cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
What Does the Sky Tell Us About the Camera?
Creators: name: Jean-Francois  Lalonde
name: Narasimhan, Srinivasa G.
name: Efros, Alexei A
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As the main observed illuminant outdoors, the sky is a rich source of information about the scene. However, it is yet to be fully explored in computer vision because its appearance depends on the sun position, weather conditions, photometric and geometric parameters of the camera, and the location of capture. In this paper, we propose the use of a physically-based sky model to analyze the information available within the visible portion of the sky, observed over time. By ftting this model to an image sequence, we show how to extract camera parameters such as the focal length, and the zenith and azimuth angles. In short, the sky serves as a geometric calibration target. Once the camera parameters are recovered, we show how to use the same model in two applications: 1) segmentation of the sky and cloud layers, and 2) data-driven sky matching across different image sequences based on a novel similarity measure defined on sky parameters. This measure, combined with a rich appearance database, allows us to model a wide range of sky conditions.
Time Dependent Geometry in Massive Gravity
Creators: name: Heydarzade, Yaghoub
name: Rudra, Prabir
name: Pourhassan, Behnam
name: Faizal, Mir
name: Ali, Ahmed Farag
name: Darabi, Farhad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we will analyze a time dependent geometry in a massive theory of gravity. This will be done by analyzing Vaidya space-time in such a massive theory of gravity. As gravitational collapse is a time dependent system, we will analyze it using the Vaidya space-time in massive gravity. The Vainshtein and dRGT mechanisms are used to obtain a ghost free massive gravity, and construct such time dependent solutions. Singularities formed, their nature and strength will be studied in detail. We will also study the thermodynamical aspects of such a geometry by calculating the important thermodynamical quantities for such a system, and analyzing the thermodynamical behavior of such quantities.
description: 24 pages, 21 figures, Accepted for publication in JCAP
Song by Wang Min 6
Creators: name: Chirkova, Katia
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Ersu
subject: ers

description: 王敏唱尔苏歌曲。
description: Conforms to: doi:10.34847/cocoon.49aefa90-8c1f-3ba8-a099-0ebefc6a2aa7
Al crocevia tra i diritti delle diverse specie: a proposito degli xenotrapianti
Creators: name: Meola, Franca
Publisher: name: University of Trento
Year: 2019
Subjects: transplantations, xenografts, animal experimentation

description: The use of xenotransplantions, potentially useful in solving one of the most serious problems of clinical transplantology, ie the lack of organ donations, still raises a multitude of doubts. They concern not only the practicability of this technique, but above all the lawfulness of the use of animals for the improvement of the living conditions and well-being of the human being. Moreover, the legal problems of this new kind of transplantation are not less important. In particular, in this perspective, and in order to give an initial answer to the issues concerning the admissibility of xenotransplantations, the analysis focuses on the contents of Legislative Decree 4 March 2014 n. 26, that gives implementation to Directive 2010/63 on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes. It is in the transposition of the European act, in fact, that the Italian law-maker establishes the clear prohibition of any experimentation aimed, through the use of animals, to research on xenografts. This prohibition, however raises a number of critical observations. Indeed, it seems to be contrary to the interests of research, not very careful with regard to the prospects of treatment for the benefit of patients, consequent to the possible development of scientific knowledge on the subject, and also contradictory with respect to the purposes, although unavoidably pursued, of safeguarding the well-being of non-human living subjects subjected to experimental procedures.
description: BioLaw Journal - Rivista di BioDiritto, N° 1 (2019)
Webcam Clip Art: Appearance and Illuminant Transfer from Time-lapse Sequences
Creators: name: Jean-Francois  Lalonde
name: Efros, Alexei
name: Narasimhan, Srinivasa G.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Webcams placed all over the world observe and record the visual appearance of a variety of outdoor scenes over long periods of time. The recorded time-lapse image sequences cover a wide range of illumination and weather conditions -- a vast untapped resource for creating visual realism. In this work, we propose to use a large repository of webcams as a "clip art" library from which users may transfer scene appearance (objects, scene backdrops, outdoor illumination) into their own time-lapse sequences or even single photographs. The goal is to combine the recent ideas from data-driven appearance transfer techniques with a general and theoretically-grounded physically-based illumination model. To accomplish this, the paper presents three main research contributions: 1) a new, high-quality outdoor webcam database that has been calibrated radiometrically and geometrically; 2) a novel approach for matching illuminations across different scenes based on the estimation of the properties of natural illuminants (sun, sky, weather and clouds), the camera geometry, and illumination-dependent scene features; 3) a new algorithm for generating physically plausible high dynamic range environment maps for each frame in a webcam sequence.
Diritto animale, diritto degli animali e diritti degli animali. L’auspicio di un intervento riorganizzativo del legislatore tra esigenze sociali e necessità giuridiche di sistema
Creators: name: Settanni, Giuseppe
name: Ruggi, Manuela
Publisher: name: University of Trento
Year: 2019
Subjects: Animal law, Sentient beings, Animals, Movable property, Rights of animals

