How to use the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

1978 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 17-17
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Assistance

scholarly journals Social Media in an Emergency: Use of Social Media in Rescuing Abducted School Girls in Nigeria

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 67-75
Author(s):  
Muhammad Abdullahi Maigari ◽  
Uthman Abdullahi Abdul-Qadir
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The Social ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
School Girls ◽  
The Government ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Domestic Assistance

This paper examines the abduction of the schoolgirls in Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State, Nigeria in 2014. The paper examined how the abduction of the schoolgirls generated responses and support for the rescue of the abducted girls from people and organization from different parts of the globe. The Islamists terrorist organization operating in Borno State has attracted the attention of the world since 2009 when they started attacking government establishments and security installations northeast which later escalated to major cities in Northern Nigeria. Methodologically, the paper utilized secondary sources of data to analyze the phenomenon studied. The paper revealed that the development and innovations in information and communication technology which dismantled traditional and colonial boundaries enabled people to express support, solidarity and assist victims of conflict who resides millions of Kilometers away. This shows that Internet-based communications technology has reduced the distance of time and space that characterised traditional mass media. The campaign for the release of the schoolgirls on the social media platforms particularly Twitter and Facebook has tremendously contributed to the release of some of them. Furthermore, the girls freed from abduction have received proper attention: education and reintegration programmes which enable them to start post-abduction life. In this regard, social media has become a tool for supporting the government in moments of security challenges which the Bring Back Our Girls campaign attracted foreign and domestic assistance to Nigeria in the search of the abducted girls and the fight against the Islamist insurgents.

Object Recognition Pipeline

2018 ◽  
pp. 18-33
Author(s):  
John Alejandro Castro Vargas ◽  
Alberto Garcia Garcia ◽  
Sergiu Oprea ◽  
Sergio Orts Escolano ◽  
Jose Garcia Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
Object Recognition ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Social Robots ◽  
Social Robot ◽  
Degree Of Disability ◽  
Domestic Environments ◽  
Domestic Assistance

Object grasping in domestic environments using social robots has an enormous potential to help dependent people with a certain degree of disability. In this chapter, the authors make use of the well-known Pepper social robot to carry out such task. They provide an integrated solution using ROS to recognize and grasp simple objects. That system was deployed on an accelerator platform (Jetson TX1) to be able to perform object recognition in real time using RGB-D sensors attached to the robot. By using the system, the authors prove that the Pepper robot shows a great potential for such domestic assistance tasks.

Occupational therapy medicolegal assessment of domestic assistance requirements: Focus group perspectives

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-248
Author(s):  
Susan Arnold ◽  
Lynette Mackenzie ◽  
Michael Millington ◽  
Carole James
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Medicolegal Assessment ◽  
Domestic Assistance

Object Recognition Pipeline

2019 ◽  
pp. 456-468
Author(s):  
John Alejandro Castro Vargas ◽  
Alberto Garcia Garcia ◽  
Sergiu Oprea ◽  
Sergio Orts Escolano ◽  
Jose Garcia Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
Object Recognition ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Social Robots ◽  
Social Robot ◽  
Degree Of Disability ◽  
Domestic Environments ◽  
Domestic Assistance

Object grasping in domestic environments using social robots has an enormous potential to help dependent people with a certain degree of disability. In this chapter, the authors make use of the well-known Pepper social robot to carry out such task. They provide an integrated solution using ROS to recognize and grasp simple objects. That system was deployed on an accelerator platform (Jetson TX1) to be able to perform object recognition in real time using RGB-D sensors attached to the robot. By using the system, the authors prove that the Pepper robot shows a great potential for such domestic assistance tasks.

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