This project evaluated infrared and passive millimeter-wave imaging technologies for their potential applicability to traffic surveillance and automated detection. Images formed from radiation at infrared and millimeter wavelengths are characterized by fundamentally different information compared with visible-spectrum images, and generally improved ability to penetrate obscured atmospheres such...

Active learning has been proven to be quite effective in reducing the human labeling efforts by actively selecting the most informative examples to label. In this paper, we present a batch-mode active learning method based on logistic regression. Our key motivation is an out-of-sample bound on the estimation error of class distribution in logistic regression conditioned on any fixed training sa...

This study examined the contribution of perceived control and autonomy to children's self-reported behavior and emotion in the classroom (N = 246 children ages 8-10 years). Multiple regression analyses revealed unique effects of autonomy over and above the strong effects of perceived control. In addition, both sets of perceptions (and their interaction) were found to distinguish children who we...

Understanding what motivates participation in online innovation communities is now possible given the recent explosion of opportunities for joining such communities. This article reports on the results of a survey of participants in a specific online innovation community to characterise and find correlations between motivation and participation styles. An analysis of the survey results show: th...

This paper presents a description of a very low cost underwater vehicle project, specifically about a remotely operating vehicle (ROV). The main motivation of this research is based on the fact that underwater robotics in Brazil is a recent scientific domain, particularly in experimental aspects. A few project specifications were established, and the actuators, sensors, structure and onboard el...

Entrepreneurship and the Process of Firms’ Entry, Survival and Growth This survey paper aims at critically discussing the recent literature on firm formation and survival and the growth of new-born firms. The basic purpose is to single out the microeconomic entrepreneurial foundations of industrial dynamics (entry and exit) and to characterise the founder’s ex-ante features in terms of likely e...

Progress towards understanding human behavior has been hindered by discipline-bound theories, dividing our efforts. Fortunately, these separate endeavors are converging and can be effectively integrated. Focusing on the fundamental features of Picoeconomics, Expectancy, Cumulative Prospect Theory, and Need Theory, Temporal Motivational Theory (TMT) is constructed. TMT appears consistent with th...

BACKGROUND Medical schools try to implement selection procedures that will allow them to select the most motivated students for their programs. Though there is a general feeling that selection stimulates student motivation, conclusive evidence for this is lacking. The current study aims to use the perspective of Self-determination Theory (SDT) of motivation as a lens to examine how medical stud...

The fact that environmental assessment (EA) practice is executed by multiple practitioners from different stakeholder groups with varying interests means individually molded ideas of are brought into collaborative spaces, where they negotiated and reworked an practice. This research investigates the practitioner's ability to constitute change their practice, in terms how individual motivations ...

The Internet of Energy envisions the next generation smart grids as a highly interconnected network, including advanced metering infrastructures, distributed energy resources, and bidirectional communication systems. open architecture IoE-based grid results in manifold security concerns, especially risk False Data Injection Attacks. attack may target technical aspects system since fabricating n...