SharingTools : Aplicació Android per a l'intercanvi d'eines

El projecte final de carrera SharingTools tracta sobre la construcció d'una aplicació per a la plataforma Android, la qual permet als usuaris compartir eines amb altres persones. L'aplicació utilitza el posicionament per xarxa i la càmara dels dispositius.

MROGear App para dispositivos Android

Desarollo e implementación de una aplicación híbrida para dispositivos móviles Android.

Aprendiendo coreano : Desenvolupament d'una aplicació Android per a l'aprenentatge de coreà

Aquest projecte consisteix en el desenvolupament d'una aplicació per a dispositius mòbils que facilita l'aprenentatge de coreà per a estudiants castellanoparlants.

Jugando con Android : acciones

El proyecto global está enfocado al aprendizaje del desarrollo de aplicaciones para el sistema operativo Android. Para ello, se pretende realizar una aplicación a través de la cual se puedan adquirir conocimientos de los diversos componentes que forman la estructura de la plataforma. Con ello, este proyecto pretende también ser una pequeña guía para aquellas personas que, cómo nosotros, pretenden iniciarse en el desarrollo de aplicaciones para Android. La aplicación desarrollada será un juego del género lucha, para uno o dos jugadores en el mismo terminal.

How useful is satellite positioning system (GPS) to track gait parameters? A review.

Over the last century, numerous techniques have been developed to analyze the movement of humans while walking and running. The combined use of kinematics and kinetics methods, mainly based on high speed video analysis and forceplate, have permitted a comprehensive description of locomotion process in terms of energetics and biomechanics. While the different phases of a single gait cycle are well understood, there is an increasing interest to know how the neuro-motor system controls gait form stride to stride. Indeed, it was observed that neurodegenerative diseases and aging could impact gait stability and gait parameters steadiness. From both clinical and fundamental research perspectives, there is therefore a need to develop techniques to accurately track gait parameters stride-by-stride over a long period with minimal constraints to patients. In this context, high accuracy satellite positioning can provide an alternative tool to monitor outdoor walking. Indeed, the high-end GPS receivers provide centimeter accuracy positioning with 5-20 Hz sampling rate: this allows the stride-by-stride assessment of a number of basic gait parameters--such as walking speed, step length and step frequency--that can be tracked over several thousand consecutive strides in free-living conditions. Furthermore, long-range correlations and fractal-like pattern was observed in those time series. As compared to other classical methods, GPS seems a promising technology in the field of gait variability analysis. However, relative high complexity and expensiveness--combined with a usability which requires further improvement--remain obstacles to the full development of the GPS technology in human applications.

PineApp : Aplicación para Android para el aprendizaje del idioma chino

Desarrollo de una aplicación para Android que ofrece un método fácil para aprender chino mandarín desde el español.

Aplicació Android per a l'accés a les aules de la UOC

Aquest TFC tracta del desenvolupament d'una aplicació Android per donar accés a certes àrees del campus de la UOC des d'un smartphone.

DNA fingerprinting of glioma cell lines and considerations on similarity measurements.

Glioma cell lines are an important tool for research in basic and translational neuro-oncology. Documentation of their genetic identity has become a requirement for scientific journals and grant applications to exclude cross-contamination and misidentification that lead to misinterpretation of results. Here, we report the standard 16 marker short tandem repeat (STR) DNA fingerprints for a panel of 39 widely used glioma cell lines as reference. Comparison of the fingerprints among themselves and with the large DSMZ database comprising 9 marker STRs for 2278 cell lines uncovered 3 misidentified cell lines and confirmed previously known cross-contaminations. Furthermore, 2 glioma cell lines exhibited identity scores of 0.8, which is proposed as the cutoff for detecting cross-contamination. Additional characteristics, comprising lack of a B-raf mutation in one line and a similarity score of 1 with the original tumor tissue in the other, excluded a cross-contamination. Subsequent simulation procedures suggested that, when using DNA fingerprints comprising only 9 STR markers, the commonly used similarity score of 0.8 is not sufficiently stringent to unambiguously differentiate the origin. DNA fingerprints are confounded by frequent genetic alterations in cancer cell lines, particularly loss of heterozygosity, that reduce the informativeness of STR markers and, thereby, the overall power for distinction. The similarity score depends on the number of markers measured; thus, more markers or additional cell line characteristics, such as information on specific mutations, may be necessary to clarify the origin.

Typing Candida albicans oral isolates from human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis and DNA fingerprinting.

