Initial Experiment in Using a Powered Parafoil for Employment of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Unattended Ground Sensors (UGS)

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Kolodny
Keyword(s):  
Initial Experiment ◽  
Powered Parafoil ◽  
Unattended Ground Sensors

Statistical method of steepest improvement of response

2018 ◽  
Vol 84 (11) ◽  
pp. 74-87
Author(s):  
V. B. Bokov
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Method ◽  
Linear Model ◽  
Response Prediction ◽  
Initial Experiment ◽  
First Order ◽  
Prediction Response ◽  
Conditional Extremum ◽  
Order Polynomial ◽  
Limiting Values

A new statistical method for response steepest improvement is proposed. This method is based on an initial experiment performed on two-level factorial design and first-order statistical linear model with coded numerical factors and response variables. The factors for the runs of response steepest improvement are estimated from the data of initial experiment and determination of the conditional extremum. Confidence intervals are determined for those factors. The first-order polynomial response function fitted to the data of the initial experiment makes it possible to predict the response of the runs for response steepest improvement. The linear model of the response prediction, as well as the results of the estimation of the parameters of the linear model for the initial experiment and factors for the experiments of the steepest improvement of the response, are used when finding prediction response intervals in these experiments. Kknowledge of the prediction response intervals in the runs of steepest improvement of the response makes it possible to detect the results beyond their limits and to find the limiting values of the factors for which further runs of response steepest improvement become ineffective and a new initial experiment must be carried out.

Journey to the Advisor Within: Exploring Challenge, Transformation and Evolution in Advisor Stories

Relay Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 319-322
Author(s):  
Gamze Güven-Yalçın ◽  
Stephanie Lea Howard ◽  
Hatice Karaaslan
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Message Board ◽  
Initial Experiment ◽  
Narrative Style ◽  
The Third ◽  
Visual Message ◽  
Knowledge And Practice ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Academic Year

In the Reflective Practice column of the third issue of the Relay Journal, Yamamoto (2019) remarked on the importance of creating a platform for advisors to voice their views, feelings, and experiences, and suggested a need for more reflective narratives to be posted from different social, historical, and cultural contexts in order to provide an intimate view inside advising sessions, thereby offering a better understanding of said advising practices. The aim was to create a forum where advisors could learn from each other, and ultimately, everyone could mutually benefit from the experiences shared. To further this innovative research into Advising in Language Learning (ALL), the initial experiment by language advsiors at Kanda has been replicated in a different setting with four learning advisors from Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Turkey. The design used by the advisors at Kanda, a narrative style adopted while telling the stories, has been expanded to include a visual message board to which 20 learning advisors have contributed with their short reflective captions on their advisor selves. Additionally, the theme used by the advisors at Kanda, “the most memorable advising experience of this academic year” has been altered in our case to avoid repetition and to allow reflection on different aspects of the advising experiences. Thus, our narratives and the visual message board will examine two different themes: (1) How has advising affected you? (2) How do you define yourself as an advisor? Four narratives have elaborated on the first theme of the influence of advising knowledge and practice on the individual advisors, and the visual message board includes 20 images with reflective captions on the second theme of defining advisor identities.

scholarly journals Locate your soundscape: interacting with the acoustic environment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Orio ◽  
Berardina De Carolis ◽  
Francesco Liotard
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Visual Information ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Initial Experiment ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Acoustic Environment ◽  
Entire Country ◽  
Interactive Map ◽  
Main Components ◽  
The City

AbstractAlthough overshadowed by visual information, sound plays a central role in how people perceive an environment. The effect of a landscape is enriched by its soundscape, that is, the stratification of all the acoustic sources that, often unconsciously, are heard. This paper presents a framework for archiving, browsing, and accessing soundscapes, either remotely or on-site. The framework is based on two main components: a web-based interface to upload and search the recordings of an acoustic environment, enriched by in- formation about geolocation, timing, and context of the recording; and a mobile app to browse and listen to the recordings, using an interactive map or GPS information. To populate the archive, we launched two crowdsourcing initiatives. An initial experiment examined the city of Padua’s soundscape through the participation of a group of undergraduate students. A broader experiment, which was proposed to all people in Italy, aimed at tracking how the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown was dramatically changing the soundscape of the entire country.

