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The online and offline worlds are coming together in multiple ways. For some time I've been talking about how in the near future offline measurement will be imperative for digital marketing platforms and networks.
No longer will it be sufficient to report just impressions and clicks — or any other online only actions. Marketers large and small will want to know about actual visits and offline conversions. It's still the case that more than 90% of US retail transactions happen offline.
Before mobile devices this kind of tracking was extremely difficult. You could survey users after the fact, run campaigns with coupons or you could undertake expensive and complex media mix modeling. However because clicks and online conversions were much easier to measure, most digital marketers focused their conversion tracking on online forms and e-commerce. Over time calls kicked in as a proxy for offline conversions and an important tracking metric.
The lack of offline conversion tracking produced an incomplete picture of campaign effectiveness. Now with geofencing, smartphone tracking, CRM/payment matching and indoor location, tracking offline conversions is getting easier.
Last night Facebook relaunched Atlas, the ad-serving platform it acquired from Microsoft in 2013. The new platform promises better audience-based targeting and cross-device measurement. What was also very interesting to me was the promise of "online-to-offline measurement."
On the Atlas site the company says:
Atlas allows advertisers to measure which channels, platforms and publishers within their online campaigns impacted the actual sales that happened in-store. Bringing new transparency to the online touchpoints that drive buyer behavior, Atlas connects offline purchase data with online campaigns to show a more complete view of their marketing effectiveness.
There's no precise discussion of offline tracking methodology. However Facebook works with Datalogix currently and otherwise employs a number of different methodologies to track offline conversions. Atlas competitor DoubleClick enables offline conversion tracking via advertisers' own database uploads, but this is more narrow than what I believe Atlas is offering.
Regardless of the precise methodology, the larger point is that offline conversion tracking is starting to go mainstream with these two ad-serving platforms now offering it and mobile marketing platforms starting to report on in-store lift and place visit rates. Within three years there won't be a digital campaign for a real-world retailer or brand that doesn't include offline conversion tracking.
If you're attending SMX East I'm moderating a panel called Attribution Success In The Age Of Mobile on Wednesday. You won't want to miss it.


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Newly formed UCI Professional team Team Are Bike park will be riding and rolling on Da Bomb's products for the upcoming season. Being led by 2010 UCI DH Champion Robin Wallner, Da Bomb Bikes was able to catch up with Man behind the action and what are the plans for the future.
Team Captain of Team Are Bike Park: Robin Wallner
Da Bomb: Hi Robin! How are you today?
Robin Wallner: I'm fine apart from the fact that it is unbelievably cold in Sweden at the moment and I can't ride my bike.
DB: Tell me about your racing experiences in the last year?
RW: Well I had a lot of different ones. Season started out steady and I was confident that I was going to do well. Then things went wrong. I had several small injuries, crashes, punctures and a lot of hard times.
Also I think it effected me a lot with Niklas getting injured at the world cup in Leogang. It messed with my head for sure. But then I also had the most epic win ever at the European champs. It was special since it was like racing back home, some friends were there and also my parents so it was definitely special to me.
DB: Were you expecting to win the UCI European DH Championships?
RW: No definitely not. I had so many bad races leading up to that race I simply wanted to give it my all and stay on my bike. My goal was to get on the podium but even that would have been sick at the time.
DB: Why did you decide to start your own UCI team?
RW: It just felt weird last two years with me and my brother both racing and wanting to do the same thing but heading off with different teams & sponsors so that is one reason for it. But also I have been able to pick my own sponsors and in the long term I hope that I can help some young-guns and give them the chance to race internationally. I think it is something a lot of riders want to do but I simply had the opportunity to do so and I wanted to do the best I can with this opportunity.
DB: How has it been starting everything between yourself and your small crew of riders? Going well? Busy?
RW: Well I think we have created a great structure of people for the team. Erik Källström will be, myself & Niklas mechanic, great guy who used to ride the world cup just 2 years ago so he knows what he needs to do and I don't need to worry about that side. Then Carina (my mum) is doing all the papers, logistics, accommodations & registration and finally we hired a up & comer photographer Mattias Lindqvist to come with us and shoot photo and film during the season. But yeah it has been and will be a busy time but it is definitely worth it to be happy and well prepared.
DB: Why did you choose Da Bomb out of all the other bikes on the market? What stands out about their bikes and what is your opinion on their products?
RW: Well first of all we go way back in time. I started off on the brand back in the days and have kept good relations & contacts with you guys through our distribution so it felt like a natural move. I also really like the new bikes coming out for 2011 and I think everyone at the company is real dedicated to step it up and do whatever needs to be done to improve.
DB: What do you wish to accomplish in your first season running and racing Team Are Bike Park?
RW: I want to do what I thought I could last year. Get in that top 10 at the World Cups. Of course I want to try to defend my title as Euro Champ as well but that is a different story, I also want to enjoy the races and being in this group of people feels real good and relaxing so I think it should be a fun year.
DB: Last question, tell me something outrageously hilarious about yourself. Could be anything, anyone any situation? So we can know more about the "other" side of Mr. Robin Wallner.
RW: Well there are so many stories from the road that I really can't tell you here but last year we had quite a bit of trouble with our van. To make a long story short we had to break in to a rental-car station to find a phone number to the owner and make them come there. Found the phone number and called her up but made the mistake to call from their office-phone.
She saw that we called from her office and got crazy promising us to call the police.
Naturally we ended up without a rental car and had to walk the 12 km back home. We even called on an advert for a PW50 motorbike to not have to walk back.
Don't know if it's hilarious but it is a pretty good story and someday I can tell you the full-length version=)
DB: Thanks Robin for your time and I wish you the best of luck in the upcoming racing season!


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A monthly blog, written by Holy Trinity's Library team. Holy Trinity has hundreds of books on various Christian education subjects, such as Faith Formation, Bible Study, Biography, Prayer, and World Religions. All books are free for members and attenders to check out for two-three weeks.
Our 2017 Library Team leaders are Dorothy Kasik and Judy Evans.
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This month's news is a trio of invitations. The BGLibrary belongs to you--YOU--which means that you're free to check out books and DVDs as often as you like with no limitation on the number of items you take or how long you keep them. It's recommended that most materials be returned within two weeks, but no one will be running you down if you keep things longer. No late fees, no extra charges, no membership fees, not even a fine for an occasional lost book. It's YOUR library. You own it.
So that brings us to the first invitation: If we don't have the book you're looking for, ask us to order it. Write it down, hand it to a Team member, or simply leave the request on the table in the library. There's still money in our 2017 account for honoring requests.
Second invitation: if there's a DVD you think we need, ask us to order it. Write it down...
Third (and this one's more complicated), after you read an interesting book or view a good DVD, write up a quick review that we can post. It doesn't have to be long or complicated, just a sentence or two telling what you enjoyed, what you learned, or why you found it helpful. Listen in on conversations around the Gathering Area on a Sunday morning and you'll hear people talking about what they're reading: "The best book I ever read." "So exciting that I literally couldn't put it down." "You should read it; I really think it relates to the problems we talked about last week." If you felt that way about a book, posting a quick recommendation will keep the conversation alive and spread it to a larger audience. Ditto for DVDs. (Movie Night suggestion?)
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First dive at Arakawa Rock Lake!
As we descended a very big Napoleon fish came to greet us♪ I got surprised because it appeared so suddenly(;^ω^)
Inside the swim-throughs, all the fishes were gone ((+_+)) The typhoon must have swept them away to somewhere else. But even without the glassfishes, the swim-throughs are still exciting and the dive passed quickly as we explored them(≧▽≦)
For 2nd and 3rd dive we went to Manta point. First Manta Scramble and then Manta City♪♪♪
At scramble, a Marble ray passed us by on the way to the cleaning stations☆ Its tail was gone so it looked like a UFO (round disc) as it was swimming(;^ω^)
This is a good sign♪♪ I thought and as we came to the cleaning station a manta was circling above it(≧▽≦)
It was there for the about 20min, coming and going back and forth☆
After we had lunch, we went to Manta City. We had to wait around 20min before the manta appeared to our delight\(^o^)/
It swam very close to us and circled round and round the cleaning station so our divers got a good look at it♪♪
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This is the tale of which came first The Muddle or The Stew!
