scholarly journals INNOVATIVE CLASSIFICATION OF METHODS OF THE FUTURE-ORIENTED TECHNOLOGY ANALYSIS

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 574-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna HALICKA
Keyword(s):  
Research Process ◽  
Modern Approach ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Technology Analysis ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
The Future ◽  
Research Procedure ◽  
The Given ◽  
Selection Of

In the era characterized by significant dynamics of the environment traditional methods of anticipating the future, assuming the immutability of the factors affecting the forecasted phenomenon, may be in the long term ineffective. The modern approach of predicting the future of technology, taking into account the multidimensionality of the environment, is, among other things, the Future-Oriented Technology Analysis (FTA). Designing the FTA research procedure is a complex process, both in organizational and methodological terms. The catalogue of methods that can be used in this process is extensive and constantly open. However, in the source literature the rules for the selection of methods appropriate for the type of research were not specified. The ways of combining methods in the research process were also missing. The main aim of this article was to present the author’s classification of methods of future-oriented technology analysis and indicate the possibilities of its application. In the text, using statistical methods and artificial neural networks, the classification of methods with the potential of exploitation in prospective technology analysis was carried out. Each of the received classes was analysed, the characteristics of particular groups of methods were selected, and authorial names characterizing the given classes were chosen. According to the author, the application of the proposed classification of methods of future-oriented technology analysis facilitates the design of the FTA research process. It will contribute to the systematization and standardization of the manner of selection of research methods. It will also allow for the selection of complementary methods.

scholarly journals Documentación, valorización y difusión del patrimonio hidráulico romano en el Valle medio del Ebro.

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
Paula Uribe ◽  
Jorge Angás ◽  
María Ángeles Magallón ◽  
Jorge Víctor Miranda
Keyword(s):  
Water Cycle ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Hydraulic Structures ◽  
Web Environment ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
Representative Selection ◽  
La Rioja ◽  
Selection Of

<p>Nowadays, how to focus the last geometric documentation techniques applied to cultural heritage, aiming a didactic application, is being a complex process. The development of this purpose must balance research process with the social spreading of the scientific knowledge. Based on this concern, the aim of this research project is the geometric documentation - accompanied by a highlighting and spreading on a web environment - of a representative selection of Roman hydraulic structures. The choice of the sites has been done focusing on archaeological discovers in the Ebro’s Valley, concretely in monuments located in La Rioja, Navarra and Aragon. In this way, the purpose of the project is to document the sites and spread the knowledge about Roman aqueducts, dam, sewers, tanks and cisterns, which is essential to understand the water cycle during the Roman period.</p>

scholarly journals Development of an integrated approach to the selection of remediation measures and environmental technologies for their implementation

2021 ◽  
Vol 258 ◽  
pp. 08027
Author(s):  
Vadim Bespalov ◽  
Oksana Gurova
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Remediation Measures ◽  
Environmental Monitoring System ◽  
Scientific Substantiation ◽  
Environmental Technologies ◽  
Environmental Measures ◽  
Selection Of

The article is devoted to the scientific substantiation of the formation of a comprehensive methodology for the selection of highly effective and economical remediation measures. To do this, the authors have gradually carried out studies of factors affecting the environment, assessing the levels of their environmental hazard, analyzing the goals and main tasks of the international environmental monitoring system with a proposal for the basic principles of its improvement, and also proposed a new classification of environmental measures aimed at suppressing environmental impacts factors.

scholarly journals BIM ADOPTION IN THE AEC/FM INDUSTRY – THE CASE FOR ISSUING BUILDING PERMITS

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 400-413
Author(s):  
Kaleem Ullah ◽  
Christopher Raitviir ◽  
Irene Lill ◽  
Emlyn Witt
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Public Authority ◽  
Adoption Process ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Building Permits ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Planning Strategies ◽  
Permitting Process

BIM adoption is a complex process and relatively little information exists on the BIM adoption processes of public authorities. This research aims to address this gap by examining how a contemporary public authority is approaching BIM adoption for their building permitting process. Firstly, a systematic literature review was carried out to understand extant descriptions of BIM adoption processes and the factors affecting adoption success. This resulted in the derivation of a generic BIM adoption process and the classification of factors that affect BIM adoption with reference to the Technology Organization and Environment (TOE) framework. The case of the BIM adoption process and the factors affecting its implementation in a contemporary public authority were then analysed in terms of the generic adoption process and factor classification derived from the literature. The findings reveal the planning strategies and execution steps for BIM adoption and the factors affecting them. This study provides a systematic approach to investigating BIM adoption in a public authority. It contributes to the understanding of BIM adoption processes and factors affecting them and is anticipated to be useful for AEC/FM professionals in understanding and facilitating successful BIM adoption.

