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Exploring Virtual Reality as an Integrated Development Environment for Cyber-Physical Systems
2019
Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) development approaches tend to start from the physical (hardware) perspective, and the software is the final element in the process. However, this approach is unfit for the more software-intensive world that is increasingly iterative, connected, and constantly online. Many constraints prevent the application of iterative, incremental, and agile development methodologies, which now are the norm for many other fields of software. Time-consuming system validation can only start when both hardware and software components are ready, which implies that the software delivery and quality is almost always the final bottleneck in the CPS development and integration. Also …
Robust Mean Field Games with Application to Production of an Exhaustible Resource
2012
International audience; In this paper, we study mean field games under uncertainty. We consider a population of players with individual states driven by a standard Brownian motion and a disturbance term. The contribution is three-fold: First, we establish a mean field system for such robust games. Second, we apply the methodology to an exhaustible resource production. Third, we show that the dimension of the mean field system can be significantly reduced by considering a functional of the first moment of the mean field process.
Opinion dynamics in social networks through mean field games
2016
Emulation, mimicry, and herding behaviors are phenomena that are observed when multiple social groups interact. To study such phenomena, we consider in this paper a large population of homogeneous social networks. Each such network is characterized by a vector state, a vector-valued controlled input, and a vector-valued exogenous disturbance. The controlled input of each network aims to align its state to the mean distribution of other networks' states in spite of the actions of the disturbance. One of the contributions of this paper is a detailed analysis of the resulting mean-field game for the cases of both polytopic and $mathcal L_2$ bounds on controls and disturbances. A second contrib…
MFNet: Multi-feature convolutional neural network for high-density crowd counting
2020
The crowd counting task involves the issue of security, so now more and more people are concerned about it. At present, the most difficult problem of population counting consists in: how to make the model distinguish human head features more finely in the densely populated area, such as head overlap and how to find a small-scale local head feature in an image with a wide range of population density. Facing these challenges, we propose a network for multiple feature convolutional neural network, which is called MFNet. It aims to get high-quality density maps in the high-density crowd scene, and at the same time to perform the task of the count and estimation of the crowd. In terms of crowd c…
Overview of the Development of Hydraulic Above Knee Prosthesis
2017
This paper presents research and development of hydraulically powered above-knee prosthesis (HAKP) and novel prosthetic foot, in order to enable transfemoral (TF) amputees perform stair ascent and other daily activities in as much as possible natural manner. Functions that need exertion of large forces and moments during locomotion such as walking up stairs and slopes cannot be naturally accomplished by commercially available microprocessor-controlled above-knee (AK) prostheses. Also, such prosthetic devices are expensive and unaffordable for major part of amputee population, so mostly used commercial prostheses are energetically passive devices. Deficiency of passive prosthetic devices is …
Does EU cohesion policy work? Theory and evidence
2017
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of European Cohesion Policy in the regions of 12 EU countries in the period 1991–2008, on the basis of a spatial growth model, which allows for the identification of both direct and indirect effects of EU funds on GDP per worker growth. We find that “Objective 1” funds are characterized by strong spatial externalities and a positive and concave effect on the growth of GDP per worker, which reaches a peak at the ratio funds/GDP of approximately 3 percent and becomes non-significant after 4 percent. “Objective 2” and “Cohesion” funds have nonsignificant effects, while all the other funds exert a positive and significant effect, but their size is very lim…
Diagramas ¿Ilustraciones eficaces en la instrucción en ciencias?
2018
<span>Los diagramas científicos constituyen un tipo particular de ilustración que pretende mostrar relaciones entre conceptos antes que identificar entidades particulares, esto es, su objetivo no es reproducir fielmente la realidad (Lowe, 1986). Estos diagramas se caracterizan por contener información codificada de manera altamente económica</span>
Dificultades conceptuales y epistemológicas en el aprendizaje de los procesos químicos
2018
<span>La línea de investigación sobre las concepciones alternativas de los estudiantes en temas de Ciencia ha sido, desde hace más de 20 años, el eje medular del cuerpo teórico de conocimientos que hoy llamamos Didáctica de las Ciencias. Se dispone de mucha información sobre las ideas, preconcepciones o concepciones alternativas como puede apreciarse en la literatura didáctica. Y aunque, como indica Duit (1993), el dominio en el que más se ha investigado es en el de la Física, también hay un 18% de los más de 3,000 artículos referenciados por aquellos autores a los que podemos acudir en el campo de la enseñanza-aprendizaje de la Química (Furió, 1996).</span>
The impact on disaster governance of the intersection of environmental hazards, border conflict and disaster responses in Ladakh, India
2018
Abstract The Indian border region of Ladakh, in Jammu and Kashmir State, has a sensitive Himalayan ecosystem and has experienced natural hazards and disasters of varying scales over the decades. Ladakh is also situated on a fault-line of multiple tensions, including ongoing border disagreements and intermittent conflict with China and Pakistan. The Indian army has thus become a permanent fixture in the region. This paper examines the implications of the intersection of these environmental and security factors for disaster governance in the region. Using Social Domains theory, the paper argues first, that a hazard-centred paradigm of ‘universal’ disaster science emerges from the colonial per…
The Challenge of Coexistence in Socially Vulnerable Schools
2017
Abstract Society in general and schools in particular continue to express their concerns with regard to the many challenges posed nowadays by living in a globalized world, where learning to coexist involves knowing oneself and those around us. Therefore, the professionals from the education sector and specially from the most vulnerable contexts demand the necessity to know strategies and initiatives which enable them to build a democratic school, where learning to coexist is the key to educate engaged citizens living in an increasingly intercultural, changing world. The study presented here has been conducted in two differentiated, but complementary, phases. During the first phase a documen…