description: The article examines the most recent situations concerning animals law, trying to deepen the systematic inconsistencies which seem to underlie different interpretation difficulties, and attempting to outline the necessity of a general intervention of the legislator to completely regulate the matter.
description: BioLaw Journal - Rivista di BioDiritto, N° 1 (2019)
Regional Productivity Convergence: An Analysis of the Pulp and Paper Industries in U.S., Canada, Finland, and Sweden
Creators: name: Hussain, Md. Jakir
name: Bernard, Jean-Thomas
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: TFP convergence
multilateral TFP index
pulp and paper industry
translog cost function

description: In this paper we investigate the presence of productivity convergence in eight regional pulp and paper industries of U.S. and Canada over the period of 1971-2005. Expectation of productivity convergence in the pulp and paper industries of Canadian provinces and of the states of its southern neighbour is high since they are trading partners with fairly high level of exchanges in both pulp and paper products. Moreover, they share a common production technology that changed very little over the last century. We supplement the North-American regional data with national data for two Nordic countries, Finland and Sweden, which provides a scope to compare the productivity performances of four leading players in global pulp and paper industry. We find evidence in favour of the catch-up hypothesis among the regional pulp and paper industries of U.S. and Canada in our sample. The growth performance is at the advantage of Canadian provinces relative to their U.S. counterparts. However, it is not good enough to surpass the growth rates of this industry in the two Nordic countries.
Song by Wang Min 5
Creators: name: Chirkova, Katia
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Ersu
subject: ers

description: 王敏唱尔苏歌曲。
description: Conforms to: doi:10.34847/cocoon.49aefa90-8c1f-3ba8-a099-0ebefc6a2aa7
The impact of baryonic discs on the shapes and profiles of self-interacting dark matter halos
Creators: name: Sameie, Omid
name: Creasey, Peter
name: Yu, Hai-Bo
name: Sales, Laura V.
name: Vogelsberger, Mark
name: Zavala, Jesus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We employ isolated N-body simulations to study the response of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halos in the presence of the baryonic potentials. Dark matter self-interactions lead to kinematic thermalization in the inner halo, resulting in a tight correlation between the dark matter and baryon distributions. A deep baryonic potential shortens the phase of SIDM core expansion and triggers core contraction. This effect can be further enhanced by a large self-scattering cross section. We find the final SIDM density profile is sensitive to the baryonic concentration and the strength of dark matter self-interactions. Assuming a spherical initial halo, we also study evolution of the SIDM halo shape together with the density profile. The halo shape at later epochs deviates from spherical symmetry due to the influence of the non-spherical disc potential, and its significance depends on the baryonic contribution to the total gravitational potential, relative to the dark matter one. In addition, we construct a multi-component model for the Milky Way, including an SIDM halo, a stellar disc and a bulge, and show it is consistent with observations from stellar kinematics and streams.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures, submitted to MNRAS, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Out of the Closet and onto the Bookshelf: Lesbian Liberation in Elena Fortún's Oculto Sendero
Creators: name: Cybanski, Kara
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Lesbian literature
queer studies
Bildungsroman
Spain
Oculto Sendero
Elena Fortún

description: This paper investigates Elena Fortún's lesbian Bildunsroman titled Oculto Sendero, published posthumously in 2016. By engaging with queer theory and gender studies, I explore how the author revisits traditional gender roles in 1920s Spain through her protagonist. Then, I outline the new lesbian identity this character begins to adopt by the end of the novel. This paper aims to bring visibility to lesbian identities and desire while also highlighting Fortún‟s impact on the Spanish literary tradition. Trigger warning: sexual assault, homophobia, gender-based violence
Fermion mass hierarchy from nonuniversal abelian extensions of the Standard Model
Creators: name: Díaz, Carlos E.
name: Mantilla, S. F
name: Martinez, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A nonuniversal abelian extension $\mathrm{U(1)}_{X}$ free from chiral anomalies is introduced into the Standard Model (SM), in order to evaluate its suitability in addressing the fermion mass hierarchy (FMH) by using seesaw mechanisms (SSM). In order to break the electroweak symmetry, three Higgs doublets are introduced, which give mass at tree-level to the top and bottom quarks, and the muon lepton. With an electroweak singlet scalar field, the $U(1)_{X}$ symmetry is broken and the exotic particles acquire masses. The light particles in the SM obtain their masses via SSM and Yukawa couplings differences. Active neutrino masses are generated through inverse seesaw mechanisms (ISM). Additionally, the algebraic expressions for the mixing angles for quarks and leptons are also shown in the article. Keywords: Flavor Problem, Neutrino Physics, Extended Scalar Sectors, Beyond Standard Model, Fermion masses, Inverse seesaw Mechanism.
description: 11 pages, 3 tables
Song by Wang Min 8
Creators: name: Chirkova, Katia
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Ersu
subject: ers

