scholarly journals Augmented Reality in Heritage Apps:Current Trends in Europe

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (13) ◽  
pp. 2756 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ursula Luna ◽  
Pilar Rivero ◽  
Naiara Vicent
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Sample Size ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Temporal Perspective ◽  
Current State ◽  
Heritage Education ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
Current Sample

Although augmented reality (AR) has come to play an increasingly important role in a wide range of areas, its use remains rather limited in the realm of heritage education. This paper sets out to analyze which heritage-related apps can be found in Europe that partly or wholly use AR as a tool to help users learn about different types of heritage. Our study only identified a limited number of such apps and we used this sample both to paint a portrait of the current state of the question and also to highlight certain observable trends. The results showed that most such apps used AR to reconstruct spaces and buildings, and to a lesser extent, objects. Many of these apps used an academic mode of communication to provide a temporal perspective of monumental and (mainly) historical heritage. The paper also outlines future lines of research dedicated to finding more apps that could be used to increase the current sample size. This would allow for a more comprehensive assessment of such apps from an educational point of view. Several case studies are proffered in order to highlight the keys to successful use of AR in heritage apps.

scholarly journals Exosome-Based Vaccines: History, Current State, and Clinical Trials

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Santos ◽  
Fausto Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Trials ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Immune Responses ◽  
Cell Types ◽  
Biological Functions ◽  
Current State ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Dendritic Cell Vaccines ◽  
Delivery Mechanism

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are released by most cell types as part of an intracellular communication system in crucial processes such as inflammation, cell proliferation, and immune response. However, EVs have also been implicated in the pathogenesis of several diseases, such as cancer and numerous infectious diseases. An important feature of EVs is their ability to deliver a wide range of molecules to nearby targets or over long distances, which allows the mediation of different biological functions. This delivery mechanism can be utilized for the development of therapeutic strategies, such as vaccination. Here, we have highlighted several studies from a historical perspective, with respect to current investigations on EV-based vaccines. For example, vaccines based on exosomes derived from dendritic cells proved to be simpler in terms of management and cost-effectiveness than dendritic cell vaccines. Recent evidence suggests that EVs derived from cancer cells can be leveraged for therapeutics to induce strong anti-tumor immune responses. Moreover, EV-based vaccines have shown exciting and promising results against different types of infectious diseases. We have also summarized the results obtained from completed clinical trials conducted on the usage of exosome-based vaccines in the treatment of cancer, and more recently, coronavirus disease.

scholarly journals The Issue of the Correlation between Legal Regimes of Territories of National Parks and Settlements Located Therein in the Russian Federation

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 36-39
Author(s):  
Sergey V. Kachushkin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Scientific Article ◽  
Educational Value ◽  
Current State ◽  
Irkutsk Region ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
State Of Affairs

The study devotes its text to the important problem of the actual coexistence of Russian Federation’s national parks and some Russian settlements, mainly on the Irkutsk region example. The scientific article includes in its structure, among other things, the Pribaikalsky National Park’s brief description, as well as specific examples from the Irkutsk Region practice, in which settlements are still preserved and actively developed in the Pribaikalsky National Park. The work objectively takes into account the prevailing set of the Russian Federation’s environmental and land laws that regulate the national parks formation and functioning, in the sense that it allows to ensure genuine environmental safety within the borders of Russian national parks. The study actively criticizes the some individuals’ point of view, being regularly observed and permanently promoted at various levels of national government, supporting the idea of indispensable legal and actual preservation of the current state of affairs, as well as the idea of easing the existing environmental legislation norms admissibility, as a position that hides the true aspirations of these persons for achieving goals for the population well-being. At the same time, contrary to this position, the article proposes some different ways to improve national legislation in order to reduce and neutralize existing risks for the Russian ecological system. The article has a fairly high scientific and educational value, it is designed for a wide range of readers, both being related to the political or legal professions, and to environmental or other socially significant activities.

scholarly journals Electrocoagulation Process: An Approach to Continuous Processes, Reactors Design, Pharmaceuticals Removal, and Hybrid Systems—A Review

Processes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 1831
Author(s):  
Miriam López-Guzmán ◽  
Manuel Alberto Flores-Hidalgo ◽  
Liliana Reynoso-Cuevas
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Batch Process ◽  
Pharmaceutical Compounds ◽  
Continuous Processes ◽  
Current State ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Electrocoagulation Process ◽  
Process Factors ◽  
Potential Use

The electrocoagulation (EC) process has been widely studied in recent years to remove a wide range of contaminants present in different types of water: fluorides, arsenic, heavy metals, organic matter, colorants, oils, and recently, pharmaceutical compounds. However, most of the studies have been aimed at understanding the process factors that have the most significant effect on efficiency, and these studies have been mainly on a batch process. Therefore, this review is focused on elucidating the current state of development of this process and the challenges it involves transferring to continuous processes and the recent exploration of its potential use in the removal of pharmaceutical contaminants and its implementation with other technologies.

