182 research outputs found
HAYVAN ÖZGÜRLEŞMESİ İÇİN FOTOĞRAF: AITOR GARMENDIA FOTOĞRAFINDA TOPLUMSAL BELGECİ GELENEĞİN İZLERİ
No full textAitor Garmendia fotoğraf makinesini, üzerine eğildiği sorunun çözümü için araç olarakkullanmaktadır. Fotoğrafçı, “Tras los Muros“ adlı çalışmasıyla, mezbahalar ve hayvan çiftliklerigibi hayvan sömürüsü üzerine kurulu işletme ve sektörlerde, duvarların ardında yaşananlarıinsanlara iletmektedir. Garmendia çalışmasını hayvan özgürlüğü için kişisel bir fotoğraf projesiolarak değerlendirirken, özellikle 1970’li yıllardan itibaren yükselişe geçen hayvan haklarıhareketinin köşe taşlarından biri olan, “Hayvan Özgürleşmesi” kitabının yazarı Peter Singer’a atıftabulunmaktadır. Singer, insan ve hayvan arasındaki çatışmayı, hayvan sömürüsü ekseninde elealırken bu ilişki biçimini türcülük kavramı üzerinden anlamlandırmıştır. Garmendia da, makinesiniyönlendirdiği konuya ilişkin düşünsel temellerini, hayvan sömürüsü ve türcülük karşıtlığındanalmaktadır. Bu kapsamda Garmendia, politik olarak da kendisini konumlandırdığı hayvan hakları vevegan kimliğine ilişkin söylemin sürdürülmesinde fotoğrafın önemli bir silah olduğunu belirtmeklebirlikte, hazırlamış olduğu rapor ve analizlerle hayvan haklarına ilişkin ihlalleri ortaya koymaktadır.Garmendia’nın çalışmasında düşünsel temellerini ve odaklandığı sorunları belirleyen çerçeve,hayvan sömürüsü ve türcülüktür. Diğer taraftan yöntem olarak bakıldığında Garmendia’nınçalışmasını ortaya koyma biçimi, fotoğrafın toplumsal bir rol üstlendiği ve sorunlara ışık tutarakonlara ilişkin çözüm aramaya yönelik çabayı da gerektiren, Toplumsal Belgeci yaklaşıma dahiledilebilir. Bu doğrultuda çalışmamızda; Aitor Garmendia’nın hayvan sömürüsüne ilişkin düşünseltemelleri Peter Singer ve türcülük kavramı kapsamında ele alınacaktır. Ardından Toplumsal Belgecifotoğraf yaklaşımının tarihsel temelleri ve bu temeller üzerine kurulu olan geleneği çerçevesindeortaya konulmuş olan örneklerle karşılaştırılarak Garmendia’nın çalışmalarında Toplumsal Belgeciyaklaşımın izleri sürülecektir. Aitor Garmendia uses the camera as a tool to solve the problem he is concerned about. With hiswork titled "Tras los Muros" the photographer conveys what happened behind the walls inbusinesses and sectors based on animal exploitation, such as slaughterhouses and animal farms.Garmendia describes his work as a personal photographic project for animal freedom. He especiallyrefers to Peter Singer, the author of the book "Animal Liberation", one of the cornerstones of theanimal rights movement's rise since the 1970s. Singer deals with the conflict between humans andanimals in the axis of animal exploitation and interprets this form of relationship through theconcept of speciesism. Garmendia's intellectual foundations on the subject he guided his cameraderive from animal exploitation and anti-speciesism. In this context, Garmendia states thatphotography is an essential weapon in maintaining the discourse on animal rights and veganidentity in which he positioned himself politically. He also reveals animal rights violations with thereports and analyses he has prepared.The framework that determines the intellectual foundations and the problems Garmendia focuses onis animal exploitation and speciesism. On the other hand, when viewed as a method, Garmendia'sway of presenting his work can be included in the Social Documentarist approach, wherephotography assumes a social role and requires efforts to seek solutions for them by making themvisible. In this direction, in our work, the intellectual foundations of Aitor Garmendia on animalexploitation will be discussed within Peter Singer's scope and speciesism concept. Then, the tracesof the Social Documentary approach will be traced in the works of Garmendia by comparing themwith the historical foundations of the Social Documentary photography approach and the examplesput forward within the framework of its tradition based on these foundations. </div
Forest expansion in mountain protected areas: Trends and consequences for the landscape
