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FPGA-based smart camera : industrial applications

2013

International audience; For the last two decades and still today, smart cameras offer innovative solutions for industrial vision applications. This kind of system associates a flexible image acquisition with high-speed processing possibilities. Many smart camera designs are based on FPGA components to obtain these two features. Indeed, the FPGA enables the CMOS sensor to be controlled and therefore to propose a configurable acquisition according to the application constraints (i.e. dynamic windowing). The configurable structure of a FPGA represents a key advantage for modifying the embedded processing (even on-the-fly using dynamic reconfiguration). Meanwhile, FPGA components offer a large …

The power of information: a key component for the successful performance of Latvian social enterprises

2020

The purpose of the study is two-fold. First, the study aims to determine how informed consumers in Latvia are about social enterprises after a decade of discussion and activity within the field of social entrepreneurship which will later serve as a comparative reference base for following future developments and achievements in the field. Second, the study aims to investigate the relationship between the level of information consumers have about social enterprises and actual purchasing behavior of consumers in order to provide practical recommendations and suggestions for both social enterprise marketing specialists as well as government officials and organizations that support the field of…

Is the European Commission a hothouse for supranationalism? : theorising and exploring the world of Commission civil servants

2005

Does the European Commission (Commission) manage to transform and re-direct the roles played by Commission civil servants? To test the old neo-functionalist claim on loyalty transfer among civil servants, this article provides fresh survey and interview data on seconded national experts in the Commission. The transformative powers of the Commission are tested by assessing the extent to which seconded national experts adopt supranational role perceptions. Theoretically, the emergence of supranational role perceptions is accounted for by considering (i) processes of pre-socialisation outside the Commission, (ii) processes of resocialisation inside the Commission, and (iii) organisational inco…

Hierarchies of knowledge, incommensurabilities and silences in South African ECD policy: Whose knowledge counts?

2017

AbstractPolicy for young children in South Africa is now receiving high-level government support through the ANC’s renewed commitment to redress poverty and inequity and creating ‘a better life for all’ as promised before the 1994 election. In this article, I explore the power relations, knowledge hierarchies and discourses of childhood, family and society in National Curriculum Framework (NCF) as it relates to children’s everyday contexts. I throw light on how the curriculum’s discourses relate to the diverse South African settings, child rearing practices and world-views, and how they interact with normative discourses of South African policy and global early childhood frameworks. The NCF…

Spatial spillovers in France: a study on individual count data at the city level

2007

Our study aims to measure the effects of spatial R&D spillovers on firms' patent production at the city level. We use an original method to estimate the spatial dimension of spillovers using count data. The method, based on a generalized cross entropy approach, allows us to test spatial auto-correlation. The main result is that when there are local spillovers, their impact on knowledge production is different according to the geographical area and the sector.

Changes in Spatial Diversity of the Standard of Living of Poland’s Population in 2003-2012

2016

Cel Osiągany w poszczególnych krajach i ich regionach poziom życia ludności w dużej mierze zależy od poziomu rozwoju społeczno-gospodarczego jaki prezentuje dane państwo. W przypadku większości krajów rozwiniętych i rozwijających się ogólny poziom życia społeczeństw ulega poprawie. Jednocześnie wzrasta dystans pomiędzy krajami i regionami o najniższym i najwyższym poziomie rozwoju społecznego. W Polsce m.in. ze względów kulturowych, historycznych, społecznych i ekonomicznych poziom życia ludności zamieszkującej różne regiony (województwa) jest odmienny. Polska, podobnie jak inne kraje członkowskie Unii Europejskiej (UE), podejmuje działania, których celem jest zniwelowanie różnic w poziomie…

Resting electrocardiogram and blood pressure in young athletes and nonathletes : A 4-year follow-up

2022

A follow-up data on electrocardiogram (ECG) and blood pressure (BP) changes in adolescent athletes are scarce. We compared ECG and BP between adolescent athletes and non-athletes in a 4-year follow-up. A total of 154 youth sports clubs (SC) in Finland and 100 secondary schools for comparison data participated in this observational follow-up study. Those who maintained or adopted SC participation are referred to as “Always athletes” (n=137), those who never participated in SC as “Never athletes” (n=108) and those who dropped out of SC during the follow-up as “Changers” (n=116). The mean age of the participants was 15.5 (0.6) years in all study groups at baseline. Resting ECG including heart …

Assetto territoriale e sfide della pandemia. Considerazioni sull’esperienza spagnola e tedesca

2021

Il contagio da SARS-CoV-2 ha generato una crisi sanitaria globale senza precedenti. Ciò ha riportato al centro delle riflessioni giuridiche l’antica questione della gestione dell’emergenza nello Stato di diritto, riproponendo quesiti irrisolti e nuove sfide per la tenuta dei regimi democratici contemporanei. Sotto questo profilo, il sistema federale tedesco ma anche la dimensione autonomica spagnola offrono due interessanti casi di studio sulla gestione dell’emergenza dal punto di vista dell’assetto territoriale. The SARS-CoV-2 has generated an unprecedented global health crisis. This has brought the age-old question of emergency management in the rule of law back to the centre of legal re…

Strategy : from managers' toy to practitioners' tool to successful implementation

2016

Students' usage patterns of video recorded lectures in an undergraduate mathematics course

2018

International audience; It is customary for some universities to offer recordings of live lectures to students. Whether this improves learning and academic performance is debated in the literature. As with most technology, correct usage can lead to increased academic performance, but there are also usage patterns that can be considered counter productive, especially for learning mathematics. In order to investigate patterns in students' usage of such online recorded live lectures, we analyze log files from a server holding the recordings of an undergraduate mathematics course. This poster presents results from the statistical analysis and discusses some of the usage patterns found in light …