Matching Box Research Articles

The Tic Tac Toe Computer

Abstract: Donald Miche created a match box computer that can learn and improve at tic tac toe which comprises of 304 match boxes; however that is an extreme amount and even then it can’t play second I aim to fix this by creating a much more optimum version of this tic tac toe computer which is less bulky and can play both second and first. One method of achieving this may be by creating a book with every possible outcome that is more compact or by perhaps by using a bigger box that can contain more beads that correspond to slots on the board; hence, allowing the computer to be more compact while also allowing it to play with itself and s both player one and two; Another Method is by creating a beads and box compute similar to MENACE but the box is smaller and therefore can fit more beads allowing for many less boxes and a much more probabilistic computer. These two methods are both less tedious to make, a lot more compact, and simplistic. This Matchbox engine can play entirely probabilistically while being more compact and simple.

Developing Macbox Media in Teaching English Grammar for Indonesian Students

This research aims to develop a learning media namely, Macbox. This media is a kind of flashcard built with the appropriate concept of matching box. This research is a Research and Develoment (R&D) research with four steps, 1) Definition, 2) Design, 3) Development, 4) Dissemination. Interview, observation and test were used to obtain the data. The data results show that the macbox media was suitable for use by students. It can be seen from the validation from the material and media experts. Besides, in the media trial, the pretest results the average score in the control class is 48,02. Meanwhile in the experimental class the average value is 48,47. Then in the posttest score the average score in the control class is 62,76. Meanwhile in the experimental class the average value is 75,41. The data show that it increased students’ grammar mastery who taught using macbox media. Thus, it can be concluded that the development of macbox media is very feasible and effective to used in teaching grammar.

Morgellons disease: a narrative review.

Morgellons disease is characterized by the persistent delusion of skin infestation, ultimately inflicting wounds and impairing quality of life. There is insufficient and conflicting research pertaining to this condition, imposing challenges on clinicians in understanding, diagnosing, and treating it. In this review, we summarize the available literature on Morgellons disease including its historical evolution, epidemiology, proposed pathophysiology, underlying structural and functional brain pathologies, typical and atypical clinical presentations, diagnosis, and treatment. A comprehensive review of the literature was conducted on PubMed, Embase, and Scopus using specified keywords. Selected articles were screened by two independent reviewers based on set inclusion and exclusion criteria. Conflicts were resolved by a third reviewer as needed. No limit to the date of selected articles was set due to the scarce literature available on the subject. Morgellons disease is an underdiagnosed entity, owing mostly to the lack of an established pathophysiology and treatment guidelines. While many authors classify it as a type of delusional infestation (DI), others correlate MD with an underlying spirochetal infection, namely Lyme disease. Neuroimaging studies have revealed abnormalities in the "fronto-striato-thalamo-parietal network", a finding common to patients with DI, in addition to alterations in structures related to the "Itch Processing Pathway". Patients tend to extract fibers from their skin lesions and place them in a match box hence the term "match box sign". The diagnosis is that of exclusion, requiring extensive work up to rule out secondary causes and differential diagnoses. Treatment is largely based on the use of antipsychotics, with or without cognitive behavioral therapy. Despite being a diagnosis of exclusion, clinicians must be aware of this entity and have a profound understanding of the pathogenesis underlying it. Upon clinical suspicion, secondary Morgellons should always be ruled out through a thorough history taking, physical examination, and laboratory exams. Despite the challenges brought by the heterogeneous presentation of the condition and the paucity of research revolving around it, the great impact that Morgellons disease has on patients' quality of life forms a pressing need for its adequate detection, diagnosis, and treatment.

