A semiempirical method for predicting the damping efficiency of hysteresis rods on-board small satellites is presented. It is based on the evaluation of dissipating energy variation of different ferromagnetic materials for two different rod shapes: thin film and circular cross-section rods, as a function of their elongation. Based on this formulation, an optimum design considering the size of h...

Operating a website with one hand on a touchscreen mobile phone remains a challenging task: solutions to adapt websites for mobile users do not address the ergonomic peculiarities of one-handed operation. We present the design and evaluation of the One Hand Wonder (OHW) – an easily-adaptable cross-platform JavaScript framework to support one-handed website navigation on touchscreen smartphones....

International donor agencies and governments of developing countries are seeking ways to increase the involvement of project beneficiaries in the design and management of development projects. However, very little systematic evidence is available on the potential costs and benefits of community participation (CP). The evaluation of CP is complicated by a division between advocates of efficiency...

We present an evaluation of the impact of transductive, inductive, aggregated and cross inductive mondrian conformal prediction on the validity and efficiency of predictions. The aim of the study is to give guidance to which methods perform best where there is limited data. The evaluation has been made on a large public dataset of Ames mutagenicity data, relevant for drug discovery, a spam data...

International donor agencies and governments of developing countries are seeking ways to increase the involvement of project beneficiaries in the design and management of development projects. However, very little systematic evidence is available on the potential costs and benefits of community participation (CP). The evaluation of CP is complicated by a division between advocates of efficiency...