No full textMountain regions in Western Europe have gone through a massive rural urban migration and the collapse of their traditional socioeconomic system. As a result, forest has occupied many old pastures and croplands. In protected areas such as National Parks changes in the landscape can affect biodiversity and other services, including the values that motivated their declaration. Any policy decision in these areas requires quantifying the extent and impact of land-cover changes and their consequences on landscape structure and functioning. In this study we analyze the patterns of change in forest cover during six decades in three mountain National Parks in Spain. Our aim is to quantify those patterns, their effects on the landscape, and discuss the potential consequences for the main natural values and services. We assessed changes in forest cover through reclassification of aerial ortophotographs taken in 1956 57 (past images) and 2016 17 (recent images). The three Parks show a relatively low change in total forest area (+5 10%), and a much larger increase in dense forest (+20 30%), with an important effect of land-use legacies, and similar patterns of landscape homogenization. There were fewer but larger forest patches in 2016 than in 1956, and most of the gain in dense forest occurred in core areas (+20%), while transition areas such as edges, bridges or loops decreased between 30 and 55%. Given their potential consequences on biodiversity and other services, these patterns of land-cover change and landscape configuration should be explicitly considered when designing the sustainable management of abandoned landscapes in protected areas. © 2021 The Author(s)This work was supported by the Spanish National Parks Autonomous Agency (OAPN) through the research grant GESCLIMFOR (979S/2013), and by the Ministry of Science through the project VULBIMON (CGL2017-90040-R) and a Juan de la Cierva contract to Aitor Ameztegui (IJCI-2016-30049)
Development and initial usability evaluation of a digital tool for simulation-based multi-objective optimization of productivity and worker well-being
No full textEngineers use modelling and simulation techniques to efficiently create, evaluate, and optimize design solutions.In an industrial production context, engineers often need to consider requirements related to both productivityand worker well-being in order to find successful design solutions. However, simulations related to productivityand worker well-being respectively, are typically carried out by different engineering roles, using different digitaltools. This lack of integrated work procedure could lead to inefficient development processes and suboptimaldesign solutions. Additionally, since performing multi-objective optimizations is likely to be seen as a complicated task by engineers in areas such as design engineering, production engineering, and ergonomics, requiringspecific knowledge and skills, such tasks are typically performed by engineers specialized on optimization. Thispaper presents the development and usability evaluation of a digital tool that supports engineers not specializedin optimization to define and perform simulation-based multi-objective optimizations of requirements related toboth productivity and worker well-being in an automated and simultaneous manner. The digital tool is the resultof research carried out over a period of four years, following an iterative development and assessment process bythe means of use cases, done in close collaboration with potential users of the digital tool, i.e. engineers at severalcompanies. The usability evaluation of the digital tool shows that potential users in the industry view the tool asa promising support for performing their engineering tasks in a more efficient and integrated manner.CC BY 4.0Corresponding author: Aitor Iriondo PascualUniversity of Skövde, School of Engineering Science, 541 28 Skövde, Sweden.E-mail address: [email protected]</p
CodiEsp corpus: gold standard Spanish clinical cases coded in ICD10 (CIE10) - eHealth CLEF2020
No full textIntroduction
These are the train, development and test sets of the CodiEsp corpus. Train, development and test have gold standard annotations. In addition, the unannotated background set is also distributed. All documents are released in the context of the CodiEsp track for CLEF ehealth 2020 (http://temu.bsc.es/codiesp/).
The CodiEsp corpus contains manually coded clinical cases. All documents are in Spanish language and CIE10 is the coding terminology (it is the Spanish version of ICD10-CM and ICD10-PCS). The CodiEsp corpus has been randomly sampled into three subsets: the train, the development, and the test set. The train set contains 500 clinical cases, and the development and test set 250 clinical cases each. CodiEsp participants must submit predictions for the test and background set, but they will only be evaluated on the test set.
