Viewpoint: Waking up in a digital dawn: are we there yet?1

2002 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-6
Author(s):  
Elisa Lanzi
Keyword(s):  
Faculty Member ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Research Use ◽  
Imaging Center ◽  
User Expectations ◽  
Waking Up ◽  
Building Project

A new state-of-the-art fine arts complex for our College will soon open and it includes an Imaging Center: a physical environment that will support activities related to the teaching and research use of images. A parallel building project is happening simultaneously: the development of digital content and tools to enable imaging across the campus. The bricks and mortar effort will soon result in a spectacular sunrise. As far as content and tools go, we’re still in the deepest dark before dawn, i.e. we’re not there yet. As one faculty member put it, ‘That’s nice, but now what I really need …’. These few words speak volumes about user expectations and the extraordinary effort it takes to meet them.

Calligraphic Video

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sha Xin Wei
Keyword(s):  
Heat Flow ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Computational Physics ◽  
Graphical User Interfaces ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The World ◽  
Geometric Elements

Since 1984, Graphical User Interfaces have typically relied on visual icons that mimic physical objects like the folder, button, and trash can, or canonical geometric elements like menus, and spreadsheet cells. GUI’s leverage our intuition about the physical environment. But the world can be thought of as being made of stuff as well as things. Making interfaces from this point of view requires a way to simulate the physics of stuff in realtime response to continuous gesture, driven by behavior logic that can be understood by the user and the designer. The author argues for leveraging the corporeal intuition that people learn from birth about heat flow, water, smoke, to develop interfaces at the density of matter that leverage in turn the state of the art in computational physics.

scholarly journals A Fast Link Initialization Protocol for Beam-Steering based Cellular Backhaul Systems

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Markus Petri ◽  
Marcus Ehrig ◽  
Markus Günther
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Beam Steering ◽  
Small Cell ◽  
Base Stations ◽  
Data Traffic ◽  
Mobile Data ◽  
User Expectations ◽  
Network Topologies ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Directive Antennas

<p>To deal with the enormous increase of mobile data traffic, new cellular network topologies are necessary. The reduction of cell area and the usage of light-weighted base stations serving only a handful of users, commonly known as the small cell approach, seems to be a suitable solution addressing changes in user expectations and usage scenarios. This paper is an extended version of [1], where current challenges of small cell deployments were presented from a backhaul perspective. A mesh-type backhaul network topology based on beam-steering millimeter-wave systems was proposed as a future-proof solution. In this paper, we focus on a link initialization protocol for beam-steering with highly directive antennas. Special requirements and problems for link setup are analyzed. Based on that, a fast protocol for link initialization is presented and it is evaluated in terms of the resulting initialization speed-up compared to state-of-the-art solutions. Furthermore, a potential approach for extending the fast link initialization protocol to support point-to-multipoint connections is given.</p>

Environmental Criminology

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerben J.N. Bruinsma ◽  
Shane D. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Group Behavior ◽  
Environmental Criminology ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Book Covers

This chapter first sets out the book’s purpose, namely to provide researchers, teachers, students, and practitioners with the latest state-of-the-art knowledge of environmental criminology from around the world. It serves as a source for information on the core theoretical and empirical issues on how and why the physical and social environment influences the emergence of crime and how crime can affect the environment. The book covers most topics as intellectual challenges in criminology to question why and how the physical environment has an impact on individual and group behavior (and vice versa). The remainder of the chapter provides a background to the field of enquiry and articulates the rationale for assembling the chapters contained within this volume.

RKD Explore: searching for art-historical information in the 21st Century

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 21-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roman Koot
Keyword(s):  
Search Engine ◽  
21St Century ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Historical Information ◽  
The Hague

In 2014 the RKD launched RKD Explore, a new interface for searching the collection databases. This state-of-the-art search engine provides a multitude of search possibilities. And although most of the art-historical information is still in analogue form in The Hague, RKD Explore lets users really explore the richness of the ever-growing digital content of the databases.

