USE OF UAV IMAGERY FOR EELGRASS MAPPING IN ATLANTIC CANADA

Abstract. Eelgrass beds are critical in coastal ecosystems and can be useful as a measure of nearshore ecosystem health. Population declines have been seen around the world, including in Atlantic Canada. Restoration has the potential to aid the eelgrass population. Traditionally, field-level protocols would be used to monitor restoration; however, using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) would be faster, more cost-efficient, and produce images with higher spatial resolution. This project used RGB UAV imagery and data acquired over five sites with eelgrass beds in the northern part of the Shediac Bay (New Brunswick, Canada). The images were mosaicked using Pix4Dmapper and PCI Geomatica. Each RGB mosaic was tested for the separability of four different classes (eelgrass bed, deep water channels, sand floor, and mud floor), and training areas were created for each class. The Maximum-likelihood classifier was then applied to each mosaic for creating a map of the five sites. With an average and overall accuracy higher than 98% and a Kappa coefficient higher than 0.97, the Pix4D RGB mosaic was superior to the PCI Geomatica RGB mosaic with an average accuracy of 89%, an overall accuracy of 87%, and a Kappa coefficient of 0.83. This study indicates that mapping eelgrass beds with UAV RGB imagery is possible, but that the mosaicking step is critical. However, some factors need to be considered for creating a better map, such as acquiring the images during overcast conditions to reduce the difference in sun illumination, and the effects of glint or cloud shadow on the images.

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Medical Training for Disaster Situations

International Review of the Red Cross ◽

10.1017/s0020860400006045 ◽

1973 ◽

Vol 13 (145) ◽

pp. 182-188

Author(s):

J.-A. Baumann

Keyword(s):

Medical Training ◽

Code Of Ethics ◽

Hippocratic Oath ◽

Specific Aspect ◽

Doctor Who ◽

The World ◽

Patient Will ◽

The Difference ◽

And Training ◽

Do So

Medical practice in disaster relief has a very specific aspect as compared with medicine in general, but I must point out that the difference lies in its organization rather than in its therapeutic nature. A doctor who has before him a sick or wounded person, or any other patient, will unstintingly provide care according to the knowledge and training he received at medical school. He will do so in accordance with the code of ethics of his calling, inculcated by his throughout the world draw inspiration from the Hippocratic Oath, the Prayer of Maimonides or the Geneva Declaration. All of this has been accepted and need not enter the type of training which we are about to define. The same applies to nurses and to the doctor's specialized auxiliaries, who are adequately trained for their occupation, in similar yet differentiated fashion.

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Inter-country inequality as a dynamic process and the problem of post-industrial development

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2018-7-5-29 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 5-29 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

L. M. Grigoryev ◽

V. A. Pavlyushina

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Political Institutions ◽

Industrial Development ◽

Modern World ◽

New Approach ◽

Development Level ◽

The World ◽

Long Time ◽

The Difference ◽

Post Industrial

The phenomenon of economic growth is studied by economists and statisticians in various aspects for a long time. Economic theory is devoted to assessing factors of growth in the tradition of R. Solow, R. Barrow, W. Easterly and others. During the last quarter of the century, however, the institutionalists, namely D. North, D. Wallis, B. Weingast as well as D. Acemoglu and J. Robinson, have shown the complexity of the problem of development on the part of socioeconomic and political institutions. As a result, solving the problem of how economic growth affects inequality between countries has proved extremely difficult. The modern world is very diverse in terms of development level, and the article offers a new approach to the formation of the idea of stylized facts using cluster analysis. The existing statistics allows to estimate on a unified basis the level of GDP production by 174 countries of the world for 1992—2016. The article presents a structured picture of the world: the distribution of countries in seven clusters, different in levels of development. During the period under review, there was a strong per capita GDP growth in PPP in the middle of the distribution, poverty in various countries declined markedly. At the same time, in 1992—2016, the difference increased not only between rich and poor groups of countries, but also between clusters.

