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Fasilitas Rehabilitasi Pasien Kanker di Batu
Fasilitas Rehabilitasi Pasien Kanker di Batu merupakan sebuah fasilitas yang bertujuan untuk membantu para survivor kanker agar dapat menjalani sisa hidupnya dengan lebih berkualitas, baik dalam sisi fisik maupun sisi psikologisnya. Suasana yang alami dan jauh dari perkotaan yang memiliki tekanan tinggi dapat mempercepat proses penyembuhan pasien. Oleh karena itu proyek ini terletak di kawasan perbukitan di kota Batu yang berkontur dan memiliki pemandangan indah. Pendekatan yang dipilih adalah Healing Architecture, dimana pendekatan ini menunjang tercapainya tujuan fasilitas, yaitu mengembalikan kondisi pasien ke keadaan seprima mungkin. Pendalaman yang dipilih adalah karakter ruang, dikarenakan karakter ruang memiliki pengaruh besar terhadap kondisi psikologis pasien. Dengan pemilihan pendalaman ini, diharapkan terciptanya suasana positif yang meningkatkan semangat hidup pasien dan mempercepat proses penyembuhan
Fast Fight Detection
Action recognition has become a hot topic within computer vision. However, the action recognition community has focused mainly on relatively simple actions like clapping, walking, jogging, etc. The detection of specific events with direct practical use such as fights or in general aggressive behavior has been comparatively less studied. Such capability may be extremely useful in some video surveillance scenarios like prisons, psychiatric centers or even embedded in camera phones. As a consequence, there is growing interest in developing violence detection algorithms. Recent work considered the well-known Bag-of-Words framework for the specific problem of fight detection. Under this framework, spatio-temporal features are extracted from the video sequences and used for classification. Despite encouraging results in which high accuracy rates were achieved, the computational cost of extracting such features is prohibitive for practical applications. This work proposes a novel method to detect violence sequences. Features extracted from motion blobs are used to discriminate fight and non-fight sequences. Although the method is outperformed in accuracy by state of the art, it has a significantly faster computation time thus making it amenable for real-time applications
Moyal Planes are Spectral Triples
Axioms for nonunital spectral triples, extending those introduced in the
unital case by Connes, are proposed. As a guide, and for the sake of their
importance in noncommutative quantum field theory, the spaces endowed
with Moyal products are intensively investigated. Some physical applications,
such as the construction of noncommutative Wick monomials and the computation
of the Connes--Lott functional action, are given for these noncommutative
hyperplanes.Comment: Latex, 54 pages. Version 3 with Moyal-Wick section update
Residential segregation and cultural dissemination: An Axelrod-Schelling model
In the Axelrod's model of cultural dissemination, we consider mobility of
cultural agents through the introduction of a density of empty sites and the
possibility that agents in a dissimilar neighborhood can move to them if their
mean cultural similarity with the neighborhood is below some threshold. While
for low values of the density of empty sites the mobility enhances the
convergence to a global culture, for high enough values of it the dynamics can
lead to the coexistence of disconnected domains of different cultures. In this
regime, the increase of initial cultural diversity paradoxically increases the
convergence to a dominant culture. Further increase of diversity leads to
fragmentation of the dominant culture into domains, forever changing in shape
and number, as an effect of the never ending eroding activity of cultural
minorities
Stability and structure of analytical MHD jet formation models with a finite outer disk radius
(Abridged) Finite radius accretion disks are a strong candidate for launching
astrophysical jets from their inner parts and disk-winds are considered as the
basic component of such magnetically collimated outflows. The only available
analytical MHD solutions for describing disk-driven jets are those
characterized by the symmetry of radial self-similarity. Radially self-similar
MHD models, in general, have two geometrical shortcomings, a singularity at the
jet axis and the non-existence of an intrinsic radial scale, i.e. the jets
formally extend to radial infinity. Hence, numerical simulations are necessary
to extend the analytical solutions towards the axis and impose a physical
boundary at finite radial distance. We focus here on studying the effects of
imposing an outer radius of the underlying accreting disk (and thus also of the
outflow) on the topology, structure and variability of a radially self-similar
analytical MHD solution. The initial condition consists of a hybrid of an
unchanged and a scaled-down analytical solution, one for the jet and the other
for its environment. In all studied cases, we find at the end steady
two-component solutions.Comment: 14 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in A &
Local Index Formula on the Equatorial Podles Sphere
We discuss spectral properties of the equatorial Podles sphere. As a
preparation we also study the `degenerate' (i.e. ) case (related to the
quantum disk). We consider two different spectral triples: one related to the
Fock representation of the Toeplitz algebra and the isopectral one. After the
identification of the smooth pre--algebra we compute the dimension
spectrum and residues. We check the nontriviality of the (noncommutative) Chern
character of the associated Fredholm modules by computing the pairing with the
fundamental projector of the -algebra (the nontrivial generator of the
-group) as well as the pairing with the -analogue of the Bott
projector. Finally, we show that the local index formula is trivially
satisfied.Comment: 18 pages, no figures; minor correction
Almost-Commutative Geometries Beyond the Standard Model
In [7-9] and [10] the conjecture is presented that almost-commutative
geometries, with respect to sensible physical constraints, allow only the
standard model of particle physics and electro-strong models as
Yang-Mills-Higgs theories. In this publication a counter example will be given.
The corresponding almost-commutative geometry leads to a Yang-Mills-Higgs
model which consists of the standard model of particle physics and two new
fermions of opposite electro-magnetic charge. This is the second
Yang-Mills-Higgs model within noncommutative geometry, after the standard
model, which could be compatible with experiments. Combined to a hydrogen-like
composite particle these new particles provide a novel dark matter candidate
Single degree-of-freedom exoskeleton mechanism design for finger rehabilitation
This paper presents the kinematic design of a single
degree-of-freedom exoskeleton mechanism: a planar eight-bar
mechanism for finger curling. The mechanism is part of a fingerthumb
robotic device for hand therapy that will allow users to
practice key pinch grip and finger-thumb opposition, allowing
discrete control inputs for playing notes on a musical gaming
interface. This approach uses the mechanism to generate the
desired grasping trajectory rather than actuating the joints of
the fingers and thumb independently. In addition, the mechanism
is confined to the back of the hand, so as to allow sensory input
into the palm of the hand, minimal size and apparent inertia,
and the possibility of placing multiple mechanisms side-by-side
to allow control of individual fingersPeer ReviewedPostprint (author’s final draft
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