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Individual and joint body movement assessed by wearable sensing as a predictor of attraction in speed dates

Vargas Quiros, J.D. (author), Kapcak, Oyku (author), Hung, H.S. (author), Cabrera Quiros, L.C. (author)

Interpersonal attraction is known to motivate behavioral responses in the person experiencing this subjective phenomenon. Such responses may involve the imitation of behavior, as in mirroring or mimicry of postures or gestures, which have been found to be associated with the desire to be liked by an interlocutor. Speed dating provides a...

journal article 2023

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Data-driven control of input-affine systems via approximate nonlinearity cancellation

Guo, M. (author), De Persis, Claudio (author), Tesi, Pietro (author)

We consider data-driven control of input-affine systems via approximate nonlinearity cancellation. Data-dependent semi-definite program is developed to characterize the stabilizer such that the linear dynamics of the closed-loop systems is stabilized and the influence of the nonlinear dynamics is decreased. Because of the additional...

journal article 2023

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Is it safe to be attractive?: Disentangling the influence of streetscape features on the perceived safety and attractiveness of city streets

Milias, V. (author), Sharifi Noorian, S. (author), Bozzon, A. (author), Psyllidis, A. (author)

City streets that feel safe and attractive motivate active travel behaviour and promote people’s well-being. However, determining what makes a street safe and attractive is a challenging task because subjective qualities of the streetscape are difficult to quantify. Existing evidence typically focuses on how different street features influence...

conference paper 2023

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Modelling the effect of spatial determinants on freight (trip) attraction: A spatially autoregressive geographically weighted regression approach

Reda, Abel Kebede (author), Tavasszy, Lorant (author), Gebresenbet, Girma (author), Ljungberg, David (author)

This paper investigates the effect of spatial and locational characteristics of establishments on freight (trip) attraction (FA/FTA) models. The authors estimated econometric models of FA and FTA as a function of the establishment attributes as well as the spatial and locational determinant variables, using establishment-level data collected...

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Approximating piecewise nonlinearities in dynamic systems with sigmoid functions: advantages and limitations

Martinelli, Cristiano (author), Coraddu, A. (author), Cammarano, Andrea (author)

In the industry field, the increasingly stringent requirements of lightweight structures are exposing the ultimately nonlinear nature of mechanical systems. This is extremely true for systems with moving parts and loose fixtures which show piecewise stiffness behaviours. Nevertheless, the numerical solution of systems with ideal piecewise...

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Using city-bike stopovers to reveal spatial patterns of urban attractiveness

Banet, Krystian (author), Naumov, Vitalii (author), Kucharski, R.M. (author)

We demonstrate how digital traces of city-bike trips may become useful to identify urban space attractiveness. We exploit their unique feature–stopovers: short, non-traffic-related stops made by cyclists during their trips. As we demonstrate with the case study of Kraków (Poland), when applied to a big dataset, meaningful patterns appear, with...

journal article 2022

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Feature preserving non-rigid iterative weighted closest point and semi-curvature registration

Tajdari, F. (author), Huysmans, T. (author), Yang, Y. (author), Song, Y. (author)

Preserving features of a surface as characteristic local shape properties captured e.g. by curvature, during non-rigid registration is always difficult where finding meaningful correspondences, assuring the robustness and the convergence of the algorithm while maintaining the quality of mesh are often challenges due to the high degrees of...

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Hormones in speed-dating: The role of testosterone and cortisol in attraction

van der Meij, Leander (author), Demetriou, A.M. (author), Tulin, Marina (author), Méndez, Ileana (author), Dekker, Peter (author), Pronk, Tila (author)

There is evidence that testosterone and cortisol levels are related to the attraction of a romantic partner; testosterone levels relate to a wide range of sexual behaviors and cortisol is a crucial component in the response to stress. To investigate this, we conducted a speed-dating study among heterosexual singles. We measured salivary...

journal article 2019

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Estimating Romantic, Social, and Sexual Attraction by Quantifying Bodily Coordination using Wearable Sensors

Kapcak, Oyku (author), Vargas Quiros, J.D. (author), Hung, H.S. (author)

In this paper we introduce a novel method of estimating romantic, social and sexual attraction between two people by quantifying their bodily coordination using wearable sensors in a speed-date setting. We developed simple synchrony and convergence features, inspired from the literature and specifically adapted to be extracted from...

conference paper 2019

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Robustness of attractors in tapping mode atomic force microscopy