The Plot
As an utterly innocent gesture, I made plans to celebrate National Poultry Day, which just so happens to be March 19, rather than celebrate St. Joseph's Day, which also just happens to be today. My reasoning for this choice is quite simple. I just couldn't do a post for St. Joseph's Day without baking, yes I said baking, a cookie sheet flowing with chocolate glazed, creamy filled, cream puffs. You know the ones I mean. But, that's just it, how can one speak of oozing cream puffs without providing a tempting image. As you can see, words can not do it alone:) So, in my mind's eye, I decided I would save the Cream Puff post for another year and provide you with some goodies for St. Joseph's Day and be on my merry way to National Poultry Day. I can certainly get away with popping up a recipe for Chicken So and So and have a fairly easy posting day while sparing my frequent visitors another long drawn out post. Sorry ya'll not today!!!
The Muddle
Well, it looks like I've gotten myself into a fine kettle of fish. Here's how it happened. It seems that Valencia, Spain celebrates St. Joseph's Day with Sopa De Pescado which translates to Fish Soup. My thought was to "kill" two birds with one stone. I would provide a recipe for Fish Soup instead for St. Joseph's Day and Chicken Soup for National Poultry Day. Simple enough? Not for this gal. I blame it all on Bull Cook. I'm sure I've mentioned this title before by the Herters; George and Berthie. Bull Cook (1969)is one of those books you rely on to inspire the senses and test the imagination. Perfect for the day before the first day of spring. Don't you think? Not!
I had chosen the recipe for Sopa De Pescado from another book I've mentioned before; Festival Menus 'Round the World by Sue Benet. How difficult could it be to find a recipe for chicken soup? Who needs a recipe? I do believe I could make chicken soup with blinders on. But, you see, that's just it. I didn't want any ol' chicken soup for Poultry Day. This may just be the last soup of the season with spring coming and all. This has to be one mighty fine chicken soup. Perhaps, a chicken stew? In walks Church Builders Chicken. Now that I think about, I better "drop" off these two recipes because, honestly, it's getting rather late and if you want to celebrate either day with an authentic recipe you better read these recipes, see what ingredients you have or have not and Get that Pot a Boiling!
|Sopa De Pescado:
1/2 dozen shrimp
1 large Spanish onion, chopped
1/4 cup olive oil
1 bay leaf
1 sprig parsley
1-1/2-2lbs. halibut
1 tomato, quartered
2 peppercorns
1 clove garlic, minced
1 fish head
1-1/2 lbs. whitefish
salt & toasted bread
Wash shrimp and cover with boiling salted water. Simmer 10-15 minutes or until shells turn pink. Shell, saving liquid. Brown onion in oil in a separate pan. Add tomato, peppercorns, garlic, bay leaf, and parsley. Cover with boiling water, add fish head, and cook over hot flame for several minutes. Lower flame and simmer for another 10 minutes. Add sliced halibut, whitefish, and cut-up shrimp. Add liquid in which shrimp has been boiled. Be careful to avoid sand which may have accumulated at the bottom of pot. Continue cooking 20 minutes. Season to taste with salt. Strain fish broth. Remove fish head. Place a few squares of toasted or fried bread, shrimp, and slices of fish in individual soup dishes. Pour broth over them. Serve.
|Church Builder Chicken
1 good -sized chicken
1/2 lb. uncut bacon
2 large onions
4 lbs. potatoes
5 cans lima beans or butter beans
2 cans kernel corn
5 cans tomatoes
1/2 tsp. red pepper
1/2 tsp. black pepper
1-1/2 tsps. salt
Proceed as follows: Take your chicken and cook in pressure cooker until done so that meat comes off the bones easily. Remove the meat from the bones, break up into bite size pieces and place the chicken meat back into the pressure cooker just for storage. Do not pressure cook it any further. Peel the foour pounds of potatoes and boil them until well done. Usually takes about 20 minutes. Drain the water from the potatoes and mash them. Now dice your two large onions and put them with the chicken in the pressure cooker. Add the 5 cans of beans, 2 cans of drained corn, and 5 cans of tomatoes. Leave the top off the pressure cooker and bring to a slow boil over medium heat. Then remove from stove. Take the 1/2 pound of uncut bacon and cut it up into half inch cubes. Place on a tray in the oven and leave until pretty well done. Now put the bacon cubes with the chicken mixture into the pressure cooker. Add one and one-half teaspoons of salt, one-half red pepper and black peppers. Now put in the mashed potatoes and let slowly boil over a medium heat for 45 minutes or until thick. Stir frequently to keep from burning. Serve with good bread and butter. This recipe is one of those that pleases everyone.
I see you came back. I'm glad you did. Oh, be honest, there's no way in this world, I don't care if it is the last day of winter, that you are even thinking of making either of these soups/stews. I can't blame you. Fact is, I got so off my game trying to produce a stimulating post for National Poultry Day, I was going to include these recipes come hell or high heaven!!! You want to know why? Bull Cook
Church Builder Chicken: This recipe (the one above) has done more good, I believe than any other recipe in the world. It originated in Virginia but has spread over a large part of this country. It came to Minnesota with a pretty blonde girl, Ellen, daughter of Mrs. Thomas Powell of Emporia, Virginia. Mrs. Powell's daughter married Dale Schmidt, a Minnesota soldier, and came to live in Minnesota.
In Virginia, as well as everywhere else, it has unfortunately always been hard to raise money to build churches. Selling cakes, pies, candy, etc.; has always worked fairly well to raise church money but not anything too spectacular. In Virginia, a recipe originally called Chicken Muddle, was offered at church sales and it outsold everything and soon took the name Church Builder Chicken. Church Builder Chicken has built not hundreds but thousands of churches. Today, it sells for $1.25 a quart and is the biggest bargain you ever got. It is very fine eating-be sure to not only try it at your home but have your church try it. Have them label the jars. "Church Builder Chicken" from the original Virginia Recipe.
Stirring the Pot
Does the above recipe look remotely familiar? Chances are if you have ever resided in or went to Brunswick, Georgia, Brunswick County, North Carolina, or Brunswick County, Virginia you have been introduced to the communal ritual of Brunswick Stew. Brunswick Stew is so infinitely famous that there are benevolent "wars" between the three noted states as to who actually invented it and "owns" it as their intrinsic fabric of their being. There is only one premise that the "big three" agree upon when it comes to claiming Who Cooked It Up; "the stew was originally made among country folk with wild game, most often squirrel." One state, Georgia has the cast iron pot in which the first Brunswick Stew was reportedly made. Brunswick County, Virginia has a Brunswick Stewmaster's Association which is "Home of the Original Brunswick Stew" and North Carolina is so Muddled in History they have all kinds of soups, stews and muddles! Wait there's more. Muddling has roots in the Native American dish of Succotash, essentially a Vegetarian Brunswick Stew and it also has a global history. Yes, indeed it does! First, there's a Sir Brunswick from England that had his taste of Brunswick Stew. Second, there's a city in Germany called Braunsweig which is the ancestral home of King George II. Georgia is named after King George II of England probably because it was King George II who granted the Georgia Charter of 1732. Food for thought, don't you think?
Just the other day, I shared a few recipes from Cross Creek Kitchens. While I was scanning through the pages of that book and Cross Creek Cookery, I came across another story concerning Brunswick Stew. Ms. Rawlings writes:
The origin of this dish, dear to the South, is uncertain. It is here and there believed that it came from Brunswick, Georgia, yet lifted eyebrows greet a request for the dish in inns of that small city. A correspondent who has lived much abroad wrote me that the dish was a favorite of Queen Victoria, and since that late, great Queen clung faithfully to her German origins, my correspondent believes, as do I, that its source must have been Brunswick in old Germany. The recipe varies in every section of the South. The Duchess of Windsor gives a very good recipe, using chicken, tomatoes, okra, corn, string beans, and potatoes.
At Cross Creek and in neighboring Florida backwoods, we make the dish at hog-killing time, and associate it with that autumn season of harvest and plenty. The basis is fresh pork, and is likely to consist, in humbler circles, of small pieces of lean pork that have escaped the sausage grinder, along with the liver, the lights, and the heart, cut in one-half inch cubes...Roughly, the proportions are as follows:
4 lbs. lean fresh pork, liver, lights, heart, all cut in 1/2-inch cubes
Simmer until tender, 2-3 hours, in 4 quarts of water
2 teaspoons salt
1/8 teaspoon black pepper
1 large can peas (or 2 cups cooked cow peas)
1 small can lima beans
1 large can tomatoes
1 medium can corn
Simmer until mixture is rather thick. It should be moist, but not actually wet. Cornbread should be served as a concomitant. Plain people enjoy breaking the cornbread into the stew. Serves 8 to 10
It appears that Brunswick Stew goes by almost as many names as regions. Cooked down into a delicious muddle as opposed to say, Beef Bourguignon which is never "allowed" to muddle, most agree it is the perfect meal to serve to a large crowd, much like Bull Cook's, Church Builder Chicken and most would agree it is usually cooked outdoors in a big iron kettle. If you're thinking about frugal meals for any kind of money making project, consider having a chicken muddle supper and serving Chicken Muddle for a Crowd
The End
Whether a stew of fish, for St. Joseph's Day, a mess of chicken for church building or a humble meal of Brunswick Stew, there is one more muddle which must be considered in closing. Yes, the plot thickens. However, you're really going to like this one, it's the muddling of cocktails. Now dear muddle connoisseurs, the next time I decide to celebrate National Poultry Day, I think I will skip the wild goose chase and simply make due with goulash. Any ol' goulash!!! Enjoy!
