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Development of TD Website and Repository
No full textSEAFDEC, an Inter-Governmental Organization plays an important role in promotion of sustainable development of fisheries and aquaculture in the Southeast Asian Region for more than four decades. Cooperation with other regional and international organizations have been recognized through several important events such as Millennium Conference in 2001 and ASEAN-SEAFDEC Conference in 2011. Since 1990s, internet have been introduced worldwide, where information technology becomes important as a part of human life including education, economic, social and politicsand so on. Development of high speed internet creates a new communication system and support living style including works and activities such as public relations, multi-media production, publication etc., especially information dissemination and website which are technologies for communication between internal and external organization as well as in developing management system for efficiencies. The objective of this paper is to enhance SEAFDEC visibility by developing the information and dissemination system which developed new TD website in 2017.
In this regards, TD established Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, Training Department Institutional Repository (STIR), which is the official digital repository of scholarly, research and technical information of the Department to download all information materials using open source software named the DSpace.
In this paper, author considers the importance of information technology for introducing SEAFDEC/TD activities and improving access to SEAFDEC/TD technical/scientific articles was expressed via the website. In this regards, the author introduced for developing of the TD website and Repository to increase public relation and increase TD’s visibility as well as point out constrains of its development that requires the strengthening and cooperation within the Training Department of SEAFDEC
Neural correlates of processing valence and arousal in affective words
No full textPsychological frameworks conceptualize emotion along 2 dimensions, "valence" and "arousal." Arousal invokes a single axis of intensity increasing from neutral to maximally arousing. Valence can be described variously as a bipolar continuum, as independent positive and negative dimensions, or as hedonic value (distance from neutral). In this study, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging to characterize neural activity correlating with arousal and with distinct models of valence during presentation of affective word stimuli. Our results extend observations in the chemosensory domain suggesting a double dissociation in which subregions of orbitofrontal cortex process valence, whereas amygdala preferentially processes arousal. In addition, our data support the physiological validity of descriptions of valence along independent axes or as absolute distance from neutral but fail to support the validity of descriptions of valence along a bipolar continuum
Mark Lewis: Cold Morning
No full textLewis’s exhibition on view at the Canada Pavilion, titled “Cold Morning”, features several new films, including works that examine and foreground the legacy of rear projection. Pioneered in the early 1920s, Lewis considers rear projection to be one of Hollywood’s most stunning visual inventions. Playing between illusion and visible montage, it is a part of a larger fascination with the history and techniques of film that have conceptually informed the artist’s work throughout his 15-year career.
By presenting rear-projection’s potential of containing two or more distinct places and durations within a given filmic image from the vantage point of digital cinema, Lewis’ project for the Canada Pavilion aptly reflects on the current critical juncture within contemporary filmmaking involving advancing technologies simultaneously eclipsing this modernist form of montage while re-inventing the archive of analog cinema.
Film Titles:
Nathan Phillips Square, A Winter's Night, Skating (2009)
single screen projection, 35mm and 4K transferred to 2K, 4 minutes
Cold Morning (2009)
single screen projection, High Definition, 7 minutes 35 seconds
The Fight (2008)
single screen projection, 5 minutes 31 seconds, High Definition
TD centre, 54th floor (2009)
single screen project, 35mm transferred to 2K, 4 minute
The space debris environment: future evolution
No full textSpace debris represents a significant risk to satellite operations, due to the possibility of damaging or catastrophic collisions. Consequently, many satellite operators screen the orbiting population for close approaches with their on-orbit assets and a public conjunction assessment service, Satellite Orbital Conjunction Reports Assessing Threatening Encounters in Space (SOCRATES), generates close approach predictions on a daily basis for all satellite payloads in the catalogue. These screening capabilities are used to inform operational decisions relating to risk mitigation but it is anticipated that the demands placed on these services will increase as debris becomes more prolific. This hypothesis is explored in a preliminary analysis of conjunction data for the years 2004 to 2009 and a new ‘Business As Usual’ study using the Debris Analysis and Monitoring Architecture for the Geosynchronous Environment (DAMAGE) model. The results suggest a 50% increase in the number of close approaches reported by SOCRATES (or its equivalent) within the next ten years. By 2059, daily conjunction reports could contain over 50,000 close approaches below 5 km, affecting the demands placed on tracking facilities and satellite resources
Cerebellar activity switches hemispheres with cerebral recovery in aphasia
