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A unified approach for heterogeneity and node fault robustness in dynamic sensor networks
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What color for technology in Italy?
No full textColor is strongly relevant to humans, not only because it enables the description and recognition of material objects, but also because it allows to express emotions and life situations, depending on the cultural background. In this work, we study the relationship between color and technology in Italian culture through a questionnaire investigating if and how the color associated to the ideal concepts of domestic appliances, robotics, computers and internet are affected by their color appearance, designs and/or applications. The answers to the questionnaire, given by 58 Italian volunteers with different age, gender and education, show that the technology objects have been related mostly to grey tones, included black and white, while the immaterial concepts of Internet have been often linked to all the visible spectrum of colors
Milano Retinex Paths as Local Minima of an Energy Functional with Tunable Color and Spatial information
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Mobile sensors networks: A distributed solution to the area coverage problem
No full textThe paper deals with mobile sensor networks and the related problem of area coverage. A distributed solution to the motion planning of the moving sensors for dynamic area coverage is given and compared to a global one. The distributed approach, despite its lower performances w.r.t. the global one, shows several advantages, from reduced computational costs to lighter communication traffic and then lower energetic costs. Simulation results show some of such advantages and put in evidence the effectiveness of the proposed solution. © 2008 IEEE
Are you helping others or committing a crime? : migrant smuggling against escape aid: Austria and Switzerland in comparison under consideration of international legal requirements
No full textDer Kern dieser Arbeit sind zwei Case Studies (Österreich und Schweiz). Der erste Teil der wissenschaftlichen Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Case Study Österreich und den entsprechenden gesetzlichen Grundlagen für das Delikt der Schlepperei. Hierbei werfe ich zunächst den Blick auf Vorgaben durch die Vereinten Nationen und erläutere, wie diese entstanden sind und erörtere deren Inhalt. In der zweiten Ebene widme ich mich den Vorgaben durch die EU und ziehe einen Vergleich zwischen den unionsrechtlichen Regelungen und dem UN-Zusatzprotokoll. In logischer Reihenfolge schließe ich die erste Case Study damit ab, dass ich die nationale Regelung genauestens aufschlüssle. In der zweiten Case Study wird die gesetzliche Grundlage für das Delikt der Schlepperei in der Schweiz erörtert. Anschließend wird untersucht, ob die Vorgaben der EU und der Vereinten Nationen in den beiden Ländern erfüllt werden und inwiefern sich der Straftatbestand im österreichischen Gesetz vom Straftatbestand im schweizerischen Gesetz unterscheidet. Eruriert wird weiters, ob die österreichische und die schweizerische Regelungen Raum für eine rechtskonforme Fluchthilfe lassen. Die Analyse relevanter Rechtsgrundlagen und die Aufarbeitung der einschlägigen Literatur bestätigt meine These, dass Österreich und Schweiz die Vorgaben der Vereinten Nationen nicht ohne Mängel umgesetzt haben.In my thesis I concentrate on migrant smuggling in Austria and evaluate if European law and Austrian law have implemented the UN Smuggling of Migrants Protocol correctly and compare Austrian Law with the situation in Switzerland. I also question if the Austrian and Swiss law that prohibit migrant smuggling still leaves enough room for helping migrants for altruistic and humanitarian reasons or if this is criminalized as well.von Simone Gabriele PiukZusammenfassung in DeutschAbweichender Titel laut Übersetzung des Verfassers/der VerfasserinDiplomarbeit Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz 2020 R964
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