I almost forgot, in answer to the question which came first The Muddle or The Stew! If you really want to explore that answer, you will need to either read this hard to decipher html file or this PDF file, which I found easier to read by opening with preview on my Mac. The file comes from The Virginia Genealogical Society titled Brunswick Stew vs Chicken Muddle published in 1991. It is bogged down in historic notes and quite an interesting read. It ends like this...
An even older version of the colonial fast-food trade is "chicken muddle."e honor of concocting chicken muddle is claimed by the early residents of Greensville County, in and around Hicksford, which is now Emporia. It's much thicker and very rich, with a taste of hickory smoked bacon. Brunswick stew is a latecomer, easier made, much thinner, quick and easy.
Visit St. Joseph's Day @ Gherkins & Tomatoes for additional resources.
1. Chicken Tips For National Poultry Day
2. Brunswick Stew: A Tradition with Taste
3. Nathalie Dupree article Mess or Muddle
4. Who Invented Brunswick Stew? Hush Up and Eat (New York Times)
5. Carolina Fish Muddle
6. North Carolina Fish Muddle
7. East Virginia Muddle
8. Brew Ha-Ha Fish Muddle
9. Chowning's Tavern Brunswick Stew
10. Stewpots of the World: short article
11. AficioNada has a recipe for Hamburger Chateaubriand a la Bull Cook


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Are you planning to buy a pair of polo snow boots? Well, you are at the right place as some tips are provided in this article to help you make the right decision. With the many choices available today, you need to take certain factors into consider before making a purchase.
Things to consider when shopping for snow boots
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The Trail of Tears
Cedartown, GA 30125
Visit the removal camp site of the Cherokee Indians as they were removed in 1838 at what is now called the Big Spring Park in Cedartown. You can follow the route with the newly erected signs placed throughout the trail. More than 200 Cherokees once lived along the waterways in the Cedartown area. The driving tour begins at the intersection of Wissahickon Road. The original trail can still be seen in a pasture from aerial view. There are no user or entry fees for the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail. Operating hours vary from site to site.
Info & Amenities
Admission & Fees
Admission free
Facility Amenities
Self-guided Tours
General Information
Free Admission
Near Interstate Highway
Suitable for Ages
All Ages


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New York Times Crossword Answers – Saturday March 18 2017
Here are the answers to New York Times Crossword puzzles Saturday March 18 2017
___ Jiabao, 2003-13 premier of China – WEN
1991 Daytona 500 winner Ernie – IRVAN
Aggressive poker play – RERAISE
Aquarium denizen with horizontal stripes – ZEBRAFISH
Bad representation? – LUCIFER
Be lousy – SUCK
Bucket of bolts – CRATE
Cat's tongue – JIVETALK
Central U.S.'s ___ Plateau – OZARK
Classroom command – QUIET
Clearly! – SOISEE
Coin at an arcade – TOKEN
Commoner contemner – ELITIST
Competitor of Baker's Joy – PAM
Confusion – HAZE
Creator of Bluto and Wimpy – ECSEGAR
Crow's-foot, e.g – AGELINE
Death and the ___ (Bosch painting in the National Gallery of Art) – MISER
Distance unit of about 30 inches – PACE
European crested ___ – TIT
Even faster than overnight – SAMEDAY
Form of the Italian verb "to be" – ERI
From the heart, in Latin – EXANIMO
Go in and out of middle management? – YOYODIET
He played an escaped convict in "We're No Angels" – ALDORAY
Heart – COURAGE
Honest or respectable course – UPANDUP
How ludicrous! – WHATAJOKE
It could be a blooper – OUTTAKE
It ended after W.W. II – NAZI ERA
Keys are found in it: Abbr. – FLA
Like first drafts, usually – EMENDED
Like stars in a review – AWARDED
Line online – ENOTE
Longtime Cunard flagship, for short – QEII
Longtime locals – NATIVES
Lounge piece – DIVAN
Marie Curie and Irene Joliot-Curie, e.g. – MADAMES
Marine 10-legger – SEACRAB
Mid-luxury Mercedes-Benz line – ECLASS
More than serious – DIRE
Mozart contemporary Antonio ___ – ROSETTI
One for the record books : – BESTEVER
One of a pair a gardener might wear – KNEEPAD
Org. for many residents – AMA
Packing supply – TWINE
Pandorans in "Avatar" – NAVI
Photoshop color effect – DUOTONE
Phrase usually abbreviated – IDEST
Polymer add-on? – ASE
Predictably – ASUSUAL
Prepare for a close-up – PANIN
River of York – OUSE
Rte. that ends in 22-Across – USONE
School address – LECTURE
See 48-Across – COURT
Set electricians – GAFFERS
So-called "Caput Mundi" ("Head of the World") – ROME
Studio equipment – MIKES
Succession in a board game – TURNS
The Allegheny and Wabash, to the Ohio: Abbr. – TRIBS
The Cocktail Party inits. – TSE
The Outcasts of Poker Flat author – HARTE
Think over – DIGEST
Tickling response – TEHEE
Town in Connecticut's Gold Coast – DARIEN
Tweak – FINETUNE
Welcome to the Jungle singer, 1988 – AXLROSE
Whale facility – SONAR
With 9-Down, hit sitcom of the 1980s-'90s – NIGHT


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Imagination Studios is a company specialized in motion capturing and animation. Part of their daily business is working at trade shows where they have a booth to keep close contact with existing customers and also to find new ones. However, usually only two to three people will be working at the booth, and frequently, these people will be in meetings with potential customers. During a time like this, nobody is free to attend to other people checking out the booth. This can result in a potential loss of a new customer. This project seeks a way to alleviate that problem.The idea behind this project was to create an application that trade show visitors can interact with in a playful and innovative way while also giving them a feel of what Imagination Studios is all about while looking for information about the company. To do this it was decided to let users interact with the system by using a Microsoft Kinect. The Kinect allows for easy implementation of a user interface based on motion capturing while also being very cost effective. A new user interface was to be designed as well, without copying already existing solutions and without simply expanding a traditional UI with new elements. To achieve this several design sketches were made, and the most interesting ones were then turned into storyboards. These were then used to decide on the final design, which was then elaborated on by use of video sketches and a collage in Adobe Photoshop.Several tools were used during the actual implementation. For the actual visualization and graphical design, the Unreal Engine 3 in combination with UDK was decided upon. To connect Kinect and Unreal Engine 3, a third party addon called NIUI which makes use of the open source SDK OpenNI was used. For ease of debugging and programming in Unrealscript, the programming language used by the Unreal Engine 3, an addon for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 called nFringe (Pixel Mine, Inc., 2010) was used.
This thesis is about identification of rare and similar cases in post operative pain. This thesis works with real data consisting of about 3793 cases collected from various hospitals all around the World. It also implements four clustering techniques to study their results and choose the best one among them for the identification of rare cases
Concurrent programming puts demands on software debugging and testing, as concurrent software may exhibit problems not present in sequential software, e.g., deadlocks and race conditions. In aiming to increase efficiency and effectiveness of debugging and bug-fixing for concurrent software, a deep understanding of concurrency bugs, their frequency and fixing-times would be helpful. Similarly, to design effective tools and techniques for testing and debugging concurrent software, understanding the differences between non-concurrency and concurrency bugs in real-word software would be useful. This paper presents an empirical study focusing on understanding the differences and similarities between concurrency bugs and other bugs, as well as the differences among various concurrency bug types in terms of their severity and their fixing time, and reproducibility. Our basis is a comprehensive analysis of bug reports covering several generations of five open source software projects. The analysis involves a total of 11860 bug reports from the last decade, including 351 reports related to concurrency bugs. We found that concurrency bugs are different from other bugs in terms of their fixing time and severity while they are similar in terms of reproducibility. Our findings shed light on concurrency bugs and could thereby influence future design and development of concurrent software, their debugging and testing, as well as related tools.
