Ag Nanoparticles Significantly Improve the Slow Decay Brightness of SrAl2O4:Eu2+,Dy3+ by the Surface Plasmon Effect

Long afterglow luminescence material is an important energy storage material. For large-scale applications, the low afterglow brightness specially in slow decay process is a weak point. At present, the methods...

Preventing information security incidents

Information is becoming a very important resource and begins to exceed even tangible assets in importance. In connection with the rapid development of the importance of information in the modern world, encroachments on information resources began to grow. A group of information security tools was developed to prevent unauthorized access to it or its elements. This group of tools is defined as the term "information security". It should be noted that it is precisely the preventive measures to ensure the security of information that are important, and not the elimination of the consequences of these problems. In the course of his work, the developer may accidentally make a mistake as a consequence of which a future vulnerability may be formed at this point. Vulnerability is a weak point of a program or software; having discovered this point, an attacker can easily harm information. If the threat came out deliberate, then there are methods to ensure the security of information. This article discusses information protection measures.

Balls of Count Etienne de Beaumont as an Element of the Social and Artistic Life of Paris in the 1920–1930s

In post-war Paris, there was an active search for a new philosophy of life and creativity — and at first it seemed that Dadaism could become such a basis for a new way of life. But the weak point of the Dadaists was that their concept of destruction and the foundations’ trampling did not offer anything in return besides an anarchy. Therefore, in parallel, the artists, actors and musicians, who were not attracted by the negative anarchist principles of Dadaism, tried to find some other prerequisites. One of the tendencies was the desire to present the game as the basis of the artistic process. Hence there is the aspiration for theatricality, performances, masks, the introduction of elements of theatricality into private life — as, for example, the famous thematic balls of Count Etienne de Beaumont, his theatrical enterprise “Les Soirées de Paris” in which J. Cocteau, E. Satie, V. Gross-Hugo, J. Hugo, P. Picasso and others participated. An article’ attempt is made to systematize the play approach to the creativity on the example of E. de Beaumont’s thematic balls in Paris in the 1920–1930s, to identify the characteristic features and differences of this phenomenon from the play activities of the past eras on the basis of “play” conceptions by M. Bakhtin, J. Huizinga and S. Kagan.

What You See Is What You Transform: Foveated Spatial Transformers as a bio-inspired attention mechanism

Convolutional Neural Networks have been considered the go-to option for object recognition in computer vision for the last couple of years. However, their invariance to object’s translations is still deemed as a weak point and remains limited to small translations only via their max-pooling layers. One bio-inspired approach considers the What/Where pathway separation in Mammals to overcome this limitation. This approach works as a nature-inspired attention mechanism, another classical approach of which is Spatial Transformers. These allow an adaptive endto-end learning of different classes of spatial transformations throughout training. In this work, we overview Spatial Transformers as an attention-only mechanism and compare them with the What/Where model. We show that the use of attention restricted or “Foveated” Spatial Transformer Networks, coupled alongside a curriculum learning training scheme and an efficient log-polar visual space entry, provides better performance when compared to the What/Where model, all this without the need for any extra supervision whatsoever.

What You See Is What You Transform: Foveated Spatial Transformers as a bio-inspired attention mechanism

Convolutional Neural Networks have been considered the go-to option for object recognition in computer vision for the last couple of years. However, their invariance to object’s translations is still deemed as a weak point and remains limited to small translations only via their max-pooling layers. One bio-inspired approach considers the What/Where pathway separation in Mammals to overcome this limitation. This approach works as a nature-inspired attention mechanism, another classical approach of which is Spatial Transformers. These allow an adaptive endto-end learning of different classes of spatial transformations throughout training. In this work, we overview Spatial Transformers as an attention-only mechanism and compare them with the What/Where model. We show that the use of attention restricted or “Foveated” Spatial Transformer Networks, coupled alongside a curriculum learning training scheme and an efficient log-polar visual space entry, provides better performance when compared to the What/Where model, all this without the need for any extra supervision whatsoever.

The Effect Of Balcony Enclosure Retrofits On The Performance of Murbs

The City of Toronto has been undertaking retrofit projects to refurbish an aging building stock and increase performance in multi-unit residential buildings (MURBs). These retrofit considerations include solutions proposed for balconies, a common weak point in the building structure. A balcony enclosure retrofit was one such solution, using overcladding to insulate the exposed balcony slab and parapet, enclosing the open portion of the balcony with glazing. The effect of the balcony enclosure differed depending on the balcony type, varying with characteristics such as balcony to façade ratio, orientation and the projection type of the balcony, whether inset or projecting. When models were retrofit with balcony enclosures, results showed an overall decrease in energy use as the enclosures raised internal air temperatures, lowering demand for heating. The balcony characteristics which showed the largest decrease in energy use when retrofit with balcony enclosures were inset balconies with high balcony to façade ratio.

The Effect Of Balcony Enclosure Retrofits On The Performance of Murbs

The City of Toronto has been undertaking retrofit projects to refurbish an aging building stock and increase performance in multi-unit residential buildings (MURBs). These retrofit considerations include solutions proposed for balconies, a common weak point in the building structure. A balcony enclosure retrofit was one such solution, using overcladding to insulate the exposed balcony slab and parapet, enclosing the open portion of the balcony with glazing. The effect of the balcony enclosure differed depending on the balcony type, varying with characteristics such as balcony to façade ratio, orientation and the projection type of the balcony, whether inset or projecting. When models were retrofit with balcony enclosures, results showed an overall decrease in energy use as the enclosures raised internal air temperatures, lowering demand for heating. The balcony characteristics which showed the largest decrease in energy use when retrofit with balcony enclosures were inset balconies with high balcony to façade ratio.

The concept of sustainable finance and the prospects for its implementation in Russia

The article attempts to formulate the main characteristics of the concept of sustainable finance and determine its place among other concepts. Its certain autonomy from the concept of sustainable development is emphasized. Indicators are presented that demonstrate the outstripping growth of sustainable finance in the modern world, and assumptions about the reasons for this trend. The problem of the adequacy of rating assessments of corporate adherence to ESG principles is briefly touched upon, which turned out to be the weak point of the concept of sustainable finance. The current state of the concept of sustainable finance in Russia is assessed, the main obstacles to its implementation and feasibility are determined. Proposals are formulated for public policy measures that can stimulate the formation of domestic responsible investors in Russia, as well as other measures that will contribute to the implementation of the concept of sustainable finance.