Decision Making on Glass Selection in Building Facade

2011 ◽  
Vol 250-253 ◽  
pp. 2792-2795
Author(s):  
Qiang Du ◽  
Jian Yang ◽  
Tian Hua Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Information Flow ◽  
Informed Decision ◽  
Building Envelopes ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Robust Approach ◽  
Performance Requirements ◽  
Building Facade ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Selection Of

Glass is widely used for its properties of transparency. It has been favoured by architects for the last two decades and used to deliver a distinct style of architecture. However, the conflicting performance requirements make the decision making on glass selection in building envelopes a complex process. This paper investigates the factors affecting the selection of glass used in building facade, and proposes a hierarchy of decision making to facilitate the information flow. This may provide an integrated and robust approach to reach an informed decision.

scholarly journals TASK-DEPENDENT BAND-SELECTION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES BY PROJECTION-BASED RANDOM FORESTS

2016 ◽  
Vol III-7 ◽  
pp. 263-270
Author(s):  
R. Hänsch ◽  
O. Hellwich
Keyword(s):  
Land Cover ◽  
Random Forests ◽  
Classification Performance ◽  
Hyperspectral Images ◽  
Band Selection ◽  
Spectral Correlation ◽  
Spectral Bands ◽  
The Given ◽  
Selection Of

The automatic classification of land cover types from hyperspectral images is a challenging problem due to (among others) the large amount of spectral bands and their high spatial and spectral correlation. The extraction of meaningful features, that enables a subsequent classifier to distinguish between different land cover classes, is often limited to a subset of all available data dimensions which is found by band selection techniques or other methods of dimensionality reduction. This work applies Projection-Based Random Forests to hyperspectral images, which not only overcome the need of an explicit feature extraction, but also provide mechanisms to automatically select spectral bands that contain original (i.e. non-redundant) as well as highly meaningful information for the given classification task. The proposed method is applied to four challenging hyperspectral datasets and it is shown that the effective number of spectral bands can be considerably limited without loosing too much of classification performance, e.g. a loss of 1&thinsp;% accuracy if roughly 13&thinsp;% of all available bands are used.

scholarly journals Effect of the Slope Angle and Its Classification on Landslide

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seda Çellek
Keyword(s):  
Landslide Susceptibility ◽  
Slope Angle ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Susceptibility Maps ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Landslide Distribution ◽  
Landslide Susceptibility Maps ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract The preparation of landslide susceptibility maps is a complex process with regards to the selection of the study field, parameters, and methods. The phase after the determination of the landslide distribution in landslide susceptibility studies is the selection of the methods and parameters to be used. However, first, as in this study, a comprehensive literature search is required. A review of approximately 1500 randomly selected publications revealed that it was necessary to select a parameter based on the area, and the research showed that, in each study, the most preferred parameter was the slope angle. Moreover, there is nearly a consensus of opinion among researchers regarding the use of the slope angle. The current research included the definitions of the slope angle put forth by different researchers, the advantages and disadvantages of its use, the different classifications that have been used, the intervals of the landslides, its use together with other parameters, and its effect on landslides. Generally, it was observed that automatic slope angle classifications have been used in the preparation of landslide maps in the literature. Therefore, there is no standard in slope angle maps nor in the class range that is referenced when preparing them. In this study, the class ranges and slope angle values of areas where landslides have occurred were determined from the literature, and of these, 40 landslides areas were selected in Turkey and their slope angle maps were created. These were evaluated according to the slope angle classes determined in the literature. The effects of the slope angle on the landslide were determined, and an understanding was gained of how important it was to be careful when determining the classification of the slope angle. When smaller class ranges were selected, different results were obtained. This showed that following parameter selection, the selection of the range of classes was vital in the preparation of landslide susceptibility maps.

A Systematic Review on Classification, Identification, and Healing Process of Burn Wound Healing

2020 ◽  
pp. 153473462092485
Author(s):  
Morteza Abazari ◽  
Azadeh Ghaffari ◽  
Hamid Rashidzadeh ◽  
Safa Momeni Badeleh ◽  
Yaser Maleki
Keyword(s):  
Wound Healing ◽  
Healing Process ◽  
The Other ◽  
Burn Wound ◽  
Correct Treatment ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Burn Wound Healing ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Intrinsic Complexity

Because of the intrinsic complexity, the classification of wounds is important for the diagnosis, management, and choosing the correct treatment based on wound type. Generally, burn injuries are classified as a class of wounds in which injury is caused by heat, cold, electricity, chemicals, friction, or radiation. On the other hand, wound healing is a complex process, and understanding the biological trend of this process and differences in the healing process of different wounds could reduce the possible risk in many cases and greatly reduce the future damage to the injured tissue and other organs. The aim of this review is to provide a general perspective for the burn wound location among the other types of injuries and summarizing as well as highlighting the differences of these types of wounds with emphasizing on factors affecting thereof.

