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Using UAV Based 3D Modelling to Provide Smart Monitoring of Road Pavement Conditions
2020
Road pavements need adequate maintenance to ensure that their conditions are kept in a good state throughout their lifespans. For this to be possible, authorities need efficient and effective databases in place, which have up to date and relevant road condition information. However, obtaining this information can be very difficult and costly and for smart city applications, it is vital. Currently, many authorities make maintenance decisions by assuming road conditions, which leads to poor maintenance plans and strategies. This study explores a pathway to obtain key information on a roadway utilizing drone imagery to replicate the roadway as a 3D model. The study validates this by using stru…
Attempts for Common Understanding of the Concept of Worker as a Consequence of Globalisation?
2017
AbstractGlobalisation may concern many different issues, among others, the increase in migration that creates opportunities for all. There should be no doubt that globalisation can bring both positive and negative effects to workers. It can be seen as new opportunities for people, because they can travel, work, learn and live in different countries. Simultaneously however it can be perceived as synonymous to job losses, social injustice, or low environmental, health, and privacy standards. As a result of globalisation, the world is becoming more and more complex and the economic importance of state borders is reduced. It should therefore not raise doubts, that global problems require the ca…
The Crisis of Free Movement in the European Union
2017
L’articolo argomenta che la costruzione istituzionale del processo di integrazione dell’Unione europea ha promosso la libera circolazione, producendo pero un effetto boomerang a causa delle dinamiche meccanicistiche che la caratterizzano. La reazione contro la liberta di movimento si manifesta nella riduzione dei diritti sociali riconosciuti ai cittadini , che a sua volta produce un incremento della precarieta dei migranti interni. Considerato l’elevato numero di cittadini UE mobili, limitare il loro accesso alla cittadinanza significa creare una vasta sottoclasse, poiche gli individui possono muoversi da un posto all’altro per lavorare, ma hanno un accesso differenziato ai diritti sociali …
¿Atenuación del compromiso del hablante?: el caso de los evidenciales "por lo visto" y "se ve que"
2018
espanolBuena parte de la bibliografia sobre marcadores evidenciales en espanol senala la atenuacion del compromiso (o responsabilidad) de lo dicho como uno de sus rasgos definitorios. Sin embargo, tanto la nocion de atenuacion como la de compromiso del hablante se han empleado con distintas acepciones, segun los trabajos. En primer lugar, se revisan estas acepciones y se propone, siguiendo a Cornillie/Delbecque, distinguir las nociones compromiso del hablante de implicacion del hablante, las cuales funcionan de manera inversa en algunos usos evidenciales: (i) de las evidencias reportativas a las inferenciales conjeturales hay una escala de menos a mas implicacion del hablante; (ii) en las e…
Metaphors in the mirror: The influence of teaching metaphors in a medical education programme
2016
Medical students often face problems in using and understanding metaphors when communicating with a patient or reading a scientific paper. These figures of speech constitute an interpretative problem and students need key strategies to facilitate metaphor comprehension and disambiguation of meaning. This article examines how medical students' strategies of metaphor comprehension could be improved by specific teaching on metaphors using a Cognitive Linguistics approach. Medical students' ability to comprehend mirror neuron metaphors was assessed comparing the performance of students who did not receive any instruction about metaphoric extension strategies after a lesson on mirror neurons wit…
Eye Movement Analyses for Obtaining Readability Formula for Latvian Texts for Primary School
2017
To determine the difficulty of text, readability formulas can be used. The research was made to find readability formula for Latvian. Readability formulas for English were used as guidelines. The novelty was the use of eye movement tracking during reading to obtain quantitative data that lead to readability formula. Eye fixation durations were gathered during readability measurements. Average values of fixation durations were calculated to characterize texts and readers. 15 texts with various difficulty levels were composed for exposing them to readers. More than 300 children of grades 1 - 4 were participating in measurements. Average values of eye fixation durations of readers from a certa…
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FOREIGN LANGUAGE ENJOYMENT AND GENDER AMONG SECONDARY GRAMMAR SCHOOL STUDENTS
2018
In the context of second language acquisition, foreign language enjoyment (FLE) is a relatively new concept. For that reason, none of the few research carried out in the field thus far has been focused on whether gender might be an important determinant of either a high or a low level of FLE. Thus, the purpose of the present paper was to examine the influence of FLE on learning English as a foreign language, as well as to investigate this relationship from the perspective of gender. The results of this study revealed that there are no statistically significant differences between males and females in FLE, while such differences are found in terms of the sources of FLE each gender perceives …
Sociología, Derecho y desigualdades sociales. Una propuesta de docencia universitaria crítica
2019
Fil: Di Nella, Dino. Universidad Nacional de Río Negro. Río Negro, Argentina. Fil: Almeda, Elisabet. Universidad de Barcelona. Catalunya, España. Fil: Camps Calvet, Clara. Universidad de Barcelona. Catalunya, España. Fil: Giordana, Patricia. Universidad Nacional de Río Negro. Río Negro, Argentina. Fil: Loggiacco, Camila. Universidad Nacional de Río Negro. Río Negro, Argentina. Fil: D'Alfonso, Luis. Universidad Nacional de Río Negro. Río Negro, Argentina. Critic education in human rights and social inequalities must be able to capture holistic and mutidmiensional sphere that Human Rights requires. This study introduces the basis in which critic university teaching proposal is carectarized by…
Dal 15M al 24M: il maggio spagnolo da Democracia Real Ya (DRY) a Podemos
2015
Gli elementi che indignarono gli aderenti al movimento del 15M erano connessi alla politica dettata dall’austerity, alla disoccupazione record, alla precarizzazione dei giovani con l’incremento dei contratti a termine, alle misure di ristrutturazione e riduzione dello Stato sociale, attuate allora dal Governo Zapatero su pressione di BCE e FMI, e appoggiate dal Partito Popolare. Un forte sdegno investiva inoltre una classe politica percepita come altamente corrotta in un Paese in crisi (nel 2009 – c’erano stati ben 730 processi pendenti a carico di amministratori pubblici, con il primato del PSOE con 264 casi di corruzione aperti, seguito dai 200 casi del PP). Già nel giugno 2011 si assiste…
Radical sex role ideology and the Finnish gender role movement in the late 1960s
2022
An active discussion of gender roles and the need to renegotiate them took place in the late 1960s in Finland. While previous studies have associated this ‘sex role debate’ with the independent civic organisation Association 9, this article focuses on the wider gender role movement. The article analyses the interplay and differences among the Finnish Women’s Democratic League, the Committee for Women’s Status, and Association 9’s grassroots activism between 1965 and 1970. It demonstrates that similar ideas about sex roles were presented simultaneously in two public spheres: the dominant public, where the ideas were promoted by Association 9, and the people’s democratic counterpublic, which …