376 research outputs found
Perancangan Aplikasi E-contract Pada Platform Manga Toon Berbasis Web Pada Manga Toon HK Limited
Full text linkPada zaman industri 4.0, banyak aplikasi atau web yang menyediakan layanan baca komik dan novel secara online, baik berbentuk e-book, aplikasi, maupun web yang memang menyediakan layanan tersebut. Manga Toon adalah salah satu platform penyedia layanan baca komik, novel, dan menonton anime online internasional. Manga Toon juga menyediakan tempat baca novel karya penulis lokal yang bebas dibaca dimanapun dan kapanpun. Author novel yang meng-upload karya memiliki kesempatan bisa mendapatkan penghasilan dari karya tersebut. Namun, sistem penerimaan kontrak di Manga Toon masih semi-komputerisasi, karena masih menghubungi author melalui nomor whatsapp yang sejak awal didaftarkan saat meng-upload karya, lalu menginput data ke surat kontrak secara manual yang dilakukan oleh admin. Kegiatan ini memakan waktu yang cukup banyak sehingga proses pembuatan surat kontrak dan pengiriman kembali surat kontrak yang sudah di approve terhambat. Dengan permasalahan tersebut, maka penulis melakukan analisa melalui beberapa metode pengumpulan data, dengan melakukan kegiatan magang/observasi, melakukan wawancara dan metode studi pustaka untuk menemukan solusi dari permasalahan yang terjadi pada penerimaan kontrak novel di aplikasi Manga Toon. Penulis akan menganalisis dengan menggunakan metode PIECES. Selanjutnya, desain sistem yang dibuat berjalan menggunakan Unified Modeling Language (UML) diantaranya menggunakan Use Case Diagram dan menggunakan Activity Diagram. Dalam hal ini, penulis menganalisa sistem kontrak pada aplikasi Manga Toon diharapkan dapat menggunakan sistem dalam penginputan data ke surat kontrak
Commentary to the recent study by Wang et al.
No full textThe author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article
Optimizing depth perception for toon-shading in stereoscopic 3D
No full textThe human visual system perceives 3D depth by observing how much points shift between the left eye and right eye. Toon-shaded renders of 3D models often have untextured surfaces with discretized shading, and these flat featureless areas give the eyes few reference points to perceive 3D depth. The primary depth cues come from contour lines and the discrete shading lines dividing bright and dark, so they have to be used to their fullest. This research tries to develop a method for automatically optimizing depth-perception for a 3D toon-shaded scene with smart light placement, local editing of shading, and the generation of effective contour lines.Computer Science | Computer Graphic
Fictionalism and intentionality
Full text linkThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the DOI in this recordThis chapter offers a defence of mental fictionalism. Its central claim is that the notion of the mind as an inner world of representations is merely a useful fiction. Mental fictionalism is often said to suffer from “cognitive collapse”, since stating the fictionalist’s position itself involves reference to mental states, such as imagination or make-believe. This chapter shows how mental fictionalism can avoid cognitive collapse. To do so, it explores fictionalism’s broader implications for the nature of intentionality. The key to avoiding cognitive collapse is to see that fictionalism can grant the existence of external, public representations with content, such as written and spoken language. In contrast, the notion of inner representations is what the early fictionalist Hans Vaihinger called a “real fiction”: it is an idea that is not merely false, but incoherent
Environmental, Social and Economic Sustainability of Biobased Plastics. Bio-polyethylene from Brazil and polylactic acid from the U.S.
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Ever depleting fossil resources, growing fossil feedstock prices and global environmental impact associated with continuously rising greenhouse gas emissions have led to increased attention for biobased products as alternatives for the present fossil-based ones. It is therefore important for scientists and academics to provide knowledge and explore practical routes for the sustainable transition towards biobased alternatives. This research focuses on the replacement of fossil-based polyethylene (fossil-PE) by biobased PE (bio-PE) from Brazilian sugarcane and polylactic acid (PLA) from US corn. The report gives an outlook on such a shift towards a sustainable biobased economy. The aim of this research is to assess the characteristics of the biobased product supply chains which could provide in the demand for biobased polyethylene and polylactic acid for the Netherlands on environmental, social and economic aspects in order to contribute to the existing fundamental research on biobased products. This led to the main research question:
How sustainable are the supply chains for biobased polyethylene and polylactic acid, which could meet the current demand for fossil-based polyethylene in the Netherlands, and how does this compare to the supply chain of fossil-based polyethylene?
An analytical framework is developed along which the three dimensions of sustainability can be evaluated; environmental (greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity and the local environment), social (competition for food, welfare and wellbeing) and economic sustainability (market price). The report focuses on the demand for bio-PE and PLA which could replace the current Dutch demand for PE of approximately 500 kiloton per year.
The report shows that on environmental sustainability, bio-PE outperforms fossil-PE and PLA. Life cycle greenhouse gas emissions are particularly low for bio-PE due to the extensive use of bagasse as energy supply. PLA associated greenhouse gas emissions are slightly less than the greenhouse gas emissions for fossil-PE. Depending on the type of land that is converted to biomass feedstock, greenhouse gas emissions can increase due to the release of carbon from decaying biomass and the loss of soil organic carbon. This effect can be significant if rainforest is converted either by direct or indirect land use change. Even so, considering the relatively small demand, enough land is available in Brazil for the production of the biobased products without endangering bio-diverse regions. The main impact of biobased products on the local environment is the imbalance of NPK nutrients and for fossil-based products on- and offshore oil spills.
