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Verrucous penile lesions and widespread vesicular rash in a 33‐year‐old bisexual man
2022
A 33-year-old bisexual man presented to the Department of Infectious Diseases with a 9-day history of non-itching, painless, pustular, and vesicular lesions that were scattered and a high fever.
Unraveling the Complexity of Tourist Experience with NFC Technology and Mobile Wallets
2014
By considering the tourist experience as a complex dynamic system, in this paper we depict the traveler as a kybernetes (κυβeρνήτης is the ancient Greek word for ‘sea captain’, ‘steersman’, or ‘governor’) in search of powerful tools to help him or her to obtain directions in the mare magnum of complexity, overcoming the fear of action and taking decisions. We focus our attention on the key role of Near Field Communication technology and mobile wallet as ‘attenuators of complexity’ in the travel and tourism industry.
A hybrid network for maritime on-board communications
2012
Current maritime on-board communications have to be enhanced for safety and security, where ubiquitous technologies can help, together with providing comfort and convenience to the crew and passengers. Employing wireless sensor networks on board is one recent practice of implementing ubiquitous technology for ships, where further study is needed because of the connectivity challenges. Meanwhile, it is important for an on-board communication system to be reliable and flexible for handling emergency situations. In this paper, we propose a solution of employing ubiquitous technology on ships in a way that both connectivity and emergency handling are examined. Two key aspects of this proposal a…
Values and challenges in the assessment of coprophilous fungi according to the IUCN Red List criteria: the case study of Poronia punctata (Xylariales…
2020
Coprophilous fungi are specialized microorganisms, playing key roles in ecosystems and in several other contexts, whose protection requires more substantial efforts. This paper aims to highlight and discuss valuable and critical aspects faced during the process of the threat status assessment of Poronia punctata, providing inspirations for future conservation actions.
Detecting faulty wireless sensor nodes through Stochastic classification
2011
In many distributed systems, the possibility to adapt the behavior of the involved resources in response to unforeseen failures is an important requirement in order to significantly reduce the costs of management. Autonomous detection of faulty entities, however, is often a challenging task, especially when no direct human intervention is possible, as is the case for many scenarios involving Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), which usually operate in inaccessible and hostile environments. This paper presents an unsupervised approach for identifying faulty sensor nodes within a WSN. The proposed algorithm uses a probabilistic approach based on Markov Random Fields, requiring exclusively an ana…
Low-Power Audio Keyword Spotting using Tsetlin Machines
2021
The emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven Keyword Spotting (KWS) technologies has revolutionized human to machine interaction. Yet, the challenge of end-to-end energy efficiency, memory footprint and system complexity of current Neural Network (NN) powered AI-KWS pipelines has remained ever present. This paper evaluates KWS utilizing a learning automata powered machine learning algorithm called the Tsetlin Machine (TM). Through significant reduction in parameter requirements and choosing logic over arithmetic based processing, the TM offers new opportunities for low-power KWS while maintaining high learning efficacy. In this paper we explore a TM based keyword spotting (KWS) pipe…
Scalar mesons moving in a finite volume and the role of partial wave mixing
2012
Phase shifts and resonance parameters can be obtained from finite-volume lattice spectra for interacting pairs of particles, moving with nonzero total momentum. We present a simple derivation of the method that is subsequently applied to obtain the pi pi and pi K phase shifts in the sectors with total isospin I=0 and I=1/2, respectively. Considering different total momenta, one obtains extra data points for a given volume that allow for a very efficient extraction of the resonance parameters in the infinite-volume limit. Corrections due to the mixing of partial waves are provided. We expect that our results will help to optimize the strategies in lattice simulations, which aim at an accurat…
Kytkeytyneisyyttä edistävät politiikkakeinot ja vihreä infrastruktuuri : miten luonnon monimuotoisuus saadaan säilytettyä?
2013
Luonnon monimuotoisuuden vähenemistä ei ole saatu pysäytettyä kansainvälisistä sopimuksista huolimatta. Ekologinen kytkeytyneisyys on välttämätöntä, jotta monimuotoisuus voisi säilyä pitkällä aikavälillä. Tämä pro gradu tutkii luonnon monimuotoisuuden ja ekosysteemien prosessien säilyttämistä edistäviä politiikkakeinoja kolmen tutkimuskysymyksen avulla: 1) Kuinka hyvin nykyiset luonnonsuojelupolitiikan keinot edistävät ekologista kytkeytyneisyyttä? 2) Miten luonnonsuojelupolitiikan keinot voisivat edistää ekologista kytkeytyneisyyttä paremmin? 3) Voiko vihreä infrastruktuuri -lähestymistapa auttaa luonnon monimuotoisuuden suojelussa? Ekologinen kytkeytyneisyys vaikuttaa erityisesti lajien l…
Corrigendum to The effect of silica nanoparticles on the morphology, mechanical properties and thermal degradation kinetics of PMMA(Polymer Degradati…
2012
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Transcodage des nombres chez l'enfant : approche développementale, inter-linguistique et différentielle
2010
Number transcoding in children is a domain rarely investigated. The PhD goal is to test the main predictions allowed by the transcoding model “ADAPT” of Barrouillet et al. (2004) in particular its ADAPTBASIC version concerning transcoding at the beginning of learning. Unlike the other transcoding models (e.g., McCloskey on 1992), ADAPT is a developmental, asemantic and procedural model. In this research the concerned transcoding allows to shift the verbal form of number to Arabic form. This thesis questions the acquisition of transcoding and its development with learning, as well as the impact of the inter-linguistic and individual differences. To reach these objectives, we adopted a develo…