CuriPilot

The drone industry has rapidly grown over the last three years and many large companies have determined that the phenomenon is worth investing in. Recently, Intel has shown interest in this growing industry. Intel developed a next generation processor to be used in drones in addition to investing in the Chinese drone hardware company, Yuneec. Contracted by Intel, the CuriPilot team laid the foundation for linking the hardware and software layers of Intel\u27s drone technology by designing the stabilization control system for the next generation of processors and drones. The CuriPilot team built a foundation for future drone development and gave Intel valuable feedback on both the hardware and software being used with the Curie processor. Looking forward, future development can easily be started with the new EarHart boards and existing drone frames. The elusive system bugs have been fixed and the EarHart board provides a stable environment to continue autopilot development

UTC: Herramienta esteganalítica modular

Este documento trata de explicar el motivo de la creación de la aplicación UTC(Under The Carpet), cuyo nombre se debe al simil de buscar algo que aparentemente no existe. Esta aplicación se basa en un proyecto fin de carrera que está basado en el arte de la Esteganografía que se trata de una técnica cuya finalidad es ocultar datos detrás de otros datos , de manera que no sea visible a primera vista,al menos. La Esteganografía es una ciencia muy difundida pero no tan estudiada como sería deseable. Se realiza este tipo de técnica desde hace muchos años pero al existir tantos tipos de programas diferentes que tienen como finalidad la ocultación de información de manera digital, es difícil conocer todas las maneras posibles. Con UTC intentamos englobar las metodologías más usadas hasta ahora en una sola aplicación en forma de módulos siendo cada uno de ellos independiente al resto, de manera que en el futuro se puedan añadir más métodos nuevos de Esteganografía que no se hayan implementado o que aparezcan nuevos en la red.Por lo tanto, UTC no busca encontrar nuevos métodos esteganográficos ,sino englobar en una sola aplicación los programas que ya existen y todo eso lo hemos implementado en Borland C++. En la primera sección vamos a explicar por qué consideramos útil esta aplicación y los conceptos esteganográficos en los que está basada y la no existencia hasta ahora de una aplicación que use diferentes métodos esteganográficos para buscar información en oculta en la red. En la segunda sección explicaremos cuáles son cada uno de los módulos y por qué los hemos considerado importantes para incluirlos en UTC.No buscamos realizar una documentación exhaustiva de cada uno de ellos sino explicar su funcionamiento y la forma de detección de cada uno de ellos, que en definitiva es en lo que se basa UTC. No hemos implentado la forma de recuperar dichos datos,sólo la búsqueda de información oculta,la evidencia de qué hay datos ocultos por detrás de ciertos ficheros, sin importarnos qué datos son. Por supuesto esto podría incluirse como un nuevo submódulo en cada uno de los módulos implementados

Left Ventricle Myocardium Segmentation from 3D Cardiac MR Images using Combined Probabilistic Atlas and Graph Cut-based Approaches

Medical imaging modalities, including Computed Tomography (CT) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Ultrasound (US) are critical for the diagnosis and progress monitoring of many cardiac conditions, planning, visualization and delivery of therapy via minimally invasive intervention procedures, as well as for teaching, training and simulation applications. Image segmentation is a processing technique that allows the user to extract the necessary information from an image dataset, in the form of a surface model of the region of interest from the anatomy. A wide variety of segmentation techniques have been developed and implemented for cardiac MR images. Despite their complexity and performance, many of them are intended for specific image datasets or are too specific to be employed for segmenting classical clinical quality Magnetic Resonance (MR) images. Graph Cut based segmentation algorithms have been shown to work well in regards to medical image segmentation. In addition, they are computationally efficient, which scales well to real time applications. While the basic graph cuts algorithms use lower-order statistics, combining this segmentation approach with atlas-based methods may help improve segmentation accuracy at a lower computational cost. The proposed technique will be tested at each step during the development by assessing the segmentation results against the available ground truth segmentation. Several metrics will be used to quantify the performance of the proposed technique, including computational performance, segmentation accuracy and fidelity assessed via the Sørensen-Dice Coefficient (DSC), Mean Absolute Distance (MAD) and Hausdorff Distance (HD) metrics

An investigation into the efficacy of avatar-based systems for student advice

Student support is an important function in all universities. Most students expect access to support 24/7, but support staff cannot be available at all times of day. This paper addresses this problem, describing the development of an avatar-based system to guide students through the materials provided by a university student employability service. Firstly, students and staff were surveyed to establish the demand for such a system. The system was then constructed. Finally, the system was evaluated by students and staff, which led to a clearer understanding of the optimal role for avatar-based systems and consequent improvements to the system’s functionality

Poetic Leadership, A Territory of Aesthetic Consciousness and Change

Poetic leadership is a new theoretical construct that views leadership as an activity that unites a lyrical intellect with keenly felt emotion for the purpose of producing changes in the consciousness of self and others. This change begins within the interiority of self, moving surely to broader realms of one\u27s surroundings and society, provoking movement that impacts the developing potential of the individual and the cultural milieu in which they exist. Emotion is the primary trace into consciousness used in this dissertation, which serves to unite experiences of the heart with experiences of the mind. The unification of these disparate parts of self provides the foundation for the aesthetic experience, which transcends temporal and cultural boundaries, and, when consciously produced within the self, produces a poetic consciousness which in turn allows for the experience of poetic leadership. As activity that is situated within the experience of individual consciousness, yet is directed to external concerns, poetic leadership moves deeply into the territory of the group. Group consciousness thus becomes a concern, and so is defined as a scholarly construct unique to the field of leadership and change. Influence, ethical conduct, and cultural responsibility are all examined as key considerations impacting group processes, and are situated as primary concerns of poetic leadership processes. The electronic version of this dissertation is accessible at the OhioLINK ETD Center, https://etd.ohiolink.edu

Poetic Leadership, A Territory of Aesthetic Consciousness and Change

Poetic leadership is a new theoretical construct that views leadership as an activity that unites a lyrical intellect with keenly felt emotion for the purpose of producing changes in the consciousness of self and others. This change begins within the interiority of self, moving surely to broader realms of one\u27s surroundings and society, provoking movement that impacts the developing potential of the individual and the cultural milieu in which they exist. Emotion is the primary trace into consciousness used in this dissertation, which serves to unite experiences of the heart with experiences of the mind. The unification of these disparate parts of self provides the foundation for the aesthetic experience, which transcends temporal and cultural boundaries, and, when consciously produced within the self, produces a poetic consciousness which in turn allows for the experience of poetic leadership. As activity that is situated within the experience of individual consciousness, yet is directed to external concerns, poetic leadership moves deeply into the territory of the group. Group consciousness thus becomes a concern, and so is defined as a scholarly construct unique to the field of leadership and change. Influence, ethical conduct, and cultural responsibility are all examined as key considerations impacting group processes, and are situated as primary concerns of poetic leadership processes. The electronic version of this dissertation is accessible at the OhioLINK ETD Center, https://etd.ohiolink.edu