External stores

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerio Biscione ◽  
Giancarlo Petrosino ◽  
Domenico Parisi
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Human Adaptation ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Spatial Behaviour ◽  
Temporal Perspective ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Current State ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Sedentary Life

Human beings possess external stores in which they put all sorts of goods to use them at some later time. In this paper we investigate this typically human adaptation using agent-based simulations. We show that the use of external stores explains many aspects of human life, allowing the agents to reduce their dependence on both the environment and the current state of their body and to be more efficient in extracting the energy contained in the environment. We analyse the spatial behaviour of agents with external stores located in specific positions of the environment and we find that these agents tend to develop a sedentary life. We discuss how stores can be at the origin of many human mental and social phenomena such as the acquisition of a more extended temporal perspective, specialisation in producing different types of goods, and exchange of goods.

scholarly journals Specific Phrasemes with Ethnonyms and their Study by Corpus Analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-25
Author(s):  
Iveta Dinžíková
Keyword(s):  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Relative Frequency ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Association Measure ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Current State ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Slovak Language

This article studies the phrasemes comprising an ethnonym in the source language (French) as well as the target language (Slovak). This approach is contrastive and the phrasemes have been classified according to the type of equivalence (total equivalent, partial equivalent and phrasemes without equivalent). The aim of the research was to analyse 27 phrasemes with the help of the corpus linguistics method (relative frequency and logDice association measure), and four monolingual corpora (the corpora frTenTen12, skTenTen11, Emolex, prim-7.0-public-all) with approx. 130 million up to approx. 10 billion words in each of them, so it is a fairly wide range of language materials.Firstly, we focus on the current state of French and Slovak phraseology. We present the distribution of phrasemes into three types: general, professional and so-called mixed (of which the last type represents our own proposition). Then, by translating the source language-culture into the target language-culture, we demonstrate the three basic types of phrasemes equivalence but our attention is on the first two types. Afterwards, we present quantitative methods of corpus linguistics (four monolingual corpora, relative frequency and the logDice association measure). Then, we analyse 27 specific phrasemes. This is qualitative analysis (their distribution into three types of equivalence as well as their repair in general, professional and mixed phrasemes), but also quantitative analysis (analysis based on relative frequency and also on logDice association measure). In the end, we demonstrate and evaluate the results of our research.The research objectives are set to find out the frequency of phrasemes in various types of texts and the level of their specificity within the framework of each of the corpora, based on which it is possible to propose which of the phrasemes should be placed at the forefront for looking up an entry and its individual components or a phraseme as a whole, and thus contribute to supporting the creation of current French/Slovak lexicography and phraseography.Moreover, from the point of view of teaching foreign languages, we can use the second type of equivalence as a contrasting factor between French and Slovak language-cultures because they can either easily interfere with other phrasemes of the target language-culture or be not well understood in the target language-culture.

scholarly journals Aircraft Corrosion – Review of Corrosion Processes and its Effects in Selected Cases

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (10) ◽  
pp. 5-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Czaban
Keyword(s):  
Structural Materials ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theoretical Knowledge ◽  
Structural Components ◽  
Aircraft Structures ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Materials Used

Abstract From the safety point of view, one of the most important issues regarding aircraft operations is ensuring the durability of the structural components. Corrosion processes can have a significant effect on the integrity of structural materials and are usually associated with aircraft aging. Due to the variety of materials used, environments and loads impacting the planes, a wide range of different types of corrosion may occur in aircraft structures. The main aim of this study is to present some theoretical knowledge related to corrosion processes as well as problems of aircraft structures associated with corrosion occurrence. Firstly, the paper presents a brief overview of what corrosion is and what different types of corrosion are. Secondly, some selected aircraft failures caused by corrosion are shortly presented and discussed.

scholarly journals Lexis of the Russian North: State and Prospects of Study

Slovene ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 486-525
Author(s):  
Elena Berezovich ◽  
Svetlana Tolstaya
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Fundamental Importance ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Linguistic Identity ◽  
Vocabulary Size ◽  
High Importance ◽  
Slavic Linguistics ◽  
Current State ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Russian North

