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ADAM SMITH'S OPTIMISTIC TELEOLOGICAL VIEW OF HISTORY
No full textAdam Smith's four-stage theory provides the framework for his writings on history. The fourth stage is the commercial epoch; the culmination of history in this stage is a key component in the conventional interpretation of Adam Smith as a prophet of commercialism. In two historical case studies Smith shows the capacity of commercial society to regenerate itself. This potent capacity suggests that commercial society is inevitable. At a certain point in time it also overcomes the major obstacles to its permanence. Smith's philosophy of history anticipates the end of history views of Kant and Hegel.Political Economy,
Heterofunctional Coordination in German
No full textAdam Przepiórkowski, Julia Łukasiewicz-Pater, Katarzyna Kuś, Bartosz Maćkiewicz, "Heterofunctional Coordination in German" (forthcoming in "The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics"
How Might Adam Smith Pay Professors Today?
No full textAdam Smith’s proposal for paying professors was intended to induce increased faculty knowledge. If students have imperfect information about what they learn, and universities can only imperfectly measure the input of faculty time in student learning, publications may be used to measure faculty knowledge. If professors’ ability to publish is positively related to their ability to produce student learning, which universities can imperfectly measure, publications may be necessary to attract more able professors. Since research signals faculty knowledge, schools that do not value publications per se could require higher publication standards and pay higher wages than schools that value only publications.
Heterofunctional Coordination in German
No full textAdam Przepiórkowski, Julia Łukasiewicz-Pater, Katarzyna Kuś, Bartosz Maćkiewicz, "Heterofunctional Coordination in German" (forthcoming in "The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics"
Crowd simulation (CrowdSim2) for tracking and object detection
No full textCrowdSim2 is an extension of crowd simulation tool designed in Unity for the purpose of generation massive synthetic data. Such a generated data from crowd simulation enables to validate various methods in terms of tracking multiple people and detect objects (in that example pedestrians and cars).
Information summarizing number of folders, seconds and frames of data for different weather conditions
Condition
Folders
Seconds
Frames
Sun
2899
86 970
2 174 250
Rain
1633
48 990
1 224 750
Fog
1653
49 590
1 239 750
Snow
1646
49 380
1 234 500
Due to the limitations of the Zenodo platform, we could only include part of data here. If you are interested in the entire collection - please visit the project website: CrowdSim
Acknowledgments
This work was supported by: European Union funds awarded to Blees Sp. z o.o. under grant POIR.01.01.01-00-0952/20-00 “Development of a system for analysing vision data captured by public transport vehicles interior monitoring, aimed at detecting undesirable situations/behaviours and passenger counting (including their classification by age group) and the objects they carry”); EC H2020 project “AI4media: a Centre of Excellence delivering next generation AI Research and Training at the service of Media, Society and Democracy” under GA 951911; research project (RAU-6, 2020) and projects for young scientists of the Silesian University of Technology (Gliwice, Poland); research project INAROS (INtelligenza ARtificiale per il mOnitoraggio e Supporto agli anziani), Tuscany POR FSE CUP B53D21008060008. Publication supported under the Excellence Initiative - Research University program implemented at the Silesian University of Technology, year 2022. This research was supported by the European Union from the European Social Fund in the framework of the project ”Silesian University of Technology as a Center of Modern Education based on research and innovation” POWR.03.05.00- 00-Z098/17 We are thankful for students participating in design of Crowd Simulator: Piotr Bartosz, Stanisław Wróbel, Marcin Wola, Angelika Gluch and Marek Matuszczyk.
Citing the Crowdsim 2
The Crowdsim 2 is released under a Creative Commons Attribution license, so please cite the Crowdsim 2 if it is used in your work in any form.
Published academic papers should use the academic paper citation for our Crowdsim 2 paper, where we evaluated several pre-trained state-of-the-art object detectors focusing on the detection of the overboard people
TBA: Article citations using this dataset will appear here
and this Zenodo Dataset
@dataset{crowdsim2_zenodo,
title={Crowd simulation (CrowdSim2) for tracking and object detection},
DOI={10.5281/zenodo.7262220},
publisher={Zenodo},
author={Agnieszka Szczęsna and Paweł Foszner and Adam Cygan and Bartosz Bizoń and Michał Cogiel and Dominik Golba and Luca Ciampi and Nicola Messina and Elżbieta Macioszek and Michał Staniszewski},
year={2023},
month={Feb}
ADAM SMITH'S VIEW OF HISTORY: CONSISTENT OR PARADOXICAL?