Technition: When Tools Come Out of the Closet

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 880-897 ◽  
Author(s):  
François Osiurak ◽  
Mathieu Lesourd ◽  
Jordan Navarro ◽  
Emanuelle Reynaud
Keyword(s):  
Motor Control ◽  
Social Cognition ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Parietal Lobe ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Action Observation ◽  
Control Action ◽  
Cognitive Sciences ◽  
Inferior Parietal Lobe ◽  
Major Topic

People are ambivalently enthusiastic and anxious about how far technology can go. Therefore, understanding the neurocognitive bases of the human technical mind should be a major topic of the cognitive sciences. Surprisingly, however, scientists are not interested in this topic or address it only marginally in other mainstream domains (e.g., motor control, action observation, social cognition). In fact, this lack of interest may hinder our understanding of the necessary neurocognitive skills underlying our appetence for transforming our physical environment. Here, we develop the thesis that our technical mind originates in perhaps uniquely human neurocognitive skills, namely, technical-reasoning skills involving the area PF within the left inferior parietal lobe. This thesis creates an epistemological rupture with the state of the art that justifies the emergence of a new field in the cognitive sciences (i.e., technition) dedicated to the intelligence hidden behind tools and other forms of technologies, including constructions.

State-of-the-Art Lentiviral Vectors for Research Use: Risk Assessment and Biosafety Recommendations

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 459-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katia Pauwels ◽  
Rik Gijsbers ◽  
Jaan Toelen ◽  
Axel Schambach ◽  
Karen Willard-Gallo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Lentiviral Vectors ◽  
Research Use

scholarly journals Neurology and psychiatry: waking up to opportunities of sleep. : State of the art and clinical/research priorities for the next decade

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (10) ◽  
pp. 1337-1354 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. L. Bassetti ◽  
L. Ferini-Strambi ◽  
S. Brown ◽  
A. Adamantidis ◽  
F. Benedetti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Research ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Research Priorities ◽  
Sleep State ◽  
Waking Up

scholarly journals Cover Image: Raedon

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brody Burns
Keyword(s):  
Fine Arts ◽  
Late Summer ◽  
Remote Access ◽  
Just In Time ◽  
The Future ◽  
Class Meetings ◽  
Personal Level ◽  
Level I ◽  
Waking Up ◽  
New Perspective

Raedon is about insomnia during the pandemic in the middle of December. The colours represent nocturnal hours as if they were the dark blue night sky with the northern lights out. Every students’ class is moved to remote access. Stay home advisories are still in place with social distancing. This causes some complications as there is a lot of “free” time in the comfort of our home. For me, it’s painting until 5 or 6 am in the morning. Then waking up just in time for WebEx class meetings, workout, homework, game, paint – repeat.   Awakening is about overcoming all the hardships the pandemic has brought. It is a part of my on-going series called The Void. The pandemic has shown me things I needed to deal with on a personal level. I hit rock bottom in my life and failed in so many ways during Covid-19. My life began to turn towards positive after fasting late summer of 2020. I’m fortunate to have a new perspective on my life and the future. I am grateful I get to finish my psychology degree and begin my Bachelor of Fine Arts. In other words, Awakening represents healing, strength and a clear focus for the future regardless of things going on outside of ourselves.

scholarly journals MSBOTS: a multiple small biological organism tracking system robust against non-ideal detection and segmentation conditions

PeerJ ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. e11750
Author(s):  
Xiaoying Wang ◽  
Eva Cheng ◽  
Ian S. Burnett
Keyword(s):  
Standard Deviation ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Tracking System ◽  
Pharmaceutical Research ◽  
Research Use ◽  
Public Research ◽  
Biological Organism ◽  
Movement Trajectories ◽  
Imaging Conditions ◽  
Biological Organisms

Accurately tracking a group of small biological organisms using algorithms to obtain their movement trajectories is essential to biomedical and pharmaceutical research. However, object mis-detection, segmentation errors and overlapped individual trajectories are particularly common issues that restrict the development of automatic multiple small organism tracking research. Extending on previous work, this paper presents an accurate and generalised Multiple Small Biological Organism Tracking System (MSBOTS), whose general feasibility is tested on three types of organisms. Evaluated on zebrafish, Artemia and Daphnia video datasets with a wide variety of imaging conditions, the proposed system exhibited decreased overall Multiple Object Tracking Precision (MOTP) errors of up to 77.59%. Moreover, MSBOTS obtained more reliable tracking trajectories with a decreased standard deviation of up to 47.68 pixels compared with the state-of-the-art idTracker system. This paper also presents a behaviour analysis module to study the locomotive characteristics of individual organisms from the obtained tracking trajectories. The developed MSBOTS with the locomotive analysis module and the tested video datasets are made freely available online for public research use.

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