The article analyzes the current state of the studies on the vocabulary of the Russian North dialects. The concept of the Russian North is discussed, the Russian North dialectal zone is briefly characterized in light of its linguistic features, of the Northern Russian dialectal vocabulary size in comparison with the Southern Russian dialects, and of the fundamental importance of its study for Slavic linguistics in general. The article also presents a review of the main dictionaries of the Northern Russian dialects since the appearance of the Russian North lexicography to the present day. It includes dictionaries of different coverage of the territory: macro-regional (the ones including vocabulary of the whole Russian North), the ones dedicated to certain zones (Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Karelian regions, etc.), micro-territorial (including dictionaries of certain settlements); of different types and subjects of study: lexical, phraseological, areal-thematic, areal-etymological, dictionaries of personal linguistic identity. Special attention is paid to non-professional lexicography. The review of studies (monographs, dissertations, articles) on the Northern Russian lexicon and phraseology is also presented. They are considered from a thematical point of view: these are works where the semantic and motivational analysis of different groups of concrete and abstract lexis is carried out, etymological interpretation of lexemes is given; works where beliefs, traditional rituals, folklore are considered through the prism of linguistic facts; etymological works, works on grammar, etc. The arguments in favor of the need to continue the collection of the Northern Russian dialects vocabulary and its dictionary representation are given, prospects and objectives of its study are formulated. A list of references is of high importance for researchers — dialectologists, etymologists, historians of language, etc. — it is an extensive bibliography, which contains lexicographical and lexicological works on the dialects of the Russian North.

scholarly journals Technological Singularity as a Point of No Return: Back to the Future? (Philosophical Legal View)

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 39-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
A V Popova ◽  
M G Abramova
Keyword(s):  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
New Public ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
Common Interests ◽  
Technological Singularity ◽  
Concepts Of Democracy ◽  
Start Ups

The authors offer their views on the processes of establishing and developing worldwide digital technologies of intruding in human civilization. The world is now witnessing the creation of a wide range of cyber-physical systems, different types of robots, artificial intellects, robot-engineering units, intellectual and brain systems. Because of this, there is an imperative need to resolve all the different philosophical, legal, political and moral problems that have come to the surface.We may ask: how can these new types of intellects, these so-called «post-humans» interact with Homo sapiens? Do they have a conscience, and are they, in this case, subjects of law? By the actions of humanoids, androids, hynoids, different types of industrial and social robots, is it possible to speak about their empathy, responsibility for what they do from the point of view of moral dogmas and norms of law?It is noteworthy that the current development of brain-computer interface based on direct contact between human and computer consciousness will have an impact on changing the concepts of democracy, rights and freedoms, equality, justice and religious convictions.The article offers a brief analysis of the philosophy of trans-humanism. Having reached the point of technological singularity from which it will no longer be possible to return to the past. Therefore, technological singularity is that critical point for mankind which can lead to self-liquidation. The only possible way to exclude such a pessimistic future for the whole of mankind is to pool the efforts of the community, by upgrading the role of collective start- ups, common interests and social interests as a special universal boon.Only by coordinating and harmonizing public, collective interests, the interests of Man and Nature, will it be possible to begin elaborating general norms for helping us to regulate new public relationships with this technological element.

Rationale and Design Considerations for a Semantic Mediator in Health Information Systems

1998 ◽  
Vol 37 (04/05) ◽  
pp. 518-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Sauquet ◽  
M.-C. Jaulent ◽  
E. Zapletal ◽  
M. Lavril ◽  
P. Degoulet
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Software Engineering ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Heterogeneous Systems ◽  
Health Information Systems ◽  
Semantic Interoperability ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Current State ◽  
Engineering Environment

AbstractRapid development of community health information networks raises the issue of semantic interoperability between distributed and heterogeneous systems. Indeed, operational health information systems originate from heterogeneous teams of independent developers and have to cooperate in order to exchange data and services. A good cooperation is based on a good understanding of the messages exchanged between the systems. The main issue of semantic interoperability is to ensure that the exchange is not only possible but also meaningful. The main objective of this paper is to analyze semantic interoperability from a software engineering point of view. It describes the principles for the design of a semantic mediator (SM) in the framework of a distributed object manager (DOM). The mediator is itself a component that should allow the exchange of messages independently of languages and platforms. The functional architecture of such a SM is detailed. These principles have been partly applied in the context of the HEllOS object-oriented software engineering environment. The resulting service components are presented with their current state of achievement.

Colorimetric research of self-luminous objects in software and hardware environments by the method of multidimensional scales implementation

2020 ◽  
pp. 43-50
Author(s):  
Yauheniya N. Saukova
Keyword(s):  
Metrological Traceability ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Intermediate Precision ◽  
Technical Vision ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Chromaticity Coordinates ◽  
Unity Of Measurements ◽  
Software And Hardware ◽  
Luminous Objects ◽  
Reference Samples

It is shown that the issues of metrological traceability for extended self-luminous objects with a wide range of brightness have not yet been resolved, since the rank scales of embedded systems are used for processing digital images. For such scales, there is no “fixed” unit, which does not allow you to get reliable results and ensure the unity of measurements. An experiment is described to evaluate the accuracy of determining the intensity (coordinates) of the color of self-luminous objects. In terms of repeatability and intermediate precision compared to the reference measurement method, the color and chromaticity coordinates of self-luminous objects (reference samples) were determined by their multiple digital registration using technical vision systems. The possibilities of the developed methodology for colorimetric studies in hardware and software environments from the point of view of constructing a multidimensional conditional scale are determined.

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