A Virtual Instrument (VI) is a computer model of a scientific instrument that is designed to be used in a laboratory. My objective for this project is to create two VIs, the Function Generator (FG) and the Digital Multi-Meter (DMM), that will be made available to the McPherson College Science Faculty and students. The FG generates functions such as sine, saw-tooth, square, and triangle waves cr...

We describe a series of experiments using sequential neural networks to model the effect of contextual bias in music cognition. The model quantifies the strength and specificity of a virtual listener’s expectations while listening to functional tonal harmonic chord sequences. The network integrates pools of duple and triple metric units with pitch class representations of chords. The ’listener’...

The electric power grid is a vital network for every aspect of our life. The lack of buffer between generation and consumption makes the power grid unstable and fragile. While large scale power storage is not technically and economically feasible at present stage, we argue that a virtual buffer could be effectively implemented through a demand side management strategy built upon the concept of ...

The excess usage of energy in a building is identified and it is controlled and conserved using Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Engineering Workbench. The unnecessary usage of energy for appliances in human absence is detected and the appliance isswitched off, using ARM controller, mbed NXP LPC1768 integrated with the LabVIEW, by continuous monitoring of appliance status. ACS712 is the power...

Study of three-dimensional (3D) gaze and depth perception in immersive virtual environment (IVE) systems is an important research area. Several approaches have been proposed, but the usage of gaze-screen information for depth perception measurement in IVE has never been reported. We suggest a new approach using geometric model to measure depth perception in IVE. We extend information from binoc...

background: in-service education is one of the best and major methods to provide, train and improve the performance of the staffs. this study aims to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the virtual trainings from the staffs' perspective of mashhad university of medical sciences. methods: this is a cross-sectional study conducted among staffs from different parts of the therapy depart...

The Hess screen test was designed by Walter Rudolf Hess in 1908 with subsequent modifications.(1, 2) Hess was a famous neurophysiologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1949 for his research into the functional organization of the vegetative nervous system.(3, 4) The original test used a black screen on which was marked a square-meter tangent scale. The tangent nature of the coordinate lines...

The widespread deployment of smart meters for electricity gas and water consumption to modernise the electricity systems, has been associated with privacy concerns. In this paper, we present protocols that can be used to privately compute aggregate meter measurements, allowing for fraud and leakage detection as well as further statistical processing of meter measurements, without revealing any ...

Waiting at ramp meters and traveling on freeways were tested using a computer administered stated preference (CASP) survey and a virtual experience stated preference (VESP) method employing a driving simulator. The selections varied in the number of minutes waiting at a ramp meter with vehicle speed once on the freeway. The subjects ranked the selections in order of preference. The results were...

We are concerned with robust and accurate forecasting of multiphase flow rates in wells and pipelines during oil and gas production. In practice, the possibility to physically measure the rates is often limited; besides, it is desirable to estimate future values of multiphase rates based on the previous behavior of the system. In this work, we demonstrate that a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) re...