1. Optimizing UWB First Path Search Algorithm Performance on a Dedicated DSP : magistrsko deloPeter Vrbančič, 2024, magistrsko delo Opis: The aim of the thesis was to optimize the UWB first path search algorithm performance
on a dedicated DSP. Development was focused on enabling various optimizations tech-
niques of the DSP architecture. Insights into how the CIR is correlated, how the FP algo-
rithm determines the actual FP are presented. The purpose of optimizing the FP algorithm
was to improve the performance and lower the power consumption of the UWB system.
The highly optimized DSP architecture contains numerous optimization techniques that
needed to be discovered. With the optimization techniques provided by the DSP architec-
ture, we were able to boost the FP algorithm performance by a significant amount, with
potential for further enhancements. Ključne besede: UWB, optimization, DSP, first path search, parallel data paths, intrinsic functions, dual Harvard Objavljeno v DKUM: 06.02.2025; Ogledov: 0; Prenosov: 0 |
2. Plant trait composition in lowland calcareous and acidic semi-dry grasslandsSonja Škornik, 2025, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: European semi-dry grasslands are habitats of high conservation value. Therefore, research into the mechanisms of community assembly is important for their effective management. Using data from 76 vegetation plots of calcareous and acidic semi-dry grasslands in continental Slovenia, the author analysed the composition of plant traits, focusing on less studied belowground traits. Community-weighted means were calculated for nine plant functional traits: life form, growth form, clonal growth organ (CGO) type, persistence of connection in CGO, number of clonal offspring shoots, lateral spreading distance, role of CGO, bud bank, CSR strategy. The results showed that both grassland communities were characterized by high local persistence (perennial plants with long-lived connections between ramets). Acidic grasslands had more species with rosettes, rhizomes and stress-tolerators, indicating more stressful conditions, probably due to low pH. Mesic grassland species with numerous stolons and longer lateral spread were also characteristic of acidic grasslands. Calcareous grasslands hosted more competitors, plants with leafy stems and plants with perennial main roots. This study contributes to a deeper understanding of grassland processes and provides a basis for future investigations of belowground plant traits and their function. Ključne besede: biodiversity, community assembly, permanent grassland, plant traits, ecosystem functions, Natura 2000, Festuco-Brometea Objavljeno v DKUM: 08.01.2025; Ogledov: 0; Prenosov: 6
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3. Factors that determine dependence in daily activities : a cross-sectional study of family practice non-attenders from SloveniaTonka Poplas-Susič, Zalika Klemenc-Ketiš, Rok Blagus, Nina Ružić Gorenjec, 2021, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: Background: Independence in daily activities is defined as the ability to perform functions related to daily living, i.e. the capacity of living independently in the community with little or no help from others.
Objective: We focused on non-attenders as a subgroup of patients whose health status is not well known to family practice teams. Our goal was to estimate the prevalence of dependence and its severity level in the daily activities of patients, and to determine the factors that are associated with the occurrence of dependence.
Design: Cross-sectional observational study.
Settings and participants: Data was obtained in family medicine settings. Participants in the study were adults living in the community (aged 18 or over) who had not visited their chosen family physician in the last 5 years (non-attenders) and who were able to participate in the study. Through the electronic system, we identified 2,025 non-attenders. Community nurses collected data in the participants' homes. The outcome measure was dependence in daily activities, assessed through eight items: personal hygiene; eating and drinking; mobility; dressing and undressing; urination and defecation; continence; avoiding hazards in the environment; and communication.
Results: The final sample consisted of 1,999 patients (98.7% response rate). The mean age was 59.9 (range 20 to 99). Dependence in daily activities was determined in 466 or 23.3% (95% CI: [21.5, 25.2]) of the patients. Older patients (over 60 years), with at least one chronic disease, increased risk of falling, moderate feelings of loneliness and a lower self-assessment of health were statistically significantly more likely to be dependent in their daily activities, according to our multivariate model.
