The Academic Profession and its Changing Environments

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are a growing research area as a large of number portable devices are being developed. This fact makes operating systems (OS) useful to homogenize the development of these devices, to reduce design times, and to provide tools for developing complex applications. This work presents an operating system scheduler for resource-constraint wireless devices, which adapts the tasks scheduling in changing environments. The proposed adaptive scheduler allows dynamically delaying the execution of low priority tasks while maintaining real-time capabilities on high priority ones. Therefore, the scheduler is useful in nodes with rechargeable batteries, as it reduces its energy consumption when battery level is low, by delaying the least critical tasks. The adaptive scheduler has been implemented and tested in real nodes, and the results show that the nodes lifetime could be increased up to 70% in some scenarios at the expense of increasing latency of low priority tasks.

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Robust Localization in Map Changing Environments Based on Hierarchical Approach of Sliding Window Optimization and Filtering

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems ◽

10.1109/tits.2020.3035801 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-7

Author(s):

Sungjin Cho ◽

Chansoo Kim ◽

Myoungho Sunwoo ◽

Kichun Jo

Keyword(s):

Sliding Window ◽

Hierarchical Approach ◽

Changing Environments ◽

Robust Localization

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Challenges to the Asian academic profession: Major findings from the international surveys

Higher Education Quarterly ◽

10.1111/hequ.12296 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Futao Huang

Keyword(s):

Academic Profession

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Time-weighted Fuzzy Support Vector Machines for classification in changing environments

Information Sciences ◽

10.1016/j.ins.2021.01.070 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 559 ◽

pp. 97-110

Author(s):

Sebastián Maldonado ◽

Julio López ◽

Carla Vairetti

Keyword(s):

Support Vector Machines ◽

Support Vector ◽

Changing Environments ◽

Vector Machines ◽

Fuzzy Support Vector Machines

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Evolution of bacteria in the human gut in response to changing environments: An invisible player in the game of health

Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal ◽

10.1016/j.csbj.2021.01.007 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 19 ◽

pp. 752-758

Author(s):

Aarushi Venkatakrishnan ◽

Zoie E. Holzknecht ◽

Rob Holzknecht ◽

Dawn E. Bowles ◽

Sanet H. Kotzé ◽

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Keyword(s):

Human Gut ◽

Changing Environments

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The academic profession in Russia’s two capitals: The impact of 20 years of transition

European Educational Research Journal ◽

10.1177/1474904117701142 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 16 (5) ◽

pp. 626-644 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Elizaveta Sivak ◽

Maria Yudkevich

Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

Academic Career ◽

Academic Profession ◽

University Faculty ◽

Key Characteristics ◽

Personal Strain ◽

High Degree ◽

The Impact ◽

Russian Universities

This paper studies the dynamics of key characteristics of the academic profession in Russia based on the analysis of university faculty in the two largest cities in Russia – Moscow and St Petersburg. We use data on Russian university faculty from two large-scale comparative studies of the academic profession (‘The Carnegie Study’ carried out in 1992 in 14 countries, including Russia, and ‘The Changing Academic Profession Study’, 2007–2012, with 19 participating countries and which Russia joined in 2012) to look at how faculty’s characteristics and attitudes toward different aspects of their academic life changed over 20 years (1992–2011) such as faculty’s views on reasons to leave or to stay at a university, on university’s management and the role of faculty in decision making. Using the example of universities in the two largest Russian cities, we demonstrate that the high degree of overall centralization of governance in Russian universities barely changed in 20 years. Our paper provides comparisons of teaching/research preferences and views on statements concerning personal strain associated with work, academic career perspectives, etc., not only in Russian universities between the years 1992 and 2012, but also in Russia and other ‘Changing Academic Profession’ countries.

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