description: 王敏唱尔苏歌曲。
description: Conforms to: doi:10.34847/cocoon.49aefa90-8c1f-3ba8-a099-0ebefc6a2aa7
Public Ethics and the Regulation of Corporate Political Activities in North America and Europe
Creators: name: Boucher, Maxime
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Public ethics
Corporate political activities
Democratic governance
Lobbying regulation

description: English Since 2000, an increasing number of countries – as well as EU supranational institutions – have adopted policies to regulate corporate political activities. This research investigates how European countries and EU institutions manage to define and regulate corporate political activities. The first part retraces key judicial and political decisions that led to the introduction of modern regulatory frameworks for corporate lobbying activities in North America and Europe. The second part compares the regulation of corporate lobbying, corporate donations and revolving-door hiring practices in European countries. In so doing, this research demonstrates the different approaches of EU member states to regulate corporate political activities. Français Depuis 2000, un nombre croissant de pays - ainsi que les institutions supranationales de l'UE - ont adopté des politiques visant à réglementer les activités politiques des entreprises. Cette recherche examine comment les pays européens et les institutions de l'UE parviennent à définir et à réglementer les activités politiques des entreprises. La première partie retrace les principales décisions judiciaires et politiques qui ont conduit à l'introduction de cadres réglementaires modernes pour les activités de lobbying des entreprises en Amérique du Nord et en Europe. La deuxième partie compare la réglementation du lobbying d'entreprise, des dons d'entreprise et des pratiques d'embauche par la porte tournante dans les pays européens. Ce faisant, cette recherche démontre les différentes approches des États membres de l'UE pour réglementer les activités politiques des entreprises.
Wayfinding and Navigation for People with Disabilities Using Social Navigation Networks
Creators: name: Karimi, Hassan A.
name: M. Bernardine  Dias
name: Pearlman, Jonathan
name: Zimmerman, George J.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: To achieve safe and independent mobility, people usually depend on published information, prior experience, the knowledge of others, and/or technology to navigate unfamiliar outdoor and indoor environments. Today, due to advances in various technologies, wayfinding and navigation systems and services are commonplace and are accessible on desktop, laptop, and mobile devices. However, despite their popularity and widespread use, current wayfinding and navigation solutions often fail to address the needs of people with disabilities (PWDs). We argue that these shortcomings are primarily due to the ubiquity of the compute-centric approach adopted in these systems and services, where they do not benefit from the experience-centric approach. We propose that following a hybrid approach of combining experience-centric and compute-centric methods will overcome the shortcomings of current wayfinding and navigation solutions for PWDs.
Is There a Principle of Targeting in Environmental Taxation?
Creators: name: Liu, Jianqiao
name: Shiell, Leslie
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2011
Subjects: environmental taxation
second best
principle of targeting
fiscalité environnementale
politique de deuxième rang
«principle of targeting»

