ICANDO: Intellectual Computer AssistaNt for Disabled Operators

Publication in the conference proceedings of EUSIPCO, Florence, Italy, 200

Clasificación del consumo de combustible con base a la identificación de los modos de material rodante

El artículo presenta los resultados de un estudio de tecnología innovadora para mejorar el racionamiento del consumo de combustible diesel en el material rodante de la industria ferroviaria. Como objeto de investigación, se estudió el consumo de combustible en una edición diesel Automotrisa - ADE-1, que se utiliza en las instalaciones de electrificación y suministro de energía de la Dirección de Transenergo. Transporte de carga en carro motorizado (MLT - 6), que se utiliza en la economía de la vía. Sobre la base de una serie de documentos reglamentarios de la compañía de ferrocarriles de Rusia, se encomendó a la Universidad Estatal de Transporte Ferroviario de Samara el análisis de la eficiencia del consumo de combustible de SSPS en este tipo de material rodante en uno de los vertederos ferroviarios. El material rodante autopropulsado especial de la empresa Russian Railways fue estudiado como objeto de investigación. Se considera el método de formación de estándares de consumo de combustible mediante la identificación de los valores reales del consumo de combustible y los indicadores de los modos de funcionamiento del material rodante. Los métodos estadísticos utilizados en la investigación nos permiten establecer la tasa de consumo en el rango del 8% de la tasa de flujo real. Sobre la base del uso de la tasa de consumo de combustible obtenida, se proporciona un método para identificar y evaluar el nivel de gastos excesivos de combustible no autorizados (drenaje)

Diagnostic System in Electrical Impedance Mammography: Background

Electrical impedance mammography (EIM) belongs to nonlocal techniques of image creation. It is based on a number of data collection methods, including the cross-sectional approach, the back-projection method with the weight function applied horizontally and vertically, and the static image method. The analysis of data acquired by applying the above methods enabled to work out the EIM diagnostic system. It involves the following diagnostic categories: structural percentile limits and the mammary gland structure, age-related percentile limits and age-related electric conductivity, outlying values statistics and early diagnostics of breast cancer, D-statistics and distortion of the mammographic scheme in the presence of breast cancer, diagnostic table, and the assessment of the electrical impedance image

Principles of Manufacturing of DC On-Board Harness for a Spacecraft Based on 3D Technology

This article describes in detail principles of manufacturing of DC on-board harness for spacecraft based on a new 3D design technology. This technology puts together all activities of on-board harness production, starting from electrical design and up to the final product readiness. Based on the analysis performed we proposed: necessary software, methods of wires and connector contacts connection, applicable wires and connectors available in Russian and European markets, shielding and insulating materials, test methods. The article discusses benefits of lightweight supply buses technology implementation (as compared to bundle of wires), which are: mass reduction, electrical performances stability improvement, lesser capacity between supply lines, better interference immunity, better thermal performances

The Ultrastructure of Sanchytrium tribonematis (Sanchytriaceae, Fungi incertae sedis) Confirms its Close Relationship to Amoeboradix

International audienceFungi encompass, in addition to classically well-studied lineages, an everexpanding diversity of poorly known lineages that include, among others, zoosporic chytrid-like parasites. According to recent phylogenetic analysis based on 18S + 28S rRNA concatenated genes two unusual chytrid-like fungi Amoeboradix gromovi and Sanchytrium tribonematis form a monophyletic group, the family Sanchytriaceae, which represents a new divergent taxon that remains incertae sedis within Fungi. Zoospores of Amoeboradix gromovi contain one of the longest kinetosomes known in eukaryotic cells, which are composed of microtubular singlets or doublets. However, the ultrastructure of S. tribonematis, the type species of the genus had not been yet studied. Here, we provide the results of TEM investigations of zoospores and sporangia from two strains of S. tribonematis. The two strains are endowed with unusual features. Like in A. gromovi, amoeboid zoospores of S. tribonematis contain a long kinetosome composed of microtubular singlets, and the two orthogonal centrioles in their sporangia have nine microtubular singlets with an internal ring. The morphological and ultrastructural features of S. tribonematis are now included in the improved taxonomic diagnosis for this species

The last line effect explained

Micro-clones are tiny duplicated pieces of code; they typically comprise only few statements or lines. In this paper, we study the “Last Line Effect,” the phenomenon that the last line or statement in a micro-clone is much more likely to contain an error than the previous lines or statements. We do this by analyzing 219 open source projects and reporting on 263 faulty micro-clones and interviewing six authors of real-world faulty micro-clones. In an interdisciplinary collaboration, we examine the underlying psychological mechanisms for the presence of these relatively trivial errors. Based on the interviews and further technical analyses, we suggest that so-called “action slips” play a pivotal role for the existence of the last line effect: Developers’ attention shifts away at the end of a micro-clone creation task due to noise and the routine nature of the task. Moreover, all micro-clones whose origin we could determine were introduced in unusually large commits. Practitioners benefit from this knowledge twofold: 1) They can spot situations in which they are likely to introduce a faulty micro-clone and 2) they can use PVS-Studio, our automated micro-clone detector, to help find erroneous micro-clones