Multicore hardware development increases the popularity of parallel and multicore software, while testing and debugging the software become more difficult, frustrating and costly. Among all types of software bugs, concurrency bugs are both important and troublesome. This type of bugs is increasingly becoming an issue, particularly due to the growing prevalence of multicore hardware. Suspension-based-locking bug is one type of concurrency bugs. This position paper proposes a model based on runtime verification and reflection technique in the context of multicore and parallel software to monitor and detect suspension-based-locking bugs. The model is not only able to detect faults, but also diagnose and even repair them. The model is composed of four layers: Logging, Monitoring, Suspension Bug Diagnosis and Mitigation. The logging layer will observe the events and save them into a file system. The monitoring layer will detect the presents of bugs in the software. The suspension bug diagnosis will identify Suspension bugs by comparing the captured data with the suspension bug properties. Finally, the mitigation layer will reconfigure the software to mitigate the suspension bugs. A functional architecture of a runtime verification tool is also proposed in this paper. This architecture is based on the proposed model and is comprised of different modules.
In software engineering, classification is a way to find an organized structure of knowledge about objects. Classification serves to investigate the relationship between the items to be classified, and can be used to identify the current gaps in the field. In many cases users are able to order and relate objects by fitting them in a category. This paper presents initial work on a taxonomy for classification of errors (bugs) related to concurrent execution of application level software threads. By classifying concurrency bugs based on their corresponding observable properties, this research aims to examine and structure the state of the art in this field, as well as to provide practitioner support for testing and debugging of concurrent software. We also show how the proposed classification, and the different classes of bugs, relates to the state of the art in the field by providing a mapping of the classification to a number of recently published papers in the software engineering field.
Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) bridge the cyber-world of computing and communications with the physical world and require development of secure and reliable software. It asserts a big challenge not only on testing and verifying the correctness of all physical and cyber components of such big systems, but also on integration of these components. This paper develops a categorization of multiple levels of testing required to test CPS and makes a comparison of these levels with the levels of software testing based on the V-model. It presents a detailed state-of-the-art survey on the testing approaches performed on the CPS. Further, it provides challenges in CPS testing.
With the development of multicore hardware, concurrent, parallel and multicore software are becoming increasingly popular. Software companies are spending a huge amount of time and resources to nd and debug the bugs. Among all types of software bugs, concurrency bugs are also important and troublesome. This type of bugs is increasingly becoming an issue particularly due to the growing prevalence of multicore hardware. In this position paper, we propose a model for monitoring and debugging Starvation bugs as a type of concurrency bugs in multicore software. The model is composed into three phases: monitoring, detecting and debugging. The monitoring phase can support detecting phase by storing collected data from the system execution. The detecting phase can support debugging phase by comparing the stored data with starvation bug's properties, and the debugging phase can help in reproducing and removing the Starvation bug from multicore software. Our intention is that our model is the basis for developing tool(s) to enable solving Starvation bugs in software for multicore platforms.
Debugging – the process of identifying, localizing and fixing bugs – is a key activity in software development. Due to issues such as non-determinism and difficulties of reproducing failures, debugging concurrent software is significantly more challenging than debugging sequential software. A number of methods, models and tools for debugging concurrent and multicore software have been proposed, but the body of work partially lacks a common terminology and a more recent view of the problems to solve. This suggests the need for a classification, and an up-to-date comprehensive overview of the area.
This paper presents the results of a systematic mapping study in the field of debugging of concurrent and multicore software in the last decade (2005– 2014). The study is guided by two objectives: (1) to summarize the recent publication trends and (2) to clarify current research gaps in the field.
Through a multi-stage selection process, we identified 145 relevant papers. Based on these, we summarize the publication trend in the field by showing distribution of publications with respect to year , publication venues , representation of academia and industry , and active research institutes . We also identify research gaps in the field based on attributes such as types of concurrency bugs, types of debugging processes , types of research and research contributions.
The main observations from the study are that during the years 2005–2014: (1) there is no focal conference or venue to publish papers in this area, hence a large variety of conferences and journal venues (90) are used to publish relevant papers in this area; (2) in terms of publication contribution, academia was more active in this area than industry; (3) most publications in the field address the data race bug; (4) bug identification is the most common stage of debugging addressed by articles in the period; (5) there are six types of research approaches found, with solution proposals being the most common one; and (6) the published papers essentially focus on four different types of contributions, with "methods" being the type most common one.
We can further conclude that there is still quite a number of aspects that are not sufficiently covered in the field, most notably including (1) exploring correction and fixing bugs in terms of debugging process; (2) order violation, suspension and starvation in terms of concurrency bugs; (3) validation and evaluation research in the matter of research type; (4) metric in terms of research contribution. It is clear that the concurrent, parallel and multicore software community needs broader studies in debugging.This systematic mapping study can help direct such efforts.
Concurrent programming puts demands on software debugging and testing, as concurrent software may exhibit problems not present in sequential software, e.g., deadlocks and race conditions. In aiming to increase efficiency and effectiveness of debugging and bug-fixing for concurrent software, a deep understanding of concurrency bugs, their frequency and fixingtimes would be helpful. Similarly, to design effective tools and techniques for testing and debugging concurrent software understanding the differences between non-concurrency and concurrency bugs in real-word software would be useful.
Electromyography (EMG) is a tool routinely used for a variety of applications in a very large breadth of disciplines. However, this signal is inevitably contaminated by various artifacts originated from different sources. Electrical activity of heart muscles, electrocardiogram (ECG), is one of sources which affects the EMG signals due to the proximity of the collection sites to the heart and makes its analysis non-reliable. Different methods have been proposed to remove ECG artifacts from surface EMG signals; however, in spite of numerous attempts to eliminate or reduce this artifact, the problem of accurate and effective de-noising of EMG still remains a challenge. In this study common methods such as high pass filter (HPF), gating method, spike clipping, hybrid technique, template subtraction, independent component analysis (ICA), wavelet transform, wavelet-ICA, artificial neural network (ANN), and adaptive noise canceller (ANC) and adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) are used to remove ECG artifacts from surface EMG signals and their accuracy and effectiveness is investigated. HPF, gating method and spike clipping are fast; however they remove useful information from EMG signals. Hybrid technique and ANC are time consuming. Template subtraction requires predetermined QRS pattern. Using wavelet transform some artifacts remain in the original signal and part of the desired signal is removed. ICA requires multi-channel signals. Wavelet-ICA approach does not require multi-channel signals; however, it is user-dependent. ANN and ANFIS have good performance, but it is possible to improve their results by combining them with other techniques. For some applications of EMG signals such as rehabilitation, motion control and motion prediction, the quality of EMG signals is very important. Furthermore, the artifact removal methods need to be online and automatic. Hence, efficient methods such as ANN-wavelet, adaptive subtraction and automated wavelet-ICA are proposed to effectively eliminate ECG artifacts from surface EMG signals. To compare the results of the investigated methods and the proposed methods in this study, clean EMG signals from biceps and deltoid muscles and ECG artifacts from pectoralis major muscle are recorded from five healthy subjects to create 10 channels of contaminated EMG signals by adding the recorded ECG artifacts to the clean EMG signals. The artifact removal methods are also applied to the 10 channels of real contaminated EMG signals from pectoralis major muscle of the left side. Evaluation criteria such as signal to noise ratio, relative error, correlation coefficient, elapsed time and power spectrum density are used to evaluate the performance of the proposed methods. It is found that the performance of the proposed ANN-wavelet method is superior to the other methods with a signal to noise ratio, relative error and correlation coefficient of 15.53, 0.01 and 0.98 respectively.
Web services are used in many Web applications in order to save time and cost during software development process. To peruse Web service response time, a suitable tool is needed to automate the measurement of the response time. However, not many suitable tools are available for automatic measurement of response time. This research is carried out in the context of quality of Web services in order to measure and visualize Web service response time. The method proposed in this research for accomplishing this goal is based on creating a proxy for connecting to the required Web service, and then calculating the Web services response time via the proxy. A software tool is designed based on the proposed method in order to guide the implementation that is still in progress. The tool can be validated through empirical validation using three test cases for three different Web service access situations.
