Scientific problems that depend on processing large amounts of data require overcoming challenges in multiple areas: managing large-scale data distribution, controlling co-placement and scheduling of data with compute resources, and storing, transferring, and managing large volumes of data. Although there exist multiple approaches to addressing each of these challenges and the complexity of dis...

Creativity can be understood in analogous ways across both arts and sciences. A central component of artistic creativity is the ability to generate many different expressions. Scientific creativity involves the ability to generate various novel solutions to problems. This means a possible way to augment creativity in both arts and science is to seek to increase our ability to generate many expr...

MESSAGES ON STUDENT KNOWLEDGE, MOTIVATION AND BEHAVIOR: RESULTS FROM THE TEAM NUTRITION PILOT STUDY. R. Craig Lefebvre, Carol Olander & Elyse Levine Presented at the Innovations in Social Marketing Conference, Montreal, Canada, 1999. Reprinted in Proceedings of the Conference as: Lefebvre, RC, Olander C, Levine E. The impact of multiple channel delivery of nutrition messages on student knowledg...

The aim of the relay coordination is that protection systems detect and isolate the faulted part as fast and selective as possible. On the other hand, in order to reduce the fault clearing time, distance protection relays are usually equipped with pilot protection schemes. Such schemes can be considered in the distance and directional overcurrent relays (D&DOCRs) coordination to achieve faster ...

Pilot-aided channel estimation in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems often needs an interpolation technique to construct the channel frequency response on nonpilot subcarriers. Many studies on interpolations have been published; however, the performance of interpolations such as cubic spline interpolation and linear interpolation is limited by either the number or the pos...

Risk/need analysis and treatment of mentally disordered offenders (MDOs) take place in constrained clinical settings, but violence has to be considered in a context where both social and cultural factors are of significance. One way to improve treatment and risk/need analysis of MDOs could be to develop simulation systems where users interact with video-based scenarios. The objective of this st...

This paper presents the design of a solar tracking system driven by a mnicrochip PIC 18F452 micro controller. The system is based on two mechanisms. The first one is the search mechanism (PILOT) which locates the position of the sun. The second mechanism(intelligent PANELS) aligns itself with the PILOT only if maximum energy possible could be extracted. On top of that the main advantage of the ...

Massive MIMO is, in general, severely affected by pilot contamination. As opposed to traditional detectors, we propose a group-blind detector that takes into account the presence of pilot contamination. While sticking to the traditional structure of the training phase, where orthogonal pilot sequences are reused, we use the excess antennas at each base station to partially remove interference d...

The goal of dental education is to guide students’ development through different stages from novice to competent, eventually resulting in an expert clinician. Students traditionally devote several years to the acquisition of sufficiently fine manual skills to prepare them for entry-level dental practice. In the current simulation laboratory, training is restricted to non realistic procedures us...

Pilot projects appear in many forms in policy making and management. In an effort to understand the nature and use of pilot projects and improve their effectiveness, we undertake a practicebased and theoretical study of the pilot project phenomenon. First, we examine the roles assigned to pilot projects in the policy development literature and explore their use in a Dutch water innovation platf...