This paper investigates the problem of controlling a complex network with reduced control energy. Two centrality measures are defined, one related to the energy that a control, placed on a node, can exert on the entir...
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Due to their reduced maintenance costs, increased power efficiency and reduced power consumption, the Magnetic Levitation (Maglev) system make a significant contribution to the industrial application. Maglev's pro...
Due to their reduced maintenance costs, increased power efficiency and reduced power consumption, the Magnetic Levitation (Maglev) system make a significant contribution to the industrial application. Maglev's production of electricity (e.g. wind turbines), maglev trains and medical devices (e.g. artificial heart pump magnetically suspended) are typical applications. This paper suggests designing a nonlinear control for the Maglev system model which represented by a third-order model consists of the mechanical (ball position and velocity) and electrical (the current) subsystems. The controller is designed utilizing the Integral Sliding Mode control (ISMC) and based on the Backstepping approach. The tracking accuracy of the ball position to the desired reference is determined by computing the ultimate boundedness as a function to the controller parameters and that using the Lyapunov function. The numerical simulation results showed the robustness and the efficiency of the proposed controller where the tracking error limited by the computed bound.
Reliable and efficient Visual Place Recognition is a major building block of modern SLAM systems. Leveraging on our prior work, in this paper we present a Hamming Distance embedding Binary Search Tree (HBST) approach ...
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Nowadays Electroencephalogram (EEG) devices allow the recording of signals that can be used to extract information necessary to identify different types of cognitive processes. In EEG classification, Feature Selection...
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Nowadays Electroencephalogram (EEG) devices allow the recording of signals that can be used to extract information necessary to identify different types of cognitive processes. In EEG classification, Feature Selection (FS) represents a pivotal phase, as these problems request the processing of a large amount of high-dimensional patterns. In this paper, FS has been solved by an embedded multi-objective genetic optimization procedure which evolves a population of potential solutions (subsets of features), subject to the simultaneous minimization of the misclassification ratio and number of selected attributes. Random Forests (RF) classifiers are adopted, due to their fast training and their compatibility with spread classes of very diverse patterns. The main contribution presented in this paper consists in introducing an inertial behavior to feature extraction. The available feature set is extended with features from previous time frames, and FS is performed on this extended set. In this context, the experimental analysis illustrates the impact of the temporal extension on FS. Additionally, two enhancements are proposed for the multi-objective optimization, to support an effective Pareto-ranking of the solutions in the expanded exploration search space. Thus, the number of trees in the embedded RF classifier is gradually increased, for reducing the computational load requested for the evaluation of the misclassification ratio, without impeding the exploration. Also, the preference for the minimization of misclassifications is set by introducing a dynamic objective function for describing the parsimony of the selected subset of attributes. The proposed FS is experimentally demonstrated on EEG data collected during mathematical tasks of gradual complexities.
Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD) can eliminate detector side channels and prevent all attacks on detectors. The future of MDI-QKD is a quantum network that provides service to many use...
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Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD) can eliminate detector side channels and prevent all attacks on detectors. The future of MDI-QKD is a quantum network that provides service to many users over untrusted relay nodes. In a real quantum network, the losses of various channels are different and users are added and deleted over time. To adapt to these features, we propose a type of protocol that allows users to independently choose their optimal intensity settings to compensate for different channel losses. Such a protocol enables a scalable high-rate MDI-QKD network that can easily be applied for channels of different losses and allows users to be dynamically added or deleted at any time without affecting the performance of existing users.
New delay-efficient configurable multiplier based on Modified Booth's Algorithm (MBA) and Wallace Tree (WT) structure for multiplying two m-bit operands - where m ranges from 8-bit to 128-bit - is introduced. WT s...
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Social media is a phenomenon that has transformed the interaction and communication of individuals throughout the world. In recent times, social media has affected many aspects of human communication, as well as busin...
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The patient-clinician relationship is known to significantly affect the pain experience, as empathy, mutual trust and therapeutic alliance can significantly modulate pain perception and influence clinical therapy outc...
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ISBN:
(数字)9781728119908
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(纸本)9781728119915
The patient-clinician relationship is known to significantly affect the pain experience, as empathy, mutual trust and therapeutic alliance can significantly modulate pain perception and influence clinical therapy outcomes. The aim of the present study was to use an EEG hyperscanning setup to identify brain and behavioral mechanisms supporting the patient-clinician relationship while this clinical dyad is engaged in a therapeutic interaction. Our previous study applied fMRI hyperscanning to investigate whether brain concordance is linked with analgesia experienced by a patient while undergoing treatment by the clinician. In this current hyperscanning project we investigated similar outcomes for the patient-clinician dyad exploiting the high temporal resolution of EEG and the possibility to acquire the signals while patients and clinicians were present in the same room and engaged in a face-to-face interaction under an experimentally-controlled therapeutic context. Advanced source localization methods allowed for integration of spatial and spectral information in order to assess brain correlates of therapeutic alliance and pain perception in different clinical interaction contexts. Preliminary results showed that both behavioral and brain responses across the patient-clinician dyad were significantly affected by the interaction *** Relevance- The context of a clinical intervention can significantly impact the treatment of chronic pain. Effective therapeutic alliance, based on empathy, mutual trust, and warmth can improve treatment adherence and clinical outcomes. A deeper scientific understanding of the brain and behavioral mechanisms underlying an optimal patient-clinician interaction may lead to improved quality of clinical care and physician training, as well as better understanding of the social aspects of the biopsychosocial model mediating analgesia in chronic pain patients.
In the last decade, a new class of cyber-Threats has emerged. This new cybersecurity adversary is known with the name of "Advanced Persistent Threat" (APT) and is referred to different organizations that in ...
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d'Agostino, DannySerani, AndreaDiez, MatteoDept. of Computer
Control and Management Engineering "A. Ruberti" Sapienza University of Rome Via Ariosto 25 Rome00185 Italy CNR-INM
National Research Council-Institute of Marine Engineering Via di Vallerano 139 Rome00128 Italy
The curse of dimensionality represents a relevant issue in simulation-based shape optimization, especially when complex physics and high-fidelity computationally-expensive solvers are involved in the process and a glo...
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