bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
КОНЦЕПТУАЛЬНІ ПІДХОДИ ДО ПРОЕКТУВАННЯ ОСВІТНЬОГО ІНФОРМАЦІЙНО-КОМУНІКАЦІЙНОГО СЕРЕДОВИЩА
Authors: Lopushynskyi Ivan , Durman Olena
Published: May 2019

У статті розглядаються підходи до вдосконалення організаційного механізму управління освітньою галуззю.
Визначено, що на сьогодні існує некомфортний стан управління через недостатню кількість інформації про діяльність ЗВО або про значний час, потрібний для її отримання. Для ліквідації такого стану пропонується застосовувати підходи, засоби та інструменти, що їх пропонують сучасні інформаційно-комунікаційні технології. Так, для оптимізації процесів ухвалення управлінських рішень пропонується застосовувати підходи теорії ухвалення рішень та проектування і створення відповідних інформаційних систем. Зв’язки розподіляються на суб’єктно-об’єктні (прямі), об’єктно-суб’єктні (зворотні), а також суб’єктно-суб’єктно та об’єктні-об’єктні. Зважаючи на те що успіх управлінської діяльності певною мірою залежить від дотримання системного принципу зворотного зв’язку інформаційних потоків, його сутність полягає у зв’язку між отриманим ефектом та управлінським впливом.
Для підвищення якості та швидкості ухвалення управлінських рішень в освітній галузі пропонується формування єдиного освітнього інформаційно-комунікаційного середовища, а також використання інформаційних технологій в освітній галузі. Автором зроблено висновки що дальші розробки можуть бути спрямовані на вивчення та вдосконалення механізмів державного управління освітньою галуззю через децентралізацію та дерегуляцію державного управління з метою підвищення його ефективності.
Це дасть змогу поліпшити взаємодію різних рівнів управління освітньою галуззю як по вертикалі, так і по горизонталі. Крім того, пропонується також поширити цей підхід і на інші сфери державного управління.
UPPER TRIASSIC TO LOWER JURASSIC SHALLOW-WATER CARBONATES NORTH OF LAKE SHKODRA (NW ALBANIA, ALBANIAN ALPS ZONE): PART OF THE ADRIATIC CARBONATE PLATFORM BASEMENT
Authors: Gawlick Hans-Jürgen , Schlagintweit Felix
Published: May 2019

The palaeogeographic reconstruction of the Adriatic Carbonate Platform and its continuation to the south represents a helpful tool to understand the Mesozoic palaeogeography of the Dinarides–Albanides–Hellenides oro-genic system. In the present paper poorly known Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) shallow-water car-bonates from the Shkodra area in northwest Albania (external Albanides; Albanian Alps zone) were investigated, dat-ed mainly by larger benthic foraminifera. The microfossil associations as well as litho- and microfacies characteristics are equivalent to contemporaneous shallow-water carbonate successions of the Adriatic Carbonate Platform basement to the NW (in the High Karst zone). As a result of our study we clearly see a continuation of the Adriatic Carbonate Platform from the Dinarides to the Albanides. In the area north of Lake Shkodra no Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic hemipelagic sedimentary rocks, which could be a possible connection between the Budva Unit to the NW and the Cukali Unit to the SW, were detected.
Logros en materia de recursos humanos de la Dirección General de Carrera Administrativa, DIGECA: 2009-2011
Authors: Jiménez Peralta Mariela
Published: May 2019

Documenta la evolución del fundamento jurídico de la carrera administrativa en Panamá, desde sus inicios hasta la actualidad, finalizando con una breve puntualización de los logros alcanzados durante el período 2009 - 2011.
El Barómetro de la Profesionalización del Empleo Público en Centroamérica y República Dominicana
Authors: Regidor-Barboza Harys
Published: May 2019

Se revisan los antecedentes metodológicos que dieron origen a la creación del barómetro de la profesionalización del empleo público y sus principales resultados en Centroamérica, Panamá y República Dominicana. El informe, muestra una tendencia heterogénea y altamente variable con una serie de inconsistencias claves a lo interno de los estados, que se traducen entre otros aspectos, en condiciones desfavorables para la gobernabilidad y la gobernanza
Creando desarrollo a través de los Consejos de Competitividad. El caso de los Consejos de Competitividad Regional en Costa Rica
Authors: Rodríguez Vives Jorge
Published: May 2019

La competitividad que es un tema de vital importancia hoy en día, es un tema muy amplio que requiere acciones concretas para avanzar en la solución de los grandes problemas que atentan contra la competitividad nacional. El involucrar a los sectores municipal, gobierno central, al sector productivo, academia y los sectores sociales en la toma de decisiones en las regiones de cada país, es la única vía con la que se pueden concertar prioridades y lograr consensos que permitan ir generando hitos para el desarrollo en el corto, mediano y largo plazo.
Políticas públicas orientadas a la vinculación de empresas locales a cadenas globales de valor de firmas multinacionales de la electrónica localizadas en Jalisco, México.
Authors: Basulto Castillo Angélica
Published: May 2019

