the evolution of freshwater fluxes resulting from surface ablation, iceberg calving and basal melt. The continental runoff model takes this input, calculates the drainage pathways and routes the freshwater fluxes to the surface grid points of an existing ocean model. This results in a chronology of temporally and spatially varying freshwater fluxes from the Last Glacial Maximum to the present day. We analyse the dependence of the runoff routing to grid resolution and parameters of the isostatic adjustment module of the ice sheet model.

A Novel Method of Electrical Discharge Machining in Gas Gap State Control

According to the characteristics of electrical discharge machining in gas, a reference voltage adjustment module was joined into the traditional reference voltage comparison gap state control system, to constitute a closed-loop gap state control system. The proposed gap state control method is expected to improve machining efficiency and machining accuracy of electrical discharge machining (EDM) in gas and improve the automaticity of electric discharge machine tool in gas. Meanwhile, it also has certain reference value for the traditional electrical discharge machining gap state control.

Adjustable focus laser sheet module for generating constant maximum width sheets for use in optical flow diagnostics

A general design of a laser light sheet module with adjustable focus is presented, where the maximum sheet width is preserved over a fixed region. In contrast, conventional focusing designs are associated with a variation in maximum sheet width with focal position. A four lens design is proposed here, where the first three lenses are employed for focusing, and the last for sheet expansion. A maximum sheet width of 1100 µm was maintained over a 50 mm long distance, for focal distances ranging from 75 to 500 mm, when a 532 nm laser beam with a beam quality factor M2 = 29 was used for illumination.

Manager And Business Student Work Goals: Implications And Recommendations For Educators

The correspondence between work goals, work requirements, and available organizational rewards is a primary determinant of job satisfaction and motivation and is also likely to impact job performance. Research suggests managers’ but not business students’ work goal priorities are well matched with the work requirements and available rewards of modern business organizations. Educational implications are discussed and recommendations are made to increase students’ understanding of the importance and impact of work goals in modern organizations and to facilitate their adjustment to the reward conditions and work requirements that they are likely to face in these organizations. The recommended work goal and adjustment module, which is integrated into the topic of motivation, is also expected to increase student understanding and interest in the motivation material by encouraging students to apply it to work adjustment and by helping them more personally relate to the motivation principles applied.

Identifying traffic count posts for origin-destination matrix adjustments: An approach to actual size networks

For transportation planners, the use of Origin-Destination (OD) matrix adjustment, is receiving considerable attention. However, there are concerns about the validity of results, primarily related to the number and location of traffic count posts. This leads to the question “What would be the best set of traffic count posts to use in OD matrix adjustment modules?” It has been proved that solving this problem is cumbersome. There have been several attempts (either exact or heuristic approaches) to address this problem. But due to the inherent complexities, there is no efficient and easy-to-use methodology able to address situations on the scale of actual cases. This study demonstrates a simple way of identifying traffic count posts tailored to deal w ith real-size cases. The proposed methodology is based on a maximum matrix coverage criterion. Using a limited number of incremental trials, a set of links whose traffic flows give maximum coverage of the demand and maximum fitness to the corresponding traffic count rates are identified as traffic count posts. The results show that more traffic count posts do not necessarily yield a better result. This article reports on a project conducted for the public works ministry of the UAE city of Sharjah.

Design of High-Precision Frequency Measure System Based on CPLD Time Delay Unit

Introduced a method for high-precision frequency measurement, which do do not need the complicated measuring control circumstance. CPLD is used for improving the precision of measurement by the method of quantization time-delay. High precision frequency adjustable module based on the method has been used on the photoelectricity data acquisition system. Frequency accuracy is −8.306×10−10, which meet the requirement of instrument.

Trip patterns in Akure, Nigeria: A land-use analytical approach

For transportation planners, the use of Origin-Destination (OD) matrix adjustment, is receiving considerable attention. However, there are concerns about the validity of results, primarily related to the number and location of traffic count posts. This leads to the question “What would be the best set of traffic count posts to use in OD matrix adjustment modules?” It has been proved that solving this problem is cumbersome. There have been several attempts (either exact or heuristic approaches) to address this problem. But due to the inherent complexities, there is no efficient and easy-to-use methodology able to address situations on the scale of actual cases. This study demonstrates a simple way of identifying traffic count posts tailored to deal w ith real-size cases. The proposed methodology is based on a maximum matrix coverage criterion. Using a limited number of incremental trials, a set of links whose traffic flows give maximum coverage of the demand and maximum fitness to the corresponding traffic count rates are identified as traffic count posts. The results show that more traffic count posts do not necessarily yield a better result. This article reports on a project conducted for the public works ministry of the UAE city of Sharjah.