description: We test whether the principle of targeting (alternatively Sandmo’s (1975) additivity property and Kopczuk’s (2003) decomposition involving the Pigovian rule) has relevance for environmental taxation in a second best world consisting of an exogenous revenue requirement and pre-existing distortionary taxes. In the context of differentiated commodity taxes, we find that Sandmo’s additivity property breaks down once one solves explicitly for the marginal cost of public funds (MCPF). Further, in the more realistic setting of a uniform commodity tax and a dedicated emissions tax, we find that the additivity property no longer holds even in the form Sandmo studied it, i.e. without solving explicitly for the MCPF. Finally, we argue that Koczuk’s decomposition is not persuasive, as it requires that a second government agency must apply a corrective tax or subsidy to adjust the choice of the Pigovian rule by the environmental agency. In a same-numbers exercise (i.e. the number of tax instruments is not increased), we show that there is no presumption in favour of a direct emissions tax over a uniform commodity tax; rather, the choice depends upon the size of the environmental damages. We conclude that there does not exist a principle of targeting in environmental taxation. / Nous considérons les implications du «principle of targeting» (soit le principe d’additivité de Sandmo (1975), soit la décomposition de Kopczuk (2003) axés sur la règle de Pigou) pour la fiscalité environnementale au deuxième rang, où le gouvernement fait face à une contrainte de revenu exogène et a recours à des taxes distortionnaires. Étant donné les taxes différenciées sur les biens, nous trouvons que le principe de l’additivité n’est pas soutenu dès qu’on solutionne pour le coût marginal du revenu public (CMRP). En plus, dans la situation plus réaliste qui consiste à une taxe uniforme sur les biens et une taxe directe sur les émissions de pollution, le principe de l’additivité n’est plus soutenu même dans le contexte prôné par Sandmo, à savoir sans solutionner pour le CMRP. Enfin, nous constatons que la décomposition de Koczuk n’est pas convaincante, car elle nécessite qu’une deuxième agence gouvernementale impose une taxe ou subvention corrective pour répond au choix d’une taxe selon la règle de Pigou par l’agence environnementale. Dans une comparaison entre une taxe uniforme sur les biens et une taxe directe sur les émissions de pollution, nous démontrons que le meilleur choix dépend du niveau des dommages. Bref, il n’y a pas de préférence systématique pour une taxe directe sur les émissions. Donc, nous concluons qu’il n’existe pas de «principle of targeting» pour la fiscalité environnementale.
Prices and Price Spreads for Eggs, Frying Chickens, and Turkeys in Selected Cities, 1956-61
Creators: name: Gray, Leo R.
name: Willis, Ruby J.
name: Gray, Leo R.
name: Willis, Ruby J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1962
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Excerpts from the report: This report on prices and price spreads of eggs, frying chickens, and turkeys is a summary of data compiled monthly from January 1956 through December 1961. It is in partial response to a directive from the U. S. Congress to the U. S. Department of Agriculture to make a number of special studies on price spreads between farmers and consumers. Since 1956, Congress has been earmarking funds for special studies on this subject. These studies are part of a broad program of research designed to provide public information on farm-to-retail price spreads on food.
A two-stage fourth order time-accurate discretization for Lax--Wendroff type flow solvers II. High order numerical boundary conditions
Creators: name: Du, Zhifang
name: Li, Jiequan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65M08, 76M12, 35L60, 35L65, 76N15

description: This paper serves to treat boundary conditions numerically with high order accuracy in order to match the two-stage fourth-order finite volume schemes for hyperbolic problems developed in [{\em J. Li and Z. Du, A two-stage fourth order time-accurate discretization {L}ax--{W}endroff type flow solvers, {I}. {H}yperbolic conservation laws, SIAM, J. Sci. Comput., 38 (2016), pp.~A3046--A3069}]. As such, it is significant when capturing small scale structures near physical boundaries. Different from previous contributions in literature, the current approach constructs a fourth order accurate approximation to boundary conditions by only using the Jacobian of the flux function (characteristic information) instead of its successive differentiation leading to tensors of high ranks in the inverse Lax-Wendroff method. Technically, data in several ghost cells are constructed with interpolation so that the interior scheme can be implemented over boundary cells, and theoretical boundary condition has to be modified properly at intermediate stages so as to make the two-stage scheme over boundary cells fully consistent with that over interior cells. This highlights the fact that {\em continuous boundary conditions only match continuous partial differential equations (PDEs), and they must be approximated in a consistent way (even though it could be exactly valued) when the PDEs are discretized.} Several numerical examples are provided to illustrate the performance of the current approach when dealing with general boundary conditions.
Work-related factors predict changes in physical activity among nurses participating in a web-based worksite intervention: a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Brunet, Jennifer
name: Black, Melissa M
name: Tulloch, Heather E
name: Pipe, Andrew L
name: Reid, Robert D
name: Reed, Jennifer L
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Health promotion
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Randomized controlled trial
subject: Workplace intervention
subject: Physical activity

description: Background: Despite the numerous benefits associated with physical activity (PA), most nurses are not active enough and few interventions have been developed to promote PA among nurses. A secondary analysis of raw data from a single-centre, three-arm parallel-group randomized controlled trial was conducted to assess whether work-related characteristics and general mood states predict changes in total weekly moderate-to-vigorous intensity PA (MVPA) and average daily step-count among nurses participating in a 6-week web-based worksite intervention. Methods: Seventy nurses (meanage: 46.1 ± 11.2 years) were randomized to an individual-, friend-, or team-based PA challenge. Participants completed questionnaires pre- and post-intervention assessing work-related characteristics (i.e., shift schedule and length, number of hours worked per week, work role) and general mood states (i.e., tension, depression, anger, confusion, fatigue, vigour). Participants received a PA monitor to wear before and during the 6-week PA challenge, which was used to assess total weekly MVPA minutes and average daily step-count. Data were analyzed descriptively and using multilevel modeling for repeated measures. Results: Change in total weekly MVPA minutes, but not change in average daily step-count, was predicted by shift schedule (rotating vs. fixed) by time (estimate = − 17.43, SE = 6.18, p = .006), and work role (clinical-only vs. other) by time (estimate = 18.98, SE = 6.51, p = .005). General mood states did not predict change in MVPA or change in average daily step-count. Conclusions: Given that nurses who work rotating shifts and perform clinical work showed smaller improvements in MVPA, it may be necessary to consider work-related factors/barriers (e.g., time constraints, fatigue) and collaborate with nurses when designing and implementing MVPA interventions in the workplace.
Song in a chorus 2
Creators: name: Chirkova, Katia
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Ersu
subject: ers
subject: Chant en chœur

