8,399 research outputs found
The Design and Implementation of a Key Performance Indicator Dashboard for KE-chain
No full textKE-works is a six years old company which aims to optimise the product development process in industrial applications. To accomplish this, KE-works deploys a web-application called KE-chain. KEchain is an engineering workflow management system with the objective to increase the efficiency of the product development process through better control, more efficient distribution, access and use of product-related information. Users have the possibility to set-up a project, manage the tasks belonging to this project, and control the workflow and information distribution. With KE-chain users are able to create structure in the heap of information that composes their product and, when used right, improve the process of their project development. One of the key elements in optimising the product development process is the monitoring of the available data to give users insight in the status of the project. Currently it is difficult to get a good overview of a project within KE-chain and it is not possible to see what tasks are cirtical at a certain moment. A common way of showing the status or performance of systems is the use of Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s). These indicators, for example in the form of a graph or a table, can quickly give information about the performance of a system. KE-works has decided that it wants to give its users an overview in the formof a project-specific dashboard with KPI widgets. Therefore the assignment is to design and develop an integrated KPI dashboard into KE-chain. To design the KPI dashboard, which we named KE-board, we shortly researched the field of Performance Measurement to get an overview of the different approaches for the design of KPI’s. As a basis for the design we have adopted the Lean methodology [1] which has been used by KE-works in the past. In our research we have actually connected the Lean wastes to measures in KE-chain. To do this, we have chosen a bottom-up approach, which means we started by identifying the available data, after which we extracted several groups of measures. We have interviewed several clients of KEworks, the users of KE-chain. From these interviews we deducted which groups of measures were important for which user roles. To verify which measures are of importance for these dashboards, we have questioned and interviewd the consultants of KE-works. By combining the results of the interviews and the questionnaires we designed 7 KPI widgets. Finally, we created KE-board and integrated it into KE-chain in five weeks of implementation. After that we have evaluated the complete dashboard by interviewing the consultants of KE-works. On top of that, we have sent them a questionnaire in which they rated the functionality of the widgets to see if they contribute to their purpose and achieve the goals that we set for them. KE-board has been received well by the management and employees of KE-works and according to the extensive evaluation we can state that it definitely contributes to the optimization of the product development process in KE-chain.Computer ScienceComputer ScienceElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Optimal upper bound for the infinity norm of eigenvectors of random matrices
No full textLet be a random Hermitian (or symmetric) matrix whose upper diagonal and diagonal entries are independent random variables with mean zero and variance one. It is well known that the empirical spectral distribution (ESD) converges in probability to the semicircle law supported on . In this thesis we study the local convergence of ESD to the semicircle law. One main result is that if the entries of are bounded, then the semicircle law holds on intervals of scale . As a consequence, we obtain the delocalization result for the eigenvectors, i.e., the upper bound for the infinity norm of unit eigenvectors corresponding to eigenvalues in the bulk of spectrum, is . The bound is the same as the infinity norm of a vector chosen uniformly on the unit sphere in . We also study the local version of Marchenko-Pastur law for random covariance matrices and obtain the optimal upper bound for the infinity norm of singular vectors. This is joint work with V. Vu. In the last chapter, we discuss the delocalization properties for the adjacency matrices of ErdH{o}s-R'{e}nyi random graph. This is part of some earlier results joint with L. Tran and V. Vu.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Ke Wan
Vývoj přístupu ke smrti v románech Johna Updikea z 60. let
