440 research outputs found

    Full Issue: Summer 2018

    Get PDF
    The latest issue of DePaul Magazine is now available. In the cover story, see how weathercaster Paul Konrad (THE \u2787) combines his theatre background and meteorology training as he entertains and informs viewers on WGN-TV Chicago. Get an inside look at his career in Sunshine State of Mind

    Disclosure Procedure

    Get PDF
    Securities disclosure is a human process. Each year, public companies collectively spend over fifteen million hours producing disclosures that undergird an equities market with tens of trillions in market capitalization. The procedures they follow in doing so affect whether their disclosures contain misstatements or omissions—errors that can cause trading losses for investors, and litigation for issuers. Yet despite the importance of the disclosures that firms produce, the literature says little about how they do it, including whether they are spending too much, too little, or just enough on their disclosure procedures. To fill that gap, this Article uses original surveys and interviews with in-house lawyers and accountants at S&P 1500 companies to give an institutional account of how disclosure is produced and how disclosure procedure affects firms and investors. In short, on a risk-adjusted basis, higher-quality procedures are likelier to produce higher-quality disclosures. That relationship promises social gains if procedures can be identified as higher- or lower-quality and firms adopt the higher-quality options. As a first step toward that promise, this Article compares S&P 1500 firms’ procedures and presents tentative evidence of divergence among them. It closes by explaining the need for firms to say more about their procedures in order to generate information that supports market-wide best practices

    Methodology for Specifying and Testing Traffic Rule Compliance for Automated Driving

    Get PDF
    The introduction of highly-automated driving functions promises to increase safety and comfort, but the safety validation remains an unsolved challenge. Here, the requirement is that the introduction does not reduce safety on public roads. This dissertation addresses one major aspect of road safety: traffic rule compliance. Even an automated vehicle must comply with existing traffic rules. The developed method enables automated testing of traffic rule compliance of automated driving functions. In the first part of the thesis, the state of the art for describing and formalizing behavioral rules is analyzed. A special challenge is posed by the different traffic rules depending on the traffic region. With existing approaches, a separate description and formalization of the behavior rules is necessary for each traffic region or even for individual traffic areas. This shows the necessity to develop new approaches for the abstraction and transferability of the behavioral rules in order to reduce the effort of testing and ensuring traffic rule compliance. The rule compliance criteria are to be integrated into the behavior specification within the functional specification. The objective of this thesis is to develop a method to formalize the limits of traffic rule compliance, based on which fail criteria for system testing are defined and applied. For this purpose, existing traffic rules are analyzed as a basis to identify which behavior constraints are imposed by the static traffic environment. Based on this, a semantic description that is transferable between traffic domains and that links the boundaries of traffic rule compliance to the static traffic environment is developed. The method involves deriving behavioral attributes from which the semantic behavior description is constructed. These behavioral attributes construct the behavior space that describes the boundaries of legally allowed behavior. Furthermore, methods for automated derivation of behavioral attributes from high definition maps are developed, thus extracting the behavioral requirement from an operational design domain. It is investigated which functionalities an automated vehicle has to provide to comply with the behavioral attributes. The attributes are then formalized to obtain quantifiable failure criteria of traffic rule compliance that can be used in automated testing. Finally, building on the state of the art, a test strategy for validating traffic rule conformance is presented. The explicit availability of the behavioral limits results in an advantage in the influence analysis of possible parameters for these tests. Finally, the developed method is applied to existing map material and to test drives with an automated vehicle prototype in order to investigate the practical applicability of the approach as well as the resulting gain in knowledge about traffic rule compliance testing. The developed approach allows to derive the behavioral specification with respect to traffic rule conformance as an essential part of the functional specification independent of the application domain. It is proven that the approach is able to test the traffic rule conformance of an automated vehicle in different test scenarios within an application domain. By applying the developed methodology, it was possible to identify defects in the investigated test vehicle with respect to rule understanding and compliance

