STEAM: A Platform for Scalable Spatiotemporal Analytics

Spatiotemporal datasets have become increasingly available with the introduction of a various set of applications and services trac- ing the behavior of moving objects. Recently, there has been a high demand in understanding these datasets using spatiotemporal analytics. While being considered of high value, spatiotemporal analytics did not yet see a wide spreading into the actual business workflow or the direct configuration of services and applications. The computational complexity for spatiotemporal datasets and the heterogeneity of data sources are considered key factors for the current state. This paper introduces STEAM, a platform for distributed spatiotemporal analytics on heterogeneous spatiotemporal datasets. STEAM introduces a framework that abstracts the key components from incoming spatiotemporal datasets that originate from various positioning systems. This abstraction provides a common base for distributed and scalable analytics methods that is not bound to a specific underlying positioning technique. STEAM provides a distributed state-of-the-art implementation and is evaluated on a multi-machine testbed for linear scalability.BMBF, 01IS12056, Software Campus (TU Berlin

Perdurabilidad empresarial : caso de operadores logísticos de distribución de productos farmacéuticos

La permanencia de las empresas en el tiempo, de manera exitosa, se constituye en un tema de preocupación para el Gobierno, las empresas y la academia de la Administración. Se han realizado varias investigaciones, materializadas en libros, artículos y ponencias, tratando de explicar por qué unas organizaciones perduran y otras desaparecen. Con el objetivo de hacer un aporte a la academia de la Administración en la identificación de elementos que permitan a las empresas pasar de la longevidad a la perdurabilidad, la Facultad de Administración de la Universidad del Rosario viene desarrollando desde el año 2004 estudios encaminados a tal fin

Sensafety: Crowdsourcing the Urban Sense of Safety

Today, community initiatives to improve the urban quality of life can be conducted in a more focused way because local authorities and urban planners are able to reveal urban hotspots through the investigation of location-annotated crime and accident data. However, urban areas, which according to well-recorded incident data are characterized by a high level of public safety, but which are generally perceived by citizens as unsafe, remain undiscovered and therefore untreated. This work presents Sensafety, a citizen-centric crowdsourcing approach that enables users by means of a mobile application to report their personal feeling of safety anytime and at any site. Sensafety’s goal is to reveal a comprehensive and complete picture of the perceived safety in urban environments in order to identify blind spots that have not been further investigated due to lack of data. To encourage citizens to participate and contribute, Sensafety’s mobile application offers different ways to explore and experience the collected data depending on the user’s location. This paper gives a detailed description of Sensafety’s integrated concept and outlines the major technical and non-technical findings

Temporal patterns in coral reef, seagrass and mangrove communities from Chengue bay CARICOMP site (Colombia): 1993-2008

Few monitoring programs have simultaneously assessed the dynamics of linked marine ecosystems (coral reefs, seagrass beds and mangroves) to document their temporal and spatial variability. Based on CARICOMP protocol we evaluated permanent stations in coral reefs, seagrass beds and mangroves from 1993 to 2008 in Chengue Bay at the Tayrona Natural Park, Colombian Caribbean. Overall, the studied ecosystems showed a remarkable stability pattern over the monitoring period. While there were annual variations in coral reefs (coral cover) and mangroves (litterfall) caused by hurricane Lenny in 1999, particular trends in seagrass (leaf area index and leaf productivity) appear to reflect the natural variability in this ecosystem. We suggest that monitoring sites at the three marine ecosystems had in general a healthy development in the last 16 years. Our results are critical to locally improve the management strategies (Tayrona Natural Park) and to understand the long-term dynamics of closely associated marine ecosystems in the Caribbean. Copyright © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

