In order to meet the increasing demand for high-performance and high-efficiency vehicles, this paper proposes a novel electromagnetic linear energy-reclaiming suspension technology based on McPherson independent suspension, analyzes its core component—ELA-ERD (Electromagnetic Linear Actuation Energy-Reclaiming Device). ELA-ERD, taking shock absorber piston rod as inner yoke, has compact structu...

We show several consequences of the abc-conjecture for questions in analytic number theory which were of interest to Paul Erd} os: For any given polynomial f(x) 2 Zx], we deduce, from the abc-conjecture, an asymptotic estimate for the frequency with which f(n) is squarefree, when n is an integer (and also deduce such estimates for binary homogenous forms). Amongst several applications of this r...

While neuronal desynchronization in the mu (≈ 10 Hz) and beta (≈ 20 Hz) frequency bands has long been known to be an EEG index of sensorimotor activity, this method has rarely been employed to study auditory perception. In the present study, we measured mu and beta event-related desynchronisation (ERD) while participants were asked to listen to vocal and triangle-wave melodies and to sing them ...

Amplitude modulation (AM) analysis defines precisely the EEG signal envelope changes at sampling frequency. Here we demonstrate mathematically that event-related desynchronization (ERD) corresponds to the integration of AM-EEG. We applied this new approach to a group of 12 healthy human volunteers hearing repeated auditory stimuli and statistically compared the results from ERD to those from AM...

This paper describes the University of Amsterdam’s participation in the short track of the Entity Recognition & Disambiguation Challenge 2014 (ERD 2014). We describe how we adapt the Semanticizer—an open-source entity linking framework developed primarily at the University of Amsterdam—to the task of the ERD challenge: linking named entities in search engine queries. We steer the Semanticizer’s...

An automated cognitive approach for the design of Information Systems is presented. It is supposed to be used at the very beginning of the design process, between the stages of requirements determination and analysis, including the stage of analysis. In the context of the approach used either UML or ERD notations may be used for model representation. The approach provides the opportunity of usi...

This paper evaluates the performances of the OWL 2 reasoners HermiT, FaCT++ and TReasoner in the context of an ontological decision support system in designing entity-relationship diagrams during software development. First, I described a developed ontology which is the knowledge base of the developed application for designing databases. In the first set of experiments I compared how the classi...

The aim of this investigation is to evaluate a new method for blur elimination caused by rotational motion of any object, assuming at the center and the angle of the rotation are known. In this new method, which is called Enhanced Rotational De-convolution Conjugate Gradient (ERD-CG), first we enhanced the RD method for the blurred images, and then we combined the ERD method with the CG method ...

This paper proposes a novel application of a supervised topic model to do entity relation detection (ERD). We adapt Maximum Entropy Discriminant Latent Dirichlet Allocation (MEDLDA) with mixed membership for relation detection. The ERD task is reformulated to fit into the topic modeling framework. Our approach combines the benefits of both, maximum-likelihood estimation (MLE) and max-margin est...