    Full Issue: Fall 2019

    Get PDF
    This issue of DePaul Magazine announces the establishment of The Grace School of Applied Diplomacy in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. Learn more about transprofessional diplomacy and this exciting new endeavor in the cover story Expanding the Borders of Diplomacy

    Teaching and Collecting Technical Standards: A Handbook for Librarians and Educators

    Get PDF
    Technical standards are a vital source of information for providing guidelines during the design, manufacture, testing, and use of whole products, materials, and components. To prepare students—especially engineering students—for the workforce, universities are increasing the use of standards within the curriculum. Employers believe it is important for recent university graduates to be familiar with standards. Despite the critical role standards play within academia and the workforce, little information is available on the development of standards information literacy, which includes the ability to understand the standardization process; identify types of standards; and locate, evaluate, and use standards effectively. Libraries and librarians are a critical part of standards education, and much of the discussion has been focused on the curation of standards within libraries. However, librarians also have substantial experience in developing and teaching standards information literacy curriculum. With the need for universities to develop a workforce that is well-educated on the use of standards, librarians and course instructors can apply their experiences in information literacy toward teaching students the knowledge and skills regarding standards that they will need to be successful in their field. This title provides background information for librarians on technical standards as well as collection development best practices. It also creates a model for librarians and course instructors to use when building a standards information literacy curriculum.https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/pilh/1004/thumbnail.jp

    Measurable Safety of Automated Driving Functions in Commercial Motor Vehicles

    Get PDF
    With the further development of automated driving, the functional performance increases resulting in the need for new and comprehensive testing concepts. This doctoral work aims to enable the transition from quantitative mileage to qualitative test coverage by aggregating the results of both knowledge-based and data-driven test platforms. The validity of the test domain can be extended cost-effectively throughout the software development process to achieve meaningful test termination criteria

    Challenges and Barriers of Wireless Charging Technologies for Electric Vehicles

    Get PDF
    Electric vehicles could be a significant aid in lowering greenhouse gas emissions. Even though extensive study has been done on the features and traits of electric vehicles and the nature of their charging infrastructure, network modeling for electric vehicle manufacturing has been limited and unchanging. The necessity of wireless electric vehicle charging, based on magnetic resonance coupling, drove the primary aims for this review work. Herein, we examined the basic theoretical framework for wireless power transmission systems for EV charging and performed a software-in-the-loop analysis, in addition to carrying out a performance analysis of an EV charging system based on magnetic resonance. This study also covered power pad designs and created workable remedies for the following issues: (i) how power pad positioning affected the function of wireless charging systems and (ii) how to develop strategies to keep power efficiency at its highest level. Moreover, safety features of wireless charging systems, owing to interruption from foreign objects and/or living objects, were analyzed, and solutions were proposed to ensure such systems would operate as safely and optimally as possible

    Transport 2040 : Impact of Technology on Seafarers - The Future of Work

    Get PDF
    https://commons.wmu.se/lib_reports/1091/thumbnail.jp

    2023 Cardozo Life (Fall)

    Get PDF
    Table of Contents: Top News & Events, page 3 Gloria Steinem Accepts Cardozo\u27s International Advocate for Peace Award, page 3 Ukrainian Professor Dmytro Vovk Finds a Safe Haven at Cardozo, page 14 Nargis Baran Escapes Afghanistan with Help from Three New York City Law Schools, page 16 Faculty in the Media, page 18 Faculty Scholarship, page 22 Speaking of Law, page 29 A Career of Spirit, page 30 Reframing Crime and Punishment, page 34 Protecting Human Rights Around the World, page 44 Defending LGBTQ+ Civil Rights, page 49 Commencement \u2723, page 52 Student Briefs, page 54 Alumni events, in Paris, Tel Aviv, and at home, page 56 Class Notes, page 68 In Memoriam, page 71https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/cardozo-life/1049/thumbnail.jp
    • …
    corecore