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... Introduction to Brain Computer Interfaces 1.2 BCI Application Scenarios and State of the Art 1.3 Motivation and Objectives 1.4 Thesis Contributions and Organization ... in programming our BCI system • My grandmother, parents, sisters, brother-in-law and relatives for their unconditional love and support iii Summary A brain computer interface (BCI) is an alternate ... past and present If I have seen a little further, it is by standing on their shoulders • Ananda for help in setting up and programming the BCI system • My thesis committee members Dr Yen and Prof...

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... use of computers and networks These policies define what, why and how things are done within an organisation These can be as trivial as always using a specific template for letters, memos and faxes ... need for Systems Administration is to bridge the gap between what people/organisations want to and what the organisation’s computers can What they The real work required to fulfil these aims depends ... computer site have widely recognised and accepted policies The existence of policies ensures consistent treatment of all cases Policies provide guidelines of what to in particular cases and what...

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... nature of academic study and academic writing, in particular Nobody really wants to know what you "think" or "believe" They want to know what you have studied and learned and how this has led you ... works, and most essays at university Academic English tends to be impersonal and precise, and often uses long, carefully constructed sentences; the formal writer will avoid contractions and abbreviations, ... s/he get straight into the topic and seem interested in it, and make the reader interested in it? Sense of argument Is the argument set out clearly and logically and does the writer come to a clear...

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... Stokes MJ: Learning to control brain activity: A review of the production and control of EEG components for driving brain- computer interface (BCI) systems Brain and Cognition 2003, 51(3):326-336 ... doi:10.1186/1743-0003-7-34 Cite this article as: Barbero and Grosse-Wentrup: Biased feedback in brain- computer interfaces Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2010 7:34 Acknowledgements This ... Wriessnegger S, Pfurtscheller G: Motor imagery and action observation: Modulation of sensorimotor brain rhythms during mental control of a brain- computer interface Clinical Neurophysiology 2009,...

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... of a matrix Chapter Introduction 1.1 Brain Computer Interfaces A Brain Computer Interface (BCI) facilitates online communication between the human brain and peripheral devices BCI’s allow users ... Survey Brain Computer Interfaces measure brain activity, process it, and produce control signals that reflect the users’ intent In this chapter an overview of how brain activity is measured and types ... colleagues and staff at the Control and Simulation Laboratory, National University of Singapore and Brain Computer Interface Laboratory, Institute for Infocomm Research Their kind assistance and friendship...

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... ERP-based braincomputer interface Behavioral and Brain Functions, 6(1):28 J.R Wolpaw, N Birbaumer, D.J McFarland, G Pfurtscheller, and T.M Vaughan 2002 Braincomputer interfaces for communication and ... improved P300-based brain- computer interface Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, IEEE Transactions on, 13(1):89–98 M.S Treder and B Blankertz 2010 (C) overt attention and visual speller ... Obermaier, and M Pregenzer 2000 Current trends in Graz brain- computer interface (BCI) research IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering, 8(2):216–219 B Roark, J de Villiers, C Gibbons, and M...

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... probability 0.8, and mutation probability of.01 The classifier is trained to distinguish between rest state and imaginative hand movement The imaginative hand movement can be hand closing or hand opening ... problems,” IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol 15, no 6, pp 1374–1388, 2003 [9] A Erfanian and A Erfani, “EEG-based brain- computer interface for hand grasp control: feature extraction ... over C3, Cz, and C4 EEG signals were sampled with 128 Hz and was filtered between 0.5 and 30 Hz The task was to control a feedback bar in one dimension by imagination of left- or right-hand movements...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 22:20

... literature (Thompson et al., 1992; Hossiani et al., 1989; Boothe and Martin, 1977; Crema and Alm, 1985; and Gupta et al., 1997). These range from foaming methanol to gelling with  synthetic polymers (e.g., polyacrylamide and polyethylene oxide) and modified guar. Attempts  ... these molecules start interacting with each other. These interactions are based on ionic forces  and can be amplified by adding electrolytes (salts) or other ionic surfactants. Depending on the  ionic charges and the size and shapes of the surfactants and these counter ions, ordered  ... polymers in both aqueous and non‐aqueous methanol, ability to crosslink, ability to break the  polymer, and temperature limit.                The most recent development (Gupta, et al., 1997; and Mzik, 1993 and 1994) describes a ...

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... Routing algorithms and metrics 2008/7/19 IGP and EGP Link state and distance vector Routing protocols 10.3 The Mechanics of Subnetting Classes of network IP addresses Introduction to and reason for ... Applying the subnet mask Subnetting Class A and B networks Calculating the resident subnetwork through ANDing 10.1 Routed Protocol 2008/7/19 Routable and routed protocols A routed protocol allows ... ability to assign a network number and a host number to each individual device IP / IPX NetBEUI ?? 2008/7/19 Routable and routed protocols (cont.) 2008/7/19 Routable and routed protocols (cont.) The...

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... keyboard and are comfortable composing directly on the computer Computer-Adaptive Tests As you learned in Chapters and of this book, two sections on the computer- based test are computer- adaptive A computer- adaptive ... directly on the computer On the other hand, the TOEFL exam is a long one, and concentrating in front of a computer monitor for hours may be taxing If you have little experience with computers, you ... with computers or not, concentrating your attention on the computer screen for hours requires practice Here are some things you can to improve your computer skills and performance on the computer- based...

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... Trade: Institutions and impact Lecture But why is world trade not free? • Protectionism leads to higher prices, lower consumption, and lower welfare both at home and abroad • …so why is there still ... Program 2006-2007 Trade: Institutions and impact Lecture Course outline • First part: WTO and “traditional” trade policy Global trade institutions GATT and WTO WTO and developing countries Trade policy ... market and support to exporters may influence the location decisions of firms • FDI of central importance Ari Kokko Instruments of active trade policy • • • Tariffs and quotas Domestic product standards,...