Conclusions: A considerable proportion of family practice non-attenders were found to be dependent in daily activities, though at a low level. We identified several factors associated with this dependence. This could help to identify people at risk of being dependent in daily activities in the general adult population, and enable specific interventions that would improve their health status. Ključne besede: family medicine, ability to perform functions, daily activities Objavljeno v DKUM: 17.10.2024; Ogledov: 0; Prenosov: 1
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4. An efficient algorithm for designing long aperiodic binary sequences with low auto-correlation sidelobesJanez Brest, Jan Popič, Jana Herzog, Borko Bošković, 2024, izvirni znanstveni članek Ključne besede: auto-correlation functions, binary sequences, long aperiodic sequences, peak sidelobe level, PSL Objavljeno v DKUM: 20.08.2024; Ogledov: 64; Prenosov: 22
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5. PALANTIR : An NFV-Based Security-as-a-Service Approach for Automating Threat MitigationMaxime Compastié, Antonio López Martínez, Carolina Fernandez, Manuel Gil Pérez, Stylianos Tsarsitalidis, George Xylouris, Izidor Mlakar, Michail Alexandros Kourtis, Valentino Šafran, 2023, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: Small and medium enterprises are significantly hampered by cyber-threats as they have inherently limited skills and financial capacities to anticipate, prevent, and handle security incidents. The EU-funded PALANTIR project aims at facilitating the outsourcing of the security supervision to external providers to relieve SMEs/MEs from this burden. However, good practices for the operation of SME/ME assets involve avoiding their exposure to external parties, which requires a tightly defined and timely enforced security policy when resources span across the cloud continuum and need interactions. This paper proposes an innovative architecture extending Network Function Virtualisation to externalise and automate threat mitigation and remediation in cloud, edge, and on-premises environments. Our contributions include an ontology for the decision-making process, a Fault-and-Breach-Management-based remediation policy model, a framework conducting remediation actions, and a set of deployment models adapted to the constraints of cloud, edge, and on-premises environment(s). Finally, we also detail an implementation prototype of the framework serving as evaluation material. Ključne besede: Security-as-a-Service, security orchestration, policy-driven management, virtual network functions, finite state machines, constraints programming Objavljeno v DKUM: 06.02.2024; Ogledov: 334; Prenosov: 18
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6. Transient circuit simulation of arc-free current breaking by resistance riseDareer Bin Khalid, Michael Rock, Luigi Piegari, 2021, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: There has been intensive research and development in the field of Circuit breakers, whether DC and AC, or low voltage and high voltage. The result of this has led to the production of highly reliable circuit breakers that accompany a built-in arc extinguishing system. However, the purpose of this study is to give the basics for arc-free current breaking with fast interruption of fault currents, e.g., in surge protective devices (SPD) for AC and DC systems, by means of a time-dependent resistor with fast rising resistance. This investigation shall illustrate how the current can be driven almost to zero with a steadily time increasing resistance, and interrupted completely without an electric arc. The basic aim of the conducted transient circuit simulations is to determine suitable time functions for the current or resistance and necessary initial and final resistances. This paper will discuss the "optimisation conditions", a switching time as short as possible, small switch-off overvoltage, and possibly an energy conversion in the resistor as low as possible is set using ATP-EMTP and analytical calculations. Ključne besede: current breaking, ATP-EMTP, time-dependent resistance, optimisation, concave functions, convex functions Objavljeno v DKUM: 13.11.2023; Ogledov: 439; Prenosov: 4
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7. Pupillometric parameters of alertness during unpredictable but not predictable smooth pursuit neck torsion test are altered in patients with neck pain disorders: a cross-sectional studyZiva Majcen Rosker, Grega Močnik, Eythor Kristjansson, Miha Vodicar, Jernej Rosker, 2023, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: Despite commonly investigated predictable smooth-pursuit neck-torsion tasks (SPNT) in neck pain patients, unpredictable conditions have been seldom investigated but are indicative of preserved oculomotor functions during neck torsion. Although not previously studied, some speculations about compensatory cognitive mechanisms such as increased phasic alertness during unpredictable tasks were suggested. The aim of this study was to investigate eye movement accuracy and pupillometric responses during predictable and unpredictable SPNT test in neck pain patients and asymptomatic controls. Eye movements (gain and SPNT-difference) and pupillometry indicative of tonic (average and relative pupil diameter) and phasic (index of cognitive activity-ICA) alertness were measured in 28 idiopathic neck pain patients and 30 asymptomatic individuals using infrared video-oculography during predictable and unpredictable SPNT test. Gain in unpredictable SPNT test was lower as compared to predictable tasks and presented with similar levels in neutral and neck torsion positions, but not in the predictable SPNT test. ICA was lower during neutral position in all tasks in patients as compared to control group but increased during neck torsion positions in unpredictable tasks. Relative pupil diameters presented with no differences between the groups or neck positions, but the opposite was observed for average pupil diameter. Higher ICA indicates an increase in phasic alertness in neck pain patients despite no alterations in oculomotor control during SPNT test. This is the first study to indicate cognitive deficits in oculomotor task in neck pain patients. The latter could negatively affect other tasks where additional cognitive resources must be involved. Ključne besede: oculomotor functions, smooth pursuit eye movements, cervical disorders, cognitive disfunction, attention, pupillometry Objavljeno v DKUM: 24.08.2023; Ogledov: 483; Prenosov: 50
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8. Uporaba platforme firebase za razvoj spletne rešitve : diplomsko deloŽiga Pigac, 2022, diplomsko delo Opis: Zaradi vse večje potrebe po hitrem razvoju in možnosti skaliranja se je v informatiki razširila uporaba oblačnih storitev. V diplomskem delu smo pregledali storitve, ki jih ponuja brezstrežniška platforma Firebase, ter preverili, kakšne so njihove posebnosti. Za namen ugotavljanja teh smo razvili primer spletne trgovine.
