International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 17-20, 1994 / Town & Country Hotel and Conference Center, San Diego, California / Spacecraft on-board time keeping, to an accuracy better than 1 millisecond, is a requirement for many satellite missions. Scientific satellites must precisely "time tag" their data to allow it to be correlated with data produced by a network of ground and space based observatories. Multiple vehicle satellite missions, and satellite networks, sometimes require several spacecraft to execute tasks in time phased fashion with respect to absolute time. In all cases, mission systems designed to provide a high accuracy on-board clock must necessarily include mechanisms for the determination and correction of spacecraft clock error. In addition, an approach to on-orbit verification of these mechanisms may be required. Achieving this accuracy however need not introduce significant mission cost if the task of maintaining this accuracy is appropriately distributed across both the space and ground mission segments. This paper presents the mission systems approaches taken by two spacecraft programs to provide high accuracy on-board spacecraft clocks at minimum cost. The first, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's (GSFC) Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) program demonstrated the ability to use the NASA Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) mission environment to maintain an on-board spacecraft clock to within 100 microseconds of Naval Observatory Standard (NOS) Time. The second approach utilizes an on-board spacecraft Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver as a time reference for spacecraft clock tracking which is facilitated through the use of Fairchild's Telemetry and Command Processor (TCP) spacecraft Command & Data Handling Subsystem Unit. This approach was designed for a future Shuttle mission requiring the precise coordination of events among multiple space-vehicles.

Designing user-interfaces so that first-time or infrequent users can accomplish their goals by exploration has been an enduring challenge in Human-Computer Interaction. Iterative user-testing is an effective but costly method to develop user-interfaces that support use through exploration. A complementary method is to use modeling tools that can generate predictions of user exploration given a user-interface and a goal description. Recent computational models of goal-directed user exploration have focused on predicting user exploration of websites and demonstrated how predictions can inform user-interface design. These models employ the common concepts of label following and information scent: that the user's choice is partly determined by the semantic relevance between the user's goal and the options presented in the user-interface. However, in addition to information scent, other factors including the layout position and grouping of options in the user-interface also affect user exploration and the likelihood of success. This dissertation contributes a new model of goal-directed user exploration, called CogTool- Explorer, which considers the layout position and the grouping of options in the user-interface in concert with a serial evaluation visual search process and information scent. Tests show that predictions from CogTool-Explorer match participant data better than alternative models that do not consider layout position and grouping. This dissertation work has also integrated the CogTool- Explorer model into an existing modeling tool, called CogTool, making it easier for other researchers and practitioners to setup and generate predictions of likely user exploration paths and task performance using CogTool-Explorer.

HTML 5 and CSS 3 are basic languages, without which today exists in principle any web presentation. Currently, there are in development new versions of these languages, HTML 5 and CSS 3, which gradually begin to be implemented in new versions of most popular browsers. The objective of this thesis is to present an overview of new elements in these languages and the main differences unlike previous versions. Thesis also includes a practical demonstration, in which the new properties are presented. On this practical demonstration was also made the test of support of new elements in four different browsers and results of this test are also part of this thesis.

Diplomová práce popisuje vývoj softvéru na platformě Visual Studio 2005 Team System (VSTS). Práce klade důraz především na popis funkcionality umožňující efektivní týmovou spolupráci a na popis nových inovativních rysů. Práce nepopisuje pouze pozitivní rysy produktu, identifikuje také základní nedostatky současné verze, na základě zkušeností vývojových týmů používajících VSTS a subjektivních názorech autora.

With Internet Explorer 10, Microsoft changed the way of storing web related information. Instead of the old index.dat files, Internet Explorer 10 uses an ESE database called WebCacheV01.dat to maintain its web cache, history and cookies. This database contains a wealth of information that can be of great interest to a forensic investigator. This thesis explores the structure of the new database, what information it contains, how it behaves in different situations, and also shows that it is possible to recover deleted database records – even when the InPrivate browsing mode has been used.

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Thesis (M.Sc. (Physics & Electronics)) - Rhodes University, 2009. / A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science.

It is a well documented fact that Geomagnetically Induced Currents (GIC’s) poses a significant threat to ground-based electric conductor networks like oil pipelines, railways and powerline networks. A study is undertaken to determine the feasibility of using artificial neural network models to predict GIC occurrence in the Southern African power grid. The magnitude of an induced current at a specific location on the Earth’s surface is directly related to the temporal derivative of the geomagnetic field (specifically its horizontal components) at that point. Hence, the focus of the problem is on the prediction of the temporal variations in the horizontal geomagnetic field (@Bx/@t and @By/@t). Artificial neural networks are used to predict @Bx/@t and @By/@t measured at Hermanus, South Africa (34.27◦ S, 19.12◦ E) with a 30 minute prediction lead time. As input parameters to the neural networks, insitu solar wind measurements made by the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) satellite are used. The results presented here compare well with similar models developed at high-latitude locations (e.g. Sweden, Finland, Canada) where extensive GIC research has been undertaken. It is concluded that it would indeed be feasible to use a neural network model to predict GIC occurrence in the Southern African power grid, provided that GIC measurements, powerline configuration and network parameters are made available.

The goal of the project was to create an extension to Internet Explorer forStatens Tjänstepensionsverk (SPV) which would give the staff the experience ofSingle sign-on (SSO) to external web service providers as well as manage andupdate their passwords in a secure manner. The survey focused on the providersPalasso, ProCompetence and Wera. The extension was created as a BrowserHelper Object (BHO) with C# in .NET. The solution was implemented as aCOM object in a DLL-file that was running in-process with the browser. Theprogram used a locally stored XML file containing URLs, usernames andencrypted passwords to the providers. When a user came to a login page theprogram collected the HTML elements on the page and populated them withdata from the file and logged in the user. Encryption and decryption was solvedwith a symmetric key that was stored in the program. In the XML file was alsothe date for the latest update of the password. If one month had passed, theprogram either gave the user an indication that the password needed to beupdated, or updated it automatically with a new generated password, dependingon the provider. The conclusion was that the extension worked as planned butthat there were improvements to be made regarding the possibility to add newsites to the system. The project also included an analysis of alternative optionsto solve the problem using JavaScript, Add-in Express, or via a portal page. Theconclusion was that none of these were an equally powerful tool as a BHO.

To optimize production at Tyco Electronics Czech s.r.o. I designed and implemented an automated classification cell with a collaborative manipulator Universal Robots UR5e and a Cognex camera system. The classification cell is supposed to pick up the loose parts and then optically test them, sorting the parts into output binders following the inspection results. First of all, I had to learn programming language for Universal Robots manipulators and Cognex vision system. Next step was to design and draw an electrical diagram. According to the diagram, I connected the cabinet and other peripherals. I also programmed an algorithm controlling the manipulator arm and inspecting of both cameras. Finally, I successfully tested the functionality of the entire classification cell.