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... product defects and process/system malfunctions early, and hence, eliminate costly consequences They also help to diagnose the root causes of the problems in design and production and hence minimize ... function defined over {t, f, u} (t represents true, f represents false, and u stands for uncertain) Let mg = {Li: li} and mg′ = {Mi: mi} and form a matrix {( } ) ( M = T Li / M j : li m j , where T Li ... functions and conditional mass functions using Equations 14.10 and 14.14 Finally, the fuzzy transition probability and limiting fuzzy transition probability can be calculated using Equations 14.42 and...

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... applications in computer- aided design (CAD) and computer- aided manufacturing (CAM) [Pratt, 1993], [Case and Gao, 1993] Part features for process planning are slightly different from those for CAD and CAM ... such as dimensions, tolerances and surface roughness, the feature position and orientation, and the feature relations (formed by physical interactions and dimensions and geometric tolerances), manufacturing ... ever met such demands Most of the CAPP systems in use have not gained anticipated computing support and flexible planning functions and tools [Bhaskaran, 1990], [Larsen, 1993], [Zhao and Baines, 1994],...

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... parts feeding systems and dedicated joining devices; and • assembly stand, namely, a workstation with piece placing and parts feeding fixtures, pick-andplace mechanisms, and joining units For ... of functional units and combining the related assembly stands; these are equipped with the usual parts feeding and orienting devices and sometimes include positioning and handling equipment The ... design, manufacturing, and finance systems To reach more comprehensive assessments, issues are stated by collecting and comparing properly standardised indices and by tracking and acknowledging properly...

Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 01:15

... LOS(jk) and ROS(jh) ϭ ROS (jk) and JSTATUS(jh) ϭ Ready for assembling and SCI(jh) ϭ 0} and {for each w␲␦ ʦ W | w␲␦ ϭ w␲␣ and (w␲␦, w␲␤) ʦ A ᭚ WEI [(w␲␦, w␲␤)] jobs jh | BEL-P[LOS( jh)] ϭ w␲␦ and ... final products p1 and p2, representing 509 and 640 part types Thus actual job type and order entity sets are P ϭ {p1, p2} and O ϭ {o1} with BEL-P(p␲) ϭ o1 for ␲ ϭ 1, Due dates and product numbers ... insertions/removals (e4-, and e5type events) and sending to the job flow manager the messages about failure and repair occurrences for servers, for AGV trucks and for transport subsystems (e1-, e2-, and e3-type...

Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 01:15

... µo = and σo = and δ = 0, ±1, ±2, ±3, and ±4 These observations were fed directly to the network and trained by a standard backpropagation algorithm to achieve a desired output between –1 and The ... Acosta and Pignatiello’s (1996) CUSUM scheme and EWMA charts, as shown in Tables 18.6(a) and (b), to Acosta and Pignatiello’s (1996) EWMA chart which adopts Roberts’ (1959) EWMA for mean and Wortham’s ... Press LLC TABLE 18.5 Comparisons between C-NN and X and R Charts (Adapted from Ho and Chang, 1999, Table 1, p 1894.) (a) Comparisons between C-NN and X and R charts for mean shifts δa ρ C-NN (ARL)...

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... is relatively standard, and consists of three operations [Liepins and Hilliard, 1989]: (i) evaluation of individual fitness, (ii) formation of a gene pool, and (iii) recombination and mutation, ... surface models [May et al., 1991; Riley and Hanson, 1989; Jenkins et al., 1986] and neural network models [Himmel and May, 1993; Kim and May, 1994; Rietman and Lory, 1993] The next two sections ... Process Modeling and On-Line Parameter Design 17.5 Conclusion 17.1 Introduction Besides aggressively innovating and incorporating new materials and technologies into practical, effective, and timely...

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... beforehand) and then transmitted to a 486 personal computer for further data recording, processing, and analysis ©2001 CRC Press LLC CNC Machine Center Vise Accelerometer Sensor 486 Personal Computer ... surfaces exhibit interrelated characteristics of both random and deterministic components Zhang and Kapoor [1991] demonstrated the effect of random vibrations on surface roughness in the turning ... parameters Step 2: Read the weight matrix W_xh and W_hy, and the bias vector θ_h and θ_y Step 3: Load the input vector X of a testing example Step 4: Calculate and infer the actual output Y (a) Calculate...

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... < ∨ ( ∧ ( x , w ) ) then ∆ = w if x s < w sj and x s ≥ ∨ ∧ x i , w ij s if x s < w sj and x s s i≠ s if x s ≥ w sj and w sj if x s ≥ w sj and w sj and ©2001 CRC Press LLC i≠ s i ij i≠ s i i≠ s ... 15.33, and the estimated value of the spindle and feed current, namely, Si and Fi (i = 1, 2, , 6) are outputted Second, the spindle and feed current detected are put into the logarithm, and are ... feasibility of motor power and current sensing for adaptive control and tool condition monitoring has been described [29] Mannan and colleagues recommend using the spindle and feed current measured...

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... Torr, and A Zisserman Obj cut In Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - Volume 1, pages 18–25, Washington, DC, USA, 2005 IEEE Computer ... model of our approach E, S, and O represent the event, scene and object labels respectively X is the observed appearance patch for scene A and G are the observed appearance and geometry/layout properties ... hyperparameters ξ and α, the distribution of topic given object p(z|O) and the distribution of appearance and geometry words given topic p(A, G|z) can be derived by using the standard Dirichlet...

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