description: 王敏记录的尔苏合唱。
description: Conforms to: doi:10.34847/cocoon.49aefa90-8c1f-3ba8-a099-0ebefc6a2aa7
Lattice models with exactly solvable topological hinge and corner states
Creators: name: Kunst, Flore K.
name: van Miert, Guido
name: Bergholtz, Emil J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We devise a generic recipe for constructing $D$-dimensional lattice models whose $d$-dimensional boundary states, located on surfaces, hinges, corners, and so forth, can be obtained exactly. The solvability is rooted in the underlying lattice structure and as such does not depend on fine tuning, allowing us to track their evolution throughout various phases and across phase transitions. Most saliently, our models provide "boundary solvable" examples of the recently introduced higher-order topological phases. We apply our general approach to breathing and anisotropic kagome and pyrochlore lattices for which we obtain exact corner eigenstates, and to periodically driven two-dimensional models as well as to three-dimensional lattices where we present exact solutions corresponding to one-dimensional chiral states at the hinges of the lattice. We relate the higher-order topological nature of these models to reflection symmetries in combination with their provenance from lower-dimensional conventional topological phases.
description: Published version
title: Rola orientacji ulotki i wyróżnienia czcionki w odbiorze przekazu reklamowego
Creators: name: Michalski, Rafał
name: Biazik, Małgorzata
Publisher: name: Publishing House of Poznan University of Technology
Year: 2020

description: Zeszyty Naukowe Politechniki Poznańskiej. Organizacja i Zarządzanie, 81, 159-179
Linear-time general decoding algorithm for the surface code
Creators: name: Darmawan, Andrew S.
name: Poulin, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A quantum error correcting protocol can be substantially improved by taking into account features of the physical noise process. We present an efficient decoder for the surface code which can account for general noise features, including coherences and correlations. We demonstrate that the decoder significantly outperforms the conventional matching algorithm on a variety of noise models, including non-Pauli noise and spatially correlated noise. The algorithm is based on an approximate calculation of the logical channel using a tensor-network description of the noisy state.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures; v2 published version
Tensor network states in time-bin quantum optics
Creators: name: Lubasch, Michael
name: Valido, Antonio A.
name: Renema, Jelmer J.
name: Kolthammer, W. Steven
name: Jaksch, Dieter
name: Kim, Myungshik S.
name: Walmsley, Ian
name: García-Patrón, Raúl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The current shift in the quantum optics community towards large-size experiments -- with many modes and photons -- necessitates new classical simulation techniques that go beyond the usual phase space formulation of quantum mechanics. To address this pressing demand we formulate linear quantum optics in the language of tensor network states. As a toy model, we extensively analyze the quantum and classical correlations of time-bin interference in a single fiber loop. We then generalize our results to more complex time-bin quantum setups and identify different classes of architectures for high-complexity and low-overhead boson sampling experiments.
L’esercizio del diritto al di là della terapia: lo human enhancement
Creators: name: Ricci, Lidia
name: Di Nicolò, Beatrice
name: Ricci, Pasquale
name: Massoni, Francesco
name: Ricci, Serafino
Publisher: name: University of Trento
Year: 2019
Subjects: human enhancement study; enhancement technologies; off label enhancement; legal framework; enhancement typologies classification