Performance of BL4.1 infrared beamline at SLRI

The mirror system of the infrared beamline, BL4.1, at the Synchrotron Light Research Institute was successfully re-aligned, and a new matching box was utilized to bring the collimated synchrotron-IR beam into the spectrometer. Fish sauce was used as the sample to examine the performance of the FT-IR measurements. It was found that synchrotron IR could resolve the secondary structure of amide I in the range 1600-1200 cm-1 while only the primary structure was observed when using IR from the Globar source. The absorption spectra taken using synchrotron IR exhibit a signal-to-noise ratio twice as high in the region 1290-1190 cm-1 and over ten times higher in the region 2550-2450 cm-1, comparing to those obtained by using the Globar source.

3D Vehicle Object Tracking Algorithm Based on Bounding Box Similarity Measurement

Effectively extracting features from a discrete point cloud is necessary for three-dimensional (3D) vehicle tracking. However, a point cloud data set is large and sparsely distributed, hindering the success of vehicle-tracking algorithms. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a 3D vehicle object tracking algorithm based on bounding box similarity measurement. The algorithm includes state prediction, temporal association, trajectory management, state update, and other processes. Also incorporated is a vehicle object temporal association method based on a siamese encoder. The bounding box is encoded into a high-dimensional space, the feature distance is calculated as the time series association cost, and triplet loss was introduced to urge the encoder to learn the geometric similarity of the truth matching box. A 3D Kalman filter and greedy matching are used to effectuate 3D vehicle object tracking algorithm. The experimental results using a KITTI multi-object tracking dataset show that the proposed algorithm can achieve good vehicle tracking performance. In the case of frame loss of point cloud in the frequency reduction simulation, compared with the benchmark method AB3DMOT, the average multi-object tracking accuracy ( AMOTA) and the average multi-object tracking accuracy ( AMOTP) of the improved method are increased by 2.62% and 1.41% respectively, and the performance is better in the frame loss scene.

Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Pakistani Teenager

The individual (K.N) seeking support was a 16-year-old female. She was referred due to concerns related to behaviors such as emitting loud noises, hitting and biting oneself, cranial self-impact, and limited social interaction. The assessment process involved conducting behavioral observations and compassionate clinical interviews with her parents, teacher, and a clinical psychologist. Additionally, the Childhood Autism Rating Scale (C.A.R.S) (Schopler, Reichier, & Renner, 1988) was employed to evaluate the extent of the challenges. This assessment was conducted through observations of K.N and in collaboration with their teacher to comprehensively assess her condition and rule out the presence of other potential disabilities. K.N's score on the C.A.R.S was 54, indicating placement within the severely autistic category.  Based on behavioral observation and assessment it has been hypothesized that K.N exhibits characteristics consistent with autism spectrum disorder, indicating a need for comprehensive support. To address the K.N's challenges, we developed a tailored Individualized Intervention Program incorporating diverse behavior modification techniques. One of these approaches involved the implementation of Floortime (DIR) strategies to enrich the individual's social interactions and broaden her communication network. Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT) was used to reduce self-disruptive behaviors and encourage communication. By the end of therapeutic session eye-contact improved and she started maintaining eye contact for 4-5 seconds while before intervention plan, she had no eye-contact. she also displayed increased engagement in joint attention activities, allowing another person to interact with her 40% of the time. Furthermore, she demonstrated an 80% success rate in independently wearing her jacket or sweater when going outside. She started making requests when asked what she wants instead of indulging into self-injurious behavior 60% of the time. In the area of academic or cognitive skills K.N was able to identify opposites, differentiate between masculine and feminine forms, write five prepositions, compose three simple sentences about herself, type dictated words on an iPad, name the days of the week, perform basic addition on a calculator, and sequence numbers up to nine. In the area of motor skills, she was able to ride gym-bicycle for few minutes. K.N was also able to paint pots, stack matching boxes in a shelf. These remarkable advancements were achieved over the course of nineteen sessions.

