Dinàmica de rotació d'un sòlid rígid (apunts)

Apunts de suport a l'assignatura Fonaments físics de l'enginyeria

Muntatge d’una memòria en el sistema microprocessat Olorim

Aquest projecte parteix d'un projecte anterior realitzat per un company d'escola, en el qual es pretenia muntar un sistema per obtenir un diagnòstic dels pacients que pateixen bruxisme. El sistema que aquest company va muntar constava de dos subsistemes: el sistema de captura, encarregat de capturar el senyal mitjançant sensors i pretractar el senyal i el sistema de processament de dades, encarregat de rebre les dades provinents del sistema de captura mitjançant una ràdio sintonitzada a la freqüència 432,95MHz, que després s'envien al convertidor A/D de l'Olorim i s'emmagatzemen a la memòria interna de l'Olorim. Aquest projecte pretén millorar l'apartat de capacitat per a les dades i oferir major portabilitat mitjançant una targeta SD. Per dur a terme aquesta millora es recullen les dades emmagatzemades a la memòria interna del sistema microprocessat i s’emmagatzemen en una memòria SD. Les dades s'emmagatzemen a la targeta SD dins un fitxer creat prèviament amb l'ordinador, el qual ha de ser el primer fitxer que es crea a la targeta, ja que ha d'estar en sectors consecutius. En aquest fitxer s'aniran emmagatzemant les dades que ens proporcioni el sistema de captura en format RAW

A concurrent region growing algorithm guided by circumscribed contours

Image segmentation of natural scenes constitutes a major problem in machine vision. This paper presents a new proposal for the image segmentation problem which has been based on the integration of edge and region information. This approach begins by detecting the main contours of the scene which are later used to guide a concurrent set of growing processes. A previous analysis of the seed pixels permits adjustment of the homogeneity criterion to the region's characteristics during the growing process. Since the high variability of regions representing outdoor scenes makes the classical homogeneity criteria useless, a new homogeneity criterion based on clustering analysis and convex hull construction is proposed. Experimental results have proven the reliability of the proposed approach

El Dr. Pericot, mestre de l'arqueologia gironina

Aquest article forma part d’un homenatge al Dr. Lluís Pericot, mort el 12 d’octubre de 1978, en què es fa una breu descripció de la seva participació en la arqueologia i l’estudi de la prehistòria gironina i catalana

Families of periodic horseshoe orbits in the restricted three-body problem

We compute families of symmetric periodic horseshoe orbits in the restricted three-body problem. Both the planar and three-dimensional cases are considered and several families are found.We describe how these families are organized as well as the behavior along and among the families of parameters such as the Jacobi constant or the eccentricity. We also determine the stability properties of individual orbits along the families. Interestingly, we find stable horseshoe-shaped orbit up to the quite high inclination of 17◦

Comparing meta-analysis and ecological-longitudinal analysis in time-series studies: a case study of the effects of air pollution on mortality in three Spanish cities

The objective of this paper is to introduce a diVerent approach, called the ecological-longitudinal, to carrying out pooled analysis in time series ecological studies. Because it gives a larger number of data points and, hence, increases the statistical power of the analysis, this approach, unlike conventional ones, allows the complementation of aspects such as accommodation of random effect models, of lags, of interaction between pollutants and between pollutants and meteorological variables, that are hardly implemented in conventional approaches. Design—The approach is illustrated by providing quantitative estimates of the short-termeVects of air pollution on mortality in three Spanish cities, Barcelona,Valencia and Vigo, for the period 1992–1994. Because the dependent variable was a count, a Poisson generalised linear model was first specified. Several modelling issues are worth mentioning. Firstly, because the relations between mortality and explanatory variables were nonlinear, cubic splines were used for covariate control, leading to a generalised additive model, GAM. Secondly, the effects of the predictors on the response were allowed to occur with some lag. Thirdly, the residual autocorrelation, because of imperfect control, was controlled for by means of an autoregressive Poisson GAM. Finally, the longitudinal design demanded the consideration of the existence of individual heterogeneity, requiring the consideration of mixed models. Main results—The estimates of the relative risks obtained from the individual analyses varied across cities, particularly those associated with sulphur dioxide. The highest relative risks corresponded to black smoke in Valencia. These estimates were higher than those obtained from the ecological-longitudinal analysis. Relative risks estimated from this latter analysis were practically identical across cities, 1.00638 (95% confidence intervals 1.0002, 1.0011) for a black smoke increase of 10 μg/m3 and 1.00415 (95% CI 1.0001, 1.0007) for a increase of 10 μg/m3 of sulphur dioxide. Because the statistical power is higher than in the individual analysis more interactions were statistically significant,especially those among air pollutants and meteorological variables. Conclusions—Air pollutant levels were related to mortality in the three cities of the study, Barcelona, Valencia and Vigo. These results were consistent with similar studies in other cities, with other multicentric studies and coherent with both, previous individual, for each city, and multicentric studies for all three cities