335 research outputs found
Sun Yuqi e Sérgio Capparelli: história de uma tradução
No full textRelato sentimental de uma leitura dos Poemas Clássicos Chineses, tradução de Sérgio Capparelli e Sun Yuqi. Lançado em 2012, pela editora L&PM de Porto Alegre, Brasil. O livro contém uma tradução de três poetas máximos da Literatura Chinesa, a saber: Li Bai, Du Fu e Wang Wei (todos eles da dinastia Tang, séc. VIII d. C.). O livro dos tradutores brasileiros será tratado com múltiplas referências ao clássico de Lao Tzu (老子), o Tao Te Ching (道德經, séc. VI a.C.), e ao poema do escritor português Camilo Pessanha (1867-1926), “Ao longe os barcos de flores” (1899).
Perceptual Sequence Learning Without Awareness
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PURPOSE: The serial reaction time (SRT) task has been widely used to investigate whether sequence learning can occur without awareness. However, in most of the SRT tasks, the stimuli can be perceived consciously, and the question is whether people can acquire perceptual or motor sequence knowledge at the unconscious level. It remains unclear whether people can acquire perceptual knowledge when the stimuli in a sequence are invisible or subliminal.
METHODS: In this study, we used continuous flash suppression (CFS) method to explore whether people can learn the serial order of subliminal stimuli. During the familiarization phase, distinct flash patterns were presented to the dominant eye and novel symbols of four triplets were presented to the other eye in the subliminal condition, while the flash patterns and symbols were presented simultaneously in both eyes in the visible control condition. During the test phase, a continuous stream of 12 visible symbols was presented to the same eye as in the familiarization phase in a rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) task, and participants were asked to press a key when a target symbol was presented.
RESULTS: The results showed that the detection latency was faster when the target was the third symbol of the triplets than it was the first symbol of the triplets in the CFS condition, but there was no such location effect in the control condition.
CONCLUSIONS: The results indicate that perceptual sequence learning can occur even when the stimuli are invisible, although people do not express sequence learning effects when the stimuli are visible.</p
Dataset for multispectral illumination estimation using deep unrolling network
No full textThis work was supported by the KAUST baseline funding
Effect of sucrose concentration on the micropropagation of the chilean geophyt, oziroe arida poepp
No full textResearch on the Development of Voice Assistants in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
No full textVoice assistants have gradually occupied an important position in the products of many electronics companies. Artificial Intelligence voice assistants are able to interpret human speech and respond. Users can ask their assistant questions and manage other essential tasks such as email calendars through verbal commands. This paper analyzes the artificial intelligence voice assistant through the method of comparative analysis. The author studies the development situation of intelligent voice assistants, and compares the differences between Chinese and foreign voice assistants, and finally discusses the relationship between voice intelligent assistants and people’s lives. The author found that users in different countries have different functional preferences for using voice assistants, but they can help people’s work and life to a great extent. In other words, voice assistants play an important role in contemporary society. Therefore, people need to better understand the relationship between humans and machin
Digital Integration of Medical Information (DIMI) in cardio-thoracic surgery in LUMC
No full textCommunication plays an essential role during open heart surgery. In order to improve the safety and the efficiency in the Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) surgery. This research indicated three projects focusing on solutions of gathering and integrating medical data generated by the different machines and team members. Based on the observation of CABG surgeries, interviews with surgical members and meetings of new operating room design discussing criteria comparison, Project A introduced a new Operating Room design with a 75-inch nonmedical display showing medical data for better information sharing during surgeries. This solution was evidenced effective and will be implemented in the new operating room in practice. Project B simulated an auto-checklist of CABG surgery procedure to make sure every surgical team member aware of current situation during surgeries. Steps of surgeries and trigger of each step were determined with the assistance of cooperating surgical members. After negotiation and obtaining the consent of patients, medical information shown in EPD-Vision during their surgeries were allowed to be used. Then, necessary data from patients was obtained and processed by a MATLAB program. This simulation program uses the obtained data to detect automatically items of the checklist. As a result, times of the items of the checklist determined by the program were mostly comparable to the times written down by the assistant. In some cases, there was a time delay due to manual input by assistants. Hence, the project still has limitations to implement a completely automatic checklist.Project C is an APP design on a concept to remind related members of going back to the operating room quickly. Though it is on paper, most of surgical members showed positive attitude to this design.In conclusion, the integration of medical data from different medical instruments is a promising topic for further research
Identification of Neolithic Circular Enclosures through Aerial Imagery
No full textTraditionally, archaeological investigations, especially archaeological remains detection, mostly depend on human observation. In order to find the objects in large areas, a lot of fieldwork has to be done and it takes a long time for archaeologists to travel around. Nowadays, the development of LIDAR provides accurate 3D geometric information, which can be used for computer-based detailed terrain study. The application of deployment of computer vision methods also provides a new idea for the automatic object detection approach.In this study, the neural network architecture "ResNet18" was applied to airborne LiDAR data from the Western regions of Slovakia for the automated detection of undiscovered Neolithic Circular Enclosures (also called rondel in the thesis). NCEs are mysterious stone hedge-like rings scattered through Central/Eastern Europe. The LiDAR data was processed into digital rater data and realized data enhancement by the visualization technique -- Simple Local Relief Model (SLRM). Since the positive samples were limited, expanding the training dataset was crucial and was realized by data augmentation methods based on the positive samples of rondels. The augmented roundels were created by cropping the real roundels and pasting them on the new empty areas after slight modification. After that, the positive image samples and the same number of negative image samples constructed the whole data set and it was divided into two parts -- training data and test data. After the training process of ResNet18, the performances of deep learning models with different combinations of parameters were evaluated, and the selected model was applied to a large area (44276 × 29984 m2), the spatial distribution of the probabilities could be observed and 32 possible new rondel areas were chosen for further validation.Geoscience and Remote Sensin
Designing Bata Society: a Case Study of Zlín
No full textZlín, located in the east part of the Czech Republic, is a historical industrial town. The development of this modern city has a deep connection with Bata shoe company and its social scheme. The company has been known for its shoe production and the urban and architectural values from its pioneer and utopian town planning and its variant modules of building design. Inspired by English urban planner. Ebenezer Howard, Tomáš and several architects tried to achieve a modern living environment in Zlín by combining the aspects of country living with the conveniences of city life. One of Tomáš’ principles is “build collectively, live individually”; at a certain level, he realised his vision. Thousands of free-standing family housing were placed among the sizeable green land around the early 20s to late 30s for the Bata employees and their families. This thesis aims to emphasise the perspective of workers who work and live under the Bata system. The analysis of urban planning and architectural design in Bata’s factory town vividly reveals the life story of the working class on the land of Zlín, at the same time demonstrating how design as a medium helps to affect and shape the culture, society and even individual mentality.AR2A011Architecture, Urbanism and Building Science
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