POVERTY SITUATION OF THE FARMERS IN THE SOUTHERN RURAL AREAS OF BANGLADESH: A CASE STUDY ON BARUIPARA, BAGERHAT

The present study aims at assessing the poverty situation of the rural farmers and its extent in a particular area of a southern district of Bagerhat, Bangladesh. The poverty situation had been analyzed by using the facts of income and living standard considering the conditions of clothing, housing, education, occupation, availability of food, and medical facilities. Relevant data were collected from 50 households (from the total of 300) involved in crop and non- crop cultivation. The households, estimated monthly income of Tk. 2754 (referred to as "1$ a day") was considered as extremely poor and Tk. 5508 (referred to as"2 $ a day") as moderately poor. In the study area 24 percent households were found to be extremely poor and 40 percent were moderately poor. The pattern of income and expenditure of the households concerned revealed the facts that about 34 percent were poor in clothing, about 28 percent were illiterate, whereas 48 percent were in want of food. Regarding housing, 26 per cent houses were match box type house, and about 62 percent could afford to avid of the indigenous medical facilities, 46 percent could go to public clinic during illness. The extent of poverty had been tried to be studied by drawing a poverty line using the cost of basic needs. Therefore, the poverty situation requires a comprehensive strategy in order to maintain sustainable resources as a means to reduce the existing condition of poverty.

I Cannot Tell You All the Story: Narrative, Historical Knowledge, and the Museum in H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine

In H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine, the Time Traveller visits a museum. The episode does little more than supply the Time Traveller with a new box of matches, yet the text is structured to suggest that the Palace of Green Porcelain will provide important information. A vast museum, the Palace houses paleontological, geological, chemical, military, ethnographic, and classical collections, as well as a colossal library. Universal survey museums like the Palace were the dominant form of museum after the mid nineteenth century and were intended to display the totality of human history. This was supposedly achieved through the application of the structures of literary narrative to the museum, in order to construct a bildungsroman of the world. This narrative was intended to provide complete and universal knowledge of the past, but also to allow that “the Present and the Future be interpreted or guessed at,” according to Thomas Carlyle. A universal collection like the Palace, therefore, should contain vital information about the past, the present, and the future. The fact that it doesn’t is key to understanding The Time Machine. The Palace represents the foibles of Victorian historicism, with its claims to cohesion and universality, and is a material testament to its result: mere fragments left behind.

Abstract- Poster

Background:Delusional Infestation is characterized by patients' fixed belief that their skin and body is infested by small,vivid(or less frequently inanimate)pathogens,although there is no medical or microbiological evidence for this. It is a type of Somatic Delusion.Case Report:63year old female,referred by dermatologist with complaints of being infested with both animate and inanimate particles and itching all over the body from 6months. She was preoccupied with multiple somatic sensations all over her body. She reported that these particles were being emitted from her orifices like ears,eyes,nose,and skin pores. These particles penetrated her bones and were crushing them in to powder. The animate ones flowed through her skin and would be found on the place where she sits. These would get collected in clusters under her skin and she could feel them as nodules. Patient also had symptoms of mild depressive disorder secondary to these symptoms. There was a positive Specimen(Match box)sign observed.Results:Diagnosis of Persistent delusional disorder- infestation type with mild depressive disorder was made and was treated with antipsychotics.20% improvement in the symptoms was reported a week later.Conclusion:This patient has been experiencing primary delusional infestation. She has continued to present to many different specialists with her complaints and is adamant about the presence of these particles. Due to the very low prevalence of this disorder,it is valuable to document it in order to understand and treat this phenomenon.

Research on Specific Long-term Single Object Tracking Algorithms in the Context of Traffic

A robust object tracking algorithm based on a three-channel Siamese network is proposed for the visual object tracking problem in the context of traffic. By adding the prediction box in the previous frame as the second template, our network obtained the second template to perform secondary prediction on the current frame. Then, in order to make sure whether the model to accurately regress the correct prediction box by the template frame or the previous frame, we design a similarity matching method based on Structure Similarity Index Measure(SSIM). We have also designed a template update method to ensure that the network selects the correct matching box. Our algorithm has a major advantage in robustness over other real-time target tracking algorithms such as SiamRPN.

