Federated multimodal simulators in transportation

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Zhu Qing
Keyword(s):  
Driving Simulator ◽  
Autonomous Vehicle ◽  
Worker Safety ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Wheelchair Users ◽  
Perform Sensitivity Analysis ◽  
Simulator Design ◽  
The Many ◽  
High Level ◽  
The University

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] As transportation involves a multiplicity of modes, there is a need to explore multimodal simulators in transportation and the integration of multimodal simulators to enable the reproduction of a controlled, complex and interactive environment. The dissertation investigated the approach of federated multimodal simulators and their applications in transportation. First, the development of multimodal simulators, including driving, bicycling, walking, and wheeling, was presented. With the use of the driving simulator, design factors in J-turn interchange and effectiveness of automatic flagger assistive devices (AFADs) were evaluated. The results of simulator studies showed that the acceleration-deceleration configuration performed better than the deceleration-only configuration in J-turn and AFADs were able to improve work zone and worker safety. Second, the development of federated simulators with the use of the high-level architecture (HLA) framework was documented. By using federated simulators, the effectiveness of autonomous vehicle (AV) external designs for AV-pedestrian communications and a wayfinding mobile application were investigated. The results showed that the pedestrian preferred the word sign on the front of the vehicle and the mobile wayfinding application reduced wheelchair users' reliance on wayfinding signs and their travel anxiety. The studies filled gaps in existing knowledge and were used to help practitioners continue to improve designs or discover better solutions in transportation. Overall, the use of federated simulator studies demonstrated the many benefits such as safety of participants, analysis of human behavior, capability to perform sensitivity analysis, investigation of interactions of multiple road users, and evaluation of experimental technology.

scholarly journals Professional legal mobility of graduates of univesities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russian Federation: myth or reality

2021 ◽  
pp. 115-120
Author(s):  
Vyacheslav Vasiliev ◽  
Aleksandr Suprunov ◽  
Vladimir Gorbachev
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Young Professionals ◽  
Professional Mobility ◽  
Professional Law ◽  
Internal Affairs ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One ◽  
High Level ◽  
The University

Modern conditions of service for graduates of higher education institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the territorial bodies of internal Affairs, among the many law enforcement requirements imposed on young professionals, additionally indicate that it is not necessary to form a sufficiently high level of professional legal mobility, the ability to easily start professional law enforcement activities in a different direction from the one in which his training was carried out at the university of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. In this article, in addition to studying the concept and content of professional mobility, the reasons for its insufficient level among graduates of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, proposals are formulated for its improvement, transformation from a semi-mythical category into the reality of the service of an employee of the territorial body of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

scholarly journals James H. Stitt: A Dedicated Professor and Exemplary Biostratigrapher

2000 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 367-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
John F. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Carbonate Platform ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
The Past ◽  
Lower Ordovician ◽  
Student Advisor ◽  
Wichita Mountains ◽  
Sense Of Satisfaction ◽  
The Many ◽  
Geological Sciences ◽  
The University

On Friday September 17 Jim Stitt died quietly in his sleep, ending a long and characteristically tenacious battle with cancer. His passing leaves a void of great magnitude in the geological sciences and in the lives of the many people whom he influenced as family, friends, or colleagues. I was Jim's first Ph.D. student at the University of Missouri, where he spent the past 31 years as a pillar of the geology program, serving at various times as Chair and Graduate Student Advisor. Jim is well known and respected for an impressive body of meticulously crafted taxonomic and biostratigraphic studies on trilobites and brachiopods. His three monographs on faunas in the Arbuckle and Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma (Stitt, 1971a, 1977, 1983) established that area as a standard for correlation of Upper Cambrian and Lower Ordovician strata in North America. This “Oklahoma trilogy” is a treasure trove of taxonomic and biostratigraphic data that has been drawn upon heavily in numerous subsequent biostratigraphic and paleobiologic studies. It provides a biozonation of unparalleled precision for carbonate platform facies of that interval, ironically assembled in an area where rocks of that age yield their fossils only reluctantly. Jim took great pride in extracting useful information from difficult rocks. He passed that laudable attitude on to his academic offspring, along with the sense of satisfaction he derived from seeing his data put to good use in solving geologic or paleobiologic problems, in his own work and in that of others. At the same time, he was always complimentary and supportive of more theoretical or abstract research, an attitude sadly lacking in some practitioners with a bent toward applied paleontology.

