This study investigated the prediction of the discomfort caused by simultaneous noise and vibration from the discomfort caused by noise and the discomfort caused by vibration when they are presented separately. A total of 24 subjects used absolute magnitude estimation to report their discomfort caused by seven levels of noise (70-88 dBA SEL), 7 magnitudes of vibration (0.146-2.318 ms(- 1.75)) a...

Linux is increasingly used to power everything from embedded devices to supercomputers. Developers of such systems often start with a mainline kernel from kernel.org and then apply patches for their application domain. Many of these patches represent crosscutting concerns in that they do not fit within a single program module and are scattered throughout the kernel sources—easily affecting over...

Attacks on host computers by malicious peripherals are a growing problem; the inexorable advance of powerful, small, cheap peripherals, which attach to plug-and-play buses, has made such attacks easy to mount. At the same time, commodity operating systems lack systematic defenses. We present Cinch, a pragmatic response to this threat. Cinch transforms USB peripherals to untrusted network endpoi...

Methods based on projective geometry have become popular in machine vision because they lead to elegant mathematics, and easy-to-solve linear equations [Longuett-Higgins 81, Hartley 97a, Quan & Lan 99]. It is often not realized that one pays a heavy price for this. Such method do not correctly model the physics of image formation and as a result require more correspondences and are considerably...

This RFC comments on recent proposals to extend TCP. It argues that the backward compatible extensions proposed in RFC’s 1072 and 1185 should not be pursued, and proposes an alternative way to evolve the Internet protocol suite. Its purpose is to stimulate discussion in the Internet community.

Thus, there is an urgent need to abolish this practice. Branding is a criminal offence under Indian Penal Code-324. Extensive education programs explaining its harmful effects aimed at rural illiterate masses including people involved in carrying out branding are required. All physicians need to be aware of this possibility while seeing a child with inexplicable burn scars, lest it might be lab...

Context: There is growing interest in establishing software engineering as an evidence-based discipline. To that end, replication is often used to gain confidence in empirical findings, as opposed to reproduction where the goal is showing the correctness, or validity of the published results. Objective: To consider what is required for a replication study to confirm the original experiment and ...

The development of the lookaside buffer has simulated wide-area networks, and current trends suggest that the simulation of congestion control will soon emerge. In this paper, we validate the evaluation of the World Wide Web. RidingSoken, our new methodology for the visualization of 2 bit architectures, is the solution to all of these issues.

In this paper, we describe the influence of vibratory adaptation on vibration perception and its correction method. Vibration strength after change depends on the vibration frequency before change even if the vibration frequency itself does not change. We found that the higher the vibration frequency before change, the weaker the perceived vibration strength. To correct this perception gap, the...