El presente artículo tiene como objetivo analizar las políticas de desarrollo industrial que han incidido en la dinámica, desarrollo y evolución del sector de la electrónica en México, para posteriormente examinar las iniciativas públicas y alianzas público-privadas que han reconfigurado la estructura productiva del sector de la electrónica en Jalisco y que, al mismo tiempo, han contribuido a la vinculación de empresas locales a cadenas globales de valor de firmas multinacionales del sector, de diferente capacidad productiva y nivel tecnológico.
Our Inaugural Issue
Authors: Taylor Norman E.
Published: May 2019

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Learning from Ontario’s municipal drug strategies: an implementation framework for reducing harm through coordinated prevention, enforcement, treatment, and housing
Authors: Piscitelli Anthony
Published: May 2019

Since 2001, when Vancouver completed its integrated drug strategy, other Canadian municipalities have begun to explore their role in addressing addictions issues. This article reviews reports from ten municipal drug strategies written in the Canadian province of Ontario to develop recommendations for practitioners wishing to implement their own drug strategy. Note that this paper’s focus is on implementation, and it does not seek to evaluate the underlying clinical practices involved in such strategies. All published reports from 10 municipal drug strategies in Ontario released between 2005 and 2015 were read and analyzed using thematic analysis. Similarities are found between the different strategies approaches to data gathering, the vision statements, the mission statements, and the principles of service. Each municipality was also found to focus on four pillars: prevention, treatment, enforcement, and harm reduction. Some municipalities added an additional pillar: integration, sustaining relationships, or housing. These pillars were used to frame the strategies recommendations. Ten questions for municipalities to consider in their own drug strategy consultations are recommended.
Building personal resilience in paramedic students
Authors: Anderson Gregory S. , Vaughan Adam D. , Mills Steven
Published: May 2019

The present study examined the impact of a 6- to 8-hour, self-paced online resiliency training program to help students training to be Primary Care Paramedics (PCP) mitigate the risks associated with working in a trauma informed work setting. Of the 138 participants, 88 were male and 30 were female, with a mean age of 25.5 years. Of these, 81 students participated in the experimental group (who took the course), and 57 in the control group. Baseline demographic results were examined using bivariate comparisons between the control and experimental, and all were found to be statistically insignificant at p < 0.05 which suggests that there were no differences between the two groups on the pre-test demographic variables. Prior to the intervention there were no significant differences in total resilience or any of the sub-scales (selfreliance, meaningfulness, equanimity, perseverance, and existential aloneness). Following the resiliency training and the practicum experience, the experimental group scored better in total resilience and each of the sub-scores (p < 0.05) except meaningfulness. Results suggest that developing skills to mitigate and manage workplace trauma can reduce or help mitigate the negative impact of exposure to trauma and potentially reduce the risk of developing trauma related mental health problems which may impact the well-being and quality of life of students once employed as a paramedic.
Senior officer and recruiter views on “big topics” in policing for new recruits
Authors: Kalyal Hina , Peladeau Hillary , Huey Laura
Published: May 2019

Along with a focus on adopting more proactive approaches due to the changing nature of crime, police organizations today are also faced with the task of attracting and retaining a dynamic and flexible work force. The present study, based on semi-structured interviews with 12 recruiters and 21 senior police officers from police agencies across Ontario, seeks to determine whether these officers find the knowledge of new policing models useful for the professional development of incoming recruits. Despite the exploratory nature of the study, the results highlight the importance of the knowledge of “big topics” in policing prior to joining the service. Not only will such knowledge be useful for future recruits in developing a clear understanding of the challenges and realities of modern policing, but it will also lead to time and cost saving in terms of training and development.
A Hub intervention in Surrey, Canada: learning from people at risk
Authors: Rezansoff Stefanie N. , Moniruzzaman Akm , Yang Wei Xiao , Somers Julian M.
Published: May 2019

Co-occurring health and public safety concerns involving mental illness, substance use, and homelessness are increasingly prevalent challenges for policymakers in cities worldwide. The Hub model is a roundtable process where the combined resources of diverse agencies are used to mitigate urgent risk of crime, victimization, illness and death, by establishing immediate connections with appropriate services and supports. Initiated in Scotland, the model has been replicated in more than 60 communities across Canada since 2012. In November 2105, the Surrey Mobilization and Resiliency Table (SMART) became the first Hub in British Columbia. Little peer-reviewed research has examined the impact of Hub inter-ventions from a client perspective. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 16 SMART clients and analyzed their responses thematically. We also examined demographic- and intervention-related characteristics reported in the SMART database. Participants described positive experiences with SMART service providers, and commented that the intervention was effective at meeting relatively circumscribed needs. However, most clients reported complex and mutually exacer-bating health and social conditions, and expressed the need for ongoing structured support (e.g., Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)). Our results emphasize the beneficial role played by SMART’s coordinated, real-time approach. They also indicate demand for social policies that include substantial and enduring forms of support to prevent crises and promote community safety.
Themes of the upcoming LEPH2018 Conference
Authors: Crofts Nick
Published: May 2019