In recent years, the removal of electrocardiogram (ECG) interferences from electromyogram (EMG) signals has been given large consideration. Where the quality of EMG signal is of interest, it is important to remove ECG interferences from EMG signals. In this paper, an efficient method based on a combination of adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) and wavelet transform is proposed to effectively eliminate ECG interferences from surface EMG signals. The proposed approach is compared with other common methods such as high-pass filter, artificial neural network, adaptive noise canceller, wavelet transform, subtraction method and ANFIS. It is found that the performance of the proposed ANFIS-wavelet method is superior to the other methods with the signal to noise ratio and relative error of 14.97 dB and 0.02 respectively and a significantly higher correlation coefficient (p < 0.05).
Accurate recording and precise analysis of the electrocardiogram (ECG) signals are crucial in the pathophysiological study and clinical treatment. These recordings are often corrupted by different artifacts. The aim of this study is to propose two different methods, wavelet transform based on nonlinear thresholding and a combination method using wavelet and independent component analysis (ICA), to remove motion artifact from ECG signals. To evaluate the performance of the proposed methods, the developed techniques are applied to the real and simulated ECG data. The results of this evaluation are presented using quantitative and qualitative criteria. The results show that the proposed methods are able to reduce motion artifacts in ECG signals. Signal to noise ratio (SNR) of the wavelet technique is equal to 13.85. The wavelet-ICA method performed better with SNR of 14.23.
This study aims at proposing an efficient method for automated electrocardiography (ECG) artifact removal from surface electromyography (EMG) signals recorded from upper trunk muscles. Wavelet transform is applied to the simulated data set of corrupted surface EMG signals to create multidimensional signal. Afterward, independent component analysis (ICA) is used to separate ECG artifact components from the original EMG signal. Components that correspond to the ECG artifact are then identified by an automated detection algorithm and are subsequently removed using a conventional high pass filter. Finally, the results of the proposed method are compared with wavelet transform, ICA, adaptive filter and empirical mode decomposition-ICA methods. The automated artifact removal method proposed in this study successfully removes the ECG artifacts from EMG signals with a signal to noise ratio value of 9.38 while keeping the distortion of original EMG to a minimum.
Purpose: The aim of the work is to map the ergonomics in a production cell and propose and compare the solutions to identified problems. In order to identify the problem and come up with some solutions, these questions have been answered.• What factors lead to operations that are harmful to the body?• How can a production cell be designed to be more ergonomic for employees?• What are the advantages / disadvantages of ergonomics in a production company?
Method: To perform the study and achieve the purpose of the work, the authors used a case study company where observations were made in parallel with a literature review mainly on ergonomics variety of analysis and quality. The case study company has been used as the basis for the case study where ergonomics are mapped by means of observations, interviews and data that were analyzed by means of literature study done in parallel.
Study results: The study resulted in a survey of ergonomics in a production cell at the case study company and 5 different suggestions for improvement. The production cell on the case study company is a red cell today, which means that the production cell is in a non-accepted position and in need for urgent changes in ergonomics. Factors leading to bad ergonomics and a non-accepted position as Volvo's requirements have been identified. Many heavy lifting and many torque is what has the highest negative impact on the working environment and ergonomics. Lack of adequate lifting tools have led to those not used in the production cell today. This leads to repetitive work and encumbrance at the case study company. Further, also the working height of the paths contributed to an increased workload as operators are in an unnatural posture. All of these factors are the basis of the 5 suggestions for improvement as the study also resulted in. New custom lifting tools, job rotation, reverse the order of the court, new packaging and pallet to the gears and the robot turn. All these proposed solutions lead to reduced stress and improved ergonomics in the production cell as manual lifting and twists are reduced. The solutions also leads to the production cell shifting from a non-accepted position with demands of urgent change to a yellow production cell that requires an action plan for the future.
Implications: The aim of this study was to map the ergonomics in a production cell. With the study in hand, a conclusion is drawn that the aim has been achieved when all three of the questions have been addressed. Factors leading to poor ergonomics are identified. As well the advantages and disadvantages of investing in ergonomics identified and how production cells should be formed. With this information in mind, a number of proposed solutions have been developed.
Recommendations: Further studies on the subject are recommended to increase knowledge and interest. It may be appropriate to carry out more case studies at more industries to strengthen the study's results and generalizability. Furthermore, studies are recommended where the entire work environment is studied and not only physical ergonomics. By studying the whole working environment and the many factors that interact it can lead to a greater force being created for higher efficiency and quality in production.
Keywords: Ergonomics, Ergonomics, Work, Volvo CE, Load, Lifting Tools, Body Injury, Advantages, Improvements, Quality
In this paper, an algorithm is developed to invisibly watermark a cover object (color image) using watermark object (iconic image). The algorithm is based on the distances among the addresses of values of the cover object. These distances use to make the embedding. The order of manipulating these distances are specified by the values of the watermark data which is dealt with serially. The algorithm serves and achieves self encryption key. Each watermark object has its unique pattern of distances at different possible lengths of distance bits. This enhances the complexity of sequential embedding. The algorithm is tested using direct and single level and double level of Two-Dimensional Discrete Wavelet Transform (2D DWT) embeddings. Two important issues are addressed. Firstly is to achieve a high Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR). The ratio was found to increase with an increasing of distance bits. Secondly is that the watermarked object retains the same properties of cover object. The algorithm shows resisting and withstanding against the most important attacks. Some of these include the lossy compression, blurring, resize and some types of Noise.
Recent advancements of multiprocessor architectures have led to increasing use of multiprocessors in real-time embedded systems. The two most popular real-time scheduling approaches in multiprocessors are global and partitioned scheduling. Cluster based multiprocessor scheduling can be seen as a hybrid approach combining benefits of both partitioned and global scheduling. Virtual clustering further enhances it by providing dynamic cluster resource allocation duringrun-time and applying hierarchical scheduling to ensure temporal isolation between different software components. Over the years, the study of virtual clustered-based multiprocessor scheduling has been limited to theoretical analysis. In this thesis, we implemented a Virtual-Clustered Hierarchical Scheduling Framework (VC-HSF) in Linux without modifying the base Linux kernel. This work includes complete design, implementation and experimentation of this framework in a multiprocessor platform. Our main contributions are twofold: (i) to the best of our knowledge, our work is the first implementation of any virtual-clustered real-time multiprocessor scheduling in an operating system, (ii) our design and implementation gives practical insights about challenges of implementing any virtual-clustered algorithms for real-time scheduling.
Cluster based multiprocessor scheduling can be seen as a hybrid approach combining benefits of both partitioned and global scheduling. Virtual clustering further enhances it by providing dynamic cluster resource allocation and applying hierarchical scheduling techniques. Over the years, the study of virtual cluster scheduling has been limited to theoretical analysis. In this paper, we present our initial ideas about implementing virtual cluster scheduling in Linux. The purpose of this implementation is twofold: (i) we would like to demonstrate the feasibility of its implementation in an operating system, without modifying the kernel source code, (ii) we present practical insights on the overhead of implementing this framework.
This thesis aims to provide Arvika with a deeper insight into what their new residents think about the information they receive. Anyone moving to Arvika gets the magazine "Nyinflyttad/Recently moved in" sent home. The year 2011 Arvika had 1017 new residents, and they all got the same version of the magazine "Nyinflyttad/Recently moved in." A simpler version of the magazine hasn't been made, although the municipality is aware that it is needed.
The aim of my thesis is to see if the information that Arvika is sending to its new residents in meeting their information needs.
To get the answer on this question, I have examined data from the target group perspective. Through a focus group and various interviews, I have come up with a design proposal that is informative, clear and easy to read. I also think that my design proposal would benefit a much wider audience.
Purpose: A crucial decision in financial services is how to classify credit or loan applicants into good and bad applicants. The purpose of this paper is to propose a four-stage hybrid data mining approach to support the decision-making process. Design/methodology/approach: The approach is inspired by the bagging ensemble learning method and proposes a new voting method, namely two-level majority voting in the last stage. First some training subsets are generated. Then some different base classifiers are tuned and afterward some ensemble methods are applied to strengthen tuned classifiers. Finally, two-level majority voting schemes help the approach to achieve more accuracy. Findings: A comparison of results shows the proposed model outperforms powerful single classifiers such as multilayer perceptron (MLP), support vector machine, logistic regression (LR). In addition, it is more accurate than ensemble learning methods such as bagging-LR or rotation forest (RF)-MLP. The model outperforms single classifiers in terms of type I and II errors; it is close to some ensemble approaches such as bagging-LR and RF-MLP but fails to outperform them in terms of type I and II errors. Moreover, majority voting in the final stage provides more reliable results. Practical implications: The study concludes the approach would be beneficial for banks, credit card companies and other credit provider organisations. Originality/value: A novel four stages hybrid approach inspired by bagging ensemble method proposed. Moreover the two-level majority voting in two different schemes in the last stage provides more accuracy. An integrated evaluation criterion for classification errors provides an enhanced insight for error comparisons.