The main concern with regard to the social sustainability was found in the exploitation of sugarcane and corn field workers. Case reports were found on slavery and exploitation, although no structural proof was found. For fossil-PE, decrease of the local welfare and wellbeing was found for several countries producing naphtha. Competition for food was considered as one of the main indicators. It is found that there is no competition for food if only the Dutch demand is considered, but a worldwide demand for multiple biobased products would inevitably lead to competition for food. This stresses the importance of alternative biomass sources that do not impact food supply, such as lignocelluloses.
Even though bio-PE shows more favourable results than fossil-PE, biobased products are still unsustainable due to the high market price with respect to the biobased product. With current feedstock prices, market prices for bio-PE and PLA are respectively 40% to 60% more expensive than fossil-PE. The price imbalance can be partially explained by the fact that the costs of environmental degradation are externalized for fossil-based products. Internalizing these externalities by for instance green VAT or carbon tax would level the playing field for biobased products. A reduced green vat of 6% for “green” products (19% for normal products) would reduce the difference to 25% and 40% for bio-PE and PLA respectively. Additionally implementing a carbon tax of 50 USD/t CO2 would reduce the difference even further to 15% and 35% for bio-PE and PLA respectively.
Impact of Sea Level Rise for the Conterminous United States. An analysis on Inhabitant Displacement and GDP Production Impediment due to Land Inundation
Full text linkInner World as a Useful Fiction: An Interview with Adam Toon
Full text linkAdam Toon is an Associate Professor at the University of Exeter and Director of Egenis, Centre for the Study of Life Sciences. He did his PhD in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He works in philosophy of science and philosophy of mind, mainly investigating the idea of representations as fictions. Toon is the author of Mind as Metaphor: A Defence of Mental Fictionalism (Oxford University Press, 2023) and Models as Make-Believe: Imagination, Fiction and Scientific Representation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). He is also co-editor (with Tamás Demeter and Ted Parent) of Mental Fictionalism: Philosophical Explorations (Routledge, 2022).Adam Toon gave the Gottlob Frege Lectures in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Tartu on December 5–7, 2023, under the title “The Story of the Mind: Cartesianism, Behaviourism, and Fictionalism”. The interview took place in Tartu on December 7, 2023
Grammatica Grandonica: the Sanskrit grammar of Johann Ernst Hanxleden S.J. (1681-1732) [introduced and edited by Toon Van Hal & Christophe Vielle, with a photographical reproduction of the original manuscript by Jean-Claude Muller]
No full textIn May 2010, Johann Ernst Hanxleden¿s Grammatica Grandonica was rediscovered in Monte Compatri (Lazio, Rome) by Toon Van Hal. Although historiographers recognized the importance of the nearly oldest western grammar of Sanskrit, the precious manuscript had been lost for several decades. The primary aim of the present digital publication is to offer a photographical reproduction of the manuscript. This facsimile is accompanied by a double edition: a facing diplomatic edition
with the Sanskrit in Malay¿¿am script, followed by a transliterated text. This preliminary edition, devoid of any apparatus, is preceded by an introduction dealing with (1) the missionary context,
(2) the life and works of the author, (3) the contents, peculiarities and history of his grammar, and (4) the editorial principles used
Feature preserving non-rigid iterative weighted closest point and semi-curvature registration
Full text linkPreserving features of a surface as characteristic local shape properties captured e.g. by curvature, during non-rigid registration is always difficult where finding meaningful correspondences, assuring the robustness and the convergence of the algorithm while maintaining the quality of mesh are often challenges due to the high degrees of freedom and the sensitivity to features of the source surface. In this paper, we present a non-rigid registration method utilizing a newly defined semi-curvature, which is inspired by the definition of the Gaussian curvature. In the procedure of establishing the correspondences, for each point on the source surface, a corresponding point on the target surface is selected using a dynamic weighted criterion defined on the distance and the semi-curvature. We reformulate the cost function as a combination of the semi-curvature, the stiffness, and the distance terms, and ensure to penalize errors of both the distance and the semi-curvature terms in a guaranteed stable region. For a robust and efficient optimization process, we linearize the semi-curvature term, where the region of attraction is defined and the stability of the approach is proven. Experimental results show that features of the local areas on the original surface with higher curvature values are better preserved in comparison with the conventional methods. In comparison with the other methods, this leads to, on average, 75\%, 8\% and 82\% improvement in terms of quality of correspondences selection, quality of surface after registration, and time spent of the convergence process respectively, mainly due to that the semi-curvature term logically increases the constraints and dependency of each point on the neighboring vertices based on the point's degree of curvature.Mechatronic DesignApplied Ergonomics and Desig
A Flourishing Practice?
No full textPeter Toon is the leading writer on primary care virtue ethics and this thought-provoking book builds on the thinking of philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre. A Flourishing Practice? looks at the moral problems that currently seem prevalent in health care. Common moral dilemmas highlighted by the media include threats to continuity of care, inappropriate care at the end of life, problems associated with commercialisation and privatisation of health care, defensiveness and risk aversion, and unrealistic expectations of care.
The author argues that these all arise from a fundamental fragmentation of the value systems guiding our lives. The solution to these crises of professionalism and the pervading sense of moral crisis is the creation of a shared narrative. In this model of health care professionals and patients work together to cultivate the personal qualities that they need to flourish
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