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Government under pressure: investing in better outcomes through social impact bonds
Authors: Hodzic Sandra
Published: May 2019

With shrinking resources and declining federal transfers, provincial governments across Canada are forced to provide increased levels of supports to vulnerable individuals with decreasing resources (Janssen & Estevez, 2013). Governments continue to face obstacles in meeting the needs of vulnerable populations such as children, single parents, and those who are homeless, to name a few. Manitoba, for instance, faces demographic challenges related to an influx of newcomers who are seeking refuge, resettlement, and housing supports, an aging baby boomer population that will need end-of-life supports, as well as a growing number of children in government care. Instead of funding programs based on their activities and outcomes, this paper presents outcomes-based financing, such as the social impact bond, that reward service providers who are able to demonstrate proof of outcomes and can show how the intervention improved the lives of the individuals it was meant to serve. Under a social impact bond, government engages non-traditional partners in the private and non-for-profit sectors, and the community as a whole becomes part of the solution to challenging social problems.
Setting realistic expectations: The narrow use-case for Social Impact Bonds
Authors: Giacomantonio Chris
Published: May 2019

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Counseling Theories and their Application in the Context of Schools
Authors: Karuru James Kabiro
Published: May 2019

Adolescence is a very trying moment in ones’ life. Many people fail to understand adolescence and in some states, it is termed as a disease. Most adolescents in the Kenyan society are in high schools. At this stage in life, a lot of changes occur in their bodies, a phenomenon that leaves them with more questions about who they really are. For them to negotiate this stage effectively, they need both parental and professional help. Bearing in mind that they spend most of their time in school, the schools have a duty to provide a comprehensive program aimed at helping the adolescents navigate this stage in the right way. This article, thus, sets out to intensively look at the overwhelming issues in adolescence stages, from a theoretical perspective by using the common counselling theories. In its design and methodology, the researcher will also draw from history to effectively address adolescence concerns; and eventually attempt to put it in the current situation in his own national context, and especially with regard to the Kenyan schools. In so doing, the article will attempt to explore ways that may be used to help them understand themselves better. In turn, this hopefully help the adolescents in dealing with their studies and social issues in a better way. It will also help caregivers in these shores.
NICER Observations of the 2018 Outburst of XTE J1810−197
Authors: Güver Tolga , Göğüş Ersin , Vurgun Eda , Enoto Teruaki , Gendreau Keith C. , Sakamoto Takanori , Gotthelf Eric V. , Arzoumanian Zaven , Guillot Sebastien , Jaisawal Gaurava K. , Malacaria Christian , Majid Walid A.
Published: May 2019

We present the earliest available soft X-ray observations of XTE J1810−197, the prototypical transient magnetar, obtained 75–84 days after its 2018 outburst with the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer. Using a series of observations covering eight days we find that its decreasing X-ray flux is well described by either a blackbody plus power law or a two-blackbody spectral model. The 2–10 keV flux of the source varied from (1.206 ± 0.007) × 10−10 to

, a decrease of about 7% within our observations and 44% from that measured 7–14 days after the outburst with NuSTAR. We confirm that the pulsed fraction and spin pulse phase of the neutron star are energy dependent up to at least 8 keV. Phase-resolved spectroscopy of the pulsar suggests magnetospheric variations relative to the line of sight.
Why Do Torus-unstable Solar Filaments Experience Failed Eruptions?
Authors: Zhou 周 Zhenjun 振军 , Cheng Xin , Zhang Jie , Wang Yuming , Wang Dong , Liu Lijuan , Zhuang Bin , Cui Jun
Published: May 2019

We study the magnetic field and 3D configuration of 16 filament eruptions during 2010 July–2013 February in order to investigate the factors that control the success and/or failure of solar eruptions. All of these events, i.e., eruptions that failed to be ejected and become coronal mass ejections, have filament maximum heights exceeding 100 Mm. The magnetic field of filament source regions is approximated by a potential field extrapolation method. The filament 3D configuration is reconstructed from three vantage points by the observations of Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory Ahead/Behind and Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft. We calculate the decay index at the apex of these failed filaments and find that in seven cases, their apex decay indexes exceed the theoretical threshold (n
crit = 1.5) of the torus instability (TI). We further determine the orientation change or rotation angle of each filament top during the eruption. Finally, the distribution of these events in the parameter space of rotation angle versus decay index is established. Four distinct regimes in the parameter space are empirically identified. We find that all the torus-unstable cases (decay index n > 1.5) have large rotation angles ranging from 50° to 130°. The possible mechanisms leading to the rotation and failed eruption are discussed. These results imply that, in addition to the TI, the rotation motion during the eruption may also play a significant role in solar eruptions.
Élèves en guerre dans la Picardie des « années rouges » (1914-1919)
Authors: Cahon Julien
Published: May 2019