Denna rapport behandlar examensarbete utfört för industridesignföretaget Cate & Nelson Design. Företaget ligger i Eskilstuna och jobbar i huvudsakligen med möbeldesign och inredningsprodukter. Projektgruppensuppgift har varit att ta fram en ny möbel för företaget och arbetet har omfattat utveckling av hela produkten från idé till prototyp.
The Internet traffic volume continues to grow at a great rate, now driven by video and TV distribution. For network operators it is important to avoid congestion in the network, and to meet service level agreements with their customers. This thesis presents work on two methods operators can use to reduce links loads in their networks: traffic engineering and content caching.
This thesis studies access patterns for TV and video and the potential for caching. The investigation is done both using simulation and by analysis of logs from a large TV-on-Demand system over four months.
The results show that there is a small set of programs that account for a large fraction of the requests and that a comparatively small local cache can be used to significantly reduce the peak link loads during prime time. The investigation also demonstrates how the popularity of programs changes over time and shows that the access pattern in a TV-on-Demand system very much depends on the content type.
For traffic engineering the objective is to avoid congestion in the network and to make better use of available resources by adapting the routing to the current traffic situation. The main challenge for traffic engineering in IP networks is to cope with the dynamics of Internet traffic demands.
This thesis proposes L-balanced routings that route the traffic on the shortest paths possible but make sure that no link is utilised to more than a given level L. L-balanced routing gives efficient routing of traffic and controlled spare capacity to handle unpredictable changes in traffic. We present an L-balanced routing algorithm and a heuristic search method for finding L-balanced weight settings for the legacy routing protocols OSPF and IS-IS. We show that the search and the resulting weight settings work well in real network scenarios.
Today video and TV distribution dominate Internet traffic and the increasing demand for high-bandwidth multimedia services puts pressure on Internet service providers. In this paper we simulate TV distribution with time-shift and investigate the effect of introducing a local cache close to the viewers. We study what impact TV program popularity, program set size, cache replacement policy and other factors have on the caching efficiency. The simulation results show that introducing a local cache close to the viewers significantly reduces the network load from TV-on-Demand services. By caching 4% of the program volume we can decrease the peak load during prime time by almost 50%. We also show that the TV program type and how program popularity changes over time can have a big influence on cache hit ratios and the resulting link loads
Internet traffic volumes continue to grow at a great rate, now pushed by video and TV distribution in the networks. This brings up the need for traffic engineering mechanisms to better control the traffic. The objective of traffic engineering is to avoid congestion in the network and make good use of available resources by controlling and optimising the routing function. The challenge for traffic engineering in IP networks is to cope with the dynamics of Internet traffic demands. Today, the main alternative for intra-domain traffic engineering in IP networks is to use different methods for setting the weights in the routing protocols OSPF and IS-IS. In this paper we revisit the weight setting approach to traffic engineering but with focus on robustness. We propose I-balanced weight settings that route the traffic on the shortest paths possible but make sure that no link is utilised to more than a given level I. This gives efficient routing of traffic and controlled spare capacity to handle unpredictable changes in traffic. We present a heuristic search method for finding I-balanced weight settings and show that it works well in real network scenarios
IPTV, where television is distributed over the Internet Protocol in a single operator network, has become popular and widespread. Many telecom and broadband companies have become TV providers and distribute TV channels using multicast over their backbone networks. IPTV also means an evolution to time-shifted television where viewers now often can choose to watch the programs at any time. However, distributing individual TV streams to each viewer requires a lot of bandwidth and is a big challenge for TV operators. In this paper we present an empirical IPTV workload model, simulate IPTV distribution with time-shift, and show that local caching can limit the bandwidth requirements significantly.
Meetings in urban spaces is a thesis in information design with emphasis on spatial design. The aim of this thesis is to is to examine how poorly utilised spaces in urban environments can become more useful, as well as which criteria are required to enable a pleasant stay in these locations. The object of the study is the terrace outside Stockholm Public Library which, due to its current appearance and lack of function, most of the time is unused and deserted.
The study's aim is to generate a design proposal that encourages an increase in the flow of people to the terraces and that makes people want to spend more of their time there. The goal is to get more visitors to appreciate the terraces and utilise the space better.
From the results of collected empirical data through spatial analysis, observations, notations of movement, interviews and discussions it has become clear that the reason for the terraces being unused is a lack of functionality and the spaces appearance. The conclusion of the theoretical and practical studies about spatiality, shape, urban public spaces and cognitive psychology etc., show that the choice of shape and placement of spatial elements can contribute to people choosing to linger on the library terraces. In its turn, this knowledge can create the right conditions for a changed pattern of movement and a greater flow of people to the location.
A design proposal was created, based on theories and empirical data presented in the study. The aim design proposal is to show how it may be possible to draw visitors' attention to the terraces and create a more natural flow there. This may be achieved by adding round shapes and curved lines, more variety in shape and proportion and by creating more obvious functions that meet visitors' needs of activity and aesthetics. While this study is focused on the terraces of Stockholm Public Library it is my hope that these conclusions may also be applicable to similar environments in other location.
This report aims to serve as a logistical foundation for Husmuttern AB. This logistic foundation is defined by a transport solution, a loading solution that is associated with the transport, and a stock proposal for the elements. Husmuttern AB is a newly started company that has developed a new concept of modular housing, which will be built by order.The modular houses will be built by assembling prefabricated parts such as ceilings, walls, foundations and other elements. The advantage of building houses with prefabricated pieces is that the pieces themselves can hold a higher quality when prefabricated, than the pieces fabricated on the construction site, which results in a house that is built in a short matter of time, with high quality. Most of the elements will be prefabricated at Husmuttern's micro factories.To make the prefabrication, construction and assembly of the houses possible, it is required that there is an efficient transport solution that transports all the necessary goods from retailers to the warehouse, micro-factory and construction site. The purpose of this work is to propose a suitable and efficient transport solution based on the weight and dimensions of the elements that have to be transported.This report is presenting solutions for these problems, where the solutions are assured by calculations that proves that the suggested transport is capable to deliver all necessary elements, and able of loading and unloading all the elements based on their weight and dimensions. A clear proposal on the stock solution for all elements is also presented in the report.The result of this work is considered as successful, due to the ensured transport method, loading method, and the suggested stock and transport partner. Thanks to these fundamental results, a foundation to the logistic solution is created and it is now possible to further develop the logistics, in order to achieve a complete logistics solution for Husmuttern AB.
Most of the critical challenges seen in the past decades have impacted citizens in a global way. Given shrinking resources, educationists find preparing students for the global market place a formidable challenge. Hence exposing students to multi-lateral educational initiatives are critical to their growth, understanding and future contributions. This paper focuses on European Union's Erasmus Mundus programs, involving academic cooperation amongst international universities in engineering programs. A phased undergraduate engineering program with multiple specializations is analyzed within this context. Based on their performance at the end of first phase, selected students were provided opportunities using scholarship to pursue completion of their degree requirements at various European universities. This paper will elaborate the impact of differing pedagogical interventions, language and cultural differences amongst these countries on students in diverse engineering disciplines. The data presented is based on on the feedback analysis from Eramus Mundus students (N=121) that underwent the mobility programs. The findings have given important insights into the structure of the initiative and implications for academia and education policy makers for internationalizing engineering education. These included considering digital interventions such as MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and Virtual Laboratory (VL) initiatives for systemic reorganization of engineering education.
Most of the critical challenges seen in the past decades have impacted citizens in a global way. Given shrinking resources, educationists find preparing students for the global market place a formidable challenge. Hence exposing students to multi-lateral educational initiatives are critical to their growth, understanding and future contributions. This paper focuses on European Union's Erasmus Mundus programs, involving academic cooperation amongst international universities in engineering programs. A phased undergraduate engineering program with multiple specializations is analyzed within this context. Based on their performance at the end of first phase, selected students were provided opportunities using scholarship to pursue completion of their degree requirements at various European universities. This paper will elaborate the impact of differing pedagogical interventions, language and cultural differences amongst these countries on students in diverse engineering disciplines. The data presented is based on on the feedback analysis from Eramus Mundus students (N = 121) that underwent the mobility programs. The findings have given important insights into the structure of the initiative and implications for academia and education policy makers for internationalizing engineering education. These included considering digital interventions such as MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and Virtual Laboratory (VL) initiatives for systemic reorganization of engineering education.
