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Purpose: The aim of this thesis has been to study and obtain greater understanding of the consequences of active social media use. Specifically, in terms of social identity, social life and the sense of belonging. Secondly, the thesis studies the consequences of disconnecting and for a limited amount of time opt out of the social media context. Method/material:  The study is based on an explorative, cultural ethnographically-inspired method, in which four respondents were studied: two men and two women, all frequent users of social media. This was done in three steps: initial interviews, followed by social media diaries and finally a focus group. By allowing these methods to complement each other, the goal was to create an overall picture of the importance of social media in their everyday lives. The study's focus lies on the week in which the respondents kept social media diaries. This was done with an application designed to continuously provide me updates during the week. The first three days of the week, the respondents used the social media as usual. Every time they were active on social media, the task was to update the diary with the activity, as well as motivation, emotion, simultaneous offline activity and possible reflections. The last four days of the weak, the respondents were prohibited from using social media, and instead they updated the diaries every time they had an impulse to use social media. Main results: The study shows that social media plays a big role in shaping the self as well as the social identity. The respondents feel a social requirement to be constantly available, which stresses them and affects offline-activities and how they socialize in real life. The days without social media meant great relief in many ways; they began to read books, socialized more concentrated with friends and family and were able to relax more. Despite these surprising insights, they want to continue using social media since being disconnected was also very stressful since they often had the feeling of being excluded and left out. The conflict between reason and emotion arises. Sense dictates that they should cut down on their social media activity but the feeling tells them the opposite.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The handwritten signature is a form of personal identification widely accepted, both socially and legally, used for centuries to authenticate documents such as bank checks, letters, contracts and any type of service that requires proof of authorship. When signing, an individual inserts a large amount of information to transform the movement of his hand into an identifying element. Writing speed, trajectory traversed, pen inclination, applied pressure, all these data are articulated (in the form of latent variables) to result in a static figure in the signed document. This dissertation investigates the problem of trajectory extraction of the pen that generates this signature from the resulting static image. For this, the work was divided in three main steps that are: (i) compute the skeleton of the offline signature; (ii) extract its characteristics using a concept addressed in this work called UCSS, and, with the help of previously recorded online signatures, (iii) estimate the path that the pen traveled over the skeleton. In each of these steps, a review of relevant work on the themes was done prior to begin implementation. Three experiments were carried out during this work, the first one was done with the objective of comparing the results obtained with the developed algorithm and the results obtained in a reference work, the other two were realized during the production of an article destined to the publication attached to this job. / A assinatura manuscrita é uma forma de identificação pessoal amplamente aceita, tanto social como juridicamente, utilizada há séculos para autenticar documentos como cheques bancários, cartas, contratos e todo tipo de serviço que necessite prova de autoria. Ao assinar, um indivíduo insere uma grande quantidade de informação para transformar o movimento de sua mão em um elemento identificador. Velocidade de escrita, trajetória percorrida, inclinação da caneta, pressão aplicada, todos esses dados são articulados (na forma de variáveis latentes) para resultar em uma figura estática no documento assinado. Essa dissertação investiga o problema de extração de trajetória da caneta que gera essa assinatura a partir da imagem estática resultante. Para isso, o trabalho foi divido em três passos principais que são: (i) computar o esqueleto da assinatura offline; (ii) extrair suas características utilizando um conceito abordado neste trabalho chamado UCSS, e, com o auxílio de assinaturas online registradas previamente; (iii) estimar o caminho que a caneta percorreu sobre o esqueleto. Em cada um desses passos, foi feita uma revisão de trabalhos relevantes sobre os temas para só então iniciar as implementações. Foram realizados três experimentos durante este trabalho, o primeiro foi feito com o objetivo de comparar os resultados obtidos com o algoritmo desenvolvido e os resultados obtidos em um trabalho de referência, os outros dois foram realizados durante a produção de um artigo destinado a publicação anexado a este trabalho.

This thesis deals with the problem of approximate string matching, also called string matching allowing errors. The thesis targets the area of offline algorithms, which allows very fast pattern matching thanks to index created during initial text preprocessing phase. Initially, we will define the problem itself and demonstrate variety of its applications, followed by short survey of different approaches to cope with this problem. Several existing algorithms based on suffix trees will be explained in detail and new hybrid algorithm will be proposed. Algorithms wil be implemented in C programming language and thoroughly compared in series of experiments with focus on newly presented algorithm.