Cet article s’inscrit dans le sillage de recherches récentes sur les conséquences du premier conflit mondial sur l’institution scolaire et ses acteurs. Dans un cadre défini, la Picardie, territoire stratégique, traversé par le front et en partie occupé, il interroge la guerre vécue par les élèves, en dépassant le discours tenu par les autorités locales et nationales, qui s’efforcent de maintenir coûte que coûte une vie scolaire « normale » dans un contexte contraint. Pourtant le conflit introduit de multiples ruptures dans la scolarité des élèves. Ces derniers, qui font l’expérience de la guerre dans le cadre scolaire, ne peuvent plus aller à l’école comme avant. Les atteintes aux bâtiments scolaires, les multiples interruptions des activités scolaires, le manque de personnel, la proximité des combats et les difficultés quotidiennes des familles perturbent grandement la scolarité des élèves. Après l’armistice, ils ne retrouvent que progressivement le chemin de l’école, dans un paysage scolaire encore marqué par le conflit, à la fin duquel les élèves auront aussi payé un lourd tribut.
Optimizing E-Learning Cognitive Ergonomics Based on Structural Analysis of Dynamic Responses
Authors: Chorfi Henda Ouertani , Al-hudhud Ghada
Published: May 2019

Smart Assistive Technologies (SAT) can be a powerful tool in supporting education environments and inclusion for learners with visual/hearing impairments. For example, while captions in videos are a necessity for deaf users, audio reading is inevitable for blind ones. Including such technologies into a smart e-learning environment provide huge opportunities to customize the content presentation to needs and ability of learners. Despite the number of models being introduced during the last decade, acceptance model and behavioral model are, yet, exhibiting design drawbacks for learners with visual and hearing impairments. Meanwhile, the e-learning initiatives in the universities have paid great efforts in order to optimize usability of conventional e-learning systems. However, optimizing assistive e-learning systems is not covered in the recent research. Central to e-learning optimization is the learners’ realization problem; in terms of the size of gap between learners’ expectations and real interaction measures. This paper presents a study of measure the usability of assistive e-learning systems and modeling better interaction based on adjusted Fitt’s Law to consider time of movement for assistive technologies embedded in e-learning systems. The proposed usability evaluation considers the hardness of mental operations during e-learning various activities.
Talent management in the South African construction industry
Authors: Shikweni Sydwell , Schurink Willem , Van Wyk Rene
Published: May 2019

Orientation: The South African construction industry is constrained by the shortage of a skilled workforce due to global competition and insufficient graduate output. There is a need to evolve attract and retain the most valuable talent.Research purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate talent management in a prominent South African internationally operating construction company. The objective is to develop a framework for enhancement of talent management practices.Motivation for the study: The South African construction industry’s inability to retain talent, hampers global competitiveness and productivity. Talent shortages need to be addressed at a strategic level to remain competitive.Research approach/design and method: A qualitative research approach examined a single South African construction organisation in the Gauteng Province. Grounded theory was used to analyse data generated from interviews, participant observations and company documents.Main findings: Firstly, talent management in the construction industry supposes mutual actions from the organisation and its talented employees. Secondly, internal enablers drive business outcomes by in alignment with a well-crafted strategy. Thirdly, a regulatory framework should acknowledge labour market dynamics and diversity. Fourthly, internal and external enablers should be taken into consideration. Finally, effective implementation of talent management practices yields talent sustainability and competitiveness.Practical/managerial implications: The two conceptual frameworks developed indicate: (1) key factors that play a role in talent management, and (2) the interface between talented employees and the organisation.Contributions/value-add: The findings provide two proposed frameworks that could guide leadership to devise an enabling global competitive talent management environment in the construction industry.
Теорема Поста для сильно зависимых $n$-арных полугрупп
Authors: Cheremushkin Aleksandr Vasil'evich
Published: May 2019

С помощью аналога теоремы Глускина-Хоссу для сильно зависимых $n$-арных полугрупповых операций на конечном множестве доказывается аналог теоремы Поста о смежных классах. Доказана эквивалентность этих теорем. Тем самым показано, что в данном случае наблюдается полная аналогия случаю $n$-групп.
Fashioning Brazil
Authors: Kutesko Elizabeth
Published: May 2019

Examining the dynamics between subject, photographer, and viewer, Fashioning Brazil analyzes how Brazilians have appropriated and reinterpreted clothing influences from local and global cultures. Exploring the various ways in which Brazil has been fashioned by the pioneering scientific and educational magazine, National Geographic, the book encourages us to look beyond simplistic representations of exotic difference. Instead, it brings to light an extensive history of self-fashioning within Brazil, which has emerged through cross-cultural contact, slavery, and immigration.