Three-dimensional profile measurement of small lens using subpixel localization with color grating

In this paper a measurement method of three-dimensional profiles and a reconstruction system using subpixel localization with color gratings projection is described. The system has the effects of identical contrast on gratings for easier identification, switchable picture-in-picture on the display, and adjustable gratings with an adjustment module. The measurement method includes the following: the projection step; image extraction step; image fine-tuning step; subpixel localization processing step; and reconstruction step. A projection apparatus emits a grating towards a small lens under measurement, and forms a grating image on the small lens under measurement. The contrast values of the plurality of grating stripes of the grating image are identical. The grating image and picture-in-picture of a display can be fine-tuned and reconstruct the three-dimensional profiles of the small lens. This method can help improve measurement competence in the reverse engineering industry.

An Automatic Posture Planning Software of Arc Robot Based on SolidWorks API

An automatic posture planning software is presented in this paper. The main function of this software is posture planning of the welding torch. This software is developed based on the programming platform SolidWorks API. The four components of the software are path generation module, posture generation module, posture adjustment module and date out put module. This software could supplement a posture planning function to ROBOGUIDE. Some planning experiments are executed to prove the validity of the software.

A novel approach to denoising ion trap tandem mass spectra

BackgroundMass spectrometers can produce a large number of tandem mass spectra. They are unfortunately noise-contaminated. Noises can affect the quality of tandem mass spectra and thus increase the false positives and false negatives in the peptide identification. Therefore, it is appealing to develop an approach to denoising tandem mass spectra.ResultsWe propose a novel approach to denoising tandem mass spectra. The proposed approach consists of two modules: spectral peak intensity adjustment and intensity local maximum extraction. In the spectral peak intensity adjustment module, we introduce five features to describe the quality of each peak. Based on these features, a score is calculated for each peak and is used to adjust its intensity. As a result, the intensity will be adjusted to a local maximum if a peak is a signal peak, and it will be decreased if the peak is a noisy one. The second module uses a morphological reconstruction filter to remove the peaks whose intensities are not the local maxima of the spectrum. Experiments have been conducted on two ion trap tandem mass spectral datasets: ISB and TOV. Experimental results show that our algorithm can remove about 69% of the peaks of a spectrum. At the same time, the number of spectra that can be identified by Mascot algorithm increases by 31.23% and 14.12% for the two tandem mass spectra datasets, respectively.ConclusionThe proposed denoising algorithm can be integrated into current popular peptide identification algorithms such as Mascot to improve the reliability of assigning peptides to spectra.Availability of the softwareThe software created from this work is available upon request.

Experimental platform to assess the weight relief lifting and sitting pivot transfer movements

Several times per day, manual wheelchair (MW) users perform weight relief lifting or sitting pivot transfer movements using only their upper limbs. These motions generate significant articular constraints that could lead to musculo-skeletal disorders. The geometry of the hardware configurations of manual wheelchairs influence the movements produced by these MW users. To evaluate this influence, it was necessary to design an instrumented and adjustable experimental platform that would allow the articular efforts of the weight relief lifting and sitting pivot transfer movements to be estimated. The experimental platform that we have developed is composed of 5 adjustable modules: 2 seat modules, 2 armrest modules, and 1 footrest module. These modules are instrumented to allow the effort exerted by the subjects on their environment to be measured, while a motion capture system records the position of reflective markers positioned on the subject. The measured data, coupled with kinematic, anthropometric and dynamic models, make it possible to estimate the articular effort. The results reported in the literature confirm our results, thus validating our method and our instrumentation.

Relation between ictal asystole and cardiac sympathetic dysfunction shown by MIBG-SPECT

Tachyarrhythmias are common during epileptic seizures while bradyarrhythmias or asystoles are less frequent. Ictal asystole might be related to epilepsy-induced cardiac sympathetic denervation. To evaluate cardiac post-ganglionic denervation in epilepsy patients with ictal asystoles we assessed I123-meta-iodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) as a marker of post-ganglionic cardiac norepinephrine-uptake, using single photon emission computed tomography (MIBG-SPECT). In five of 844 patients with presurgical video-electroencephalography-monitoring, we recorded ictal asystoles during nine of 37 seizures. Asystole patients underwent cardiologic examination (Holter-electrocardiogram, echocardiogram) and cardiac MIBG-SPECT. We compared cardiac MIBG uptake in the asystole patients to the uptake in 18 temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) patients without bradyarrhythmias and in 14 controls without cardiac or neurological disease. As the cardiological examinations were unremarkable in all subjects, the heart/mediastinum-MIBG-uptake ratios (H/M-ratios) differed significantly between the three groups (P = 0.004). H/M-ratios were lower in asystole TLE patients (mean +/- SD: 1.58 +/- 0.3) than in patients without asystole (1.81 +/- 0.18; P = 0.037) or controls (1.96 +/- 0.16). Pronounced reduction in cardiac MIBG uptake of asystole patients indicates post-ganglionic cardiac catecholamine disturbance. Impaired sympathetic cardiac innervation limits adjustment and heart rate modulation, and may increase the risk of asystole and ultimately sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP).