Device-level composition in ReWire

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Ian Graves
Keyword(s):  
Visual Programming ◽  
Work Flow ◽  
Combinational Logic ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Performance Of Systems ◽  
High Level ◽  
The University ◽  
Hardware Designs ◽  
Whole Systems

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] ReWire provides engineers with a tool to specify, verify and implement hardware devices for FPGAs from a high-level Haskell-like language. Previous work has shown ReWire to be a productive source language for developing whole systems in the form of single, monolithic monadic specifications. To achieve scale, modularity and reusability, some form of modularity principle must be identified and realized within ReWire. What are the basic units of a ReWire specification and how may such units be identified, abstracted over and reused to achieve a realistic work flow for device construction in ReWire? This research identifies a modularity principle for ReWire as a suite of language abstractions for breaking apart ReWire specifications into its constituent components called Connect Logic and considers its implementation and application. Extending ReWire with support for device-level composition would significantly enhance its usefulness. This work integrates a suite of functions into ReWire which provide engineers the ability to incorporate existing specifications into new designs and the ability perform traditional decomposition of large specifications. Connect Logic provides an intuitive way to consider synchronous versus combinational logic in hardware designs. We demonstrate applications of Connect Logic to improve the performance of systems including cryptographic ciphers. We utilize Connect Logic to develop a fully pipelined microprocessor, to implement commonly used high-level concurrency primitives in hardware, and we demonstrate Connect Logic as a substrate for visual programming.

Cox, an Archaic Site in the Ozarks

1954 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-129
Author(s):  
Marvin E. Tong
Keyword(s):  
Great Plains ◽  
Mississippi River ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Melting Pot ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
The North ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

Proposed Construction of Table Rock Dam and Reservoir on White River in southwestern Missouri threatens with destruction a vast region of unique and important archaeological remains in the rugged Ozarks region. Every indication of prehistoric life both within the actual reservoir area and its perimeter is of extreme importance in reconstructing human activities of the region in ages past. Because of its geographical location, the Ozarks region is most promising from an archaeological standpoint. Bounded on the east by the Mississippi River, on the north by the Missouri River, and on the west by the Great Plains, the Ozarks were probably in prehistoric times a melting pot for a great many cultural traditions. The Ozark Bluff Dweller culture, with its apparent early agriculture, is only one of the many problems that need a great amount of additional work within this area. Recent investigations by the University of Missouri indicate that the history of man within the Ozarks may very well go back to a time comparable with some of the earliest occupations of the Great Plains.

Ambiguity, uncertainty, and othering : a queer phenomenology of the organizational socialization of sexuality

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jenny D. Dixon
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Gender Minorities ◽  
Sexual Orientations ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Many ◽  
Queer Phenomenology ◽  
The University ◽  
Nondiscrimination Policy ◽  
Discursive Constructions

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Despite the many frames, metaphors, and lenses in the organizational communication discipline, we have yet to examine the lived experience of sexuality in the workplace. The experience of socializing to the sexual norms of professional workspaces has yet to be considered within the Communication Discipline. Through queer hermeneutic phenomenology, the present study explores the socialization of sexuality in the workplace across an array of sexual orientations and gender identities. How we are introduced to and make sense of sexuality at work was the primary thrust of this project. Interactive interviews resulted in a co-authoring of knowledge regarding discursive constructions of sexuality and sexual identity in the workplace. Results are reported in three parts: First, age, gender and location emerged as ironic and ambiguous stereotypes used to describe sexuality at work. These stereotypes function as discursive dividing lines among social groups within the workplace. Then, nondiscrimination policy surfaced as a tool for reducing and managing uncertainty about sexuality. Sexual and gender minorities were far more aware of the nature and parameters of workplace policies, compared to their hetertypical counterparts. Finally, discourses of family served as a point of meaning divergence resulting in an othering of LGBT, single, and otherwise queer organization members. Specifically, despite calls for diversity, discursive constructions of "family" remain largely heteronormative. Implications including the need to further interrogate nondiscrimination policy and develop more inclusive family discourses are provided.