description: Human Enhancement is a modification aimed at improving individual human performance through scientific or technological interventions in the human body. Sure enough, it is based on techniques aimed to improve the knowledge, to change the physique appearance, to increase the physique and the athletic performance, to intensify the working capabilities. The Authors propose to identify the ethical and juridical frames, as well as the medical legal and medical social ones, in which to assimilate the enhancement, duly considering that it’s inevitable, since human beings are naturally competitive and since the change is constant and it’s the historical main character of every social and cultural revolution, in other words it’s the main reason of our evolution. Therefore, we need to value if the application of the enhancement technologies is harmful of the human dignity or if it’s an useful tool to improve the human life’s condition and then his own dignity.
description: BioLaw Journal - Rivista di BioDiritto, N° 1 (2019)
title: Successful features: Verb raising and adverbs in L2 acquisition under an Organic Grammar approach
Creators: name: Vainikka, Anne Marjatta
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: First and Second Language Acquisition
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This is a pre-publication version of Vainikka, A. and M. Young-Scholten. 2009. Successful features: Verb raising and adverbs in L2 acquisition under an Organic Grammar approach. In N. Snape, I. Y-K. Leung and Mike Sharwood Smith (eds.) Representational Deficits in SLA. Studies in Honour of Roger Hawkins. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Pp. 53-68.
OER and the Challenges and Opportunities of Linguistic Equity at a Bilingual Canadian University
Creators: name: Brunet, Mélanie
name: Brown, Michelle
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Open educational resources
Open education
Linguistic equity
Linguistic inequity
Bilingualism
French-language educational resources

description: Promoting the use of open educational resources at a bilingual university is challenging when there is a large gap in the availability of OER in one of the languages. This presentation addresses some of the reasons behind the limited availability of OER in French, expands on the equity implications of this situation, and highlights some possible opportunities.
Visual Yield Estimation in Vineyards: Experiments with Different Varietals and Calibration Procedures
Creators: name: Nuske, Stephen
name: Supreeth  Achar
name: Gupta, Kamal
name: Narasimhan, Srinivasa G.
name: Singh, Sanjiv
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A crucial practice for vineyard managers is to control the amount of fruit hanging on their vines to reach yield and quality goals. Current vine manipulation methods to adjust level of fruit are inaccurate and ineffective because they are often not performed according to quantitative yield information. Even when yield predictions are available they are inaccurate and spatially coarse because the traditional measurement practice is to use labor intensive, destructive, hand measurements that are too sparse to adequately measure spatial variation in yield. We present an approach to predict the vineyard yield automatically and non-destructively with cameras. The approach uses camera images of the vines collected from farm vehicles driving along the vineyard rows. Computer vision algorithms are applied to the images to detect and count the grape berries. Shape and texture cues are used to detect berries even when they are of similar color to the vine leaves. Images are automatically registered together and the vehicle position along the row is tracked to generate high resolution yield predictions. Results are presented from four different vineyards, including wine and table-grape varieties. The harvest yield was collected from 948 individual vines, totaling approximately 2.5km of vines, and used to validate the predictions we generate automatically from the camera images. We present different calibration approaches to convert our image berry count to harvest yield and find that we can predict yield of individual vineyard rows to within 10\% and overall yield to within 5% of the actual harvest weight.
A Radio-fingerprinting-based Vehicle Classification System for Intelligent Traffic Control in Smart Cities
Creators: name: Sliwa, Benjamin
name: Haferkamp, Marcus
name: Al-Askary, Manar
name: Dorn, Dennis
name: Wietfeld, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The measurement and provision of precise and upto-date traffic-related key performance indicators is a key element and crucial factor for intelligent traffic controls systems in upcoming smart cities. The street network is considered as a highly-dynamic Cyber Physical System (CPS) where measured information forms the foundation for dynamic control methods aiming to optimize the overall system state. Apart from global system parameters like traffic flow and density, specific data such as velocity of individual vehicles as well as vehicle type information can be leveraged for highly sophisticated traffic control methods like dynamic type-specific lane assignments. Consequently, solutions for acquiring these kinds of information are required and have to comply with strict requirements ranging from accuracy over cost-efficiency to privacy preservation. In this paper, we present a system for classifying vehicles based on their radio-fingerprint. In contrast to other approaches, the proposed system is able to provide real-time capable and precise vehicle classification as well as cost-efficient installation and maintenance, privacy preservation and weather independence. The system performance in terms of accuracy and resource-efficiency is evaluated in the field using comprehensive measurements. Using a machine learning based approach, the resulting success ratio for classifying cars and trucks is above 99%.
Tecniche “nuove”, obblighi “nuovi”? La CGUE in «riscrittura giudiziaria» della direttiva n. 18/2001 CE Nota a Confédération paysanne v. Ministre de l’Agriculture (C-528/16)
Creators: name: Spiller, Elisa
Publisher: name: University of Trento
Year: 2019
Subjects: directive CE/2001/18; precautionary principle; mutagenesis; conflict between national law and EU law; discretional powers of the national legislator transposing EU law

description: This note aims to offer an insightful reading about the decision of the european court of justice in case confédération paysanne v. Ministre de l’agriculture (c-528/16). It focuses on the reasons why the court extended the security measures provided by dir. Ce 2001/18 even to some new methods of mutagenesis; techniques used to make certain rape varieties herbicide-tolerant. In particular, this writing would highlight how the court used the precautionary principle to offer some a new guidance for the interpretation of this directive, such as for the other regulations related to the gmo discipline.
description: BioLaw Journal - Rivista di BioDiritto, N° 1 (2019)
Amachang 8
Creators: name: Chirkova, Katia
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Ersu
subject: ers

