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Measuring user response to attention guidance using the Integrated Cognitive User assistance system
Get PDFInteraction between active tectonics, bottom-current processes and coral mounds:A unique example in the NW Moroccan Margin, southern Gulf of Cadiz
Get PDFA Mismatched Piece in a Cultural Middle Stone Age Puzzle:Traces of Human Activity Dated to 90 kya (MIS 5) at Sites EDAR 134 and 155 in the Eastern Sahara, Sudan
Get PDFShape analysis of AF segments for rapid assessment of Mohs layers for BCC presence by AF-Raman microscopy
Get PDFAn automated method to detect Basal Cell Carcinoma (BCC) relies on Autofluorescence (AF) imaging guiding Raman microscopy to obtain biochemical information for tissue classification. The guidance is provided via an image segmentation technique aiming to reduce the risk of missing cancer. We present evidence that shape of an AF segment may be useful for ‘trimming’ 6-8% of non-BCC segments in an essentially coordinate free manner, without compromising BCC detection. Byallowing the AF-Raman method to direct the more time consuming Raman analysis toward more relevant regions, the proposed trimming of unnecessary segments should ultimately improve the overall accuracy. The presented shape analysis uses the recently introduced Weighted Euler Curve Transform (WECT). WECT embeds segments in a space of real matrices of fixed dimensions, where a shape is an equivalence class of segments with WECTs matching under a cyclic permutation of columns. The induced rotation invariant distance is non-Hilbertian, which requires special care in using it with kernel methods (e.g. Kernel PCA, Kernel LDA, SVMs). Our currently best results are achieved by L1 SVMs based on the Laplace ‘kernel’
Security and Privacy Issues of Distributed, Complex P2P Smart Grid Marketplace Systems
Get PDFThe development of distributed, complex systems has influenced the design of modern infrastructure. These systems, characterized by networked structures, diverse functionalities, and inherent complexity, drive innovation across various sectors.The energy sector, which is transitioning from conventional power grids to smart grids, demonstrates this paradigm shift. Driven by the need for sustainability, increased system resilience, and rising global energy demand, smart grids embody the distributed systems approach, integrating decentralized energy resources, real-time energy trading, and advanced communication technologies has created a dynamic and complex energy landscape. This transformation presents new challenges in security, privacy, and scalability.In this thesis, we focus on a key component of smart grids: marketplaces. We address these challenges to security, privacy, and scalability by proposing novel models and architectures for application to P2P marketplaces. This thesis proposes a decentralized P2P architecture for energy trading, tackling security and privacy concerns inherent in smart grids and P2P marketplaces. Leveraging the cryptographic properties of distributed ledger technology (DLT), the model ensures transaction integrity and non-repudiation. Additionally, the integration of off-chain state channels further enhances privacy and scalability. We extend on that proposal by conducting a study on off-chain processing, developing a model that balances scalability and security improvements in smart grids while reducing security costs. Our test-driven development and security analysis proves the feasibility of the protocol. Finally, we address privacy risks within marketplaces by researching privacy-preserving techniques for identity verification and reputation-building systems and conclude our research objectives by giving future research directions
Theorising Bad Faith in International Relations:Climate Change, Deception and the Negotiation of International Order
Get PDFThis study examines how climate-vulnerable states charge major carbonemitters with bad faith behaviors, how those emitters respond in ways thatoften confirm the bad faith charges, and what vulnerable states proposeas policy alternatives. Using an existentialist conceptualization of bad faithand Bassan-Nygate and Heimann’s four response mechanisms – projection,distortion, displacement, and rationalization – we identify how majoremitters try to negate bad faith claims in ways that are deceptive of theself and the other. Major emitters require self-ref lection to identify howthey are not meeting international climate policy agreements and beginto address what they must change (about themselves), but vulnerable statesnote that this ref lection is absent. This study of 399 speeches by nationalleaders at three climate summits opens directions for scholars, activists andpolicymakers to understand how interactions around bad faith illuminatethe politics of bad faith and the potential for change this contains
Colonial Dualities:Special Journal Issue: Dynamics of Taiwanese Transformation
Get PDFWe bring five articles together:1. Chun-Tse Hsieh, "Between Empires: The Dialect and Commercial Networks of Siam-Taiwan Tea Merchants (1885–1915)"2. James Gerien-Chen, "The Contradictions of Merchant Capital and Nationality between the Qing and Japanese Empires (1895–1905)"3. Yuju Lin, "Transnationalism or Nativism? The Construction and Disintegration of Cross-Straits Dual Families between Taiwan and Fujian during the Qing-Japan Regime Transition"4. Weipin Tsai, "At the Qing Empire’s Taiwan Frontier: Identities of the Chinese Maritime Customs Commissioners during the Sino-French War and the First Sino-Japanese War"5. Er-Jian Yeh, "Colonial Actors in Dualities: Japanese Research on Colonial Era Philippine Forestry"<br/
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