Search results for "ARCHITECTURE"

Design and Implementation of Deep Learning Based Contactless Authentication System Using Hand Gestures

2021

Hand gestures based sign language digits have several contactless applications. Applications include communication for impaired people, such as elderly and disabled people, health-care applications, automotive user interfaces, and security and surveillance. This work presents the design and implementation of a complete end-to-end deep learning based edge computing system that can verify a user contactlessly using &lsquo

Evaluación de programas educativos en instituciones musicales El caso Adoptar un Músico

2017

Orquestas, Auditorios y Espacios Escénicos (las instituciones musicales más representativas de la expresión pública de la música) vienen desarrollando desde hace años una amplia variedad de acciones educativas, con especial atención hacia el público joven, y con incidencia notable en colectivos muy numerosos. En ocasiones, estas acciones se configuran como programas educativos estables que generan espacios de experiencia y aprendizaje, tanto en la educación no formal como en la educación formal de carácter reglado. Este trabajo aborda la evaluación de uno de estos programas: Adoptar un Músico, de la Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España. El objetivo fundamental es identificar y analizar los …

Ca(u)se di bellezza / Beauty’s causes

2018

Efficace, come dicono i vocabolari, è sinonimo di adeguato o adatto e sembrerebbe riferirsi ad aspetti funzionali; ma basta poco per accorgersi che li oltrepassa per riguardare questioni più ampie che sono relative ai processi, includendo le premesse e gli esiti, attraversando i metodi e le procedure. Il termine deriva infatti dal latino efficere - che significa fare (facere) del tutto (ex-) - con il valore di fare o produrre, ma anche di portare a compimento, di operare in modo che una cosa produca il suo effetto o che sia di effetto. Sul significato di efficace (nello specifico dell’architettura), attraverso il fascino delle parole e la profondità di senso che esse possiedono, si possono …

Energy performance of architectural heritage: characteristics of the historic buildings in Palermo

2015

The current researches on the energy and environmental improvement of historic architecture aim to develop strategies respectful of its aesthetic and material features. This requires a deep knowledge of the characters strictly connected to a local context. This paper focuses on the historic architecture of Palermo and analyses, among its features, those which particularly influence its energy and environmental performance. For this purpose the building typologies introduced by the urban regulations can be useful for a categorization on the basis of the most recent European researches.

Micro-Architecture Based Structural Model for Elastomeric Electrospun Scaffolds.

2010

Microbial Cells and Biosensing: A Dual Approach - Exploiting Antibodies and Microbial Cells as Analytical/Power Systems

2010

The primary focus of this review is the discussion of how biosensor-based platforms can be used in conjunction with microbial cells for monitoring, environmental and industrial applications. Two approaches will be comprehensively discussed. The first of these will examine how immunosensors can be used for the sensitive and selective detection of bacterial pathogens in a range of diverse and complex sample matrices. Secondly, we discuss the implementation of free and immobilised microbial cells for facilitating the analysis of chemicals and metabolites in cost-effective devices that, in turn, are directly applicable to environmental monitoring. Further examples, relating to the uses and adva…

Design and Study of a Wide-Band Printed Circuit Board Near-Field Probe

2021

Magnetic near-field probes (NFP) represent a suitable tool to measure the magnetic field level from a small electromagnetic interference (EMI) source. This kind of antenna is useful as a magnetic field probe for pre-compliance EMC measurements or debugging tasks since the user can scan a printed circuit board (PCB) looking for locations with strong magnetic fields. When a strong H-field point is found, the designer should check the PCB layout and components placement in that area to detect if this could result in an EMI source. This contribution focuses on analyzing the performance of an easy to build and low-cost H-field NFP designed and manufactured using a standard PCB stack-up. Thereby,…

A software tool to acquire, synchronise and playback multimedia data: an application in kinesiology

2000

Assessing the physical condition of the human body frequently requires evaluating different tests performed by different devices. This information has to be analysed simultaneously to derive conclusions, and so a temporal relationship must be established between the data sources. In this paper, synchronisation of the sources of information is achieved by synchronising the clocks of computers connected in a Local Area Network. A clock synchronisation protocol is used and a global time is stamped in each information data flow. During analysis, the time-stamp is used to playback the data in a synchronised way. The proposed system is valid for any medical application in which data synchronisati…

Surviving task interruptions: Investigating the implications of long-term working memory theory

2006

Typically, we have several tasks at hand, some of which are in interrupted state while others are being carried out. Most of the time, such interruptions are not disruptive to task performance. Based on the theory of Long-Term Working Memory (LTWM; Ericsson, K.A., Kintsch, W., 1995. Long-term working memory. Psychological Review, 102, 211-245), we posit that unless there are enough mental skills and resources to encode task representations to retrieval structures in long-term memory, the resulting memory traces will not enable reinstating the information, which can lead to memory losses. However, once encoded to LTWM, they are virtually safeguarded. Implications of the theory were tested in…

Ant colony optimisation for planning safe escape routes

2013

Published version of a chapter from the volume: Recent Trends in Applied Artificial Intelligence. Also available on SpringerLink: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38577-3_6 An emergency requiring evacuation is a chaotic event filled with uncertainties both for the people affected and rescuers. The evacuees are often left to themselves for navigation to the escape area. The chaotic situation increases when a predefined escape route is blocked by a hazard, and there is a need to re-think which escape route is safest. This paper addresses automatically finding the safest escape route in emergency situations in large buildings or ships with imperfect knowledge of the hazards. The proposed so…