This note describes a type of detector which will be used for measuring the amplitudes of short beam induced pulses such as the ones received from a small pick-up electrode. The circuit is called "synchronous "I because it takes a sample of the quantity to be measured in synchronism with the pulse repetition rate; the data can be averaged over many samples such as is done for the measurement of...

The execution of sequential programs allows them to be represented using mathematical functions formed by the composition of statements following one after the other. Each such statement is in itself a partial function, which allows only inputs satisfying a particular Boolean condition to carry forward the execution and hence, the composition of such functions (as a result of sequential executi...

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) have gained importance over the years as specialized tools for performing various underwater missions in military and civilian operations. This study presents the on-line system identification of AUV dynamics to obtain the coupled nonlinear dynamic model of AUV. This proposed model has an input-output relationship based upon neural fuzzy network (NFN) model...

We present a novel concept of interactive devices, called “transitional wearable companions” (TWCs), usable to support therapy and foster social skill development in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). TWCs have two distinctive features. First, they are soft interactive devices, which look like tender animals, able to arise attachment emotions and give a continuous reassuring physical...

Regression problems on massive data sets are ubiquitous in many application domains including the Internet, earth and space sciences, and aviation. Support vector regression (SVR) is a popular technique for modeling the inputoutput relations of a set of variables under the added constraint of maximizing the margin, thereby leading to a very generalizable and regularized model. However, for a da...

Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems monitor and control major components of the critical infrastructure. Targeted malware such as Stuxnet is an example of a covert cyber attack against a SCADA system that resulted in physical effects. Of particular significance is how Stuxnet exploited the trust relationship between the human machine interface (HMI) and programmable logic c...

Dynamic translinear (DTL) circuits use the exponential inputoutput relation of the transistor as a primitive for the synthesis of electronic circuits. As a consequence the analysis of the dynamic behaviour of this type of circuits in the presence of parasitics results in analyzing dynamic nonlinear circuits. There are three different approaches that can be applied: the linear time-invariant (LT...

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have been widely used in natural language processing and computer vision. Among them, the Hierarchical Multi-scale RNN (HM-RNN), a kind of multi-scale hierarchical RNN proposed recently, can learn the hierarchical temporal structure from data automatically. In this paper, we extend the work to solve the computer vision task of action recognition. However, in seq...

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the performance of the faculties of Islamic Azad University of Zahedan Branch based on two-component (teaching and research) decision making units (DMUs) in data envelopment analysis (DEA). Nowadays it is obvious that most of the systems as DMUs do not act as a simple inputoutput structure. Instead, if they have been studied more delicately, they include net...

In the Optimality-Theoretic learnability and acquisition literature it has been proposed that certain classes of constraints must be biased toward particular rankings (e.g., Markedness >> IO-Faithfulness; Specific IO-Faithfulness >> General IO-Faithfulness). While sometimes difficult to implement efficiently or comprehensively, these biases are necessary to explain how learners acquire the most...