A Method to Suppress the Effect of Total Reflection on PLIF Imaging in Annular Flow

Planar laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF) is widely applied to investigate annular flow, but it is affected by the pipe wall and complex interface waves. In this article, the main sources of distortions for PLIF imaging in annular flow are discussed. In existing papers, the distortion caused by the total reflection is corrected through optical path analysis based on the assumption that the liquid film is smooth and uniform, but the gas–liquid interface usually fluctuates. The correction model needs to be further improved to correct the distortion caused by total reflection. The experimental method PLIF70 without the refraction matching box is analyzed to investigate the effects of configuration and measurement angle on the distortion. Finally, a novel method which can suppress the effect of the total internal reflection by reducing the measurement angle is proposed, which has a better performance even under complex interface waves. Moreover, the effect of measurement angle on PLIF imaging in annular flow is discussed.

The Effect of Using the Media Matching Box in Improving the Ability of Number Recognition in Students

This research was motivated by the problems that the researchers found in SKh Idaman Hati Tangerang City, namely in children with intellectual disabilities in class V in learning the introduction of numbers 1-5. This study aims to determine whether the use of matching box learning media has a significant effect in increasing the ability to recognize numbers at the stage of mentioning numbers 1-5 children with intellectual disabilities. The type of research used is experimental research with Single Subject Research. Data collection techniques used, namely observation, documentation, and instruments. Subjects involved in this study amounted to 1 child. The results showed that the ability to mention numbers 1-5 children with intellectual disabilities got an average percentage or mean level from the baseline-1 phase (A1), intervention (B), and baseline-2 phase (A2), namely 47%, 97.75% , and 87%. The data shows that children with intellectual disabilities experienced an increase in the percentage after receiving intervention through media matching boxes, so it can be concluded that the use of media matching boxes has an effect on increasing the ability to recognize numbers 1-5 in children with intellectual disabilities in class V at SKh Idaman Hati, Tangerang City

Optimization of power matching and transfer in the helicon plasma discharge

Helicon plasma source is being developed at the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS, Novosibirsk. The parameters are studied of the plasma confined in a mirror trap configuration of the magnetic field at an operating frequency of 13.56 MHz. For matching the antenna impedance and generator load, the Π-type matching box was designed and successfully tested at powers of 20–25 kW. The low reflected power (1–2%) was obtained, as compared to that for the L-type matching network used previously (the reflected power was more than 15% at the generator output power of 18 kW). The triple Langmuir probe is used to determine the plasma density. The plasma resistive characteristics were determined using the Rogowski coil measuring the RF antenna current. In the experiments, the plasma with a density of ∽5⋅1012 cm-3 and an electron temperature on axis of 10 eV was obtained, and the RF power transfer efficiency was ∽85% at the RF power of 25 kW.

Assessment of eye-tracking scanpath outliers using fractal geometry

Outlier scanpaths identification is a crucial preliminary step in designing visual software, digital media analysis, radiology training and clustering participants in eye-tracking experiments. However, the task is challenging due to the visual irregularity of the scanpath shapes and the difficulty in dimensionality reduction due to geometric complexity. Conventional approaches have used heat maps to exclude scanpaths that lack a similarity pattern. However, the typically-used packages, such as ScanMatch and MultiMatch often generate discordant results when outlier identification is done empirically. This paper introduces a novel outlier evaluation approach by integrating the fractal dimension (FD), capturing the geometrical complexity of patterns, as an additional parameter with the heat map. This additional parameter is used to evaluate the degree of influence of a scanpath within a dataset. More specifically, the 2D Cartesian coordinates of a scanpath are fitted to a space filling 1D fractal curve to characterise its temporal FD. The FDs of the scanpaths are then compared to match their geometric complexity to one another. The findings indicate that the FD can be a beneficial additional parameter when evaluating the candidacy of poorly matching scanpaths as outliers and performs better at identifying unusual scanpaths than using other methods, including scanpath matching, Jaccard, or bounding box methods alone.

