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Established in this standard are criteria for variable selection, performance, design, and qualification of accident monitoring instrumentation for anticipated operational, design basis events and severe accidents.
An AML Oceanographic cabled ultraviolet (CUV) light was tested for effectiveness at preventing biofouling in an estuarine setting. The CUV was deployed twice at the US Geological Survey Pearl River site 02492620 at Stennis Space Center, Mississippi. One six week field deployment was during winter conditions (November 12th 2015 to January 5th 2016) and the other during summer conditions (June 8th to...
In 2015, the Hanna Shoal region of the Chukchi Sea shallower than the 40 m isobath was withdrawn from outer continental shelf oil and gas exploration, a move the White House noted was designed to protect areas of “critical importance … for marine mammals, other wildlife, and wildlife habitat”. Arctic regions are projected to strongly manifest impacts of an altered climate and subsurface moored continuous...
We present Geographic Information System model, which is developed on the basis of metasystem approach and it is focused on application as monitoring system of complex object. The model is described on the basis of set-theoretic approach, functions according to scenarios, integrates, processes and monitors the space-time and coordinate information. The problem of acquisition and reversible compression...
The increasing stress on the global healthcare system driven by the rise of chronic disease and an aging population is necessitating an emphasis on proactive health monitoring and self-management. Potential exists in the wave of emerging wearable devices and the internet of things (IoT) to support a movement towards the decentralization of healthcare. In particular, mobility impairments caused by...
The deployment of Gigabit Apps owing to their high-bandwidth and low-latency nature pushes the limits of today's end-to-end networking, and reveals new bottlenecks at multiple layers of networking, virtualization, application and user experience. In this paper, we use an exemplar smart health related Gigabit App use case viz., PhysicalTherapy-as-a-Service to show how a multi-layer instrumentation...
Hypertension is one of leading causes of death worldwide; due to the absence of symptoms that alert about illness at its beginnings. This article proposes the experimental developing of a blood pressure monitoring device as an instrument for hypertension diagnostic based on oscilometric method. The blood pressure detection algorithm, correlates the pressure signal acquired by a transducer and the...
Communication skills are an integral part of the development of undergraduate students as emerging professionals in rapidly changing, multi-disciplinary engineering fields. However, many engineering educators and industry employers continue to express concerns about the quality of these skills in engineering graduates. Many universities and institutions have enhanced engineering education curriculum,...
Safety instrumented systems (SIS) are designed to prevent the occurrence or mitigate the consequences of potentially hazardous events. The failure of SISs to achieve their assigned functions could result in huge consequences with respect to both (i) the safety of the monitored system (dangerous failures) as well as (ii) its production availability due to false trips (safe failures). The aim of this...
The paper presents a system that uses Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench (LabVIEW) software to monitor, and to control the state of an electrical machine depending on user imposed limits. In this system, the real-time variables of an electrical machine are measured and transferred to a controller (PC) through Data Acquisition Card (DAQ). The NI USB 6009 DAQ is selected for this project...
In this paper we used artificial neural networks for classification of nonlinear loads. The special attention is payed to this kind of loads since they are the most difficult to register using existing monitoring methods. Carefully chosen parameters are first measured and calculated, and these values are then used as a training set for a neural network. We also considered situations when different...
The use of virtual instruments has a very important role in both specialized laboratories and academic ones. Because it is a modern method, it provides increased comfort in monitoring electrical circuits in the long term, as well as reduced costs of implementing and developing laboratories. This paper deals with the efficiency of virtual instruments in monitoring electrical circuits as compared to...
In this work, a wearable instrumented smart clothes with an accelerometer sensor embedded on the upper abdomen close to the diaphragm was used to detect respiration of subjects. A detection algorithm was proposed and verified with 30 testing cases on male and female subjects separately. More than 97% of accuracy is achieved by comparing with the detection results from respiratory belt conducted simultaneously...
Concepts maps has been used as a learning assessment tool. Some inconsistencies in concept maps may turn hard its formal representation and computational interpretation. The concepts repetition is one of them, sometimes occurring in the form of synonym. Therefore, the task of recognizing the occurrence of synonymy between concepts present in a concept map is an important step to the formalism of the...
While being critical to the network management, the current state of the art in network measurement is inadequate, providing surprisingly little visibility into detailed network behaviors and often requiring high level of manual intervention to operate. Such a practice becomes increasingly ineffective as the networks grow both in size and complexity. In this paper, we propose vPROM, a vSwitch enhanced...
Runtime Verification consists in studying a system at runtime, looking for input and output events to discover, check or enforce behavioral properties. Interactive debugging consists in studying a system at runtime in order to discover and understand its bugs and fix them, inspecting interactively its internal state.Interactive Runtime Verification (i-RV) combines runtime verification and interactive...
Bugs cannot always be avoided and can have various consequences on the reliability of softwares. Techniques for finding and undestanding bugs are therefore needed for developers to be able to fix them. Existing techniques for finding and getting insight on bugs have limitations. Static analysis cannot detect every bugs, Interactive Debugging can be tedious, Runtime Verification usually does not have...
Several studies have shown the use of digital games in education and their contributions to the teaching-learning process. However, many of these educational games do not have mechanisms to monitor the learner's performance and/or to reconfigure the game to new situations. This article aims to present a digital game environment for support teaching mathematics, integrated with a management tool that...
The number of on-chip embedded instruments required for testing, debugging, and monitoring integrated circuits (ICs) has increased dramatically. The IEEE 1687 (IJTAG) standard can allow efficient access to these embedded instruments by dynamically reconfiguring the scan chain using Segment Insertion Bits (SIBs). Unfortunately, instruments that require a large amount of test data and several accesses...
There are several evidence of magnetic field alterations that have been registered instants before seismic activity, in different parts of the world. Under the hypothesis that there is a relation between both phenomena, a multiple disciplinary project is being developed for verifying this statement. In this paper, a prototype for a data acquisition system is presented for obtaining valuable information...
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