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Speculative Realism and Science Fiction

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474422697.001.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Brian Willems

Keyword(s):

Science Fiction ◽

Identity Formation ◽

Cormac Mccarthy ◽

Doris Lessing ◽

Speculative Realism ◽

Neil Gaiman ◽

The World ◽

The Difference ◽

Quentin Meillassoux

A human-centred approach to the environment is leading to ecological collapse. One of the ways that speculative realism challenges anthropomorphism is by taking non-human things to be as valid objects of investivation as humans, allowing a more responsible and truthful view of the world to take place. Brian Willems uses a range of science fiction literature that questions anthropomorphism both to develop and challenge this philosophical position. He looks at how nonsense and sense exist together in science fiction, the way in which language is not a guarantee of personhood, the role of vision in relation to identity formation, the difference between metamorphosis and modulation, representations of non-human deaths and the function of plasticity within the Anthropocene. Willems considers the works of Cormac McCarthy, Paolo Bacigalupi, Neil Gaiman, China Miéville, Doris Lessing and Kim Stanley Robinson are considered alongside some of the main figures of speculative materialism including Graham Harman, Quentin Meillassoux and Jane Bennett.

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Between High Culture and Low Culture; and also The Difference Between Popular Culture and Folk Culture

SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH ◽

10.24113/ijellh.v7i8.9572 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (8) ◽

pp. 12

Author(s):

Kunal Debnath

Keyword(s):

Popular Culture ◽

Folk Culture ◽

Common People ◽

High Culture ◽

The World ◽

The Common ◽

The Difference ◽

Low Culture

High culture is a collection of ideologies, beliefs, thoughts, trends, practices and works-- intellectual or creative-- that is intended for refined, cultured and educated elite people. Low culture is the culture of the common people and the mass. Popular culture is something that is always, most importantly, related to everyday average people and their experiences of the world; it is urban, changing and consumeristic in nature. Folk culture is the culture of preindustrial (premarket, precommodity) communities.

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L'anglicisme dans la langue française

Digital Press Social Sciences and Humanities ◽

10.29037/digitalpress.43286 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 ◽

pp. 00013

Author(s):

Danny Susanto

Keyword(s):

English Language ◽

Oil Industry ◽

English Word ◽

Public Institutions ◽

Font Size ◽

The World ◽

French Speaking ◽

The Difference ◽

Definition Of ◽

Bibliographic Study

The purpose of this study is to analyze the phenomenon known as “anglicism”: a loan made to the English language by another language. Anglicism arose either from the adoption of an English word as a result of a translation defect despite the existence of an equivalent term in the language of the speaker, or from a wrong translation, as a word-by-word translation. Said phenomenon is very common nowadays and most languages of the world including making use of some linguistic concepts such as anglicism, neologism, syntax, morphology etc, this article addresses various aspects related to Anglicisms in French through a bibliographic study: the definition of Anglicism, the origin of Anglicisms in French and the current situation, the areas most affected by Anglicism, the different categories of Anglicism, the difference between French Anglicism in France and French-speaking Canada, the attitude of French-speaking society towards to the Anglicisms and their efforts to stop this phenomenon. The study shows that the areas affected are, among others, trade, travel, parliamentary and judicial institutions, sports, rail, industrial production and most recently film, industrial production, sport, oil industry, information technology, science and technology. Various initiatives have been implemented either by public institutions or by individuals who share concerns about the increasingly felt threat of the omnipresence of Anglicism in everyday life.

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Defending the Difference

10.1093/oso/9780198796220.003.0004 ◽

2017 ◽

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Natural Sciences ◽

Point Of View ◽

True Nature ◽

Natural Entities ◽

The Social ◽

The World ◽

Methodological Difference ◽

The Difference ◽

The One

Dreyfus argues that there is a basic methodological difference between the natural sciences and the social sciences, a difference that derives from the different goals and practices of each. He goes on to argue that being a realist about natural entities is compatible with pluralism or, as he calls it, “plural realism.” If intelligibility is always grounded in our practices, Dreyfus points out, then there is no point of view from which one can ask about or provide an answer to the one true nature of ultimate reality. But that is consistent with believing that the natural sciences can still reveal the way the world is independent of our theories and practices.

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SVM-Based Bearing Anomaly Identification with Self-Tuning Network-Fuzzy Robust Proportional Multi Integral and Smart Autoregressive Model

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app11062784 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (6) ◽

pp. 2784

Author(s):

Shahnaz TayebiHaghighi ◽

Insoo Koo

Keyword(s):

