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Cross-cultural validation of the profile of mood scale : evaluation of the psychometric properties of short screening versions
(2025) Schmalbach, Ileana; Schmalbach, Bjarne; Aghababa, Alireza; Brand, Ralf; Chang, Yu Kai; Çiftçi, Muhammet Cihat; Elsangedy, Hassan; Fernández Gavira, Jesús; Huang, Zhijian; Kristjánsdóttir, Hafrún; Mallia, Luca; Nosrat, Sanaz; Pesce, Caterina; Rafnsson, Daði; Medina Rebollo, Daniel; Timme, Sinika; Brähler, Elmar; Petrowski, Katja; Department of Sport Science; Department of Psychology
The Profile of Mood States (POMS) is one of the most widely applied scales for measuring mood. Considering the advantages of short scales and increased international research, the aim of the present study was to evaluate cross-culturally the psychometric properties of a short 16-item version of the POMS. Data were collected from 15,693 participants across 10 different countries worldwide. Initially, we identified the original versions of the POMS in various languages. Subsequently, we selected 16 items based on the previously validated short form (POMS-16) for analysis. Psychometric properties of the POMS were then evaluated in samples from each studied population for each language version. Confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to assess its invariance across age groups and gender, alongside reliability estimation. Most language versions of the POMS-16 showed a good fit with the four-factor model, except for the Chinese (traditional) and Turkish versions. Reliability was generally high, except for the Vigor subscale in a small subset of languages. Regarding measurement invariance, the majority of language versions were invariant across gender and age groups, except for the Farsi language version across gender, and the Chinese, Farsi, Finnish, and Turkish versions across age. These findings enhance the cross-cultural applicability of the POMS-16, contributing to its utility in diverse populations and thus enhancing the comparability of the results. In addition, we introduced the first versions of the POMS in Farsi, Finnish, and Icelandic.
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AI-based estimator for computational discovery and synthesis of customized microwave absorbing materials
(2023-09-07) Yadav, Ravi; Panwar, Ravi; Department of Engineering
This article investigates the viability of a deep neural network (DNN) for the computational discovery and synthesis of efficient microwave-absorbing materials and structures. A DNN is trained to tackle specific objectives in a constrained environment by utilizing the conventional forward and reverse approaches. In the forward approach, the DNN predicts various topologies of the absorbers and it is found to be effective in determining the stacking sequence of microwave-absorbing materials and their associated thicknesses. Designing a microwave absorber is observed to be exceptionally cumbersome utilizing a DNN if the material database increases unexpectedly. Following that, the solution is offered by addressing the reverse approach, in which a DNN is utilized to forecast the electromagnetic (EM) properties based on user-defined specifications. It is a convincing and simple method of designing thin and wideband customized absorbers. DNN prediction is authenticated by fabricating two distinct absorbers based on the frequency-dependent EM properties. Furthermore, the synthesized model is tested and validated with the response of the EM mixing model and microwave measurements. The suggested DNN strategy can effectively fix the issues in designing thin and broadband absorbers.
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An infrastructure for robotic applications as cloud computing services
(2014) Mouradian, Carla; Errounda, Fatima Zahra; Belqasmi, Fatna; Glitho, Roch; Department of Computer Science
Robotic applications are becoming ubiquitous. They are widely used in several areas (e.g., healthcare, disaster management, and manufacturing). However, their provisioning still faces several challenges such as cost and resource usage efficiency. Cloud computing is an emerging paradigm that may aid in tackling these challenges. It has three main facets: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). This paper focuses on the IaaS aspects of robotic applications as cloud computing services. It proposes an architecture that enables cost efficiency through virtualization and dynamic task delegation to robots, including robots that might belong to other clouds. Overlays and RESTful Web services are used as cornerstones. A prototype is built using LEGO Mindstorms NXT as the robotic platform, and JXTA as the overlay middleware. Related work is reviewed, the functional entities and interfaces of the architecture are described, and the prototype architecture is presented along with the implemented scenario.
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Continuous Location Statistics Sharing Algorithm with Local Differential Privacy
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018-07-02) Zahra, Fatima; Liu, Yan; Abe, Naoki; Liu, Huan; Pu, Calton; Hu, Xiaohua; Ahmed, Nesreen; Qiao, Mu; Song, Yang; Kossmann, Donald; Liu, Bing; Lee, Kisung; Tang, Jiliang; He, Jingrui; Saltz, Jeffrey; Department of Computer Science
Continuous sharing of location statistics produces valuable knowledge to understand important phenomena, such as popular places or pattern behaviors. Most importantly, data should be shared without jeopardizing users' privacy. Differential privacy becomes de-facto technique for private statistical data release. Much work focuses on the centralized setting where users send their original data to a trusted server. Then the server adds controlled noises to generate differentially private statistics. This centralized approach is vulnerable to attacks where an adversary may access the true data by attacking the trusted server. Local differential privacy neutralizes this type of attacks by allowing each user to obfuscate their data before it reaches the server for statistical analysis. In this paper, we propose an algorithm to share location statistics that leverages local differential privacy combined with w-event privacy. Our solution guarantees the user's privacy when continuously releasing statistics over infinite streams. Experimental evaluation on real-life data shows our solution with strong privacy guarantee.
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An Analysis of Differential Privacy Research in Location Data
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019-05) Errounda, Fatima Zahra; Liu, Yan; Department of Computer Science
Location data is becoming ubiquitous with the spread of smart devices, and social media geo-tagged feeds. However, sharing location data may lead to serious privacy risks that must not be overlooked. Differential privacy is the standard technique that provides strong privacy guarantees regardless of the adversary's side information. Usually, this is achieved by adding noise to the true result of the statistical query extracted from the data. However, a straight forward application of differential privacy to location data is not always possible. The growing interest in designing solutions to achieve differential privacy that take into account the characteristics of location data is evident from the substantial number of works done in this field. This paper briefly reviews research works done in differential privacy targeted toward location data from the data flow perspective, including the collection, aggregation, and mining. Our goal is to help newcomers to the field to better understand the state-of-the art by providing a research map that highlights the different challenges in designing frameworks, as well as novel approaches, that tackle the characteristics of location data. We identify multiple challenges to the application of differential privacy to location data, such as the calibration of the added noise to assure utility, finding the optimal spatial division to release the location aggregate per region while balancing privacy and utility. We also discuss the future directions concluded from the analysis.