No full textThe conventional interpretation of Adam Smith is that he is a prophet of commercialism. The liberal capitalist reading of Smith is consistent with the view that history culminates in commercial society. The first part of the article develops this optimistic interpretation of Smith's view of history. Smith implies that commercial society is the end of history because 1) it supplies the ends of nature that he identifies; 2) it is inevitable; and 3) it is permanent. The second part of the article shows that Smith has some dark moments in his writings where he seems to reject completely such teleological notions. In this more civic humanist mood he confesses that commercial society does not supply the ends of nature, nor is it inevitable, nor is it permanent. Both views exist in Smith and the commentator is forced to choose between passages in Smith's work in order to support a particular interpretation of the former's view of history.Political Economy,
Gypsies – A Description by Andrzej Wojtas
No full textAdam Bartosz provided an introduction to Andrzej Wojtas’ document. The author of the notes on the Gypsy people was one of the “social experts” for ethnography students doing their field research in Spisz (the Carpathians) in the 1970’s. They asked him to write down his memories and reflections on Carpathian Gypsies (Bergitka Roma) who settled down in his village. The text is both a document of Gypsy life in the first half of the 20th century, and a record of opinions and judgments about them, expressed by the local village communities. Apart from being informative it shows great literary value.E Adam Bartośesqëro tèksto si jekh padmad, savi liʒal dr-o dokumènto e Andrzej Wojtasesqëro. Akada avtòro, savo lekhlǎs pal-o Rroma, sas e etnografiaqëre studentěnqe Krakowosθe jekh „sociàlo ekspèrti”, kana keren sas rodlǎripen p-o terèni dr-e Karpatenqëro Spiśo dr-o berśa ’70 e nakhle seliberśesqëre. Pala so sar mangle jone lesθar, lekhlǎs pesqëre serimàta aj godidimàta pal-o beślǎrde karpatika (ja „bergìtka”) Rroma, save beśen sas dre lesqëro gav. Akada tèksto si vipalvaxte jekh dokumènto pala akala Rromenqëro ʒivipen dr-o angluno dopaś e XX-tone śeliberśesqëro thaj kidipen opìnie aj dikhimàta pala lenθe, sar athòska dikhen sas len e gavesqëre gaʒe. Khrigal śaj te uśardǒl lesqëri ahor sar literàro kreàcia.Natalia Gancar
Agentowy system SOA wykorzystujący aukcje do przydziału zadań
No full textTyt. z nagłówka.Pozostali autorzy artykułu: Bartosz Czerwiński, Adam Kudła, Jarosław Koźlak, Małgorzata Żabińska.Bibliogr. s. 69-70.Dostępny również w formie drukowanej.STRESZCZENIE: W pracy przedstawiona jest koncepcja wieloagentowego system opartego na architekturze SOA, który został zastosowany do zarządzania procesem złożonej akcji ratowniczej, w trakcie której wykorzystywane są zasoby oferowane przez służby publiczne różnych typów. Do celu przeprowadzenia efektywnego procesu decyzyjnego dotyczącego przydziału zasobów związanych ze świadczoną usługą zostały wykorzystane różne rodzaje aukcji. SŁOWA KLUCZOWE: systemy wieloagentowe, service oriented architecture, aukcje, akcja ratownicza. ABSTRACT: In this paper the concept of a multi-agent system based on SOA is presented. It was applied to the management of complex rescue actions, during which the resources offered by public services of different types are used. For the sake of an efficient decision process performance related to resources connected with the services required, various types of auctions were used. KEYWORDS: multi-agent system, service oriented architecture, auctions, integrated rescue action
Gershwin spectacular
No full textRecorded during a live performance at Dalton Center Recital Hall, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, October 29, 1998, 8:00 p.m., the 90th concert of the School of Music's 1998-1999 season.University Jazz Lab Band, Thomas Knific, director ; various soloists.Information from performance program.I got rhythm / George Gershwin ; arranged by Rob McConnell (Rob Haight, Erin Melody McLennon, alto saxophone ; Carrie Krueger, Jay Melton, trombone) -- There's a boat dat's leavin' soon for New York City / George Gershwin ; arranged by Keith Foley (Bartosz Hadala, piano ; Chris Knobel, tenor saxophone) -- Passion flower / Billy Strayhorn (Erin Melody McLennon, alto saxophone) -- Tiger of San Pedro / John LaBarbera (Chris Knobel, tenor saxophone ; Jay Siverson, trombone ; Robert Weissert, trumpet ; Kevin Garcia, percussion ; Carl Nilsen, drums) -- Our love is here to stay / George & Ira Gershwin (Tina Thielen-Gaffey, vocals ; Bartosz Hadala, piano ; Carl Nilsen, drums ; Mark Ziegler, bass ; Adam Bergeron, trumpet ; Erin Melody McLennon, alto saxophone) -- What might have been / Bob Mintzer (Chris Knobel, tenor saxophone) -- It ain't necessarily so / George Gershwin ; arranged by Chris Dedrick (Bartosz Hadala, piano ; Robert Weissert, trumpet ; Erin Melody McLennon, alto saxophone) -- Rhapsody in blue / George Gershwin ; arranged by Bob Lowden (Bartosz Hadala, piano ; Adam Bergeron, trumpet ; Jay Melton, trombone ; Rob Haight, alto saxophone)
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