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THE DESIGN OF WAITING AREAS TO OPTIMIZE THE STORAGE CAPACITY IN THE MARINE INTERMODAL TERMINALS
2009
The appropriate sizing of storage areas to optimize the management of intermodal transport, the adoption of environment protection systems and the appropriate flow’s regulations inside manoeuvre’s zones can solve many problems encountered today in a intermodal marine terminal. For these reasons the “integrated design” of storage areas for vehicles and containers is considered essential to ensure efficiency and functionality for all harbour-system. So is here proposed a simulative model as a tool for a more correct design of waiting areas by considering the real stochastic conditions of the process of the arrivals. For the sizing of areas for containers in the harbours, it is necessary to re…
Vad är jultomten gjort av? : representationerna av jultomten på två webbplatser
2013
Tutkielmassa tarkastellaan joulupukin representaatioiden rakentumista yhdellä suomalaisella ja yhdellä ruotsalaisella verkkosivustolla. Aiheen tutkiminen on kiinnostavaa sillä fiktiivisiä hahmoja ei juuri ole ennen tutkittu diskurssintutkimuksen keinoin. Fiktiiviset hahmot ja asiat, sekä niihin liittyvät tarinat vaikuttavat kuitenkin yhteiskuntaamme, uskomuksiimme ja käyttäytymiseemme. Joulupukkia kuvaavia multimodaalisia tekstejä on analysoitu käyttäen hyväksi representaation ja diskurssien käsitteitä. Pyrin vastaamaan seuraaviin tutkimuskysymyksiin: 1) Millaiset representaatiot Joulupukista on rakennettu? 2) Mitä diskursseja on käytetty Joulupukin merkityksellisestämisessä? 3) Mitä semioo…
Application of finger span cross modality matching method (FSCM) by naive assessors for olfactometric discrimination of Gewürztraminer wines
2002
Abstract A gas-chromatography-olfactometric detection (GCO) using a direct estimation of odor intensities with the finger span (FSCM) was used to establish aroma profiles of three wines of gewurztraminer from different ‘terroirs’ of the Alsace region. The GCO-FSCM analyses of their hydroalcoholic wine extracts were performed using a group of untrained assessors. Forty-four olfactory signals were perceived by at least four assessors out of six and their intensities were scored in triplicate in each of the three wine extracts, amongst which ten of them were found discriminant between wines. The reliability of each assessor was studied on the basis of the finger span estimation repeatability, …
The Christian Art Scene in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2016
The Christian artists introduced here from Yogyakarta, Indonesia; all have at least some academic background, and most are converted Muslims. In different degrees, their work attempts to contextualize Christian faith in the cultural-religious pluralism of present-day Indonesia. In doing so, they contribute to the development of Indonesian theology.
Viscoelasticity: an electrical point of view
2014
Time dependent hereditary properties of complex materials are well described by power-laws with real order exponent. This experimental observation and analogous electrical experiments, yield a description of these properties by using fractional-order operators. In this paper, elasto-viscous and visco-elastic behaviors of fractional order hereditary materials are firstly described by using fractional mathematical operators, based on recent work of some of the authors. Then, electrical analogous models are introduced. Viscoelastic models have elastic and viscous components which can be obtained by combining springs and dashpots: these models can be equivalently viewed as electrical circuits, …
Exploiting multimodality for intelligent mobile access to pervasive services in cultural heritage sites
2010
In this chapter the role of multimodality in intelligent, mobile guides for cultural heritage environments is discussed. Multimodal access to information contents enables the creation of systems with a higher degree of accessibility and usability. A multimodal interaction may involve several human interaction modes, such as sight, touch and voice to navigate contents, or gestures to activate controls. We first start our discussion by presenting a timeline of cultural heritage system evolution, spanning from 2001 to 2008, which highlights design issues such as intelligence and context-awareness in providing information. Then, multimodal access to contents is discussed, along with problems an…
"Nerdfighters, we did it" : means of building a sense of community on the YouTube channel Vlogbrothers
2015
YouTube on tärkeä uusi ilmiö ja suosittu viihdekanava etenkin nuorten keskuudessa. YouTube-yhteisöjen suosiosta huolimatta ei niistä ole vielä tehty juurikaan tutkimusta, ja nettiyhteisöjen tutkimus onkin kohdistunut lähinnä tekstipohjaisiin yhteisöihin, kuten foorumeihin. Tutkielmani tarkoituksena on selvittää, kuinka YouTuben videobloggaajat rakentavat yhteisöllisyyden tunnetta faniensa keskuudessa. Tutkimuskohteenani on YouTube-kanava Vlogbrothers, jolla on yli kaksi miljoonaa vakituista katsojaa ja jonka ympärille on rakentunut poikkeuksellisen tiivis kansainvälinen katsojayhteisö. Videodataa analysoimalla pyrin erottamaan erilaisia keinoja, joilla vloggaajat vahvistavat yhteisöllisyyde…
"So today I want to talk to you guys about something" : coming out videos and the stance features of YouTube celebrity-fan relationships
2017
YouTube kasvattaa jatkuvasti suosiotaan viihdepalveluna ja on tuonut suosituimmille sisällöntuottajille eli ’tubettajille’ myös laajaa julkisuutta. YouTube-julkisuutta ei ole kuitenkaan ilmiönä tutkittu vielä kovinkaan paljon, ja erityisesti YouTube-videoiden multimodaaliset piirteet ovat jääneet toistaiseksi tutkimushuomion ulkopuolelle. Videopalvelussa on myös huomattava queer-edustus, ja seksuaalivähemmistöjen videotuotantoja onkin tutkittu jo jonkin verran lähinnä sosiologisesta näkökulmasta käsin. Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoituksena on tutkia kielitieteellisen stance-käsitteen avulla, miten suositut tubettajat asennoituvat videoissaan yleisöään ja fanejaan kohtaan. Tutkimusaineistona on kä…
An optimized algorithm of image stitching in the case of a multi-modal probe for monitoring the evolution of scars
2013
International audience; We propose a new system that makes possible to monitor the evolution of scars after the excision of a tumorous dermatosis. The hardware part of this system is composed of a new optical innovative probe with which two types of images can be acquired simultaneously: an anatomic image acquired under a white light and a functional one based on autofluorescence from the protoporphyrin within the cancer cells. For technical reasons related to the maximum size of the area covered by the probe, acquired images are too small to cover the whole scar. That is why a sequence of overlapping images is taken in order to cover the required area. The main goal of this paper is to des…
Palmprint and face score level fusion: hardware implementation of a contactless small sample biometric system
2011
Including multiple sources of information in personal identity recognition and verification gives the opportunity to greatly improve performance. We propose a contactless biometric system that combines two modalities: palmprint and face. Hardware implementations are proposed on the Texas Instrument Digital Signal Processor and Xilinx Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) platforms. The algorithmic chain consists of a preprocessing (which includes palm extraction from hand images), Gabor feature extraction, comparison by Hamming distance, and score fusion. Fusion possibilities are discussed and tested first using a bimodal database of 130 subjects that we designed (uB database), and then two …