scholarly journals In-line monitoring of Li-ion battery electrode porosity and areal loading using active thermal scanning - modeling and initial experiment

2018 ◽  
Vol 375 ◽  
pp. 138-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Przemyslaw Rupnowski ◽  
Michael Ulsh ◽  
Bhushan Sopori ◽  
Brian G. Green ◽  
David L. Wood ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Li Ion Battery ◽  
Initial Experiment ◽  
Battery Electrode ◽  
Li Ion

Molecular Fingerprinting of Indian Medicinal Tree Sara Asoca using RAPD Markers

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 701-705
Author(s):  
Shailendra Singh Yadav ◽  
Ashwini A. Waoo
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Genomic Dna ◽  
Rapd Markers ◽  
Conservation Strategies ◽  
Molecular Fingerprinting ◽  
Initial Experiment ◽  
Medicinal Tree ◽  
Average Percentage ◽  
Saraca Asoca ◽  
Polymorphic Bands

Saraca asoca is an important medicinal tree facing a serious problem of reduction from its instinctivetenancy in India.Before formulation of conservation strategies for geographical protection of S. asoca genotypes available in India, it is necessary to characterize them. In the current study, the RAPD markers have been utilized effectively for categorization of S. asoca collected from 15 diverse sites of India. An initial experiment on the amplification suitability of genomic DNA samples of four S. asoca was done with 35RAPD primers. Among them only twenty sixproved their efficiency in two times repeat amplification.Total 146 bands were amplified and out of these 97 bands were found to be polymorphic. The average numbers of total band was 5.61 while average numbers of polymorphic bands was 3.73. The numbers of bands produced per primer ranged from 3 (OPE-15) to 8 (RUF205). Among all studied markers the highest percentage (100%) of polymorphism was demonstrated by only one marker (OPE-06). The lowest percent of polymorphicm (20%) was demonstrated by marker RUF211. The average percentage of polymorphism was 66.44%. Cluster analysis grouped all the S. asoca genotypes under study into two groups. Grouping of genotypes according to their sites of collection demonstrates higher similarity among or between them. The results obtained in the current study may help to formulate conservation strategies for the conservation of S. asoca genotypes.

Trajectory Planning for the Powered Parafoil at Insufficient Height

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erlin Zhu ◽  
Junjie Zhao ◽  
Bo Li ◽  
Haitao Gao
Keyword(s):  
Trajectory Planning ◽  
Powered Parafoil

scholarly journals What’s Worth Talking About? Information Theory Reveals How Children Balance Informativeness and Ease of Production

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (7) ◽  
pp. 954-966 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Bannard ◽  
Marla Rosner ◽  
Danielle Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Information Theory ◽  
Information Content ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Initial Experiment ◽  
Information Theoretic ◽  
Information Theoretic Measures

Of all the things a person could say in a given situation, what determines what is worth saying? Greenfield’s principle of informativeness states that right from the onset of language, humans selectively comment on whatever they find unexpected. In this article, we quantify this tendency using information-theoretic measures and report on a study in which we tested the counterintuitive prediction that children will produce words that have a low frequency given the context, because these will be most informative. Using corpora of child-directed speech, we identified adjectives that varied in how informative (i.e., unexpected) they were given the noun they modified. In an initial experiment ( N = 31) and in a replication ( N = 13), 3-year-olds heard an experimenter use these adjectives to describe pictures. The children’s task was then to describe the pictures to another person. As the information content of the experimenter’s adjective increased, so did children’s tendency to comment on the feature that adjective had encoded. Furthermore, our analyses suggest that children balance informativeness with a competing drive to ease production.

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