Modeling trajectories in cigarette smoking prevalence, initiation and quitting for populations and subgroups of populations is important for policy planning and evaluation. This paper proposes an agent-based model (AB...
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(数字)9798331534202
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(纸本)9798331534219
Modeling trajectories in cigarette smoking prevalence, initiation and quitting for populations and subgroups of populations is important for policy planning and evaluation. This paper proposes an agent-based model (ABM) design for simulating the smoking behaviors of a population using the Capability, Opportunity, Motivation - Behavior (COM-B) model. Capability, Opportunity and Motivation are modeled as latent composite attributes which are composed of observable factors associated with smoking behaviors. Three forms of the COM-B model are proposed to explain the transitions between smoking behaviors: initiating regular smoking uptake, making a quit attempt and quitting successfully. The ABM design follows object-oriented principles and extends an existing generic software architecture for mechanism-based modeling. The potential of the model to assess the impact of smoking policies is illustrated and discussed.
The problem considered in the paper is related to the formulation of criteria for choice of the parameters of the electromagnetic interference monitoring system for AC traction network in accordance with the requireme...
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The problem considered in the paper is related to the formulation of criteria for choice of the parameters of the electromagnetic interference monitoring system for AC traction network in accordance with the requirements of the standards.
Emotions in human is an effective medium to study the mindset of a person. Since, expression on the face of human is significant approach to understand the condition and communicate with him to release the pressure or...
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(纸本)9781665484527
Emotions in human is an effective medium to study the mindset of a person. Since, expression on the face of human is significant approach to understand the condition and communicate with him to release the pressure or stress of person. The emotions and behavior have a strong relationship and is noteworthy in non-verbal form of communication. The advancement in medical science and use of image processing tools like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), can be helpful to recognize emotion, detect stress and depression level of a person. Thus, in this research work emotion recognition system is developed using Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) with increased dept. and width. CNNs have been shown to enhance prediction accuracy. In terms of proper emotion categorization and accurate prediction, the suggested ensemble technique is effective. In this paper Xception CNN architecture is proposed for accurate facial emotions prediction along with an ensemble model, using Max Voting ensemble technique, mainly contributes in accurate classification. In proposed technique trained CNN models were loaded and for each trained model prediction probabilities were generated. Furthermore, it is then used for Max Voting to generate final emotion prediction. The CNN models are trained and evaluated on FER-2013 dataset.
In this paper, the objective for a group of unmanned aerial vehicle agents (UAVs) to achieve three dimensional circumnavigation around a moving target which information is made available to all agents in the group. Th...
In this paper, the objective for a group of unmanned aerial vehicle agents (UAVs) to achieve three dimensional circumnavigation around a moving target which information is made available to all agents in the group. The cooperative circumnavigation is to drive the UAVs to orbit around the target according to a given elliptical desired spatial formation. Due to the thrust limitation needed to fly the drone, existing cyclic pursuit algorithms cannot be extended directly to achieve this objective. Thus the proposed algorithm is worked out to take into account this constraint in order to achieve such objective. The drones are subject to unknown external disturbance, also the masses of those agent drones are assumed to be unknown. Furthermore, the communication cost can be decreased and the Zeno behavior is shown to be excluded. The proposed controller guarantees the bounded control effort irrespective of the external disturbance and model uncertainties of the drone. Numerical simulations are conducted to illustrate the efficacy of the approach.
We demonstrate that direct data-driven control of nonlinear systems can be successfully accomplished via a behavioral approach that builds on a Linear Parameter-Varying (LPV) system concept. An LPV data-driven represe...
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We demonstrate that direct data-driven control of nonlinear systems can be successfully accomplished via a behavioral approach that builds on a Linear Parameter-Varying (LPV) system concept. An LPV data-driven representation is used as a surrogate LPV form of the data-driven representation of the original nonlinear system. The LPV data-driven control design that builds on this representation form uses only measurement data from the nonlinear system and a priori information on a scheduling map that can lead to an LPV embedding of the nonlinear system behavior. Efficiency of the proposed approach is demonstrated experimentally on a nonlinear unbalanced disc system showing for the first time in the literature that behavioral data-driven methods are capable to stabilize arbitrary forced equilibria of a real-world nonlinear system by the use of only 7 data points.
Artificial neural networks (ANN) have been shown to be flexible and effective function estimators for identification of nonlinear state-space models. However, if the resulting models are used directly for nonlinear mo...
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An advanced Fuzzy Logic controller (FLC) that considers all the states of the brain tumor system is designed for the chemotherapy treatment. A Mamdani-type FLC is proposed for dynamically controlling the chemotherapy ...
An advanced Fuzzy Logic controller (FLC) that considers all the states of the brain tumor system is designed for the chemotherapy treatment. A Mamdani-type FLC is proposed for dynamically controlling the chemotherapy drug for the tumor system; the chemotherapy treatment of brain tumors requires advanced strategies which mainly depend upon the severity of the tumor. In this work, the advanced FLC designed aims both at determining the amount of chemotherapy to eliminate tumor cells, and at preserving the minimum amount of healthy and immune cells. The controller's performance is verified using MATLAB software based on different control parameters, showing its effectiveness in reducing the tumor cells. It has shown favorable results in terms of steady-state error, rate of convergence, and amount of drug consumed.
Robot audition, encompassing Sound Source Localization (SSL), Sound Source Separation (SSS), and automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), enables robots and smart devices to acquire auditory capabilities similar to human h...
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We consider the problem of constructing strings over an alphabet Σ that start with a given prefix u, end with a given suffix v, and avoid occurrences of a given set of forbidden substrings. In the decision version of...
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We present an integrated framework for intelligent automated plant monitoring, towards early disease and pest detection in greenhouse tomato crops. The framework combines the use of a robotic mobile platform to autono...
We present an integrated framework for intelligent automated plant monitoring, towards early disease and pest detection in greenhouse tomato crops. The framework combines the use of a robotic mobile platform to autonomously collect multi-spectral images of the plants, with a tool that utilizes Faster R-CNN to detect regions that signify the presence of a disease or pest. The robot is based on a modified mobile vertical mast lift platform, and integrates a 6-dof robotic arm that is used to position the plant imaging multi-spectral camera. The robot can navigate autonomously inside the greenhouse via a magnetic guidance sensor. Results from a series of experiments demonstrate the validity and effectiveness of the implemented framework.
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