This report is a result of master thesis performed at Volvo Powertrain in Koping, Sweden. Today Volvo Powertrain processes and assembles gearboxes for many of Volvo trucks, buses and dump trucks. It also sends gearbox components to Volvo's plants in North and South Americas, and additionally produces Volvo Penta's revolutionary marine gear called "IPS" within the company.In order to meet customer requirements for reduced lead time/ freezing time for order placement of products in Koping, Volvo Powertrain wants to achieve a more resource-efficient production. What will the economic costs be in order to reduce the lead time and implement improvements? Since all decision includes cost investment.The aim of this thesis is to make a deep analysis of Order-To-Delivery process between the customers of Volvo Penta, Volvo VCE as well as aftermarket and clarifying the impact of lead time shortening both in practical and economical point of view.After completing the Value Stream Mapping on the current state, problems and non-value adding time are identified. Problems that are found are the long waiting time between the machines, which is the majority of the throughput time. Other issues are the long setup time, and operations that are not performed correctly. Other types of waste were also observed included the long waiting time of material handling between the different buildings.Based on the Value Stream Mapping and through other Lean tools, various proposals have been presented to simplify and increase machine time availability and flexible the production. There have also been various scenarios calculated about what the economic costs will be if the selected items in this thesis are prioritized over other products.
Domain-specific modelling languages, in particular those described in terms of UML profiles, use graphical notations to maximise human understanding and facilitate communication among stakeholders. Nevertheless, textual notations are preferred for specific purposes, due to the nature of a specific domain, or for personal preference. The mutually exclusive use of graphical or textual modelling is not sufficient for the development of complex systems developed by large heterogeneous teams. We envision a modern modelling framework supporting seamless hybrid graphical and textual modelling. Such a framework would provide several benefits, among which: flexible separation of concerns, multi-view modelling based on multiple notations, convenient text-based editing operations, and text-based model editing outside the modelling environment, and faster modelling activities. In this paper we describe our work towards such a framework for UML and profiles. The uniqueness is that both graphical and textual modelling are done on a common persistent model resource, thus dramatically reducing the need for synchronisation among the two notations.
Funktioner i tunga fordon går allt mer från att vara mekaniska till att styras med hjälp av elektroniska signaler. För att förstå hur komponenter och system fungerar och ska repareras har mekanikerna Verkstadshandboken till sin hjälp. Från tryckt media har Verkstadshandboken övergått till digital publicering i visningsprodukten Scania Multi.
Scania Multi var inledningsvis ett program för reservdelsinformation och har en navigeringsstruktur som är anpassad efter komponenternas placering på fordonet. Det är inte logiskt att hitta information om hur system och komponenter fungerar och ska lagas när man följer en navigeringsstruktur som från början är avsedd för reservdelar, det märks. Mekanikerna som använder Verkstadshandboken i Scania Multi har klagat över att information för reparationer och funktionsbeskrivningar inte finns. Ofta visar det sig att informationen faktiskt finns där men har varit svår att hitta.
Vilka risker och hinder finns det som påverkar om man vill eller orkar ta del av information? Olika signaler från vår omgivning påverkar våra val och beteenden och avgör om ett budskap når fram eller inte. Signalerna inverkar alltså på de val vi gör när vi ställs inför en ny situation.
För att budskapet ska nå ända fram måste signalen vara rätt, ren och stark. Inom området informationsarkitektur pratar man om hur olika sorters design påverkar våra val och handlingar när vi ska interagera med ett digitalt informationsmaterial. Här pratar man om grafisk, informations- och interaktionsdesign. Jag har kopplat de olika typerna av design med de tre olika signalerna.
Utifrån resonemanget om att rätt, ren och stark signal kan jämställas med informationsarkitekturens olika sorters design, gjorde jag en prototyp. Prototypens informationsdesign bygger på att jag har använt och strukturerat informationen med hjälp av den del i ISO standarden STEP som kallas Product Life Cycle Support. När jag sorterade informationen inom de olika avdelningarna använde jag mig av Information Mapping metoden.
Prototypen har en fysisk och en funktionell vy som ska stödja mekanikernas behov när de använder Verkstadshandboken. För att ta reda på hur signalerna i prototypen fungerade testade jag den på sju yrkesverksamma mekaniker. Användningstestet byggde på två scenarion med tillhörande uppgifter där syftet var att få återkoppling på prototypens design och hitta förbättringspunkter.
Användningstesterna fokuserade framförallt på prototypens informationsdesign men berörde även prototypens grafiska design och gav vägledning om interaktionsdesignen var på rätt väg. Med hjälp av användningstesterna kunde jag analysera resultatet för att se vad som borde förbättras.
Eftersom mekaniker inte har fått vara med och kravställa designen fick de interagera med en produkt som inte var optimal för deras behov. Mekanikerna är vana vid strukturen i nuvarande Verkstadshandboken i Scania Multi. Den nya strukturen tar hänsyn till fordonets funktionalitet på ett sätt som inte presenteras i dagens system.
Det var fyra avsnitt där mekanikernas återkoppling på prototypens design var extra tydlig:
- Det var svårt att se knappar och klickbara länkar.
- Designen uppfattades som rörig.
- När man väl hade förstått informationsdesignen var det lätt att se att den skulle kunna vara till stor hjälp vid exempelvis felsökning.
- Uppdelningen av informationen upplevdes positivt när man hade vant sig vid de olika vyerna.
Offshoring concerns the relocation or a transfer of a company's business activities to another country. When a company decides to offshore their business to another location it involves the transfer of products and knowledge which are both key activities in transfer projects. In today's globalization it is difficult for companies to stay competitive in the marketplace. For this reason it is becoming more common that companies offshore parts of their business and opening affiliates abroad for the production of goods or services. It is challenging to transfer a product from one site to one other since the receiving site might not have been involved in the product development process from the beginning and therefore have limited associations to the product. The transfer of competence and knowledge but also different ways of working are some of the factors that needs to be successfully managed. This makes it especially challenging when considering cultural and geographical together with the temporal distance between the sites. It is difficult for companies to maintain a sourcing strategy that is cohesive and many companies therefor fails to manage a successful relationship with their offshore partners. The purpose with this study was to present a framework that would support the transfer process when aiming for parallel production. This was to include the features needed to be developed in order to manage the most important factors in the transfer process.
In order to answer the research questions a case study with a qualitative research method was performed. Interviews in Sweden and China including 34 respondents were performed in order to identify the transfer process. The approach was a qualitative interview with a guided conversation with the emphasis on the authors asking questions and listening, and the respondent answering. The respondents was seen as meaning makers rather than passive channels for retrieving the data needed. The purpose was to derive interpretations rather than facts or laws. Each interview was conducted between three people including the two authors and one respondent.
The findings indicate that the organization needs to improve their knowledge transfer process. The organization also needs to develop similar processes for the activities involved in the transfer process in order to perceive the same quality. The analysis of the qualitative findings resulted in a framework including six important factors for a successful transfer project. Following factors should be taken in consideration by the company to achieve a successful transfer project: identification of knowledge carriers, set up a transfer core-team, empowering knowledge sharing, the use of a personalized strategy, the development of similar processes and improve the common perception of quality.
Embedded systems are widely used in the industry and are typically resource constrained, i.e., resources such as processors, I/O devices, shared buffers or shared memory might be limited in the system. Hence, techniques that can enable an efficient usage of processor bandwidths in such systems are of great importance. Locked-based resource sharing protocols are proposed as a solution to overcome resource limitation by allowing the available resources in the system to be safely shared. In recent years, due to a dramatic enhancement in the functionality of systems, a shift from single-core processors to multi-core processors has become inevitable from an industrial perspective to tackle the raised challenges due to increased system complexity. However, the resource sharing protocols are not fully mature for multi-core processors. The two classical multi-core processor resource sharing protocols, spin-based and suspension-based protocols, although providing mutually exclusive access to resources, can introduce long blocking delays to tasks, which may be unacceptable for many industrial applications. In this thesis we enhance the performance of resource sharing protocols for partitioned scheduling, which is the de-facto scheduling standard for industrial real-time multi-core processor systems such as in AUTOSAR, in terms of timing and memory requirements.