TEM study of boron additions to cobalt aluminide

1988 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 546-547
Author(s):  
Gerald B. Feldewerth
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Turbine Engines ◽  
Major Drawback ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Specific Strength ◽  
Aerospace Applications ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Ordered Alloys ◽  
The University ◽  
Very High

In recent years an increasing emphasis has been placed on the study of high temperature intermetallic compounds for possible aerospace applications. One group of interest is the B2 aiuminides. This group of intermetaliics has a very high melting temperature, good high temperature, and excellent specific strength. These qualities make it a candidate for applications such as turbine engines. The B2 aiuminides exist over a wide range of compositions and also have a large solubility for third element substitutional additions, which may allow alloying additions to overcome their major drawback, their brittle nature.One B2 aluminide currently being studied is cobalt aluminide. Optical microscopy of CoAl alloys produced at the University of Missouri-Rolla showed a dramatic decrease in the grain size which affects the yield strength and flow stress of long range ordered alloys, and a change in the grain shape with the addition of 0.5 % boron.

MARS — Its Tenth Anniversary of Operation and its Future

1980 ◽  
Vol 19 (03) ◽  
pp. 125-132
Author(s):  
G. S. Lodwick ◽  
C. R. Wickizer ◽  
E. Dickhaus
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Development ◽  
Administrative Support ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Hospital Environment ◽  
Computer Scientist ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Complete Bibliography ◽  
The University ◽  
Economic Considerations

The Missouri Automated Radiology System recently passed its tenth year of clinical operation at the University of Missouri. This article presents the views of a radiologist who has been instrumental in the conceptual development and administrative support of MARS for most of this period, an economist who evaluated MARS from 1972 to 1974 as part of her doctoral dissertation, and a computer scientist who has worked for two years in the development of a Standard MUMPS version of MARS. The first section provides a historical perspective. The second deals with economic considerations of the present MARS system, and suggests those improvements which offer the greatest economic benefits. The final section discusses the new approaches employed in the latest version of MARS, as well as areas for further application in the overall radiology and hospital environment. A complete bibliography on MARS is provided for further reading.

A New Step in the Study of the History of the Russian Prosecutor’s Office

2019 ◽  
pp. 94-98
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
High Level ◽  
The University

The paper is a review on the textbook by A. V. Yeremin, «The History of the National Prosecutor’s office» and the anthology «The Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Empire in the Documents of 1722–1917» (authors: V. V. Lavrov, A. V. Eremin, edited by N. M. Ivanov) published at the St. Petersburg Law Institute (branch) of the University of the Prosecutor’s office of the Russian Federation in 2018. The reviewers emphasize the high relevance and high level of research, their theoretical and practical significance. The textbook and the anthology will help the students increase their legal awareness, expand their horizons.

scholarly journals SURG-29. A SINGLE CENTRE EXPERIENCE OF USING INTRA-OPERATIVE MRI IN MANAGING PEDIATRIC CRANIAL NEURO-ONCOLOGY CASES

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (Supplement_3) ◽  
pp. iii464-iii464
Author(s):  
Dharmendra Ganesan ◽  
Nor Faizal Ahmad Bahuri ◽  
Revathi Rajagopal ◽  
Jasmine Loh PY ◽  
Kein Seong Mun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Standard Operating Procedure ◽  
Ferromagnetic Material ◽  
Extent Of Resection ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Single Centre Experience ◽  
Physical Setting ◽  
Paediatric Case ◽  
High Level ◽  
The University

Abstract The University of Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur had acquired a intraoperative MRI (iMRI) brain suite via a public private initiative in September 2015. The MRI brain suite has a SIEMENS 1.5T system with NORAS coil system and NORAS head clamps in a two room solution. We would like to retrospectively review the cranial paediatric neuro-oncology cases that had surgery in this facility from September 2015 till December 2019. We would like to discuss our experience with regard to the clear benefits and the challenges in using such technology to aid in the surgery. The challenges include the physical setting up the paediatric case preoperatively, the preparation and performing the intraoperative scan, the interpretation of intraoperative images and making a decision and the utilisation of the new MRI data set to assist in the navigation to locate the residue safely. Also discuss the utility of the intraoperative images in the decision of subsequent adjuvant management. The use of iMRI also has other technical challenges such as ensuring the perimeter around the patient is free of ferromagnetic material, the process of transfer of the patient to the scanner and as a consequence increased duration of the surgery. CONCLUSION: Many elements in the use of iMRI has a learning curve and it improves with exposure and experience. In some areas only a high level of vigilance and SOP (Standard operating procedure) is required to minimize mishaps. Currently, the iMRI gives the best means of determining extent of resection before concluding the surgery.

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