New Materials Applied for the Stationary Phases in View of the Optimized HPLC and UHPLC Column Classification System Used in the Pharmaceutical Analysis

2015 ◽  
Vol 1120-1121 ◽  
pp. 1404-1412
Author(s):  
Alina Plenis ◽  
Tomasz Bączek ◽  
Jarosław Szulfer ◽  
Michał Markuszewski
Keyword(s):  
Stationary Phases ◽  
Physicochemical Characteristics ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Method Transfer ◽  
Column Material ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Given ◽  
Selection Of

Pharmacopoeial monographs define usually requirements for the use of the particular chromatographic packing materials in a very general way. Even if a selection of particular chromatographic column packed with the defined material is suggested, it appears often that column is currently not present in the laboratory, or is no longer commercially available. With respect to those facts, there are needs to replace the given column material for another one, however with the similar physicochemical characteristics. This can be achieved by using one of the classification systems of columns’ material (e.g., the procedure developed by the researchers at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven – and therefore called tentatively by us as KUL procedure).In the first stage of the work, it has been proven that the results obtained by KUL procedure can be related to results obtained during chemometrics verification of the suitability of selected stationary phases’ material used in the individual columns for purity test of alfuzosin as pharmaceutical substance and their impurities and related compounds. The next step was to adapt KUL procedure to allow the classification of modern and new UHPLC and Core-Shell (CS) columns’ material characterized by the novel physicochemical properties. Together, properties of 61 columns packed with variable materials have been characterized. The last step comprised the data collection to examine the possibilities to use UHPLC and CS columns materials as equivalent ones to the classical HPLC columns’ materials in view of the method transfer for the previously mentioned assay for alfuzosin.

scholarly journals TASK-DEPENDENT BAND-SELECTION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES BY PROJECTION-BASED RANDOM FORESTS

2016 ◽  
Vol III-7 ◽  
pp. 263-270
Author(s):  
R. Hänsch ◽  
O. Hellwich
Keyword(s):  
Land Cover ◽  
Random Forests ◽  
Classification Performance ◽  
Hyperspectral Images ◽  
Band Selection ◽  
Spectral Correlation ◽  
Spectral Bands ◽  
The Given ◽  
Selection Of

The automatic classification of land cover types from hyperspectral images is a challenging problem due to (among others) the large amount of spectral bands and their high spatial and spectral correlation. The extraction of meaningful features, that enables a subsequent classifier to distinguish between different land cover classes, is often limited to a subset of all available data dimensions which is found by band selection techniques or other methods of dimensionality reduction. This work applies Projection-Based Random Forests to hyperspectral images, which not only overcome the need of an explicit feature extraction, but also provide mechanisms to automatically select spectral bands that contain original (i.e. non-redundant) as well as highly meaningful information for the given classification task. The proposed method is applied to four challenging hyperspectral datasets and it is shown that the effective number of spectral bands can be considerably limited without loosing too much of classification performance, e.g. a loss of 1&thinsp;% accuracy if roughly 13&thinsp;% of all available bands are used.

Social Authorship and the Production of Texts in Late Chosŏn: An Analytical Bibliography

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-33
Author(s):  
Jamie Jungmin Yoo
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Closed Set ◽  
Original Intention ◽  
Research Challenges ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
The Given ◽  
Literary Canons ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract This research aims to revisit the study of the Ch’ŏngjanggwan chŏnsŏ (Complete works of Yi Tŏngmu, 1741-1793), with particular emphasis on its collaborative production, transmission, and modern appropriation. By analyzing eight different versions from North America, Japan, Korea, and China, I explore how each text was constructed by multiple agencies and constantly transformed through historical transmission. In the process of the collaborative production of the book, the selection of a primary author’s work was reinterpreted by the choices of those who received and collected the given collection of Yi’s writings. Although Yi is considered the author, each manuscript collection was transformed without his knowledge or consent. Thus, through a complex process of adaptation and transformation, a multiplicity of agencies involved in the production of the book have filtered and negotiated the author’s original intention. Addressing the notion of “social authorship,” this research challenges the solitary author model as well as the notion of canon as a complete and fixed entity. All the texts examined in this study were cultural and social products. Ch’ŏngjanggwan chŏnsŏ was produced and transformed through constant negotiations among the original author, editors, and readers. Although it has been valued as one of the most important literary canons of late Chosŏn, the collection was not a closed set of texts; rather, the particular set of texts in any version is “fluid and flexible,” and transformation during transmission was expected.

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