Case series of delusional parasitosis in an emergency department: Sociodemographic features and clinical outcomes

IntroductionA delusion of parasitosis is defined as the fixed, false belief of infestation by invisible organisms or fibrous material of unknown origin. The differential diagnosis is true infection, substance use disorder, dementia or other neuropsychiatric disease.ObjectivesOur goal was to characterize delusions of parasitosis, classically named Ekbom syndrome, among individuals attending our emergency department (ED).MethodsOver a four-year period (2017-2020), we carried out a retrospective case-register study of patients with DSM-5 Ekbom syndrome attending an ED that provides mental health services to an area of nearly 450.000 inhabitants in Sabadell (Barcelona, Spain).ResultsThere were 13 eligible patients: 7 were diagnosed for the first time and 6 had multiple episodes. Female-to-male ratio was 1.6:1; average age was 56.9. The most common diagnosis was delusional disorder (n=5;8.5%), followed by schizophrenia (n=3;23.1%) and organic disorders (n=2;15.4%). Origin: Africa (n=5;38.5%), South-America (n=4;30.8%) and Spain (n=4;30.8%). Fifty percent showed poor treatment compliance. Antipsychotics used: risperidone (n=8;61.54%), olanzapine (n=4;30.8%). Five patients received antidepressants. Most patients had previously been seen by other medical specialties (internal medicine, dermatology and hematology). ‘’Match box sign’’: 7 patients (53.8%). Cerebral atrophy was present on brain scan in 4 patients. After discharge: acute psychiatric unit (n=7), outpatient appointments (n=4), day hospital (n=1) and 1 to a psychogeriatric unit.ConclusionsDelusions of parasitosis are rare in our emergency department. The typical patient is a postmenopausal woman, a visitor or immigrant to Spain. Effective treatment requires a focus on cultural, gender, and age aspects, with close cooperation between psychiatry and other relevant specialties.

Evaluating different lightning parameterization schemes to simulate lightning flash counts over Maharashtra, India

Thunderstorms source of lightning discharge is a major hazard to humans. In India, the loss of human life due to thunderstorms is high because of frequent lightning during pre-monsoon season (March-May). Therefore, simulation of lightning flash counts based on various lightning parameterization schemes and Lightning Potential Index (LPI) in Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model are evaluated over Maharashtra, India. The offline diagnostic methods for calculating lightning flashes are also evaluated from the model generated storm parameters. The observation from Maharashtra Lightning Detection Network (LDN) is used to validate the simulated total lightning flash for four events. The lightning flashes calculations by following Price and Rind (1992) based on cloud top height (PR92CTH) and vertically integrated ice water path (IWP) simulated the spatial pattern comparably well. The lightning parameterization based on cloud top height defined by the radar reflectivity factor threshold of 20 dBZ (DLP2) has performed better as compared to observation. The results show (i) better spatial pattern and frequency distribution of lightning flashes, (ii) accumulated rainfall, maximum reflectivity and time evolutions are in good agreement with flashes, (iii) correlation between simulated flash and hydrometeors are higher, (iv) the number of matching grid boxes due to randomness is also higher, 74.9%, 56.5%, 68.1% and 82.7% of matching grid boxes for the four cases and (v) the results based on LPI are also in consistent with the results of DLP2. The study highlights the robustness of DLP2 and indicates a promising future for the operational forecast of lightning prediction.