No full textThe right postero-lateral cerebellum participates with the left frontal lobe in the selection and production of words. Using fMRI, we examined whether cerebellar activity switches hemispheres in parallel with recruitment of putative compensatory right homologous frontal regions in post-stroke aphasia. Re-examining the data of Blasi et a]. [Blasi, V., Young, A. C., Tansy, A. P., Petersen, S. E., Snyder, A. Z., & Corbetta, M. (2002). Word retrieval learning modulates right frontal cortex in patients with left frontal damage. Neuron, 36(l), 159-170], we asked: (1) if activity in the right cerebellum was disrupted by a left frontal lesion, (2) if activity switched to the left cerebellum, and (3) if activity in the left cerebellum was modulated by learning, as was right frontal cortex. Fourteen age-matched controls and eight mildly aphasic stroke patients participated. Aphasic participants all had lesions due to unilateral left hemisphere stroke at or near Broca's area. Subjects silently performed a word stem completion task with either novel or repeated items. Activity in right cerebellum of aphasic individuals was minimal and was not modulated by learning, as for controls. However, we observed robust learning-related attenuation of the BOLD signal in the left postero-lateral cerebellum consistent with learning-related effects in right frontal cortex. These findings support the hypothesis that right frontal and left cerebellar circuits are likely to be functionally relevant to recovered/residual verbal function. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
Hidden Lewis acidity: Studies on the medium and structure dependent fluorescence of zinc(II) complexes
No full textThree new zinc(II) coordination units [Zn(1–3)] based on planar-directing tetradentate Schiff base-like ligands H2(1–3) were synthesized. Their solid-state structures were investigated by single crystal X-ray diffraction, showing the tendency to overcome the square-planar coordination sphere by axial ligation. Affinity in solution towards axial ligation has been tested by extended spectroscopic studies, both in the absorption and emission mode. The electronic spectrum of the pyridine complex [Zn(1)(py)] has been characterized by multiconfiguration pair-DFT to validate the results of extended TD-DFT studies. Green emission of fluorescence-silent solutions of [Zn(1–3)] in chloroform could be switched on in the presence of potent Lewis-bases. While interpretation in terms of an equilibrium of stacked/non-fluorescent and destacked/fluorescent species is in line with precedents from literature, the sensitivity of [Zn(1–3)] was greatly reduced. Results of a computation-based structure search allow to trace the hidden Lewis acidity of [Zn(1–3)] to a new stacking motif, resulting in a strongly enhanced stability of the dimers
How do social and associative cues facilitate language acquisition in TD children and children with ASD?
No full textObjectives: Three studies investigated whether typically developing (TD) children, children with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) and children with other developmental disorders (DD) use social and associative cues to help them learn words. Method: Children (TD, N = 25; ASD, N = 24; DD, N = 14) viewed videos of a speaker naming an object while gazing and pointing (social video), an arrow or light highlighted the object (associative video) or a social and associative cue occurred towards different objects (conflicting video). Results: Children with ASD used gaze at a later age than TD children. All children chose at chance with the conflicting video. Conclusions: Word learning from social cues is delayed in ASD. Theoretical implications are discussed
FAT DELTA 2: FUNCTORIAL SUBGROUPS OF TOPOLOGICAL ABELIAN GROUPS
No full textIn the predecessor [16] of this paper the canonical subgroup (Fat Delta) ∆(G) of a compact abelian group G was studied. It is the sum of all closed disconnected subgroups of G and it appeared before in the literature (see [28]) as td(G), defined for arbitrary topological groups and motivated by completely different considerations. We introduce and compare further functorial subgroups of general topological groups and study their relationships with ∆(G) and td(G)
On Rota-Baxter Nijenhuis TD algebra
No full textThere was a long standing problem of G. C. Rota regarding the classi- fication of all linear operators on associative algebras that satisfy algebraic identities. Initially, only very few of such operators were known, for example, the derivative operator, average operator, difference operator and Rota-Baxter operator. Recently, in a paper by L. Guo, W. Sit and R. Zhang, the authors revisited Rota’s problem by concentrating on two classes of operators; differ- ential type operators and Rota-Baxter type operators. One of the Rota-Baxter type operators they found is the Rota-Baxter Nijenhuis TD (RBNTD) oper- ator which puts together the terms of the well-known Rota-Baxter operator, Nijenhuis operator and Leroux’ TD operator. In this dissertation, we initiate a systematic study of the RBNTD operator, extending the previous works on the Rota-Baxter, Nijenhuis and TD operators. After giving basic properties and examples, we construct free commutative and then free (non-commutative) RBNTD algebras. We then use free RBNTD algebras to obtain an extension of the renowned dendriform algebra with five binary operations.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesMonica AggarwalVita
Large Time Step and DC Stable TD-EFIE Discretized with Implicit Runge-Kutta Methods
No full textThe time domain-electric field integral equation (TD-EFIE) and its differentiated version are widely used to simulate the transient scattering of a time dependent electromagnetic field by a perfect electric conductor (PEC). The time discretization of the TD-EFIE can be achieved by a space-time Galerkin approach or, as it is considered in this contribution, by a convolution quadrature using implicit Runge-Kutta methods. The solution is then computed using the marching-on-in-time (MOT) algorithm. The differentiated TD-EFIE has two problems: 1) the system matrix suffers from ill-conditioning when the time step increases (low frequency breakdown) and 2) it suffers from the DC instability, i.e., the formulation allows for the existence of spurious solenoidal currents that grow slowly in the solution. In this article, we show that 1) and 2) can be alleviated by leveraging quasi-Helmholtz projectors to separate the Helmholtz components of the induced current and rescale them independently. The efficacy of the approach is demonstrated by numerical examples including benchmarks and real-life applications.Numerical Analysi
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