Please cite if you use this dataset:
Antonio Miranda-Escalada, Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre, Jordi Armengol-Estapé and Martin Krallinger. Overview of automatic clinical coding: annotations, guidelines, and solutions for non-English clinical cases at CodiEsp track of CLEF eHealth 2020. In CLEF (Working Notes). 2020
@inproceedings{miranda2020overview,
title={Overview of automatic clinical coding: annotations, guidelines, and solutions for non-english clinical cases at codiesp track of CLEF eHealth 2020},
author={Miranda-Escalada, Antonio and Gonzalez-Agirre, Aitor and Armengol-Estap{\'e}, Jordi and Krallinger, Martin},
booktitle={Working Notes of Conference and Labs of the Evaluation (CLEF) Forum. CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
year={2020}
}
Annotation quality
Inter-annotator agreement: 88.6% for diagnosis coding, 88.9% for procedure coding and 80.5% for the textual reference annotation. For more information, see the paper.
Zip structure
Four folders: train, dev, test and background. Each one of them contains the files for the train, development, test and background corpora, respectively.
train, dev and test folders have:
3 tab-separated files with the annotation information relevant for each of the 3 sub-tracks of CodiEsp.
A subfolder named text_files with the plain text files of the clinical cases.
A subfolder named text_files_en with the plain text files machine-translated to English. Due to the translation process, the text files are sentence-splitted.
The background folder has only text_files and text_files_en subfolders with the plain text files.
Format
The CodiEsp corpus is distributed in plain text in UTF8 encoding, where each clinical case is stored as a single file whose name is the clinical case identifier. Annotations are released in a tab-separated file. Since the CodiEsp track has 3 sub-tracks, every set of documents (train and test) has 3 tab-separated files associated with it.
For the sub-tracks CodiEsp-D and CodiEsp-P, the file has the following fields:
articleID ICD10-code
Tab-separated files for the sub-track CodiEsp-X contain extra fields that provide the text-reference and its position:
articleID label ICD10-code text-reference reference-position
Corpus summary statistics
The final collection of 1000 clinical cases that make up the corpus had a total of 16504 sentences, with an average of 16.5 sentences per clinical case. It contains a total of 396,988 words, with an average of 396.2 words per clinical case.
Resources:
Web
Citation: Antonio Miranda-Escalada, Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre, Jordi Armengol-Estapé and Martin Krallinger. Overview of automatic clinical coding: annotations, guidelines, and solutions for non-English clinical cases at CodiEsp track of CLEF eHealth 2020. In CLEF (Working Notes). 2020
Silver Standard corpus
Annotation guidelines
YouTube presentations
Participant codes
For more information, visit the track webpage: http://temu.bsc.es/codiesp/ or email us at [email protected]
Copyright (c) 2019 Secretaría de Estado para el Avance DigitalFunded by the Plan de Impulso de las Tecnologías del Lenguaje (Plan TL)
A Joint Study of the Challenges, Opportunities, and Roadmap of MLOps and AIOps: A Systematic Survey
No full textPublisher Copyright: © 2023 held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM.Data science projects represent a greater challenge than software engineering for organizations pursuing their adoption. The diverse stakeholders involved emphasize the need for a collaborative culture in organizations. This article aims to offer joint insights into the role of MLOps and AIOps methodologies for raising the success of data science projects in various fields, ranging from pure research to more traditional industries. We analyze the open issues, opportunities, and future trends organizations face when implementing MLOps and AIOps. Then, the frameworks and architectures that promote these paradigms are presented, as are the different fields in which they are being utilized. This systematic review was conducted using an automated procedure that identified 44,903 records, which were filtered down to 93 studies. These articles are meant to better clarify the problem at hand and highlight the future areas in both research and industry in which MLOPs and AIOps are thriving. Our findings indicate that AIOps flourish in challenging circumstances like those presented by 5G and 6G technologies, whereas MLOps is more prevalent in traditional industrial environments. The use of AIOps in certain stages of the ML lifecycle, such as deployment, remains underrepresented in scientific literature.This work was partially financed by the Basque Government through their Elkartek program (EGIA project, ref. KK-2022/00119). The work of Aitor Almeida was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (INCEPTION project, ref. PID2021-128969OB-I00).Peer reviewe
Exclusivity agreements in international business operations; Risks and best practices.
