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Towards Next Generation System Architecture for Emergency Services
2011
European Union has decided that all emergencies can be reported to authorities by European citizens by calling 112 or sending a text message to 112. Distributing warnings and alerts of authorities to citizens currently happens through national TV and radio channels, but telecom networks are also used now in some countries for this purpose. During the last ten years there have been attempts to develop new system architectures for various emergency service provision phases. Some of them are already deployed in special cases, like in ambulance services. Multimedia emergency alert messages can be delivered to citizens over fixed and mobile telecom networks and commercial systems are already in …
Coat darkness is associated with social dominance and mating behaviour in a mountain sheep hybrid lineage
2008
Natural hybridization can produce novel traits when morphologically different populations hybridize, and can introduce variation in traits that become associated with sexual selection. Evidence from breeding experiments and genetic markers indicate that the great variation in coat darkness and the unique coat patterns found in Stone's sheep Ovis dalli stonei, populations, have resulted from an ancient hybridization event between thinhorn sheep, O. dalli, and bighorn sheep, O. canadensis. Behavioural evidence gathered in 2003 and 2004 in Yukon Territory, Canada, showed that higher dominance rank was correlated with increasing darkness in rams, and comparatively darker rams were seen more oft…
Vetting and verifying multimodal false information. A challenge for democratic societies
2021
The rapid proliferation of fake news is a challenge for free societies, founded on freedom of expression and information, endangering their democratic systems through audience confusion. Fake news is a type of disinformation with the ability to alter the logical orientation of readers, and as evidenced in different academic publications, it can radicalize the citizen and favour violence. This news is also created to confuse audiences and reinforce certain trends. This is important enough to produce a scientific interest in information science studies and urge the creation of tools capable of detecting and identifying this type of news, especially those disseminated by social networks, where…
Bajarse al moro en modo travelling. Hacia una caracterización interdiscursiva de la competencia comunicativa audiovisual
2018
Las últimas aportaciones en el desarrollo teórico de la competencia comunicativa audiovisual destacan la idoneidad de diseñar secuencias de enseñanza-aprendizaje en las que se propicie un enfoque metodológico basado en el contraste entre diferentes versiones de una misma producción artística. Partiendo, pues, de estas premisas teóricas, este estudio pretende contribuir al desarrollo de la competencia comunicativa audiovisual mediante el diseño de una secuencia didáctica sobre la obra teatral Bajarse al moro. Con ello se persigue ofrecer un camino metodológico singular en el marco de las enseñanzas medias y universitarias. The design of didactic sequences in which it promotes a methological …
Measuring Behavior in the Home Cage: Study Design, Applications, Challenges, and Perspectives
2021
Contains fulltext : 239279.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) The reproducibility crisis (or replication crisis) in biomedical research is a particularly existential and under-addressed issue in the field of behavioral neuroscience, where, in spite of efforts to standardize testing and assay protocols, several known and unknown sources of confounding environmental factors add to variance. Human interference is a major contributor to variability both within and across laboratories, as well as novelty-induced anxiety. Attempts to reduce human interference and to measure more "natural" behaviors in subjects has led to the development of automated home-cage monitoring systems. These syste…
A touchless gestural system for extended information access within a campus
2017
In the last two decades, we have witnessed a growing spread of touchless interfaces, facilitated by higher performances of computational systems, as well as the increased availability of cheaper sensors and devices. Putting the focus on gestural input, several researchers and designers used Kinect-like devices to implement touchless gestural interfaces. The latter extends the possible deployments and usage of public interactive displays. For example, wall-sized displays may become interactive even if they are unreachable by touch. Moreover, billboard-sized displays may be placed in safe cases to avoid vandalism, while still maintaining their interactivity. Finally, people with temporary or …
Fusion Architectures for Word-Based Audiovisual Speech Recognition
2020
UbiRoad: Semantic Middleware for Context-Aware Smart Road Environments
2010
A smart road environment is such a traffic environment that is equipped with all necessary facilities to enable seamless mobile service provisioning to the users. However, advanced sensors and network architectures deployed within the traffic environment are insufficient to make mobile service provisioning autonomous and proactive, thus minimizing drivers’ distraction during their presence in the environment. For that, an Intelligent Transportation System, which is operating on top of numerous sensor and access networks and governing the process of mobile services provisioning to the users in self-managed and proactive way, must be deployed. Specifically, such system should provide solution…
Applied mathematics concepts Self-learning through the use of short educational videos
2019
It is sometimes difficult for the student to actively participate in the learning process due to the difficulty that teachers find when trying to cover all the contents of a course with sufficient time and attention. This lack of time prevents professors from properly stimulating the student's active participation in class, which is always necessary for achieving a deep and significant learning. The present paper describes a flipped-classroom-based methodology that fosters autonomous learning of applied mathematics contents through the use of short educational videos. The use of on-line media learning resources has dramatically increased in the last decade in higher education, not only unde…
Repensando narrativas na produção audiovisual: E roubaram a África de mim
2015
A proposta pedagógica aqui apresentada tem a ver com o projeto de criação de uma narrativa audiovisual, cujo objetivo principal foi fomentar a reflexão e permitir aos participantes repensar as narrativas na produção audiovisual por meio da abertura e do incremento de caminhos interpretativos possíveis. A narrativa foi produzida por meio do trabalho colaborativo entre dois tipos de participantes: uns com formação literária e outros com formação audiovisual. O produto desse trabalho colaborativo multidisciplinar foi um projeto muito enriquecedor que mostrou negociações no espaço e que, ao mesmo tempo, foi o resultado das negociações dos próprios autores quanto ao processo criativo.