Evaluation Of Indigenous Techniques Against Pulse Beetle Callosobruchus Maculatus (F.) In Black Gram

Indigenous techniques viz., match boxes @ 10 no, lime powder @ 15 g, camphor @ 1 g, common salt @ 200 g, cow dung ash @ 80 g, buffalo dung ash @ 80 g, cow dung powder @ 100 g, buffalo dung powder @ 100 g, goat pellet powder @ 100 g/kg grain, gunny soaked in cow urine, gunny soaked in buffalo urine were evaluated as grain protectants against pulse beetle Callosobruchus maculatus (F.) in stored black gram at the Post Harvest Technology Centre, Bapatla. There was no adult emergence and grain damage in the treatments of dung powders besides camphor and ash even after six months. Further, the germination of stored seed kept with camphor, dung ashes and powders were good which ranged between 84.33% and 92.33%. A total of 3622.67 adults emerged from the untreated grain in 180 days of storage and caused 57.67% grain damage which resulted in 4.67% germination only. Besides filling up of inter-grain space, keeping a surface layer of 2.5 cm of powdered materials like ash and cattle dung could prevent pulse beetles successfully.

ICIoU: Improved Loss Based on Complete Intersection Over Union for Bounding Box Regression

An object detector based on convolutional neural network (CNN) has been widely used in the field of computer vision because of its simplicity and efficiency. The average accuracy of CNN model detection results in the object detector is greatly affected by the loss function. The precision of the localization algorithm in the loss function is the main factor affecting the result. Based on the complete intersection over union (CIoU) loss function, an improved penalty function is proposed to improve the localization accuracy. Specifically, the algorithm more comprehensively considers matching bounding boxes between prediction with ground truth, using the proportional relationship of the aspect ratio from both bounding boxes. Under the same aspect ratio of the two bounding boxes, the influence factors of the prediction box on localization accuracy were considered. In this way, the function of the penalty function is strengthened, and localization accuracy of the network model improved. This loss function is called Improved CIoU (ICIoU). Experiments on the Udacity, PASCAL VOC, and MS COCO datasets have demonstrated the effectiveness of ICIoU in improving localization accuracy of network models by using the one-stage object detector YOLOv4. Compared with CIoU, the proposed ICIoU improved average precision (AP) by 0.57% and AP75 by 0.12% on Udacity, AP by 0.26% and AP75 by 1.28% on PASCAL VOC, and AP by 0.06% and AP75 by 0.65% on MS COCO.

Performance of selected organic wastes for available technologies for biogas, Kisumu City, Kenya

Inadequate solid wastes disposal exists in Kenya, for unsightliness and health problems. This study determined that available digesters performance differed for size and bio-material. Larger fixed dome, flexible tubing and ordinary drum (0.1 m3, 2.4 m3) sizes were thus tested within Kisumu County. Despite fixed dome having known design parameters, these technologies are not embraced for use. Market wastes were chopped to size while food and faecal wastes needed own or little water content, though all were mixed to porridge consistency. The 0.1 m3 drum produced high CO2 gas in small quantities as match box lighting test was positive only for market wastes (0.1 m3) tube. The larger dome and 2.4 m3 tube respectively produced gas for market (65%) and faecal (56%) wastes. A natural co-generation was observed in market waste and need for determining key digester size design parameters. The manual preparation best informs design automation and bio-digester management.

Porous Desiccant Wheel Produced Using Inductively Coupled Plasma Technique

In this study, the adsorption material is fabricated from the aluminum residues using inductively coupled plasma (ICP) technique and applied as a raw material to manufacture porous solid desiccant wheel. An ICP system is developed to refine aluminum hydroxide extracted from aluminum residues into activated alumina by utilizing its high energy densities. A six-turn induction coil is suitable for our match box to produce alternating electromagnetic field, to sustain space discharge, and to have well reaction zone. The ICP generator power is set at 800 W, and the batch of aluminum residues is purified to generate activated alumina with a BET surface area of 122 m2/g. The porous desiccant wheel is manufactured using activated alumina with a 3-D random porous structure and applied to adsorb moisture from the air. The equilibrium time for the solid desiccant wheel and humidity are determined by observed kinetics in the adsorption experiment. The adsorption equilibrium time of the desiccant wheel (60 pores per inch) with 15-cm diameter and 5-cm thickness is 12 minutes. The maximum adsorption capacity is 51.4 g (at 12 min) and per gram of the desiccant wheel can adsorb 0.184-g water.