Skozi razvoj so se pokazale specifike delovanja podatkovne baze Firestore. Pri implementaciji Cloud Functions se je prikazala razlika v hitrosti delovanja, glede na to, ali je instanca funkcije že vzpostavljena. Storitev Firebase Authentication se je izkazala za preprost in hiter način implementacije prijave in registracije. Implementirali smo zbiranje podatkov o učinkovitosti delovanja s Firebase Performance Monitor ter ocenjevanje uporabniške izkušnje z Google Analytics for Firebase. Ključne besede: Firebase, storitve v oblaku, brezstrežniška arhitektura, Firestore, Cloud Functions Objavljeno v DKUM: 06.07.2022; Ogledov: 968; Prenosov: 160
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9. Transport and Localization in Classical and Quantum BilliardsČrt Lozej, 2020, doktorska disertacija Opis: In this thesis the classical and quantum dynamics in billiard systems are considered. Extensive numerical studies of the classical transport properties in several examples of billiard families including the ergodic Bunimovich stadium and cut-circle billiards and the mixed-type Robnik and lemon billiards are performed. The analysis of the transport is based on the random model of diffusion which assumes that due the strongly chaotic dynamics the motion of the orbit on the discretized phase space is temporally uncorrelated. The cause of the deviations from the random model dynamics is traced to dynamical trapping due to stickiness. A novel approach to locally quantifying stickiness based on the statistics of the recurrence times is presented and applied to distinguish between exponential decays of recurrence times and other types of decays. This enables the identification of sticky areas in the chaotic components. Detailed maps of their structure for a wide range of parameter values, mapping the evolution of the mixed-phase spaces and revealing some particularly interesting special examples are presented. The recurrence time distributions in sticky areas are found to be well described by a mixture of exponential decays. The transport of particle ensembles in the momentum space of classical billiards is described by using an inhomogeneous diffusion model and the classical transport times are determined. The classical transport times are vital for the analysis of the localization of chaotic eigenstates in quantum billiards. The control parameter that describes the the degree of localization of the chaotic quantum eigenstates is the ratio between the Heisenberg time (Planck's constant divided by the mean level spacing) and the classical transport time. Extensive numerical calculations of the high-lying spectra and eigenstates of the stadium, Robnik and lemon quantum billiards are performed. The spectral statistics are analysed in terms of the standard methods of quantum chaos. The level repulsion exponent of localized eigenstates is found to be a rational function of the control parameter. The degree of localization is determined with respect to localization measures based on the Poincaré-Husimi representation of the eigenstates. The mean localization measure is found to be a rational function of the control parameter and linearly related to the level repulsion exponent. The distributions of the localization measures are analysed and found to be of a universal shape well described by a two parameter empirical distribution in billiards with no apparent stickiness. The nonuniversal system specific features of localization measure distributions are related to the presence of sticky areas in the phase spaces of classical billiards with specific examples shown. Ključne besede: Transport, localization, chaos, quantum chaos, Hamiltonian systems, level spacing distribution, mixed phase space, billiard, quantum billiard, Husimi functions, stickiness, cantorus, chaotic eigenstates, level repulsion. Objavljeno v DKUM: 13.01.2021; Ogledov: 1559; Prenosov: 168
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10. The use of the mesh free methods (radial basis functions) in the modeling of radionuclide migration and moving boundery value problemsLeopold Vrankar, Franc Runovc, Goran Turk, 2007, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: Recently, the mesh free methods (radial basis functions-RBFs) have emerged as a novel computing method in the scientific and engineering computing community. The numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) has been usually obtained by finite difference methods (FDM), finite element methods (FEM) and boundary elements methods (BEM). These conventional numerical methods still have some drawbacks. For example, the construction of the mesh in two or more dimensions is a nontrivial problem. Solving PDEs using radial basis function (RBF) collocations is an attractive alternative to these traditional methods because no tedious mesh generation is required. We compare the mesh free method, which uses radial basis functions, with the traditional finite difference scheme and analytical solutions. We will present some examples of using RBFs in geostatistical analysis of radionuclide migration modeling. The advection-dispersion equation will be used in the Eulerian and Lagrangian forms. Stefan's or moving boundary value problems will also be presented. The position of the moving boundary will be simulated by the moving data centers method and level set method. Ključne besede: mesh free methods, radial basis functions, finite difference methods, finite elemnt methods, boundary elements methods, geostatistics, Eulerian method, Lagrangian method, level set method Objavljeno v DKUM: 18.05.2018; Ogledov: 1197; Prenosov: 100
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