No full textThis thesis explores the approach to death in the novels of John Updike published in the 1960's, namely Rabbit Run, The Centaur and Couples. The importance of death in Updike's prose is universally acknowledged, but most critical works are concerned with other themes. The main focus of this thesis is the development of the approach to death of the main characters in the aforementioned novels as well as the overall change of Updike's approach to death over the three novels. The first chapter presents the theoretical background for two perspectives on death: death in Christian teachings and the theory of life and death drives by Sigmund Freud. Christianity is an important aspect of Updike's prose, not only because he is Christian himself, but the majority of his focal characters either are Christian or share Christian values. Traditional Christian notions are expanded upon by the concept of The American Religion, introduced by Harold Bloom in The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation. The selection of Freud's theory is based on the close connection between sex and death in the novels, which is in accordance with the theory explained in Beyond the Pleasure Principle. In the following three chapters, the individual novels are analysed. Each chapter examines the initial position...Tato práce pojednává o přístupu ke smrti v románech Johna Updikea z 60. let, konkrétně v dílech Králíku, utíkej!, Kentaur a Dvojice. Přesto, že význam smrti v Updikeově próze je uznáván, kritické práce se zabývají hlavně jinými tématy. Hlavním záměrem práce je pozorování vývoje přístupu ke smrti nejen hlavních postav jednotlivých románů, ale i celková změna Updikeova přístupu ke smrti napříč těmito třemi romány. První kapitola představuje teoretické pozadí dvou pohledů na smrt, na základě kterého budou romány analyzovány. První perspektiva je křesťanský pohled na smrt, druhá se opírá o Freudovu teorii pudů. Křesťanství je důležitým aspektem v Updikeově tvorbě nejen proto, že Updike sám byl křesťan, ale většina jeho hlavních postav je věřících, nebo alespoň vyznává křesťanské hodnoty. Tradiční křesťanské ideje jsou rozšířeny o koncepty představené Haroldem Bloomem v jeho publikaci The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post- Christian Nation (Americká víra: vznik post-křesťanského národa.)1 Výběr Freudovy teorie je založen na úzkém vztahu mezi sexem a smrtí v románech, který koresponduje s teorií rozvinutou ve studii Mimo princip slasti.2 Jednotlivé romány jsou analyzovány v následujících třech kapitolách. Každá kapitola zkoumá původní přístup hlavního hrdiny ke smrti, relevanci tohoto přístupu...Ústav anglofonních literatur a kulturDepartment of Anglophone Literatures and CulturesFaculty of ArtsFilozofická fakult
Development of zein-based ice nucleator films for frozen food applications
No full textThis research aimed at developing zein-based ice nucleation films for the applications of frozen foods. Acetic acid was chosen as the solvent to cast zein films with flawless surface. Tributyl citrate (TBC) was mixed into zein films to various proportions and 10% TBC was most effective on improving mechanical properties resulting in 2.3-fold more flexibility and 5.8-fold more toughness compared to unplasticized zein films. But incorporation of 20% TBC significantly decreased the water absorption by 19% compared to 10% TBC. Thus, zein films with 20% TBC with good flexibility and water resistance was used in following experiments. The activity of ECINs was stable at pH between 4.0 and 9.0 and ionic strength between 0.01 M and 0.10 M. In the development of INFs, the optimum adsorption of ECINs on zein films surface occurred through layer-by-layer method at pH 7.0 and ionic strength of 0.05 M on UV/ozone-treated zein. A novel method was developed to quantify the activity of INFs, which revealed that the highest activity of zein-based INFs reached 175 units/mm2. The zein-based ice nucleation films (INFs) were used to wrap frozen bread dough during five freeze/thaw cycles. The high-activity INF was as effective as blending ECINs in improving the yeast survival by 40%, and consequently increased the specific volume of bread loaf by 25%. Furthermore, high-activity INFs prevented the dehydration of frozen dough and thus significantly reduced the crumb hardness by 36% and increased the crumb springiness by 1.25 times. On energy saving, zein-based INFs were less potential than blended ECINs. INFs only reduced the time of freezing by 6% compared to the 20% by blended ECINs. However, the total amount of ECINs used on wrapping a piece of dough was only about 1/200 of the amount through blending. In addition, ECINs immobilized on the zein films showed desirable stability to sustain at least fifteen repetitive uses on freezing water.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Ke Sh
Integrating centralized and decentralized approaches for multi-robot coordination
