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Linear vs. non-linear classification of winners, drawers and losers at FIFA World Cup 2014
2017
Purpose: Tactical analyses to distinguish between football teams that were more or less successful have been conducted up to now only by means of linear methods (like discriminant analysis). Concer...
A virtual testbed for analysis and design of sensorimotoric aspects of agent control
1997
Abstract In this paper XRaptor is introduced, an object-oriented simulation tool. It provides a virtual multi-agent world which acts as testbed for agent control mechanisms. This environment encompasses a 3-dimensional space, in which the agents may move. Currently agents are realized modelling some abstract properties of flies and bats. XRaptor provides different levels of information flow and world manipulation capabilities from the agents' point of view. A further purpose of XRaptor is educational: Different teams of developers may design control units for agents which can then be subjected to a tournament.
Buckling and Postbuckling of Stiffened Composite Panels with Cracks and Delaminations by Ritz Approach
2017
A Ritz approach for the analysis of buckling and post-buckling of stiffened composite panels with through-the-thickness cracks and/or delaminations is presented. The structure is modeled as the assembly of plate elements whose behavior is described by the First-order Shear Deformation Theory and von Karman’s geometric nonlinearities. Penalty techniques ensure continuity along the edges of contiguous plate elements and the enforcement of the restraints on the external boundaries. They are also used to avoid interpenetration problems. General symmetric and unsymmetric stacking sequences are considered. A computer code has been developed and used to validate the proposed method, comparing the …
Presentation of Intercultural Competence in English Language Textbooks : The Case of a Private Language School in Iran
2016
As the objective of learning a foreign language is now defined in terms of intercultural competence, all aspects of an English as a foreign language (EFL) program are expected to be geared towards cultivating interculturality. The issue is specifically significant in the Iranian context, because of the indeterminate status of English language in the country, and also the growing need of intercultural competence for Iranians. The present study investigated to what extent the learning tasks in textbooks for adult courses in a private language institute aimed at increasing learners’ intercultural competence, and what dimensions of intercultural competence they addressed. The methodology center…
Reading activities in EFL-textbooks : an analysis of upper secondary school textbooks
2013
Lukutaito on yksi suomalaisen opetusjärjestelmän päätavoitteista.Vieraskielisten tekstien lukutaidon merkitys korostuu lukiossa, jossa oppilaiden lukutaitoa arvioidaan jatkuvasti kielitaidon erillisenä osa-alueena. Vaikka vieraalla kielellä lukeminen eroaa merkittävästi äidinkielellä lukemisesta ja sitä tulisi tarkastella ympäristöönsä sidottuna ilmiönä, suuri osa lukutaidon tutkimuksesta liittyy nimenomaan äidinkielellä lukemisen tutkimukseen. Tässä tutkielmassa arvioidaan lukion viimeisen kurssin oppimateriaaleja vieraan kielen opetuksen näkökulmasta. Pääasiallinen tutkimuskysymys on millaisia luetunymmärtämisen harjoituksia oppikirjat tarjoavat lukutaidon harjoittamiseksi. Tutkielmassa a…
The English present perfect in Finnish 7th grade EFL textbooks
2014
Kielioppi ja sen opettaminen ovat aina olleet keskeinen osa kielen tutkimusta ja opetusta, minkä johdosta teorioita siitä miten kielioppia tulisi opettaa on runsaasti. Sen sijaan tutkimusta erityisesti englannin oppikirjojen sisältämästä kieliopista on tehty vain vähän, vaikka oppikirjat ovat usein iso osa opetusta. Tutkielmassani tarkastelun kohteena on neljä yläasteen ensimmäiselle luokka-asteelle suunnattua oppikirjaparia ja se miten niissä opetetaan englannin perfekti. Tarkoituksenani oli tutkia ensinnäkin millaisia tehtäviä kirjoissa on perfektin opettamiseen ja toisekseen millaista kieliopin opettamisen suuntaa kirjat sisällön perusteella edustavat. Tutkimus on lähtökohdiltaan laadull…
Discursive approaches of football commentary in french and in romanian between printed press and digital press
2017
Our thesis proposes to analyse a sports-related phenomenon deeply rooted in the social environment – the football – by looking into its linguistic dimension. Our thesis is part of a comparative framework developed at two levels. Thus, a first level aims at a comparison between bilingual corpora made up of commentaries of League 1 football matches (season 2014-2015, in France and in Romania) and of commentaries of football matches of the World Cup in Brazil (2014), in French and in Romanian. These corpora are described by means of the criteria for their selection, collection and constitution. The second level – which constitutes the specificity of our approach – lies in the comparison of the…
Real-time PCR detection of Ochroconis lascauxensis involved in the formation of black stains in the Lascaux Cave, France
2012
A real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) assay was developed to detect and quantify Ochroconis lascauxensis in the Lascaux Cave in France. This fungus is the principal causal agent of the black stains threatening the Paleolithic paintings of this UNESCO World Heritage Site. The black stains outbreak could not be stopped in spite of using intensive biocide treatments. A sensitive and time-saving protocol is needed for determining the extent of the colonization. Sets of primers that target the ITS and RPB2 regions were designed and evaluated for specificity against O. lascauxensis. Genomic DNA extracted from five species of Ochroconis and 13 other fungal species frequently isolated from ca…
Assessment of fungi proliferation and diversity in cultural heritage: Reactions to UV-C treatment.
2018
International audience; Fungi are present in natural and non-touristic caves due to the presence of organic matter provided mainly by insects or animals such as bats. In show caves, however, tourist infrastructure and the visitors themselves are an important source of organic matter. In addition, photosynthetic biofilms provide a high amount of carbon and nitrogen sources for fungi. This study was conducted to identify the fungal communities present in caves along with the potential use of UV-C treatment against their proliferation. Thus, fungal communities proliferating in biofilms in six French and Swiss show caves were analyzed using high throughput sequencing. The results show 385 speci…
Real-time parameter estimation of Zika outbreaks using model averaging
2017
SUMMARYEarly prediction of the final size of any epidemic and in particular for Zika disease outbreaks can be useful for health authorities in order to plan the response to the outbreak. The Richards model is often been used to estimate epidemiological parameters for arboviral diseases based on the reported cumulative cases in single- and multi-wave outbreaks. However, other non-linear models can also fit the data as well. Typically, one follows the so called post selection estimation procedure, i.e., selects the best fitting model out of the set of candidate models and ignores the model uncertainty in both estimation and inference since these procedures are based on a single model. In this…