Providing an in-depth examination of Brazilian dress and fashion practices as represented by the quasi-ethnographic gaze of National Geographic and National Geographic Brazil (the Portuguese language edition of the magazine, established in 2000), the book unpacks a series of case studies. Taking us from body paint to Lycra, via loincloths and bikinis, Kutesko frames her analysis within the historical, cultural, and political context of Latin American interactions with the United States.

Exploring how dress can be used to manipulate identity and disrupt expectations, Fashioning Brazil examines readers’ sensory engagements with an iconic magazine, and sheds new light on key debates concerning global dress and fashion.
Costuming Cosplay
Authors: Winge Therèsa M.
Published: May 2019

Cosplay, short for "costume play", has grown from its origins at fan conventions into a billion-dollar global dress phenomenon. Costuming Cosplay takes us from elaborately crafted DIY costumes to online fandoms, examining how the practice of portraying fictional characters from popular culture through dress and performance has become a creative means of expressing and playing with different identities.

With an approach that ranges from admiration and role-play to gender performance, this is the first book to fully examine the subculture and costume of the Cosplay phenomenon. Drawing on extensive first-hand research at conventions across North America and Asia, Therèsa M. Winge invites us to explore how Cosplay functions as a meritocracy of creativity, escapism, and disguise, and offers a creative realm in which fantasy and new forms of socializing carry as much importance as costume.

Illustrated with color photographs of both celebrity and amateur Cosplayers, Costuming Cosplay is essential reading for students and scholars of fashion and costume, popular culture, anthropology, gender, and media studies, as well as global players and fans of Cosplay.
Muslim Rule in Medieval India
Authors: Ahmed Fouzia Farooq
Published: May 2019

The book establishes marriage as a pervasive idiom for the construction of collective identity in Syria, which is appropriated by individuals, sects, states and intergovernmental organizations alike. Its conclusions are relevant to scholars of Middle East studies, sectarianism, anthropology and politics.”
Fashion History
Authors: Welters Linda , Lillethun Abby
Published: May 2019

Fashion History: A Global View proposes a new perspective on fashion history. Arguing that fashion has occurred in cultures beyond the West throughout history, this groundbreaking book explores the geographic places and historical spaces that have been largely neglected by contemporary fashion studies, bringing them together for the first time.

Reversing the dominant narrative that privileges Western Europe in the history of dress, Welters and Lillethun adopt a cross-cultural approach to explore a vast array of cultures around the globe. They explore key issues affecting fashion systems, ranging from innovation, production, and consumption to identity formation and the effects of colonization. Case studies include the cross-cultural trade of silk textiles in Central Asia, the indigenous dress of the Americas and of Hawai'i, the cosmetics of the Tang Dynasty in China, and stylistic innovation in sub-Saharan Africa. Examining the new lessons that can be deciphered from archaeological findings and theoretical advancements, the book shows that fashion history should be understood as a global phenomenon, originating well before and beyond the fourteenth century European court, which is continually, and erroneously, cited as fashion's birthplace.

Providing a fresh framework for fashion history scholarship, Fashion History: A Global View will inspire inclusive dress narratives for students and scholars of fashion, anthropology, and cultural studies.
House of Fashion
Authors: Berry Jess
Published: May 2019

Since the beginnings of haute couture, when Charles Fredrick Worth established his Maison in 1858, the interior has been an important backdrop to the spectacle of fashion. This book is the first to primarily focus on the significant interplay between fashion and the modern interior at a time when these two professions dedicated to adornment and display were developing.

Focusing particularly on the period from 1860 to the 1960s, this book traces how noteworthy haute-couture designers, including Paul Poiret, Madeleine Vionnet, Elsa Schiaparelli, Coco Chanel, and Christian Dior, leveraged both commercial spaces and domestic interiors in an effort to enhance their artistic identities and publicize their credentials as connoisseurs of style. Further, it sets out the links between these couturiers and modern architects and designers, including Louis Süe, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Eileen Gray, and Jean-Michel Frank among others. It argues that these collaborations cultivated a level of taste and style that enabled the integration of luxurious lifestyles and fashionable dress to form new modern identities for practitioners and their clientele alike.

The book adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of fashion’s interiors that appeared as photographs, advertisements, paintings, and illustrations. Drawing on critical theory, social history, and gender politics, along with theoretical interpretations of fashion and the interior, it will argue that the salon, the atelier, the boutique, and the home provided a spectacular setting for the performance of fashion that would enhance the couturier’s public image and cultivate an aura of exclusivity for their labels—a system that continues to have resonance for contemporary fashion.

Since Charles Fredrick Worth established his luxurious Maison de Couture in 1858, the interior has played a crucial role in the display of fashion. House of Fashion provides a full historical account of the interplay between fashion and the modern interior, demonstrating how they continue to function as a site for performing modern, gendered identities for designers and their clientele alike. In doing so, it traces how designers including Poiret, Vionnet, Schiaparelli, and Dior used commercial spaces and domestic interiors to enhance their credentials as connoisseurs of taste and style.