This paper concerns methods of verification of person's signature and handwriting. Some of commonly used techniques are resumed and described with related literature being referred. Next aim of this work is design and implementation of a simple handwriting verification application. Application is based on edge detection and comparison of a set of structural and statistical features. As a support classification tool a SVM classifier of the LIBSVM software is employed. The Application is written in C language using OpenCV graphics library. Testing and training set was extracted from samples found in the IAM Handwriting Database. Application was created and tested in the Windows XP operating system.

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This diploma thesis which is titled Communication of selected companies in online and offline environment (illustrated on enterprises České dráhy, RegioJet and Leo Express) aims to map the communication activities of the mentioned carriers on online and offline media platforms in the Czech environment. In the theoretical part is defined the basic terminology of analyzed issues, above all from the area of communication, media, marketing and partially also from the perspective of linguistics. The practical part besides the methodology includes a presentation of the analyzed companies, České dráhy, RegioJet and Leo Express, and also a descriptive analysis of their presentation or more precisely communication activities on various media types and platforms - for each of the mentioned companies separately. Furthermore, in the practical part there is a comparison of analyzed companies, based on the results of descriptive analysis and there is also a description of an additional quantitative analysis - a questionnaire survey, which was answered by a total of 808 respondents of all ages from all over the country - so in this case from the customer's point of view. At the end of the practical part, the results are summarized and evaluated, and besides, there are also from them following recommendations -...

Research into modular approaches for constructing power electronics control systems has provided a number of benefits, as well as new opportunities. Control systems composed of an interconnected collection of standardized parts makes distributed processing a realistic possibility. Unfortunately, current strategies to supporting software on such systems have a number of critical drawbacks. Many existing approaches rely on centralized control strategies, fail to support fault tolerance in the face of failures among processing nodes or communications links, and fail to robustly support live addition or removal of nodes from a running network. In this context, failure of a single element means failure of the entire system. This thesis describes research to extend the Dataflow Architecture Real-time Kernel (DARK) to support distributed, fault-tolerant execution of control algorithms for power electronics control systems. An appropriate scheme for fault-tolerant scheduling of processes on distributed processing nodes is described, added to DARK, and evaluated. Literature indicates that fault-tolerant multiprocessor scheduling for hard real-time tasks with task precedence constraints is an NP-hard problem. The new system is based on an off-line fault-tolerant scheduling strategy that generates a static schedule of tasks for each processing unit to follow. This algorithm handles both the task precedence constraints and the constraints imposed by the underlying network protocol(DRPESNET). Modifications to the underlying daisy-chained, packet-switched, time-triggered ring network protocol to support communications fault tolerance and plug-and-play addition or removal of live nodes from an existing control system are also described. / Master of Science