description: 周富英唱尔苏歌曲。
description: Conforms to: doi:10.34847/cocoon.49aefa90-8c1f-3ba8-a099-0ebefc6a2aa7
Medium Generated Gap in Gravity and a 3d Gauge Theory
Creators: name: Gabadadze, Gregory
name: Older, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well known that a physical medium that sets a Lorentz frame generates a Lorentz-breaking gap for a graviton. We examine such generated "mass" terms in the presence of a fluid medium whose ground state spontaneously breaks spatial translation invariance in $d = D+1$ spacetime dimensions, and for a solid in $D = 2$ spatial dimensions. By requiring energy positivity and subluminal propagation, certain constraints are placed on the equation of state of the medium. In the case of $D = 2$ spatial dimensions, classical gravity can be recast as a Chern-Simons gauge theory and motivated by this we recast the massive theory of gravity in AdS$_3$ as a massive Chern-Simons gauge theory with an unusual mass term. We find that in the flat space limit the Chern-Simons theory has a novel gauge invariance that mixes the kinetic and mass terms, and enables the massive theory with a non-compact internal group to be free of ghosts and tachyons.
description: 32 pages, LaTeX; typos corrected; references added; minor corrections to a couple formulas in section III
Are Quebecers More Stressed Out at Work than Others? An Investigation into the Differences between Quebec and the Rest of Canada in the Level of Work Stress
Creators: name: Sedigh, Golnaz
name: Devlin, Rose Anne
name: Grenier, Gilles
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: work stress
Canadian Community Health Survey
interprovincial comparisons of stress
Quebec
Canada
1614E

description: Stress at work is costly to individuals as well as employers, causing productivity to suffer and worker compensation claims to increase. Irrespective of how the data are grouped, individuals in Quebec are much more likely to report high work stress relative to those in any other Canadian province. Here we explore why this might be the case. Using pooled cross-sectional data from eight cycles of the Canadian Community Health Survey, spanning 2003-2012, we show that several factors are related to work stress, including chronic diseases, mental health, and lifestyle choices like smoking and drinking. Nevertheless, living in Quebec is persistently associated with higher reported work stress. We discuss whether contextual factors, like Quebec’s child-care policy and its legal regime may help us understand this result better; a ‘cultural’ explanation is explored, as is the possibility that Quebecers simply report more stress. While residents of Quebec do not appear to differ from others with respect to the prevalence of some ‘stress-related’ health conditions – pointing to a cultural component to the explanation – they are absent from work more often than others, suggesting that the costs to Quebec of this phenomenon are real.
Farm Mortgages Recorded in 1959: Interest Rates, Terms and Sizes with Historical Data, 1949-59
Creators: name: Eitel, Van E.
name: Eitel, Van E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1962
Subjects: Agricultural Finance
Financial Economics

description: Excerpts from the report: In the last several decades, agriculture has become an increasingly heavy user of capital. Land values have risen greatly, many improvements in land and buildings have been made, and such purchased inputs as fertilizer and machinery have increased. These factors, together with the expansion and consolidation of individual farms, have resulted in the use of more credit, not only for operating expenses but also for the transfer and refinancing of the investment in fixed assets. Loans secured by mortgages on farm real estate are a main source of credit to agriculture. Usually, these loans have longer maturities than those without real estate security; they provide agriculture with a substantial amount of long-term capital. This report, which covers farm mortgages recorded during the period January 1 through March 31, 1959, presents more detailed data than are included in the usual releases on recordings. It shows changes from earlier periods in interest rates, length of term, and size of loans. It reveals how these characteristics varied among regions and for different lender groups. Further, it points out important relationships among rates, terms, and sizes of loans, and goes beyond the presentation of averages alone in showing the range of these characteristics for borrowers, lenders, and regions.
Song by Wang Min 11
Creators: name: Chirkova, Katia
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Ersu
subject: ers