Taking us from the early years of haute couture to the luxury fashion of the present day, Berry explores how the salon, the atelier, and the boutique have allowed fashion to move beyond the aesthetics of dress, to embrace the visual seduction of the theatrical, the artistic, and the exotic. From the Art Deco allure of Coco Chanel’s Maison to the luminous spaces of contemporary flagship stores, House of Fashion sets out fashion’s links with key figures in architecture and design, including Louis Süe, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Eileen Gray, and Jean-Michel Frank. Drawing on photographs, advertisements, paintings, and illustrations, this interdisciplinary study examines how fashionable interiors have shaped our understanding of architecture, dress, and elegance.
Fashion Film
Authors: Rees-Roberts Nick
Published: May 2019

The moving image has become a key marketing tool for luxury fashion, central in enabling brands to shape their visual codes and extend their brand awareness. Fashion Film is the first detailed study of the shifting shape of fashion imagery in the digital age, investigating the role of the moving image in the promotion, communication and spectacle of contemporary fashion. Combining interdisciplinary analysis of cinema and digital culture, this ground-breaking book traces the emergence of fashion film in the 21st century through its historical roots in pre-digital forms of photography, experimental cinema, mass-media advertising and documentary film-making, right up to today’s visual spread of contemporary fashion on video blogs, online magazines and live-streamed catwalk shows.

Examining collaborations between fashion designers and pioneering image-makers such as Guy Bourdin, Jean-Paul Goode, William Klein and Nick Knight, the book highlights the critical tension between the fashion film conceived as a creative endeavour and as commercial enterprise. Fashion Film also includes a parallel focus on factual representations of fashion through the recent rise of documentary fashion film that goes behind the scenes to follow the processes and personalities involved in making fashion.

Accessible and well-illustrated, Fashion Film will appeal to students and scholars of fashion, film, media, photography, celebrity, sociology and cultural studies.
STUDY OF RIVER CHANNEL MIGRATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF POTENTIAL SUGARCANE CULTIVATION AREA IN THE MOHANA-MACHELI WATERSHED USING REMOTE SENSING
Authors: Neupane D. , Gyawali P. , Tamang D.
Published: May 2019

Abstract. Channel migration becomes the main characteristic of major rivers of Mohana-Macheli watershed of western Nepal. Study of river channel migration of major rivers of watershed using freely available remote sensing show that the channel has shifted to as high as 1000 meters from the original river path over the span of 9 years (2009–2017). The channel migration directly affects the land use and it has direct effect on the flood plain settlements of the study area. Cultivation of sugarcane in sand area is one of the mitigating measures of flood effects and prevent river bank erosion. The study shows that the area of sand is changing disproportionately in the region. This paper presents an enhanced change detection method of river channel migration using remotely sensed images and identification of sand area using classification and interpretation technique.
MODELLING UNCERTAINTY OF SINGLE IMAGE INDOOR LOCALISATION USING A 3D MODEL AND DEEP LEARNING
Authors: Acharya D. , Singha Roy S. , Khoshelham K. , Winter S.
Published: May 2019

Abstract. Many current indoor localisation approaches need an initial location at the beginning of localisation. The existing visual approaches to indoor localisation perform a 3D reconstruction of the indoor spaces beforehand, for determining this initial location, which is challenging for large indoor spaces. In this research, we present a visual approach for indoor localisation that is eliminating the requirement of any image-based reconstruction of indoor spaces by using a 3D model. A deep Bayesian convolutional neural network is fine-tuned with synthetic images generated from a 3D model to estimate the camera pose of real images. The uncertainty of the estimated camera poses is modelled by sampling the outputs of the Bayesian network fine-tuned with synthetic images. The results of the experiments indicate that a localisation accuracy of 2 metres can be achieved using the proposed approach.
PORTABLE IMAGE-BASED HIGH PERFORMANCE MOBILE MAPPING SYSTEM IN UNDERGROUND ENVIRONMENTS – SYSTEM CONFIGURATION AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION
Authors: Blaser S. , Nebiker S. , Wisler D.
Published: May 2019

Abstract. The progression in urbanization increases the need for different types of underground infrastructure. Consequently, infrastructure and life cycle management are rapidly gaining in importance. Mobile reality capturing systems and cloud-based services exploiting georeferenced metric 3D imagery are already extensively used for infrastructure management in outdoor environments. These services minimise dangerous and expensive field visits or measurement campaigns. In this paper, we introduce the BIMAGE Backpack, a portable image-based mobile mapping system for 3D data acquisition in indoor environments. The system consists of a multi-head panorama camera, two multi-profile laser scanners and an inertial measurement unit. With this system, we carried out underground measurement campaigns in the Hagerbach Test Gallery, located in Flums Hochwiese, Switzerland. For our performance evaluations in two different tunnel sections, we employed LiDAR SLAM as well as advanced image-based georeferencing. The obtained absolute accuracies were in the range from 6.2 to 7.4 cm. The relative accuracy, which for many applications is even more important, was in the range of 2–6 mm. These figures demonstrate an accuracy improvement of the subsequent image-based georeferencing over LiDAR SLAM by about an order of magnitude. The investigations show the application potential of image-based portable mobile mapping systems for infrastructure inventory and management in large underground facilities.
A STOCHASTIC APPROACH TO AUTOMATED RECONSTRUCTION OF 3D MODELS OF INTERIOR SPACES FROM POINT CLOUDS
Authors: Tran H. , Khoshelham K.
Published: May 2019