High-performance variable-speed drives, such as PMSM and BLDC, rely on instantaneous torque control. Over the years, several strategies have been investigated in this domain, with the prominent strategies being field-oriented control and direct torque control. Regardless of the strategy employed, a precise rotor position during operation is an essential requirement. While a wide range of sensing technologies to monitor the rotor position have been employed, industries at large presently focus on Hall effect sensors for this application because they are highly cost-effective, low maintenance, noninvasive, and occupy very little space compared to its alternatives. However, the downside of using Hall effect sensors is their low accuracy. In particular, in the application of handheld battery-powered tools, output signals are affected by vibrations and harmonics from the electromagnetic field. Approaches that are being investigated to reduce or eliminate this noise from the signals can be broadly categorized into 1) installation position optimization, 2) filter methods, and 3) measurement model methods. As they are widely cited and easy to implement in the application of handheld battery-powered tools, four filter structures, namely, ANF with PLL, only PLL, SFE, and SFE with PLL, have been investigated in this thesis. This thesis evaluated the filter’s performance when applied to a real-world application of battery-powered tools. The filters were evaluated for their ability to preserve fundamental frequency components and reject harmonic content up to the 5th order. Visual inspections of Lissajous curves, rotor angle curves and generated reference signals provided insights into peculiarities during operation. Operations were categorized into four scenarios to facilitate the examination of filter response during acceleration and steady state in forward and reverse directions. Only performances of ANFPLL and SFE-PLL proved to be satisfactory with some limitations. The SFE filter yielded insignificant results which could be attributed to a lack of feedback mechanism. While the findings presented in this thesis contribute to the understanding of the viability of filter applications in batterypowered tools, additional testing is imperative. This entails the conversion of filter structures into algorithms suitable  for integration within software frameworks, ensuring their practical applicability and efficacy in real-world scenarios. / Högpresterande frekvensomriktare, såsom Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM) och Brushless DC Electric Motor (BLDC), förlitar sig på momentan vridmomentkontroll. Under årens lopp har flera strategier undersökts inom detta område, där de framträdande strategierna är fältorienterad kontroll och direkt vridmomentkontroll. Oavsett vilken strategi som används är en exakt rotorposition under drift ett väsentligt krav. Medan ett brett utbud av avkänningstekniker för att övervaka rotorns position har använts, fokuserar industrier i stort på Hall-effektsensorer för denna applikation eftersom de är mycket kostnadseffektiva, låga underhållskostnader, ickeinvasiva och upptar mycket lite utrymme jämfört med dess alternativ. Men nackdelen med att använda Hall-effektsensorer är deras låga noggrannhet. I synnerhet vid tillämpning av handhållna batteridrivna verktyg påverkas utsignalerna av vibrationer och övertoner från det elektromagnetiska fältet. Tillvägagångssätt som undersöks för att minska eller eliminera detta brus från signalerna kan brett kategoriseras i 1) installationspositionsoptimering, 2) filtermetoder och 3) mätmodellmetoder. Eftersom de är allmänt citerade och lätta att implementera i tillämpningen av handhållna batteridrivna verktyg, fyra filterstrukturer, nämligen Adaptive Notch Filter (ANF) med Phase Locked Loop (PLL), endast PLL, Synchronous Frequency Extractor (SFE) och SFE med PLL, har undersökts i denna avhandling. Denna avhandling utvärderade filtrets prestanda när det tillämpades på en verklig tillämpning av batteridrivna verktyg. Filtren utvärderades med avseende på förmågan att bevara grundfrekvenskomponenten och avvisa övertonsinnehåll upp till 5:e ordningen. Visuella inspektioner av Lissajous-kurvor, rotorvinkelkurvor och genererade referenssignaler gav insikter om egenheter under drift. Operationer kategoriserades i fyra scenarier för att underlätta undersökning av filterrespons under acceleration och stationärt tillstånd i framåt- och bakåtriktning. Endast prestanda av ANF-PLL och SFE-PLL visade sig vara tillfredsställande med vissa begränsningar. SFE-filtret gav obetydliga resultat som kunde tillskrivas bristen på återkopplingsmekanism. Även om resultaten som presenteras i denna avhandling bidrar till förståelsen av användbarheten av filtertillämpningar  i batteridrivna verktyg, är ytterligare tester absolut nödvändiga. Detta innebär omvandling av filterstrukturer till algoritmer lämpliga för integration inom mjukvaruramverk, vilket säkerställer deras praktiska tillämpbarhet och effektivitet i verkliga scenarier.

Wireless Sensor Networks(WSNs) have gained a lot of attention because of their potential to immerse deeper into people' lives. The applications of WSNs range from small home environment networks to large habitat monitoring. These highly diverse scenarios impose different requirements on WSNs and lead to distinct design and implementation decisions. This thesis presents an optimization framework for WSN design which selects a proper set of protocols and number of nodes before a practical network deployment. A Genetic Algorithm(GA)-based Sensor Network Design Tool(SNDT) is proposed in this work for wireless sensor network design in terms of performance, considering application-specific requirements, deployment constrains and energy characteristics. SNDT relies on offine simulation analysis to help resolve design decisions. A GA is used as the optimization tool of the proposed system and an appropriate fitness function is derived to incorporate many aspects of network performance. The configuration attributes optimized by SNDT comprise the communication protocol selection and the number of nodes deployed in a fixed area. Three specific cases : a periodic-measuring application, an event detection type of application and a tracking-based application are considered to demonstrate and assess how the proposed framework performs. Considering the initial requirements of each case, the solutions provided by SNDT were proven to be favourable in terms of energy consumption, end-to-end delay and loss. The user-defined application requirements were successfully achieved.