No full textAutonomous multi-robot systems play important roles in many areas such as industrial applications for repetitive tasks, explorations in hazardous environments, and military missions in extreme conditions. Many existing coordination strategies are developed for two general types of multi-robot systems including strongly centralized systems and completely decentralized systems. For strongly centralized systems, the global information including the environment as well as the locations of all the robots is shared. It is typical for small number of robots in well structural environments and is not robust to dynamic environment or failures in communications and other uncertainties. For completely decentralized systems, each robot is executing its own control schemes completely autonomously. There are no specified leaders throughout the mission, and the team organization does not have a set structure. In many real-world applications, it is beneficial to use so-called weakly centralized systems, in which the leader robot is not specified a priori, but it is selected dynamically during the mission to guide the robot team through dynamic environments or other uncertainties. It is very challenging to develop coordination strategies for this type of systems because of the dynamic nature of the team structures. The strategies should not only allow for on-line leader role selection but also enable formation decomposition and reconfiguration whenever necessary. In this thesis, we describe a general coordination framework for weakly centralized multi-robot systems that integrates the features from both strongly centralized and completely decentralized coordination strategies at the individual robot level. The framework allows the robots to reconfigure the formation dynamically in the presence of obstacles or other uncertainties in the environment, and promotes the main advantages of multi-robot systems such as flexibility and modularity. Since the control schemes can be decentralized and this framework allows for the selection of the motion planner and local controller for a given task, the framework can be naturally applied to multi-robot systems with larger scales. We have implemented this framework on a team of two-wheeled differential driven mobile robots. Significant results from numerical simulations and experiments have been obtained to demonstrate that the coordination schemes are effective and robust, and the framework is viable and can be scaled to relative large scale multi-robot systems.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Ke X
PERANCANGAN APLIKASI ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD (EMR) PADA INSTALASI RAWAT INAP BERBASIS WEB
No full textPelayanan medik dewasa ini membutuhkan sistem yang lebih efektif dan efisien, baik dalam
penggunaan waktu, tenaga maupun sarana. Dalam pengelolaan rekam medik, kenyataan masih
umumnya penggunaan rekam medik manual yang dinilai tak lagi andal menangani data medik
melahirkan ide konversi rekam medik manual kertas ke rekam medik elektronik karena efektivitas dan
efisiensinya.
Penelitian ini bertujuan menciptakan aplikasi rekam medik elektronik yang lebih dikenal
sebagai EMR (Electronic Medical Record) dari rekam medik kertas di Instalasi Rawat Inap Rumah
Sakit Umum Ananda Salatiga. Rekam medik elektronik dirancang dengan membuat form-form isian
catatan-catatan medik dalam proses perawatan pasien selama dirawat. Data-data medik ini kemudian
disimpan dalam basis data sistem dan dikelola secara digital. Setiap kali pengisian data medik pada
form-form tertentu, sistem akan menghasilkan kode yang membawa informasi khusus.
Pada akhirnya, sistem akan menghasilkan deret kode ICD (International Statistical
Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems) dari kode-kode yang dihasilkan pada
pengisian form-form catatan medik. Deretan kode-kode ini mampu menggambarkan perkembangan
kondisi pasien dan penanganan medik yang diberikan selama perawatan. Data-data medik yang
tersimpan dapat ditampilkan kembali dalam bentuk catatan medik digital.
Kata kunci: rekam medik, rawat inap, EMR, IC
[[alternative]]The Meta-interpretation of Ke Jieh-The Analysis of Ideology of Body Action on the stage
No full text[[abstract]]The body endured some depressions under the shadow of binary opposition. Irigaray used the "black cave" to point out the pride of reason. Bakhtin used the "grotesque body" to unveil the prejudice of civilization.
Thus, I searched for a stage including character/thinking, voice/language, body/action to ascertain the fact of body's distress.
The Chinese opera theater became my selected object. In this stage the term of body action was "Ke Jieh".
The different roles of Ke Jieh in different theaters reflected the body suffering situations. There were three theaters as following:
1.Ke Jieh used the colonial mimicry of onnagata Ke Jieh to perform "the rebellion theater". In the facet of expressing sovereignty Ke Jieh played the supernumerary by means of the status of female.
2.Ke Jieh performed "the puppet theater" with the status of clown. The foregrounding position of Ke Jieh was under the control of commercial, political, culture, aesthetic theory.
3.Ke Jieh used the subject-creation of body to fight the material civilization; therefore, Ke Jieh performed "the essence theater" with the status of main actor. Ke Jieh returned to the original identity and got rid of the control of "God's will" in order' to look for the real presentation.