A total of 189 Candida albicans isolates have been typed by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis. The results obtained confirm the clonal mode of reproduction of C. albicans. The C. albicans populations found in the oropharynx of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients, in the oropharynx of healthy carriers, or in association with invasive candidiasis could not be distinguished. No clone or group of clones could be associated with the appearance of clinical disorders or with a reduced in vitro susceptibility to the antifungal agent fluconazole. Multiple and sequential oral isolates from 24 HIV-infected patients were also typed by restriction enzyme analysis with the enzymes EcoRI and HinfI and by use of the Ca3 repetitive probe. The results obtained by the combination of all three typing methods show that all but one patient each carried a unique major C. albicans clone in their oropharynx. The 21 patients with sequential isolates had the same C. albicans clones in their throats during recurrent oropharyngeal candidiasis episodes, independently of clinical status or of changes of in vitro susceptibility to fluconazole. Finally, several isolates of the same C. albicans clone found simultaneously in the oropharynx of a patient may present different levels of susceptibility to fluconazole.

Viabilidade técnica do uso de receptores GPS de navegação para fins de amostragem sistemática de solo

Os receptores de navegação do sistema de posicionamento global (GPS), comumente utilizados pelo setor agrícola, em geral, apresentam precisão posicional < 10,0 m. Em uma amostragem sistemática de solos, as subamostras deverão ser coletadas num raio não superior a 3 m do ponto central georreferenciado. A presente nota técnica visou confrontar a precisão e exatidão desse tipo de equipamento com a necessidade exigida em amostragem sistematizada de solo. Uma área com aproximadamente 17 ha, no campus I da Universidade de Passo Fundo, foi levantada com três receptores GPS de navegação e Estação Total-ET (controle). Pontos centrais de quadrículas de 2 ha, gerados pelo programa Campeiro®, foram locados no campo com os mesmos equipamentos. Sobre esses pontos, materializados no campo, foram novamente tomadas as suas coordenadas, com auxílio da estação total. Assim, as coordenadas X e Y foram submetidas à ANOVA, confrontando-se as médias obtidas pela ET com as dos receptores de GPS pela diferença honesta significativa do teste de Tukey (p < 0,01). Quanto à exatidão, calcularam-se, por Pitágoras, as distâncias lineares entre os pontos gerados pelos GPS e pela ET, assumindo-se não exatas quando ultrapassaram os 3 m de raio preconizado pelo Manual de Adubação e Calagem do Rio Grande do Sul e de Santa Catariana para coleta de solo. A exatidão das coordenadas dos receptores GPS variou de -10 m a +3 m para X e de -4 m a +7 m para Y. Apenas um ponto central dos oito locados com os receptores de GPS de navegação no centro das quadrículas apresentou exatidão compatível com a exigida pela prática. Isso indica que esse tipo de equipamento, com baixa precisão e exatidão, não deve ser utilizado para amostragem sistematizada de solos.

Airborne GPS, 1996

The paper gives the theory of airborne GPs related to Photogrammetry and the results of a self calibration used to validate the theory. Accordingly, no ground control points are required for mapping using a strip or block of photographs provided the site is within 10 Km of the calibration site.

Development of a GPS-Based Sign Inventory Tool for Iowa’s Statewide Management System, May 2011

This report is on state-of-the-art research efforts specific to infrastructure inventory/data collection with sign inventory as a case study. The development of an agency-wide sign inventory is based on feature inventory and location information. Specific to location, a quick and simple location acquisition tool is critical to tying assets to an accurate location-referencing system. This research effort provides a contrast between legacy referencing systems (route and milepost) and global positioning system- (GPS-) based techniques (latitude and longitude) integrated into a geographic information system (GIS) database. A summary comparison of field accuracies using a variety of consumer grade devices is also provided. This research, and the data collection tools developed, are critical in supporting the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) Statewide Sign Management System development effort. For the last two years, a Task Force has embarked on a comprehensive effort to develop a sign management system to improve sign quality, as well as to manage all aspects of signage, from request, ordering, fabricating, installing, maintaining, and ultimately removing, and to provide the ability to budget for these key assets on a statewide basis. This effort supported the development of a sign inventory tool and is the beginning of the development of a sign management system to support the Iowa DOT efforts in the consistent, cost effective, and objective decision making process when it comes to signs and their maintenance.

Use of GPS for Photogrammetry, HR-342, 1993

Five test flights were conducted to study the use of Global Positioning System (GPS) in Photogrammetry, three in Iowa, one each in California and Texas. These tests show that GPS can be used to establish ground control by the static method and to determine camera location by the kinematic method. In block triangulation, six GPS controls are required and additional elevation control along the centerline is also required in strip triangulation. The camera location determined by aerial triangulation depends on the scale of the photography. The 1:3000 scale photography showed that the absolute accuracy of the camera location by GPS is better than five centimeters. The 1:40000 scale photography showed that the relative accuracy of the camera location by GPS is about one millimeter. In a strip triangulation elevation control is required in addition to the camera location by GPS. However, for block triangulation camera location by GPS is sufficient. Pre-targeting of pass and tie points gives the best results in both block and strip triangulation. In normal mapping for earth work computations the use of 1:6000 scale photography with GPS control instead of 1:3000 scale is recommended. It is recommended that research be done in the use of GPS for navigation in aerial photographic missions. It is highly recommended that research be done in the use of GPS to determine tip and tilt of the aerial camera, that is required in stereoplotting.