Machine Learning ◽

Variable Structure ◽

Rolling Element Bearing ◽

Crack Identification ◽

Original Signal ◽

Signal Modeling ◽

Residual Signal ◽

Average Accuracy ◽

Self Tuning ◽

The Difference

In this paper, the combination of an indirect self-tuning observer, smart signal modeling, and machine learning-based classification is proposed for rolling element bearing (REB) anomaly identification. The proposed scheme has three main stages. In the first stage, the original signal is resampled, and the root mean square (RMS) signal is extracted from it. In the second stage, the normal resampled RMS signal is approximated using the AutoRegressive with eXternal Uncertainty (ARXU) technique. Moreover, the nonlinearity of the bearing signal is solved using the combination of the ARXU and the machine learning-based regression, which is called AMRXU. After signal modeling by AMRXU, the RMS resampled signal is estimated using a combination of the proportional multi-integral (PMI) technique, the variable structure (VS) Lyapunov technique, and a self-tuning network-fuzzy system (SNFS). Finally, in the third stage, the difference between the original signal and the estimated one is calculated to generate the residual signal. A machine learning-based classification technique is utilized to classify the residual signal. The Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) dataset is used to evaluate anomaly identification performance of the proposed scheme. Regarding the experimental results, the average accuracy for REB crack identification is 98.65%, 97.7%, 97.35%, and 97.67%, respectively, when the motor torque loads are 0-hp, 1-hp, 2-hp, and 3-hp.

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What Difference Does Posthumanism Make?

Cambridge Archaeological Journal ◽

10.1017/s0959774321000159 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-7

Author(s):

Rachel J. Crellin ◽

Oliver J.T. Harris

Keyword(s):

Productive Force ◽

The World ◽

The Status ◽

The Difference ◽

The Relationship

In this paper we argue that to understand the difference Posthumanism makes to the relationship between archaeology, agency and ontology, several misconceptions need to be corrected. First, we emphasize that Posthumanism is multiple, with different elements, meaning any critique needs to be carefully targeted. The approach we advocate is a specifically Deleuzian and explicitly feminist approach to Posthumanism. Second, we examine the status of agency within Posthumanism and suggest that we may be better off thinking about affect. Third, we explore how the approach we advocate treats difference in new ways, not as a question of lack, or as difference ‘from’, but rather as a productive force in the world. Finally, we explore how Posthumanism allows us to re-position the role of the human in archaeology,

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Clinical Differences between COVID-19 and a COVID-Like Syndrome

Journal of Clinical Medicine ◽

10.3390/jcm10112519 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (11) ◽

pp. 2519

Author(s):

Pierpaolo Di Micco ◽

Giuseppe Camporese ◽

Vincenzo Russo ◽

Giuseppe Cardillo ◽

Egidio Imbalzano ◽

...

Keyword(s):

False Negative ◽

Nasopharyngeal Swab ◽

Similar Group ◽

Risk Of Infection ◽

Hospital Workers ◽

Serological Tests ◽

Clinical Presentations ◽

The World ◽

Lung Failure ◽

The Difference

COVID-19 is an infection due to SARS-CoV-2; this virus has been identified as the cause of the present pandemic. Several typical characteristics are present in this infection, in particular pneumonia with possible lung failure, but atypical clinical presentations are being described daily by physicians around the world. Ground-glass opacities with pneumonia are the most common and dangerous presentations of the COVID-19 disease, and they are usually associated with positive nasopharyngeal swab (NPS) tests with detectable SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA. Compared to the general population, hospital workers have been at a greater risk of infection ever since the first patients were hospitalized. However, hospital workers have also been reported as having COVID-like symptoms despite repeated negative swab tests but having tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies with serological tests. We can postulate that a COVID-like syndrome is possible, in particular in hospital workers, that is characterized by symptoms similar to those of COVID-19, but with repeated negative nasopharyngeal swabs. These repeated negative NSPs make the difference in daily clinical management with people that experienced a single false negative nasopharyngeal swab; furthermore, a clear clinical differentiation of these situations is still lacking in the literature. For this reason, here, we report our main findings from a cohort of patients with a COVID-like syndrome compared to a similar group affected by typical COVID-19.

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Towards a systemic-dialogical model of therapy

Human Systems: Therapy, Culture and Attachments ◽

10.1177/26344041211003853 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 263440412110038

Author(s):

Paolo Bertrando ◽

Claudia Lini

Keyword(s):

The World ◽

Open Dialogue ◽

The Difference ◽

Systemic Understanding ◽

Case Supervision ◽

Model Of Practice

Bakhtin-inspired ideas that led to the emergence of dialogic therapies are usually considered as incompatible with other, more traditional models. This article presents a possible integration of dialogical ideas, with their acceptance of uncertainty and disorder, within a systemic understanding, where the emergence of systemic patterns is recognised. Through a comparison with the open dialogue approach, the article aims at clarifying the difference between a pure dialogical and a systemic-dialogical perspective, that is seen as more fitting with the contextual complexity of the world of today. The model of practice is illustrated by a case supervision example.

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