Security system and register through rfid acces for bicycle parking module

En este documento se describe el desarrollo de un sistema de seguridad y registro para un parqueadero de bicicletas por medio de un microcontrolador, el cual permite un correcto funcionamiento de todos los procesos involucrados en el sistema. Se utilizó el microcontrolador PIC 18f4550, este se usó para la recepción de los datos del módulo RC522 utilizado en el sistema de ingreso, y con este se realiza la lectura de las tarjetas RFID que son las que determinan el ingreso o salida de un usuario, igualmente el microcontrolador realiza una visualización en una LCD 16x2 y también tiene tres indicadores para saber el estado en el que se encuentra el parqueadero (ingreso, ocupado y salida), además una comunicación serial RS232 entre el microcontrolador y un módulo WI-FI NODEMCU ESP-8266 el cual se configuro como servidor para subir datos a la plataforma FIREBASE de Google. Se realizó también una aplicación Android desarrollada en ANDROID STUDIO para móviles con sistema operativo Android con una versión superior a 5.1 en la que se visualiza los datos de registro del usuario en tiempo real y podrá ser monitoreada por un personal de seguridad. El sistema de seguridad por medio del solenoide es vulnerable y se debería implementar un sistema más compacto, además del espacio utilizado para cada bicicleta también debe estar sometido a más pruebas para así tener un modelo más sencillo y para espacios más reducidos. La base de datos cumple las funciones propuestas, pero su interfaz podría pensar en mejorarse.This document describes the development of a safety and registration system for a bicycle parking area by means of a microcontroller, which allows a correct operation of all the processes involved in the system. The microcontroller PIC 18f4550 was used, this was used to receive the data of the RC522 module used in the system of entry, and with this is made the reading of the RFID cards that are the ones that determine the entry or exit of a user, also the microcontroller makes a display on a 16x2 LCD and also has three indicators to know the state in which the parking lot is (input, busy and output), plus a serial communication RS232 between the microcontroller and a module WI-FI NODEMCU ESP -8266 which was configured as a server to upload data to Google's FIREBASE platform. An Android application was also developed in ANDROID STUDIO for mobile phones with Android operating system with a version superior to 5.1 in which the user registry data is visualized in real time and can be monitored by security staff. The safety system by means of the solenoid is vulnerable and a more compact system should be implemented, in addition to the space used for each bicycle it should also be subjected to more tests in order to have a simpler model and for smaller spaces. The database fulfils the proposed functions, but its interface could think about improving itself

Spin Structure of the Proton from Polarized Inclusive Deep-Inelastic Muon-Proton Scattering

We have measured the spin-dependent structure function $g_1^p$ in inclusive deep-inelastic scattering of polarized muons off polarized protons, in the kinematic range $0.003 < x < 0.7$ and $1 GeV^2 < Q^2 < 60 GeV^2$. A next-to-leading order QCD analysis is used to evolve the measured $g_1^p(x,Q^2)$ to a fixed $Q^2_0$. The first moment of $g_1^p$ at $Q^2_0 = 10 GeV^2$ is $\Gamma^p = 0.136\pm 0.013(stat.) \pm 0.009(syst.)\pm 0.005(evol.)$. This result is below the prediction of the Ellis-Jaffe sum rule by more than two standard deviations. The singlet axial charge $a_0$ is found to be $0.28 \pm 0.16$. In the Adler-Bardeen factorization scheme, $\Delta g \simeq 2$ is required to bring $\Delta \Sigma$ in agreement with the Quark-Parton Model. A combined analysis of all available proton and deuteron data confirms the Bjorken sum rule.Comment: 33 pages, 22 figures, uses ReVTex and smc.sty. submitted to Physical Review

Measurement of the cross-section and charge asymmetry of WW bosons produced in proton-proton collisions at s=8\sqrt{s}=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

This paper presents measurements of the $W^+ \rightarrow \mu^+\nu$ and $W^- \rightarrow \mu^-\nu$ cross-sections and the associated charge asymmetry as a function of the absolute pseudorapidity of the decay muon. The data were collected in proton--proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC and correspond to a total integrated luminosity of 20.2~\mbox{fb^{-1}}. The precision of the cross-section measurements varies between 0.8% to 1.5% as a function of the pseudorapidity, excluding the 1.9% uncertainty on the integrated luminosity. The charge asymmetry is measured with an uncertainty between 0.002 and 0.003. The results are compared with predictions based on next-to-next-to-leading-order calculations with various parton distribution functions and have the sensitivity to discriminate between them.Comment: 38 pages in total, author list starting page 22, 5 figures, 4 tables, submitted to EPJC. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/STDM-2017-13

Search for direct production of charginos and neutralinos in events with three leptons and missing transverse momentum in √s = 7 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

A search for the direct production of charginos and neutralinos in final states with three electrons or muons and missing transverse momentum is presented. The analysis is based on 4.7 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data delivered by the Large Hadron Collider and recorded with the ATLAS detector. Observations are consistent with Standard Model expectations in three signal regions that are either depleted or enriched in Z-boson decays. Upper limits at 95% confidence level are set in R-parity conserving phenomenological minimal supersymmetric models and in simplified models, significantly extending previous results

Measurement of the production of a W boson in association with a charm quark in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

The production of a W boson in association with a single charm quark is studied using 4.6 fb−1 of pp collision data at s√ = 7 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. In events in which a W boson decays to an electron or muon, the charm quark is tagged either by its semileptonic decay to a muon or by the presence of a charmed meson. The integrated and differential cross sections as a function of the pseudorapidity of the lepton from the W-boson decay are measured. Results are compared to the predictions of next-to-leading-order QCD calculations obtained from various parton distribution function parameterisations. The ratio of the strange-to-down sea-quark distributions is determined to be 0.96+0.26−0.30 at Q 2 = 1.9 GeV2, which supports the hypothesis of an SU(3)-symmetric composition of the light-quark sea. Additionally, the cross-section ratio σ(W + +c¯¯)/σ(W − + c) is compared to the predictions obtained using parton distribution function parameterisations with different assumptions about the s−s¯¯¯ quark asymmetry