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Sul processo di efflusso da una griglia acclive con barre longitudinali

2012

Discussion of "Discharge characteristics of weirs of finite crest length with upstream and downstream ramps"

2014

A Discussion of the paper "Discharge characteristics of weirs of finite crest length with upstream and downstream ramps" is presented

Latvijas mazo alus darītavu perspektīvās attīstības iespēju novērtējums

2020

Alus darīšanai Latvijā ir sena un bagāta vēsture. Tai ir svarīga loma arī mūsdienās veidojot alus kultūru, radot izsmalcinātas un bagātīgas alus garšas, kā arī esot viesmīlīgiem un uzņemot tuvus un tālus ciemiņus, pastāstot viņiem par mūsu tautas alus tradīcijām. Diplomdarba mērķis ir, pamatojoties uz Latvijas likumdošanas normatīvajiem aktiem un statistikas datu analīzi, identificēt nozīmīgākās mazo alus darītavu problēmas un izstrādāt priekšlikumus nozares pilnveidošanai un attīstībai. Darba ietvaros autore izpētīja uzņēmējdarbības teorētiskos aspektus, alus nozares likumdošanu, attīstības tendences un konstatēja esošo situāciju nozarē, pētīja alus lietotāju paradumus pasaulē un Latvijā, …

Social Housing Conditions Modulate the Long-Lasting Increase in Cocaine Reward Induced by Intermittent Social Defeat

2019

Social defeat is considered the most representative animal model for studying the consequences of social stress. Intermittent social defeat (ISD) has proved to enhance the response to cocaine hedonic properties. In the present research, we evaluated if different social housing conditions, as housing with a familiar conspecific or with a female, exert a protective effect modulating the negative consequences of ISD as the increased sensitivity to cocaine and the induction of anxiety-like behavior. To achieve this objective, non-stressed or ISD OF1 male mice were divided into five different experimental groups according to their social environment: standard housing (four adult males per cage);…

Behavioural Consequences of P-Glycoprotein Deficiency in Mice, with Special Focus on Stress-Related Mechanisms

2012

P-glycoprotein (P-gp), an efflux transporter localised in the blood-brain barrier, limits the access of multiple xenobiotics to the central nervous system. Whether it is also implemented in the transport of the endogenous glucocorticoid corticosterone is a matter of debate. The P-gp knockout mouse model [abcb1a/b (-/-)] has been shown to differ in the functioning of the hypothalamic-pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis. In the present study, we investigated the behaviour of abcb1a/b (-/-) and wild-type mice with respect to stress-related tests and the effects of corticosterone. Behavioural activities were assessed in the open field (OF) test for 4 days, and in the forced swimming test (FST) and tai…

Effects of acute amitriptyline administration on memory, anxiety and activity in male and female mice

2002

The effects of acute administration of amitriptyline on memory consolidation in male and female CD1 mice were investigated. Three doses of this tricyclic antidepressant (7.5, 15 and 30 mg/kg) were administered immediately after inhibitory avoidance training. Forty-five minutes after injection, subjects explored the elevated plus-maze for five minutes. Subjects were tested for avoidance twenty-four hours later. Amitriptyline impaired inhibitory avoidance consolidation at doses 7.5, 15 and 30 mg/kg in males, and at doses 7.5 and 30 mg/kg in females. In the elevated plus-maze, amitriptyline had no effect on anxiety (percentage of open arm entries) and induced a dose-dependent impairment of act…

Género, raza y trabajo en los almacenes de Amazon en Estados Unidos

2021

Sing with the Telenoid

2012

We introduce a novel research proposal project aimed to build a robotic setup in which the Telenoid learns to improvise jazz singing in a duet with a human singer. In the proposed application, the Telenoid acts in teleoperated mode during the learning phase, while it becomes more and more autonomous during the working phase. A goal of the research is to investigate the essence of human communication which is based on gestures and prosody. We will employ an architecture for imitation learning that incrementally learns from demonstrations sequences of internal model activations, based on the idea of coupled forward- inverse internal models for representing musical phrases and the body sequenc…

Boosting Hankel matrices for face emotion recognition and pain detection

2017

HighligthsDynamics of face expression descriptors are modeled for emotion recognition.A set of Hankel matrices is built upon several multi-scale face representations.Boosting and random subspace projection are used for dynamics selection.Dynamics of Haar-like features and Gabor Energies are compared.Fine-grained dynamics of subtle expressions can be modeled at small spatial scales. Studies in psychology have shown that the dynamics of emotional expressions play an important role in face emotion recognition in humans. Motivated by these studies, in this paper the dynamics of face expressions are modeled and used for automatic emotion recognition and pain detection.Given a temporal sequence o…

Ensemble of Hankel Matrices for Face Emotion Recognition

2015

In this paper, a face emotion is considered as the result of the composition of multiple concurrent signals, each corresponding to the movements of a specific facial muscle. These concurrent signals are represented by means of a set of multi-scale appearance features that might be correlated with one or more concurrent signals. The extraction of these appearance features from a sequence of face images yields to a set of time series. This paper proposes to use the dynamics regulating each appearance feature time series to recognize among different face emotions. To this purpose, an ensemble of Hankel matrices corresponding to the extracted time series is used for emotion classification withi…