Abstract. Automated reconstruction of 3D interior models has recently been a topic of intensive research due to its wide range of applications in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction. However, generation of the 3D models from LiDAR data and/or RGB-D data is challenged by not only the complexity of building geometries, but also the presence of clutters and the inevitable defects of the input data. In this paper, we propose a stochastic approach for automatic reconstruction of 3D models of interior spaces from point clouds, which is applicable to both Manhattan and non-Manhattan world buildings. The building interior is first partitioned into a set of 3D shapes as an arrangement of permanent structures. An optimization process is then applied to search for the most probable model as the optimal configuration of the 3D shapes using the reversible jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo (rjMCMC) sampling with the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm. This optimization is not based only on the input data, but also takes into account the intermediate stages of the model during the modelling process. Consequently, it enhances the robustness of the proposed approach to inaccuracy and incompleteness of the point cloud. The feasibility of the proposed approach is evaluated on a synthetic and an ISPRS benchmark dataset.
HIGH-FREQUENCY 3D GEOMORPHIC OBSERVATION USING HOURLY TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING DATA OF A SANDY BEACH
Authors: Anders K. , Lindenbergh R. C. , Vos S. E. , Mara H. , de Vries S. , Höfle B.
Published: May 2019

Abstract. Geomorphic processes occur spatially variable and at varying magnitudes, frequencies and velocities, which poses a great challenge to current methods of topographic change analysis. For the quantification of surface change, permanent terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) can generate time series of 3D point clouds at high temporal and spatial resolution. We investigate how the temporal interval influences volume change observed on a sandy beach regarding the temporal detail of the change process and the total volume budget, on which accretion and erosion counteract. We use an hourly time series of TLS point clouds acquired over six weeks in Kijkduin, the Netherlands. A raster-based approach of elevation differencing provides the volume change over time per square meter. We compare the hourly analysis to results of a three- and six-week observation period. For the larger period, a volume increase of 0.3 m3/ m2 is missed on a forming sand bar before it disappears, which corresponds to half its volume. Generally, a strong relationship is shown between observation interval and observed volume change. An increase from weekly to daily observations leads to a five times larger volume change quantified in total. Another important finding is a temporally variable measurement uncertainty in the 3D time series, which follows the daily course of air temperature. Further experiments are required to fully understand the effect of atmospheric conditions on high-frequency TLS acquisition in beach environments. Continued research of 4D geospatial analysis methods will enable automatic identification of dynamic change and improve the understanding of geomorphic processes.
USING 3D MODELS TO GENERATE LABELS FOR PANOPTIC SEGMENTATION OF INDUSTRIAL SCENES
Authors: Nivaggioli A. , Hullo J. F. , Thibault G.
Published: May 2019

Abstract. Industrial companies often require complete inventories of their infrastructure. In many cases, a better inventory leads to a direct reduction of cost and uncertainty of engineering. While large scale panoramic surveys now allow these inventories to be performed remotely and reduce time on-site, the time and money required to visually segment the many types of components on thousands of high resolution panoramas can make the process infeasible. Recent studies have shown that deep learning techniques, namely deep neural networks, can accurately perform panoptic segmentation of things and stuff and hence be used to inventory the components of a picture. In order to train those deep architectures with specific industrial equipment, not available in public datasets, our approach uses an as-built 3D model of an industrial building to procedurally generate labels. Our results show that, despite the presence of errors during the generation of the dataset, our method is able to accurately perform panoptic segmentation on images of industrial scenes. In our testing, 80% of generated labels were correctly identified (non null intersection over union, i.e. true positive) by the panoptic segmentation, with great performance levels even for difficult classes, such as reflective heat insulators. We then visually investigated the 20% of true negative, and discovered that 80% were correctly segmented, but were counted as true negative because of errors in the dataset generation. Demonstrating this level of accuracy for panoptic segmentation on industrial panoramas for inventories also offers novel perspectives for 3D laser scan processing.
ON THE DERIVATION OF CROP HEIGHTS FROM MULTITEMPORAL UAV BASED IMAGERY
Authors: Becirevic D. , Klingbeil L. , Honecker A. , Schumann H. , Rascher U. , Léon J. , Kuhlmann H.
Published: May 2019

