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    Southern Adventist University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024

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    Southern Adventist University\u27s undergraduate catalog for the academic year 2023-2024.https://knowledge.e.southern.edu/undergrad_catalog/1123/thumbnail.jp

    UMSL Bulletin 2023-2024

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    The 2023-2024 Bulletin and Course Catalog for the University of Missouri St. Louis.https://irl.umsl.edu/bulletin/1088/thumbnail.jp

    Graduate Catalog of Studies, 2023-2024

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    Evaluation Methodologies in Software Protection Research

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    Man-at-the-end (MATE) attackers have full control over the system on which the attacked software runs, and try to break the confidentiality or integrity of assets embedded in the software. Both companies and malware authors want to prevent such attacks. This has driven an arms race between attackers and defenders, resulting in a plethora of different protection and analysis methods. However, it remains difficult to measure the strength of protections because MATE attackers can reach their goals in many different ways and a universally accepted evaluation methodology does not exist. This survey systematically reviews the evaluation methodologies of papers on obfuscation, a major class of protections against MATE attacks. For 572 papers, we collected 113 aspects of their evaluation methodologies, ranging from sample set types and sizes, over sample treatment, to performed measurements. We provide detailed insights into how the academic state of the art evaluates both the protections and analyses thereon. In summary, there is a clear need for better evaluation methodologies. We identify nine challenges for software protection evaluations, which represent threats to the validity, reproducibility, and interpretation of research results in the context of MATE attacks

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    Voicing Kinship with Machines: Diffractive Empathetic Listening to Synthetic Voices in Performance.

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    This thesis contributes to the field of voice studies by analyzing the design and production of synthetic voices in performance. The work explores six case studies, consisting of different performative experiences of the last decade (2010- 2020) that featured synthetic voice design. It focusses on the political and social impact of synthetic voices, starting from yet challenging the concepts of voice in the machine and voice of the machine. The synthetic voices explored are often playing the role of simulated artificial intelligences, therefore this thesis expands its questions towards technology at large. The analysis of the case studies follows new materialist and posthumanist premises, yet it tries to confute the patriarchal and neoliberal approach towards technological development through feminist and de-colonial approaches, developing a taxonomy for synthetic voices in performance. Chapter 1 introduces terms and explains the taxonomy. Chapter 2 looks at familiar representations of fictional AI. Chapter 3 introduces headphone theatre exploring immersive practices. Chapters 4 and 5 engage with chatbots. Chapter 6 goes in depth exploring Human and Artificial Intelligence interaction, whereas chapter 7 moves slightly towards music production and live art. The body of the thesis includes the work of Pipeline Theatre, Rimini Protokoll, Annie Dorsen, Begüm Erciyas, and Holly Herndon. The analysis is informed by posthumanism, feminism, and performance studies, starting from my own practice as sound designer and singer, looking at aesthetics of reproduction, audience engagement, and voice composition. This thesis has been designed to inspire and provoke practitioners and scholars to explore synthetic voices further, question predominant biases of binarism and acknowledge their importance in redefining technology