description: 王敏唱尔苏歌曲。
description: Conforms to: doi:10.34847/cocoon.49aefa90-8c1f-3ba8-a099-0ebefc6a2aa7
Visual Sensing for Developing Autonomous Behavior in Snake Robots
Creators: name: Ponte, Hugo
name: Queenan, Max
name: Chaohui Gong
name: Mertz, Christoph
name: Travers, Matthew
name: Enner, Florian
name: Hebert, Martial
name: Choset, Howie
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Snake robots are uniquely qualified to investigate a large variety of settings including archaeological sites, natural disaster zones, and nuclear power plants. For these applications, modular snake robots have been tele-operated to perform specific tasks using images returned to it from an onboard camera in the robots head. In order to give the operator an even richer view of the environment and to enable the robot to perform autonomous tasks we developed a structured light sensor that can make three-dimensional maps of the environment. This paper presents a sensor that is uniquely qualified to meet the severe constraints in size, power and computational footprint of snake robots. Using range data, in the form of 3D pointclouds, we show that it is possible to pair high-level planning with mid-level control to accomplish complex tasks without operator intervention.
Amachang 11
Creators: name: Chirkova, Katia
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Ersu
subject: ers

description: 周富英唱尔苏歌曲。
description: Conforms to: doi:10.34847/cocoon.49aefa90-8c1f-3ba8-a099-0ebefc6a2aa7
Survey: Public trust and policy
Creators: name: Positive Energy
name: Nanos Research
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Climate Change
Indigenous peoples
Energy Policy
Oil and Gas
Renewables
Canada
Public Opinion
Surveys

description: Since 2015, Nanos Research has conducted national public opinion surveys in partnership with Positive Energy. This (telephone and online) survey gauged the interest, beliefs and attitudes of 1000 Canadians on current energy policy issues; performance of Canada on developing and implementing energy policies, including the development of oil and gas, relations with Indigenous Peoples, climate change and the transportation of fuels across provinces. This survey also includes views on the building of partnerships to develop energy jointly with Indigenous communities.
i-CONSENT: presentation of the project and the importance of participants’ perspective in the informed consent process
Creators: name: Fons-Martínez, Jaime
name: Ferrer-Albero, Cristina
name: Russell, Rosanna
name: Rodgers, Elizabeth
name: Glennie, Linda
name: Díez-Domingo, Javier
Publisher: name: University of Trento
Year: 2019
Subjects: Bioethics; clinical research; hard law; informed consent; patient participation

description: Informed consent is essential in ensuring the autonomy of participants in clinical research. However, informed consent documents are often complex and difficult to understand, and do not incorporate the patients’ perspective. The informed consent process has become more focused on acquiring the participant’s signature on the informed consent form, rather than being a contract that ensures the patient’s autonomy through clear and complete information about all relevant aspects of a trial. The i-CONSENT project aims to improve the information that potential participants receive when deciding whether or not to join a clinical trial through the development of a set of guidelines for the informed consent process. Involving potential participants during the preparation of the informed consent and its associated materials can be a key factor.
description: BioLaw Journal - Rivista di BioDiritto, N° 1 (2019): Special Issue 1/2019
Visual Place Recognition using HMM Sequence Matching
Creators: name: Hansen, Peter
name: Browning, Brett
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Visual place recognition and loop closure is critical for the global accuracy of visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems. We present a place recognition algorithm which operates by matching local query image sequences to a database of image sequences. To match sequences, we calculate a matrix of low-resolution, contrast-enhanced image similarity probability values. The optimal sequence alignment, which can be viewed as a discontinuous path through the matrix, is found using a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) framework reminiscent of Dynamic Time Warping from speech recognition. The state transitions enforce local velocity constraints and the most likely path sequence is recovered efficiently using the Viterbi algorithm. A rank reduction on the similarity probability matrix is used to provide additional robustness in challenging conditions when scoring sequence matches. We evaluate our approach on seven outdoor vision datasets and show improved precision-recall performance against the recently published seqSLAM algorithm.
Informed consent, experimentation and emerging ethical problems
Creators: name: Palazzani, Laura
Publisher: name: University of Trento
Year: 2019
Subjects: Bioethics; experimentation; informed consent; personalization; technological innovation

description: Obtaining informed consent for experimentation takes on a central ethical role. This article analyses, on the basis of the historical origins of informed consent, its present role in bioethics and discusses the main ethical theories on the topic, in a pluralistic philosophical context. The author underlines the reason why informed consent should not be a detailed technical and exhaustive description of a clinical study with the exclusive aim to defend the investigators rather than protect the subjects who have been recruited. The article identifies the main ethical requirements of informed consent from the side of the researcher and of the participant, underlining the emerging ethical issues (dynamic informed consent; personalization; technological innovation; comprehension verification; physician’s training in communication; health literacy for participants) and the emerging challenges (broad and flexible consent; enhanced consent; shared consent).
description: BioLaw Journal - Rivista di BioDiritto, N° 1 (2019): Special Issue 1/2019
Song by Wang Min 10
Creators: name: Chirkova, Katia
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Ersu
subject: ers

description: 王敏唱尔苏歌曲。
description: Conforms to: doi:10.34847/cocoon.49aefa90-8c1f-3ba8-a099-0ebefc6a2aa7