Abstract. In this paper, we investigate the usage of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to assess the crop geometry with special focus on the crop height extraction. Crop height is classified as a reliable trait in crop phenotyping and recognized as a good indicator for biomass, expected yield, lodging or crop stress. The current industrial standard for crop height measurement is a manual procedure using a ruler, but this method is considered as time consuming, labour intensive and subjective. This study investigates methods for reliable and rapid deriving of the crop height from high spatial, spectral and time resolution UAV data considering the influences of the reference surface and the selected crop height generation method to the final calculation. To do this, we performed UAV missions during two winter wheat growing seasons and generate point clouds from areal images using photogrammetric methods. For the accuracy assessment we compare UAV based crop height with ruler based crop height as current industrial standard and terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) based crop height as a reliable validation method. The high correlation between UAV based and ruler based crop height and especially the correlation with TLS data shows that the UAV based crop height extraction method can provide reliable winter wheat height information in a non-invasive and rapid way. Along with crop height as a single value per area of interest, 3D UAV crop data should provide some additional information like lodging area, which can also be of interest in the plant breeding community.
The Significance of Employability Training Courses According to Graduate Views: Empirical Research for Greece
Authors: Dimopoulos Andreas
Published: May 2019

There is a consensus that employability isn’t only gathering degrees and other qualifications but rather is a set of various factors such as possessing the right transferable skills, the knowledge of job market, the combination of personal attributes, the ongoing training, self presentation skills, networking and ego drive to navigate yourself effectively in a continuous changing world of work. On the other hand, there is an opinion in general that graduates have a remarkable problem to enter the job market for the first time. They don’t know how to search effectively for new job positions, how to present their skills and abilities towards the recruiters or employers and have no idea how to react in the interview process. Finally, employee candidates after graduation need help and consultancy to enter the job market.This study aims to search the role of training courses in enhancing candidates’ employability outcomes according to their opinion. For this purpose, an empirical research has been conducted in order to explore the view of the candidates’ about the importance of relative courses to enhance their employability. In particular we asked two hundreds and thirteen post graduates students in Greece about their opinion of the usefulness in participating and attaint such courses. Furthermore, combined we asked them how much they agree with particular statements that employability is more than having someone qualifications.Results show that employability training courses could contribute effectively in employability outcomes .Also participants agree to the statements that to be someone employable depends not only on their qualifications but also on other factors such as the effectiveness of utilizing job search methods, self promotion skills, networking etc.
“Famulier foo”: Wives, Male Subordinates, and Political Theory in the Merchant's Tale
Authors: Sidhu Nicole
Published: May 2019

Feminist theory has not addressed the way that Chaucer aligns his critique of a hierarchical marriage with a critique of medieval estates theory in the Merchant's Tale. Through an examination of the figure of Damian, as well as a series of literary and political referents within the tale, this article reveals how Chaucer invites his audience to apply the insights he elucidates on the failings of hierarchical marriage to the failings of medieval estates theory. Key to Chaucer's thought in this respect is the contrast between a vertical configuration of governance, in which a wise and good lord rules over obedient subordinates, and horizontal governance, in which decisions are negotiated as a compromise between the needs and desires of various stakeholders. Using the theory of intersectionality, the article reveals how ideas about marriage and those about how political and economic power is distributed exist in a mutually constitutive relationship.
Edith Wharton's “Coming Home”: Spinning a Good Yarn with Homeric Intent
Authors: Montgomery Maureen E.
Published: May 2019

This article offers an interpretation of Wharton's first war story in light of classical reception studies. For many First World War writers, the classics offered a way of articulating experiences of war. To date, scholars have not yet acknowledged Wharton's reworking of Homer's Odyssey, the archetypal story of a soldier returning home. I argue Wharton draws on the Odyssey to reinforce her position as an eyewitness to the war in France. She does so to enhance her authority as a noncombatant capable of producing a credible account of the war zone against the prejudices of gender and combat gnosticism. The first allusion to the Odyssey draws attention to the ability of Demodocus, the blind bard, to tell the story of the Trojan War as if (ironically) he had been an eyewitness. Wharton chooses a narrator who prides himself on dealing with factual knowledge, but even he is unable to say what actually happens at key moments of a journey to the war zone. With so many loose threads, Wharton succeeds in giving us a war story that captures the fog of war and the linguistic crisis, which hampers the articulation of experiences far beyond what an individual has heretofore encountered.
Theatrical Posture, Theatrical Style: Fluidity of Body and Mind in Widowers' Houses
Authors: Stowell-Kaplan Isabel
Published: May 2019

This article examines the relationship between posture and performance in Shaw's 1892 drama Widowers' Houses. It begins by outlining the distinctly legible melodramatic style so popular in the earlier nineteenth century, before placing Shaw's flexible and equivocal characters in the context of the “rigid moral distinctions” Michael Booth identifies in English Melodrama as central to the melodramatic genre. It then demonstrates how Shaw manipulates these well-worn conventions in Widowers' Houses; in so doing, this article argues, Shaw establishes new postures of flexibility, which in turn facilitate new styles of villainy.