    Bewertung von Fahrerassistenzsystemen im Umfeld des szenariobasierten Testens

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    Durch die steigende Automatisierung von Fahrerassistenzsystemen wird die Fahraufgabe zunehmend vom Fahrer auf das Fahrzeug übertragen. Das szenariobasierte Testen ist dabei ein vielversprechender Ansatz, mit dem die Sicherheit von Fahrerassistenzsystemen nachgewiesen werden kann. Bei der Verwendung des Ansatzes zur entwicklungsbegleitenden Bestimmung des Reifegrads eines Fahrerassistenzsystems ergibt sich allerdings eine Anzahl an Herausforderungen, die in der vorliegenden Dissertation herausgearbeitet werden. Im Anschluss wird der Stand der Wissenschaft und Technik dargestellt, der für die Adressierung der Herausforderungen notwendig ist. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf dem Testen von Fahrerassistenzsystemen während des Entwicklungsprozesses. In der Diskussion des Stands der Technik und Wissenschaft wird anschließend gezeigt, dass die aktuell vorhandenen Testmethoden in der Automobilindustrie nicht ausreichend sind um Fahrerassistenzsysteme in einem szenariobasierten Testkonzept entwicklungsbegleitend zu testen. Als eine zentrale Herausforderung wird herausgearbeitet, dass Szenarien durch die Variation verschiedener Parameter erzeugt werden, wodurch sowohl der zeitliche Ablauf des erzeugten Szenarios im Vorfeld unbekannt ist als auch neue Szenarien entstehen können. Darauf aufbauend wird in dieser Dissertation ein Testkonzept entwickelt, mit dem Fahrerassistenzsysteme in Fahrszenarien bewertet werden können. Das Konzept ermöglicht es zu überprüfen, ob Systemanforderungen durch ein entwickeltes Fahrerassistenzsystem in unterschiedlichen Fahrszenarien erfüllt werden. Zusätzlich beinhaltet das Testkonzept eine Analyse der durchgeführten Fahrszenarien und deren Inhalt. Aus diesen Ergebnissen wird dann ein szenariospezifischer Reifegrad des Fahrerassistenzsystems bestimmt. Anschließend erfolgt eine prototypische Umsetzung in einer Software-in-the-Loop und Hardware-in-the-Loop Testumgebung. In der Software-in-the-Loop Testumgebung wird beispielsweise ein automatisiertes Notbremssystem in unterschiedlichen Fahrszenarien getestet. Die Evaluation der prototypischen Umsetzung zeigt, dass das entwickelte Testkonzept grundsätzlich funktioniert und eine systemspezifische Bewertung von Fahrerassistenzsystemen in Fahrszenarien ermöglicht. Im Vergleich mit dem aktuellem Stand der Technik und Wissenschaft, können mit dem erarbeiteten Konzept darüber hinaus auch die Kosten für die Testerstellung und Testdurchführung reduziert werden

    2023-2024 Boise State University Undergraduate Catalog

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    This catalog is primarily for and directed at students. However, it serves many audiences, such as high school counselors, academic advisors, and the public. In this catalog you will find an overview of Boise State University and information on admission, registration, grades, tuition and fees, financial aid, housing, student services, and other important policies and procedures. However, most of this catalog is devoted to describing the various programs and courses offered at Boise State

    Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain

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    Many women wrote philosophy in nineteenth-century Britain, and they wrote across the full range of philosophical topics. Yet these important women thinkers have been left out of the philosophical canon and many of them are barely known today. The aim of this book is to put them back on the map. It introduces twelve women philosophers - Mary Shepherd, Harriet Martineau, Ada Lovelace, George Eliot, Frances Power Cobbe, Helena Blavatsky, Julia Wedgwood, Victoria Welby, Arabella Buckley, Annie Besant, Vernon Lee, and Constance Naden. Alison Stone looks at their views on naturalism, philosophy of mind, evolution, morality and religion, and progress in history. She shows how these women interacted and developed their philosophical views in conversation with one another, not only with their male contemporaries. The rich print and periodical culture of the period enabled these women to publish philosophy in forms accessible to a general readership, despite the restrictions women faced, such as having limited or no access to university education. Stone explains how these women became excluded from the history of philosophy because there was a cultural shift at the end of the nineteenth century towards specialised forms of philosophical writing, which depended on academic credentials that were still largely unavailable to women

    Formation control of autonomous vehicles with emotion assessment

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    Autonomous driving is a major state-of-the-art step that has the potential to transform the mobility of individuals and goods fundamentally. Most developed autonomous ground vehicles (AGVs) aim to sense the surroundings and control the vehicle autonomously with limited or no driver intervention. However, humans are a vital part of such vehicle operations. Therefore, an approach to understanding human emotions and creating trust between humans and machines is necessary. This thesis proposes a novel approach for multiple AGVs, consisting of a formation controller and human emotion assessment for autonomous driving and collaboration. As the interaction between multiple AGVs is essential, the performance of two multi-robot control algorithms is analysed, and a platoon formation controller is proposed. On the other hand, as the interaction between AGVs and humans is equally essential to create trust between humans and AGVs, the human emotion assessment method is proposed and used as feedback to make autonomous decisions for AGVs. A novel simulation platform is developed for navigating multiple AGVs and testing controllers to realise this concept. Further to this simulation tool, a method is proposed to assess human emotion using the affective dimension model and physiological signals such as an electrocardiogram (ECG) and photoplethysmography (PPG). The experiments are carried out to verify that humans' felt arousal and valence levels could be measured and translated to different emotions for autonomous driving operations. A per-subject-based classification accuracy is statistically significant and validates the proposed emotion assessment method. Also, a simulation is conducted to verify AGVs' velocity control effect of different emotions on driving tasks
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