FUTURE OF WORK: SELECTION OF HUMAN POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIESIN GLOBAL AND LOCAL CONTEXTS

Illusory figure completion demonstrates the ability of the visual system to integrate information across gaps. Mechanisms that underlie figural emergence support the interpolation of contours and the filling-in of form information [Grossberg, S., & Mingolla, E. Neural dynamics of form perception: Boundary completion, illusory figures and neon colour spreading. Psychological Review, 92, 173–211, 1985]. Although both processes contribute to figure formation, visual search for an illusory target configuration has been shown to be susceptible to interfering form, but not contour, information [Conci, M., Müller, H. J., & Elliott, M. A. The contrasting impact of global and local object attributes on Kanizsa figure detection. Submitted]. Here, the physiological basis of form interference was investigated by recording event-related potentials elicited from contour- and surface-based distracter interactions with detection of a target Kanizsa figure. The results replicated the finding of form interference and revealed selection of the target and successful suppression of the irrelevant distracter to be reflected by amplitude differences in the N2pc component (240–340 msec). In conclusion, the observed component variations reflect processes of target selection on the basis of integrated form information resulting from figural completion processes.

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Human Potential of the Population of Russian Regions: the Level and Dynamics of Development (Part Two)

Level of Life of the Population of Regions of Russia ◽

10.19181/1999-9836-2018-10029 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

pp. 59-72

Author(s):

L. Migranova ◽

M. Toksanbaeva

Keyword(s):

Climatic Conditions ◽

Human Potential ◽

Strong Impact ◽

Reproductive Structure ◽

North Caucasus ◽

Index Method ◽

Potential Development ◽

Northern Regions ◽

The Russian Federation ◽

Main Components

The Object of the Study. Human potential.The Subject of the Study. The level and dynamics of development of the human potential of the population of the RF subjects. The Purpose of the Study. Identifying differences in development of the human potential of the population of the RF subjects and opportunities for their reduction.The Main Provisions of the Article. Human potential and its development are considered article both as the purpose and the means of human progress reflecting extension of human opportunities including creative (resource) capabilities. Theoretical and instrumental interpretation of the main components of human potential based on its reproductive structure is analysed. The components include a demographic component, components of population health and education, and a sociocultural component. For estimation of human potential indicators for each of its component, as well as a methodology for both component-by-component and composite (aggregate of all components) calculations using the index method are proposed. The methodology is applied to all RF subjects using the Rosstat data for 2010 and 2015. On the basis of the obtained estimates the authors have identified the levels of human potential development in regions that enabling to range them by this level and analyze the direction of its changes in dynamics. Components have been found out a weak and strong impact on the composite estimates as well as specifics of this impact by groups of regions. It has been established that demographic and health components leave much to be desired, particularly in northern regions characterized by harsh natural climatic conditions of life in particular.In North Caucasus regions the problem of raising educational level of population has not lost its relevance. It is shown that despite the general growth in the level of human potential development in most subjects of the Russian Federation over the period in question it remains insufficient for implementing modernization processes in some regions.

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Accurate Instance Segmentation in Pediatric Elbow Radiographs

Sensors ◽

10.3390/s21237966 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (23) ◽

pp. 7966

Author(s):

Dixiao Wei ◽

Qiongshui Wu ◽

Xianpei Wang ◽

Meng Tian ◽

Bowen Li

Keyword(s):

Elbow Joint ◽

Segmentation Method ◽

Qualitative And Quantitative ◽

Robust Segmentation ◽

Local Contexts ◽

Good Potential ◽

Quantitative Results ◽

Bounding Boxes ◽

Global And Local ◽

Instance Segmentation

Radiography is an essential basis for the diagnosis of fractures. For the pediatric elbow joint diagnosis, the doctor needs to diagnose abnormalities based on the location and shape of each bone, which is a great challenge for AI algorithms when interpreting radiographs. Bone instance segmentation is an effective upstream task for automatic radiograph interpretation. Pediatric elbow bone instance segmentation is a process by which each bone is extracted separately from radiography. However, the arbitrary directions and the overlapping of bones pose issues for bone instance segmentation. In this paper, we design a detection-segmentation pipeline to tackle these problems by using rotational bounding boxes to detect bones and proposing a robust segmentation method. The proposed pipeline mainly contains three parts: (i) We use Faster R-CNN-style architecture to detect and locate bones. (ii) We adopt the Oriented Bounding Box (OBB) to improve the localizing accuracy. (iii) We design the Global-Local Fusion Segmentation Network to combine the global and local contexts of the overlapped bones. To verify the effectiveness of our proposal, we conduct experiments on our self-constructed dataset that contains 1274 well-annotated pediatric elbow radiographs. The qualitative and quantitative results indicate that the network significantly improves the performance of bone extraction. Our methodology has good potential for applying deep learning in the radiography’s bone instance segmentation.