Chandrashekar, A. (author), Belardinelli, P. (author), Staufer, U. (author), Alijani, F. (author)

In this work, we perform a comprehensive analysis of the robustness of attractors in tapping mode atomic force microscopy. The numerical model is based on cantilever dynamics driven in the Lennard–Jones potential. Pseudo-arc-length continuation and basins of attraction are utilized to obtain the frequency response and dynamical integrity of...

journal article 2019

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From landscape to mindscape: Spatial narration of touristic Amsterdam

Dai, T. (author), Zhuang, T. (author), Yan, J. (author), Zhang, Tong (author)

The cultural attributes of architecture in touristic cities are vital to city image building, city branding, and rebranding, as well as generating more economic profits for sustainable urban development, and protecting cultural sustainability. However, many studies on this theme focus on the singularity of architecture referring to its...

journal article 2018

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A Convolutional Neural Network-Based Model for Predicting The Perceived Attractiveness of Urban Places

Psyllidis, A. (author), Choiri, Hendra Hadhil (author)

An understanding of how people perceive attractive or unattractive places in cities is vitally important to urban planning and policy making. Given the subjective nature of human perception and the ambiguous character of attractiveness as an attribute of urban places, it is challenging to quantify and reliably assess the extent to which a place...

abstract 2018

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Revealing compactness of basins of attraction of multi-DoF dynamical systems

Brzeski, P. (author), Belardinelli, P. (author), Lenci, S. (author), Perlikowski, P. (author)

Global properties of Multi-Degrees-of-Freedom (M-DoF) systems, in particular phase space organization, are largely unexplored due to the computational challenge requested to build basins of attraction. To overcome this problem, various techniques have been developed, some trying to improve algorithms and to exploit high speed computing,...

journal article 2018

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Improving the global analysis of mechanical systems via parallel computation of basins of attraction

Belardinelli, P. (author), Lenci, Stefano (author)

Numerical integrations represent a time-consuming element in the long-term dynamics analysis of mechanical systems. This limits the resolution of the computations and the dimension of the system to be investigated numerically. In fact, even pushing memory resources to their thresholds, only few tools can deal with higher-dimensional systems....

journal article 2017

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Security vulnerability assessment of gas pipelines using discrete-time Bayesian network

Fakhravar, D. (author), Khakzad, N. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), Cozzani, Valerio (author)

Security of chemical and oil & gas facilities became a pressing issue after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, due to relevant quantities of hazardous substances that may be present in these sites. Oil & gas pipelines, connecting such facilities, might be potential targets for intentional attacks. The majority of methods addressing pipeline...

journal article 2017

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A fast sampling method for estimating the domain of attraction

Najafi, E. (author), Babuska, R. (author), Delgado Lopes, G.A. (author)

Most stabilizing controllers designed for nonlinear systems are valid only within a specific region of the state space, called the domain of attraction (DoA). Computation of the DoA is usually costly and time-consuming. This paper proposes a computationally effective sampling approach to estimate the DoAs of nonlinear systems in real time....

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Real-Time Insight in Geotechnical Risks: Monitoring during the Observational Method

Galenkamp, H.F. (author), Bosma, C.F. (author)

Designing challenges engineers to develop both economically attractive and safe designs. This might seem a paradox, but with the application of the observational method, wherein safety is checked by real-time monitoring, economic design and safety are united. The observational method is recently successfully applied in the Netherlands during the...

conference paper 2015

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Why them? Extracting intelligence about target selection from Zeus financial malware

Tajalizadehkhoob, S.T. (author), Asghari, H. (author), Ganan, C. (author), Van Eeten, M.J.G. (author)

conference paper 2014

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Impact of self-attraction and loading effects induced by shelf mass loading on projected regional sea level rise

Richter, K. (author), Riva, R.E.M. (author), Drange, H. (author)

We investigate the effect of self-attraction and loading (SAL) induced by the projected accumulation of sea water on shallow continental shelf areas. Using output from a climate model, we compute 21st century changes in regional steric sea surface height and find that steric changes are largest over the deep ocean and relatively small on the...

journal article 2013

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Design evaluation by combination of repeated evaluation technique and measurement of electrodermal activity

Carbon, C.C. (author), Michael, L. (author), Leder, H. (author)

Consumer product design needs design evaluation for obtaining information about consumers’ preferences and liking to optimize market success. Such evaluations are usually conducted in simple single-shot studies where consumers only once have to evaluate, for instance, the attractiveness of a design. However, innovative designs often break common...

journal article 2008