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Faculty: Faculty of Law
Degree programme: International Business Law Programme
Author: Aitor Sevillano Orbegozo
Title:” Exclusivity agreements in international business operations; Risks and best practices.
Level: Master’s thesis
Month and year: November 2023
Number of pages: 79
Keywords: Exclusive dealings, competition law, international law, employment law, freedom of contract, choice of law, EU Law, exclusive clauses, contract law.
Supervisor: P. Sean Morris
Where deposited: E-thesis Helsinki University
Abstract: This thesis will address the question of exclusivity clauses in business operations at the international level, consequentially establish what the risks are, and determine the best practices for entering into an exclusive commercial agreement in an international context.
I will explore the international business environment and how companies interact with other undertakings in this environment. We will proceed by studying exclusivity in its different forms and aspects in a contractual context and dissecting exclusivity dealings exposing its features and effects, as well as looking at them through a dimensional prism. This will serve to understand and see how exclusivity terms affect the parties to an international business arrangement and the effects they have in the market they operate.
Using principles of legal theory such as freedom of contract, and using a theoretical approach, a study of the effects of exclusivity will be elaborated considering the factors and attributes inherent to the inclusion of exclusivity terms in a commercial contract. Classifying and studying the effects of exclusivity considering the effects as isolated items and how these shape the relationship between the parties and play a role in international business operations. We will examine how exclusivity clauses position the parties in respect to their contractual relationship.
Laws and regulations applicable to exclusivity agreements will be identified and considering these, the applicability and validity of exclusivity clauses and agreements will be scrutinised. Competition law and employment law will be the main fields of exploration to observe and study how these two fields of law regulate exclusivity terms in view of the horizontal and vertical direction of exclusivity agreements between the parties. We will use the examples of EU and UK regulations as they have a different angle in approaching the validity of exclusivity agreements.
Following the identification of the main elements of exclusivity agreements, based on Competition end employment regulations as well as business elements, I will classify and identify the risks that the use of exclusivity agreements has for international commercial agreements, from an operational and legal perspective.
Considering the risks and the features of exclusivity agreements, I will propose best practices to avert or remedy the risks and to achieve the best efficient use of exclusivity agreements
Aitor Anduaga’s Cyclones & Earthquakes: The Jesuits, Prediction, Trade, & Spanish Dominion in Cuba & the Philippines, 1850–1898
No full textComparative Analysis of Classical and Quantum-Inspired Solvers: A Preliminary Study on the Weighted Max-Cut Problem
No full textPublisher Copyright: © 2025 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).Combinatorial optimization is essential across numerous disciplines. Traditional metaheuristics excel at exploring complex solution spaces efficiently, yet they often struggle with scalability. Deep learning has become a viable alternative for quickly generating high-quality solutions, particularly when metaheuristics underperform. In recent years, quantum-inspired approaches such as tensor networks have shown promise in addressing these challenges. Despite these advancements, a thorough comparison of the different paradigms is missing. This study evaluates eight algorithms on Weighted Max-Cut graphs ranging from 10 to 250 nodes. Specifically, we compare a Genetic Algorithm representing metaheuristics, a Graph Neural Network for deep learning, and the Density Matrix Renormalization Group as a tensor network approach. Our analysis focuses on solution quality and computational efficiency (i.e., time and memory usage). Numerical results show that the Genetic Algorithm achieves near-optimal results for small graphs, although its computation time grows significantly with problem size. The Graph Neural Network offers a balanced solution for medium-sized instances with low memory demands and rapid inference, yet it exhibits more significant variability on larger graphs. Meanwhile, the Tensor Network approach consistently yields high approximation ratios and efficient execution on larger graphs, albeit with increased memory consumption.Peer reviewe
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