In conclusion, the performance of Ke Jieh in the Chinese opera theater became the potential text of body culture activities. "The rebllion theater" protested the degraded situation of body. "The puppet theater" was the reflection of body under control. "The essence theater " provided some directions to the development of body education.
[[alternative]]Correlations Between Using Community Resources and Teaching Effectiveness of the teachers in Elementary Schools in taoyuan County
No full text[[abstract]]Correlations Between Using Community Resources and Teaching Effectiveness of the teachers in Elementary Schools in Taoyuan County
Master’s Thesis,2003
Advisor: Jeng-Feng Ke Ph. D.
Ming-Jhong Huang
Abstract
The main purpose of this study was to investigate the correlations and status between using community resources and teaching effectiveness of the teachers in elementary schools in Taoyuan county. For the goal, the researcher edited “The Correlations Between Using Community Resources and Teaching Effectiveness of the Teachers in Elementary Schools in Taoyuan County Questionnaire” as the research instrument that was based on the literatures review, and those who work in the elementary schools in Taoyuan county for levels random sampling taking questionnaire were target populations. Product-moment correlation, Canonical correlation, t-test and One-way ANOVA were used for Statistics analysis. This study investigated the influences between using community resources and teaching effectiveness of the teachers in elementary schools and brought up some practical suggestions to educational administrations, schools, and teachers as referring to promote teaching effectiveness.
The findings of this study were concluded and suggested below:
First: conclusions
1. The status of using community resources for the teachers
in elementary schools in Taoyuan county was mid-high
level.
2. The status of teaching effectiveness for the teachers in
elementary schools in Taoyuan county was mid-high level.
3. Using community resources and teaching effectiveness of
the teachers in elementary schools in Taoyuan county had
high correlation.
4. Female, taking administration, experienced teacher in
using community resources and teaching effectiveness has
better score.
5. There was no difference in using community resources in
schools; mid-size schools ( thirteen to twenty four
classes) had better score in teaching effectiveness.
Second: practical suggestions
1. For the administration: to build up the community
resources data base through a appropriate tunnel, for
better use and consult in school.
2. For school: to conduct professional further education,
to encourage teacher to use the community resources
integrated for promoting teaching effectiveness.
3. For future research: to expand research populations,
research method and instrument, besides of questionnaire,
in-depth interview can get more detail findings.
Key words: community resources, teaching effectiveness.
Art painting author and style labeling using convolutional neural network
No full textThis thesis proposes a convolutional neural network-based approach for labeling art paintings by their author and style. Our Artist1000 dataset consists of 1000 raw painting images for each of 5 prolific artists. Our Style1000 dataset consists of 1000 raw painting images for each of 5 different painting styles. Two independent ResNet18 classifiers are trained and validated, one for each dataset. They are combined to predict the author and style of unseen art paintings. Our algorithm first classifies patches extracted from raw painting images and then uses majority vote of patches from the same image to predict image label. We achieve 84.3% accuracy on Artist1000 dataset and 66.9% accuracy on Style1000 dataset. Compared with the traditional methods of art painting labeling, which heavily depended on extracting complex artificial features from raw images, our algorithm shows promising results of empowering a neural network to extract local features and make predictions.U of I Only Restriction set for Item 106080 on 2018-05-25T16:41:23Z with date by [email protected] by Janice Progen ([email protected]) on 2018-05-25T16:48:06Z
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Reasoning Functional Requirements for Virtually Coupled Train Sets: Communication
No full textVirtually coupled train sets (VCTS), the equivalent of road vehicle platooning for railways, have attracted the attention of industry in the past few years due to their potential to increase the line capacity without massive investments in the infrastructure. The goal of this article is to reason out functional communication requirements for VCTS using a bottom-up approach and introduce challenges of the railway domain to readers of the communication community. Three different VCTS configurations in terms of sensor and communication concepts are presented, and quantitative examples of communication requirements are given for different application scenarios. To conclude, the ability of some technology candidates to fit these requirements is analyzed and compared in relation to each application scenario
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