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Evaluation of the ARCore Indoor Localization Technology
2020
Augmented reality has become a very powerful tool nowadays. With the recent technological advance, smartphones have the ability to display augmented content on the screen. What makes the difference is the naturalness with which the multimedia content is superimposed over the video stream acquired with the phone's camera. This perfect overlay depends on the accurate estimation of the position and orientation of the smartphone's camera relative to the 3D representation of the space. ARCore is an augmented reality framework that computes the position and orientation of the smartphone. In order to assess the possibility of integrating ARCore within a virtual and augmented reality platform, we e…
Los balnearios valencianos: El declinar de una forma de ocio
1984
Este artículo intenta estudiar los balnearios de la provincia de Valencia como una forma de ocio. Destaca el rápido declinar que han sufrido estos establecimientos en los últimos años; esto ha ocasionado el cierre de la mayoría de ellos. Esta situación contrasta con la de otros países europeos donde los balnearios gozan de gran popularidad. Las causas de este declinar hay que buscarlas en el escaso interés que muestra la medicina española actual por este tipo de terapia y en la falta de protección oficial.
100 Million Filipinos
2017
The Philippine archipelago, with more than 100 million inhabitants, is the 12th most populous in the world, one the fastest growing and youngest countries in Asia, and will soon overtake an aging Japan. Causes of the high rate of population growth include the teachings of the influential Philippine Catholic Church (no divorce, contraception or abortion) and the active sexual life of young Filipinos. Many women become pregnant at a very early age, soon after puberty. The country has not developed population control policies as some other countries (Thailand, China) have. Therefore it has a very young population with few elderly people, a situation that may be good for the economy (demographi…
Are the Recommended Dietary Allowances for Vitamins Appropriate for Elderly People?
2015
Background: An adequate vitamin intake is essential for a good nutritional status, especially in older women, who are more sensitive to nutritional deficiencies. The American, European and Italian Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) derive mainly from studies on adults, and it is not clear whether they also apply to elderly people. Comparing the RDAs with the actual vitamin intake of a group of healthy older women could help to clarify the real needs of elderly people. Objective: Our aim was to compare the American, European, and Italian RDAs with the actual vitamin intake of a group of healthy older women. Design: This was a cross-sectional study. Participants: The study included 286 hea…
Dubbing dialogues… naturally: a pragmatic approach to the translation of transition markers in dubbing
2012
Although research in Audiovisual Translation is said to have come of age in the past decade, there are still several key issues that have not received the scholarly attention they deserve. In the case of dubbing, the study of the naturalness of dubbed dialogue is a case in point. The aim of the present article is to analyse the use of transition markers in dubbing in order to look precisely at the naturalness of dubbed dialogue while taking into account the dubbing constraints at play. This analysis is carried out by comparing the dubbed dialogue (English-Spanish) of a popular American sitcom to the non-translated but prefabricated dialogue of a Spanish sitcom and finally to spontaneous con…
Penkules evaņģēliski luteriskās baznīcas vēsture
2016
Bakalaura darbā „Penkules evaņģēliski luteriskās baznīcas vēsture” tika pētīta baznīcas un tās draudzes vēsture laika posmā no baznīcas celšanas 1865.gada līdz mūsdienām. Darbā galvenokārt apskatīta baznīcas celšanas vēsture, tās mācītāju un draudzes darbība dažādos laika posmos. Darba gaitā secināts, ka Penkules ev. lut. baznīcas un draudzes dzīve bijusi notikumiem bagātīga, kā arī jāpiemin tas, ka par šo tēmu bija pieejams salīdzinoši maz informācijas daudzums, no kura bija jāizveido detalizēts apraksts par Penkules baznīcu un draudzi. Izveidotais darbs palīdzētu apzināt un saglabāt aizmirstos kultūras pieminekļus Latvijas teritorijā.
Forest Naturalness in Northern Europe: Perspectives on Processes, Structures and Species Diversity
2011
Saving the remaining natural forests in northern Europe has been one of the main goals to halt the ongoing decline of forest biodiversity. To facilitate the recognition, mapping and efficient conservation of natural forests, there is an urgent need for a general formulation, based on ecological patterns and processes, of the concept of âforest naturalnessâ. However, complexity, structural idiosyncracy and dynamical features of unmanaged forest ecosystems at various spatio-temporal scales pose major challenges for such a formulation. The definitions hitherto used for the concept of forest naturalness can be fruitfully grouped into three dimensions: 1) structure-based concepts of natural …
Agricultural landscapes and biodiversity conservation: a case study in Sicily (Italy)
2015
The diversity of life is made up not only of the diversity of plants and animal species, habitats and ecosystems, but also of the diversity of human cultures. These diversities interact with one another in complex ways and express the mutual adaptation between humans and the environment at local level. Sicilian traditional agro-ecosystems, due to the history of the territory and the resulting social and economic context, are configured in a heterogeneous mosaic rich in residual features of environmental value, which enhance the connectivity of the ecological network and support a high proportion of species that are rare or of conservation concern. As a case study we analyzed the characteris…
The state of global hunger.
2008
With the passing of another world day Against Hunger (on 30 October), it is time to take stock of the state of global hunger. Sadly, Millennium goals are still far from being reached, and over 800 million people suffer from malnutrition in the world. The latest core health indicators from the World
Ecumenical issues in Józef Herbut’s philosophy of religion
2020
Filozofia religii była jednym z głównych nurtów badań prof. Józefa Herbuta. Stworzył on oryginalną odmianę analitycznej filozofię religii. Przy pomocy środków logicznych analizował w niej różne wymiary religii, przede wszystkim język religijny. W ostatnim okresie twórczości do swych badań filozoficznych Herbut włączył zagadnienia ekumeniczne. Jego badania tych zagadnień miały dwa etapy. W pierwszym etapie Herbut próbował stworzyć specyficzną logikę ekumenizmu. Postawił on hipotezę, że przyczyną kryzysu dialogu ekumenicznego jest brak wyraźnie określonego celu. Wykorzystując logiczną teorię zbiorów, Herbut skonstruował możliwe modele jedności doktrynalnej różnych wyznań. Modele te zostały sk…