A new scheduling approach uses a resource efficient hybrid approach combining both partitioned and global scheduling where the partitioned scheduling is used to schedule the major number of tasks in the system. In such a scheduling approach applications with critical task sets use partitioned scheduling to achieve higher level of predictability. Then the unused bandwidth on each core that is remained from partitioning is used to schedule less critical task sets using global scheduling to achieve higher system utilization. These scheduling schema however lacks a proper resource sharing protocol since the existing protocols designed for partitioned and global scheduling cannot be directly applied due to the complex hybrid structure of these scheduling frameworks. In this thesis we propose a resource sharing solution for such a complex structure. Further, we provide the blocking bounds incurred to tasks under the proposed protocols and enhance the schedulability analysis, which is an essential requirement for real-time systems, with the provided blocking bounds.
Embedded systems are typically resource constrained, i.e., resources such as processors, I/O devices, shared buffers or shared memory can be limited for tasks in the system. Therefore, techniques that enable an efficient usage of such resources are of great importance.
In the industry, typically large and complex software systems are divided into smaller parts (applications) where each part is developed independently. Migration towards multiprocessor platforms has become inevitable from an industrial perspective. Due to such migration and to efficient use of system resources, these applications eventually may be integrated on a shared multiprocessor platform. In order to facilitate the integration phase of the applications on a shared platform, the timing and resource requirements of each application can be provided in an interface when the application is developed. The system integrator can benefit from such provided information in the interface of each application to ease the integration process. In this thesis, we have provided the resource and timing requirements of each application in their interfaces for applications that may need several processors to be allocated on when they are developed.
Although many scheduling techniques have been studied for multiprocessor systems, these techniques are usually based on the assumption that tasks are independent, i.e. do not share resources other than the processors. This assumption is typically not true. In this thesis, we provide an extension to such systems to handle sharing of resources other than processor among tasks. Two traditional approaches exist for multiprocessor systems to schedule tasks on processors. A recent scheduling approach for multiprocessors has combined the two traditional approaches and achieved a hybrid more efficient approach compared to the two previous one. Due to the complex nature of this scheduling approach the conventional approaches for resource sharing could not be used straight forwardly. In this thesis, we have modified resource sharing approaches such that they can be used in such hybrid scheduling systems. A second concern is that enabling resource sharing in the systems can cause unpredictable delays and variations in response time of tasks which can degrade system performance. Therefore, it is of great significance to improve the resource handling techniques to reduce the effect of imposed delays caused by resource sharing in a multiprocessor platform. In this thesis we have proposed alternative techniques for resource handling that can improve system performance for special setups.


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Halloween can be scary. 15 of us descending on Dublin at Halloween? Downright terrifying. In celebration of Lord Rachel's 23rd birthday, our clan converged on Raheny, a little village just north of Dublin, for a few days of fun, games and Guinness.
I flew in on a Thursday night with Emily, my Best Birmingham Buddy. Birmingham Airport is pretty underrated, as Midlands transport hubs go: although their Spoons charged a tenner for a G&T, it's really easy to get to from Leamington, and Ryanair flights are about a million pounds cheaper than from London (thereby balancing out any pre-flight bev costs).
After meeting Vicky, Sam and Hattie on the other side, and grabbing another quick drink for the road (this happens often, by the way), we piled in to a taxi and headed for our rented house, where Rachel and co. had already arrived. Our first night in Ireland was one of jokes, gin and James Arthur on repeat (it never gets old, say you won't let go, etc.).
Friday morning came in a haze of bacon, eggs and coffee: every coffee of the weekend was, of course, Irish. We headed in to the village and swung by the first pub of the trip, where pints-a-plenty were consumed and many old locals were disturbed.
At some point, it was decided that this was not just a birthday party, but a hat party. I made sure to keep up with this latest fashion trend, and bought an excellent green baseball cap. I looked really nice. (In the same shop I bought a questionable pink 'Ireland' apron, decorated with sheep and fur. Not so nice.)
We took an open-top bus tour and travelled all of half a mile, using the 24-hour pass well. The coach took us past Trinity College, and we met an adorable baby whilst Emily risked her life and dignity by declaring to passers-by below, "I'm on top of the world!"
Sensibly, we disembarked pretty quickly and made a beeline for the nearest bar. By this point many Guinnesses deep, we had the merriest time in an inconspicuous pub (which, despite its modest decor, charged €16 for a double G&T) where a local duo were playing an acoustic set. With a little encouragement, they happily played us some classic Irish folk songs, including the Pogues' 'Fairytale of New York' and 'Lose Yourself' by Eminem.
Eventually, we took ourselves home to prepare for Rachel's birthday eve night out, which ended up being a night in for a few of us. Kit, Emily and I heralded in 23 with a pretty special performative rap:
"Her name is Rachel Lord, and she's turning 23. Doesn't matter that she's old, because she's young and wild and free. We would liken you to p**, it's not us, it's you. Sometimes you're a ****, but you're b***tiful, said James Blunt."
Unfortunately, Rachel doesn't remember the rap; thankfully, we had two more days of birthday fun to follow. On Saturday, we enjoyed a pleasant coastal stroll, ending up in the nearby village of Howth. That evening, we had dinner at The Camden exchange in the city, where we had massive, meaty meals – I had the aptly named 'cow in a bowl'.
As it was the Saturday of Halloween, the entirety of Dublin was dressed up, it seemed, except for us; Imane, who arrived late on Friday, had neglected to bring an alternative outfit, and wound up being the only member of the party in fancy dress.
We tried to make up for our failures with limp dribbles of fake blood, but really, we were saving the full costumes for Sunday night…
Of the meals we had in Dublin, the best were cooked by Abi, mother hen of the group and provider of some incredibly cute party bags. The cooked breakfasts and chilli con carne completely trumped the only restaurant I ate out at, a Mexican joint where I dined alone at a particularly wobbly point on the Friday night.
4am on Monday morning was a hysterical blur: I'd booked the 6.25 flight in a futile attempt at making my 10am class. Of course, the plane was delayed by 2 hours, but the morning's trauma was completely worth the weekend and I somehow made it to the rest of the day's seminars. Overall, the company, city, food and drink made Dublin a 10/10. Did you know I'm a quarter Irish?


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A Whitehall source has suggested 'thousands' of British troops presently stationed around the globe could be redeployed to home turf in a bid to improve resilience and response times to Paris-style terror attacks against the United Kingdom.
Officials are apparently concerned that while Troops stationed in London are formed into high readiness response groups prepared to assist police in the case of a terrorist attack, outside of London availability is much lower. In cities or towns outside of London it could take thirty minutes or more for the Army to deploy if needed.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, the unnamed source said: "The country has a force of more than 80,000 troops and they need to be deployed where the threat is. Homeland security needs to be stepped up and as part of that we are looking at where there are gaps. We are looking at bringing back soldiers from overseas.
"The government is recognising the threat could be on British soil. Currently our high-readiness troops are ready to be deployed overseas but we need to make sure we have enough soldiers in the UK.
"We are looking at sending soldiers to cities such as Manchester, Newcastle, Birmingham or having many more troops stationed in Scotland".
The Ministry of Defence has denied the claims, saying: "There are no plans to redeploy troops from overseas to within the UK in support of domestic security measures".
Although the establishment of high-readiness battalions in areas outside of London could improve reactionary security in the regions, Britain is hopefully unlikely to see army patrols on the streets any time soon. Although troops can assist police operations if requested, without the declaration of Martial Law the actions soldiers can take are very limited.
Although soldiers could mount patrols and present a show of force, it would remain the duty of Police marksmen to actually confront terrorists where found, as was the case in France last week.
British troops were last deployed in significant numbers on home territory during the London 2012 Olympics, to make up a shortfall left by insufficient private security, with many being directly redeployed from the Middle East. After the murder of Canadian Corporal Cirillo in the Parliament Hill terrorist attack last year, there has been an increase in armed Soldiers in London and other Western cities in anticipation of copycat attacks.


text: Negatively stained transmission electron micrographs of dividing M. mycoides JCVI-syn1. Freshly fixed cells were stained using 1% uranyl acetate on pure carbon substrate visualized using JEOL 1200EX transmission electron microscope at 80 keV. Electron micrographs were provided by Tom Deerinck and Mark Ellisman of the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research at the University of California at San Diego.


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{ elf + hot chocolate + my snuggie = the best friday night. don't judge me, i work saturdays now! }
{ my new saturday spot, fabulous frocks! }
{ what's better than sunday brunch on a 70 degree november day in charleston? }
{ wouldn't be brunch without a bloody mary. }
Sorry my snapshots are a little lacking this weekend — working on fridays & saturdays will do that!