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Aftershocks: Globalism and the Future of Democracy

10.26754/uz.978-84-18321-12-2 ◽

2021 ◽

Keyword(s):

Social Services ◽

Political Representation ◽

Human Beings ◽

Social Resilience ◽

The World ◽

The Future ◽

The University ◽

Global And Local ◽

The City ◽

Selection Of

This digital publication consists of a selection of 56 papers presented at the 16th International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), held at the University of Zaragoza, 2-5 July 2019, the general theme of which was ‘Aftershocks: Globalism and the Future of Democracy’. Sponsored by The Aragonese Association of Sociology, the conference was well-attended – 170 participants from 28 countries met to discuss a wide variety of topics in 29 workshops. The feedback we received from participants confirmed that they had greatly enjoyed the venue of the conference, that they appreciated the warm welcome they had received and the congenial social atmosphere and opportunity to attend workshops on subjects that were not only in their own field of expertise. No one, of course, could have predicted that our world – our work and life as individuals, as communities and as nations – would change so suddenly and radically eighteen months after the conference, with the rapid and devastating spread of the Convid-19 pandemic. The current deepening global crisis along with the challenge of climate change and growing international tensions are a stark reminder of how vulnerable our societies, our civilization, and our species are. The shocks and aftershocks of these crises are felt today in every corner of the world and in every aspect of our global and local economies, and most obviously in the sociopolitical arena. As several of the conference workshops on the multiple crises Europe and the world face today – from the migrant crisis to the rise of populism and deepening inequality between rich and poor – showed – and as the Covid-19 pandemic has so cruelly brought home to us – we simply cannot take the achievements of human civilization for granted and must find ways to meet the fundamental social and political needs of human beings not only in our own neighborhoods, cities and countries, but ultimately in the world as a whole: their living conditions, livelihoods, social services, education and healthcare, human rights and political representation. Several of the workshops, as I mentioned, directly addressed these issues and emphasized the need for building social resilience based on tolerance, solidarity and equity. This too is why, as academics, we should continue to initiate and engage in collective reflection and debate on how to foster and strengthen human communities and human solidarity. Finally, I want to thank the participants and workshop chairs for their contribution to the success of the conference. It was a pleasure for me to work with the university organizing team and with ISSEI’s team in bringing this about, and I am particularly proud that my university and the city of Zaragoza hosted this conference.

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Human Potential of the Population of the Russian Regions: Level and Dynamics of Development (Part One).

Level of Life of the Population of Regions of Russia ◽

10.19181/1999-9836-2018-10014 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 47-59

Author(s):

L. Migranova ◽

M. Toksanbaeva

Keyword(s):

Climatic Conditions ◽

Human Potential ◽

Strong Impact ◽

Reproductive Structure ◽

North Caucasus ◽

Index Method ◽

Potential Development ◽

Northern Regions ◽

The Russian Federation ◽

Main Components

The Object of the Study. Human potential.The Subject of the Study. The level and dynamics of development of the human potential of the population of the RF subjects. The Purpose of the Study. Identifying differences in development of the human potential of the population of the RF subjects and opportunities for their reduction.The Main Provisions of the Article. Human potential and its development are considered in the article both as the purpose and the means of human progress reflecting extension of human opportunities including creative (resource) capabilities. Theoretical and instrumental interpretation of the main components of human potential based on its reproductive structure is analysed. The components include a demographic component, components of population health and education, and a sociocultural component. For estimation of human potentialindicators for each its component, as well as a methodology for both component-by-component and composite (aggregate of all components) calculations using the index method are proposed. The methodology is applied to all RF subjects using the Rosstat data for 2010 and 2015. On the basis of the obtained estimates the authors identified the levels of human potential development in regions that made it possible to range them by this level and to analyze the direction of its changes in dynamics. Components have been found out a weak and strong impact on the composite estimates as well as specifics of this impact by groups of regions. It was established that demographic and health components leave much to be desired, particularly in northern regions characterized by harsh natural climatic conditions of life.In North Caucasus regions the problem of raising educational level of population has not lost its relevance. It is shown that despite the general growth in the level of human potential development in most subjects of the Russian Federation over the period under consideration it remains insufficient for implementing modernization processes in some regions.

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Crossing over; taking refuge: A contrapuntal reading

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies ◽

10.4102/hts.v70i1.2720 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 70 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Elaine M. Wainwright

Keyword(s):

Gospel Of Matthew ◽

Crossing Over ◽

Post Colonial ◽

Colonial Studies ◽

Local Contexts ◽

Global And Local

In this article, I undertake a contrapuntal reading (a type of reading developed within post-colonial studies) engaging the Gospel of Matthew and the current global and local contexts of migration. The work demonstrates the mode and the significance of such readings and ways in which the approach could be brought to bear in a range of contemporary contexts and in relation to any number of current global and local issues.

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Indigenous Media Practice

Media International Australia ◽

10.1177/1329878x1314900108 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 149 (1) ◽

pp. 67-69 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Kerry McCallum ◽

Lisa Waller

Keyword(s):

Social Policy ◽

International Research ◽

Indigenous Populations ◽

Special Issue ◽

The Third ◽

Indigenous Media ◽

Local Contexts ◽

Aims And Scope ◽

Media Systems ◽

Global And Local

This article introduces the Indigenous Media Practice special issue through a discussion of the aims and scope of the edition. It identifies three major currents in contemporary international research on media and indigeneity, which are reflected in the suite of scholarship presented here. The first is the importance of continuing to critically analyse media systems, institutions and policies that enable and constrain the production and dissemination of information for, by and about Indigenous populations. The second emphasises media-related practices in specific media production and social policy contexts, and the third underlines the importance of interrogating underlying and pervasive societal discourses in understanding Indigenous media practice. The contributions to this themed issue highlight that there is a vibrant body of research among a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, typically working in teams in the pursuit of better understanding the relationships between media and indigeneity in both global and local contexts.

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