Step size adjustment and extrapolation for time‐stepping schemes in non‐smooth dynamics

AbstractIn this paper we use step size adjustment and extrapolation methods to improve Moreau's time‐stepping scheme for the numerical integration of non‐smooth mechanical systems, i.e. systems with impact and friction. The scheme yields a system of inclusions, which is transformed into a system of projective equations. These equations are solved iteratively. Switching points are time instants for which the structure of the mechanical system changes, for example, time instants for which a sticking friction element begins to slide. We show how switching points can be localized and how these points can be resolved by choosing a minimal step size. In order to improve the integration of non‐smooth systems in the smooth parts, we show how the time‐stepping method can be used as a base integration scheme for extrapolation methods, which allow for an increase in the integration order. Switching points are processed by a small time step, while time intervals during which the structure of the system does not change are computed with a larger step size and improved integration order. The overall algorithm, which consists of a time‐stepping module, an extrapolation module and a step size adjustment module, is discussed in detail and some examples are given. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

P‐49: A Gamut‐Mapping Algorithm with Separate Skin and Non‐Skin Color Preference Controls for Wide‐Color‐Gamut TV

AbstractRecently emerging wide‐color‐gamut (WCG) TVs face two challenges. Viewers welcome the increase in color saturation of WCG TVs, but do not welcome unnatural skin color rendering due to the stretching of the narrower color gamut (such as the color gamut defined in sRGB/ITU‐R BT.709/601).In this paper, we propose a color gamut mapping algorithm (GMA□ to address the problem. The proposed GMA consists of two sub‐GMAs: the first sub‐GMA is focused on correctly rendering skin colors, and the second sub‐GMA is on rendering no‐ skin colors. In order to allow viewers to independently adjust skin and non‐skin colors according to their preference, the skin colors rendered by the first sub‐GMA and the non‐skin colors rendered by the second sub‐GMA go through two seperate viewer preference adjustment modules. Then the mapped and viewer‐adjusted skin and non‐skin colors are blended according to skin scores, which are scalars between 0 and 1. A skin score is assigned to a color to describe its likelihood to be a skin color and is obtained by extensive training on sample sets. Skin scores of an image are filtered by a linear lowpass filter to prevent generating artifacts.

Using CellProfiler for Automatic Identification and Measurement of Biological Objects in Images

Visual analysis is required to perform many biological experiments, from counting yeast colonies to measuring the size and shape of individual cells or the intensity of fluorescently labeled proteins within them. This unit outlines the use of CellProfiler, a free, open-source image analysis tool that extracts quantitative information from biological images. It includes a step-by-step protocol for automated analysis of the number, color, and size of yeast colonies growing on agar plates, but the methods can be adapted to identify and measure any objects in images. The flexibility of the software allows users to tailor pipelines of adjustable modules to fit different biological experiments, to generate accurate measurements from dozens or even hundreds of thousands of images.

Effects of a Behavioral Intervention on Antiretroviral Medication Adherence Among People Living With HIV

To examine the effect of a 15-session individually delivered cognitive behavioral intervention on antiretroviral (ART) medication adherence. A multisite, 2-group, randomized controlled trial. Two hundred four HIV-infected participants with self-reported ART adherence <85% from a total of 3818 participants screened were randomized into the trial. Potential participants were recruited for the main trial based on sexual risk criteria in Los Angeles, Milwaukee, New York, and San Francisco. The primary outcome of the intervention was a reduction in HIV transmission risk behaviors. Fifteen 90-minute individually delivered sessions were divided into 3 modules: Stress, Coping, and Adjustment; Safer Behaviors; and Health Behaviors, including an emphasis on ART adherence. Controls received no intervention until trial completion. Both groups completed follow-up assessments at 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25 months after randomization. Self-reported ART adherence as measured by 3-day computerized assessment. A significance difference in rates of reported adherence was observed between intervention and control participants at months 5 and 15, corresponding to the assessments after the Stress, Coping, and Adjustment module (5-month time point) and after the Health Behaviors module (15-month time point). The relative improvements among the intervention group compared with the control group dissipated at follow-up. Cognitive behavioral intervention programs may effectively improve ART adherence, but the effects of intervention may be short-lived.

An Analytical Approach to Harmonic Analysis and Controller Design of a STATCOM

<para xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> An analytical approach to harmonic analysis of a static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) based on Bessel functions of the first kind is described and a novel STATCOM controller with a fixed modulation index reference to minimize voltage and current harmonics is presented in this paper. Harmonic analysis of the STATCOM using the proposed analytical approach reveals that the total harmonic distortion of the STATCOM output voltage is minimal as the modulation index is fixed at unity at steady state. Then, a STATCOM controller with an adjustable modulation index during the transient period is designed by the pole assignment method to regulate ac system bus voltage in a very efficient manner. By comparing results obtained from the analytical approach, the computer simulations, and the experiments, it is concluded that the proposed analytical approach gives harmonic spectra which are very close to those from simulations and experiments. In addition, the step load change testings demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed STATCOM controller in regulating ac bus voltage. </para>