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    Advances and Applications of DSmT for Information Fusion. Collected Works, Volume 5

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    This fifth volume on Advances and Applications of DSmT for Information Fusion collects theoretical and applied contributions of researchers working in different fields of applications and in mathematics, and is available in open-access. The collected contributions of this volume have either been published or presented after disseminating the fourth volume in 2015 in international conferences, seminars, workshops and journals, or they are new. The contributions of each part of this volume are chronologically ordered. First Part of this book presents some theoretical advances on DSmT, dealing mainly with modified Proportional Conflict Redistribution Rules (PCR) of combination with degree of intersection, coarsening techniques, interval calculus for PCR thanks to set inversion via interval analysis (SIVIA), rough set classifiers, canonical decomposition of dichotomous belief functions, fast PCR fusion, fast inter-criteria analysis with PCR, and improved PCR5 and PCR6 rules preserving the (quasi-)neutrality of (quasi-)vacuous belief assignment in the fusion of sources of evidence with their Matlab codes. Because more applications of DSmT have emerged in the past years since the apparition of the fourth book of DSmT in 2015, the second part of this volume is about selected applications of DSmT mainly in building change detection, object recognition, quality of data association in tracking, perception in robotics, risk assessment for torrent protection and multi-criteria decision-making, multi-modal image fusion, coarsening techniques, recommender system, levee characterization and assessment, human heading perception, trust assessment, robotics, biometrics, failure detection, GPS systems, inter-criteria analysis, group decision, human activity recognition, storm prediction, data association for autonomous vehicles, identification of maritime vessels, fusion of support vector machines (SVM), Silx-Furtif RUST code library for information fusion including PCR rules, and network for ship classification. Finally, the third part presents interesting contributions related to belief functions in general published or presented along the years since 2015. These contributions are related with decision-making under uncertainty, belief approximations, probability transformations, new distances between belief functions, non-classical multi-criteria decision-making problems with belief functions, generalization of Bayes theorem, image processing, data association, entropy and cross-entropy measures, fuzzy evidence numbers, negator of belief mass, human activity recognition, information fusion for breast cancer therapy, imbalanced data classification, and hybrid techniques mixing deep learning with belief functions as well

    LIPIcs, Volume 261, ICALP 2023, Complete Volume

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    LIPIcs, Volume 261, ICALP 2023, Complete Volum

    Undergraduate and Graduate Course Descriptions, 2023 Spring

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    Wright State University undergraduate and graduate course descriptions from Spring 2023

    “Hero to Zero to Hero” Exploring the Experiences of Football Managers as they Socialise into a New Football Management Job Role

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    Organisation socialisation is a dynamic, complex process that takes place when an individual transitions into a new job role. Often there are a wide range of factors that an individual faces as they adapt to a new organisation culture. Some individuals may be overwhelmed by a constellation of factors; for example, the socialisation content to be learned, the tactics that an organisation uses, people already in situ and political aspects that are already in play within the organisation (and workgroup). This thesis contributes to the organisation socialisation literature by providing the Hiplex-D model that represents the relationship dynamics that occur when a new manager is employed. The model is based on 43 semi-structured interviews with managers (men’s and women’s football) to discover their transition experiences during their career. The longest career in men’s non-league football was over 30 years, with several managers having relatively stable periods of between 5-8 years at one club. The majority of the managers have won promotion to a higher level e.g. the national league south (level 5) to national league, with some being promoted into the English League Division 2. The majority have had a successful career in football management, where movement from organisation to organisation is the norm rather than the exception. The ability to improve the performance of a team within a short period of time, and to keep winning, is the only guarantee of job role tenure. The key findings were twofold. Firstly, it was discovered that there were many elements to the dynamic complexity of the socialisation process that made socialisation challenging in a short timeframe (5-6 weeks). The socialisation process is multi-level; from day 1, a variety of stakeholders engage simultaneously with the new manager. Socialisation is a competitive process wherein a new manager has to motivate a winning team. Creating and maintaining high quality working relationships requires the manager to apply a range of strategies and actions to create mutual benefits for themselves and a range of stakeholders. The Hiplex-D model identifies that socialisation is multi-levelled, including an extra-organisational level which can be particularly potent. Customers, regulators, journalists (part of the media) and talent agents all compete with the new manager to socialise the new manager from outside the organisation and vice versa. The agency of the new manager during transition (socialisation) is found to be contingent upon three factors: the job role responsibilities, the job role position within the organisation structure, and the individual’s ability to read the political landscape and modify their actions accordingly. Secondly, the football manager has to demonstrate an ability to read the political landscape and choose political strategies and actions that show political astuteness in action. The ability to understand the football management role in terms of relative power relations/objective configuration enables the new manager to become a social chameleon. Key facets of political astuteness are the evaluation of the political strategies and actions available and the choice of one that enables the maintenance or improvement in a relationship. Many times this comes in the form of a compromise where the football manager flexes their objective as far as they can to align with the stakeholder concerned. The choice of the manager to work collaboratively or adversarially is explored during the socialisation period. The transition made by internal appointees was more difficult than that of external appointees. Assistant managers (internal appointees) who had little or no experience of dealing with the organisation level, e.g. chair and board, and the extra-organisational level had not developed appropriate political strategies to deal with these stakeholders. The internal appointee transitions from a single level of socialisation, i.e. workgroup, where the manager enjoys significant relative power relations over the workgroup. However, at the organisation and extra-organisational level, stakeholders have relative parity or relative power superiority. This means that the new manager has to be more nuanced in their choice of political strategies and actions to protect the quality of each particular stakeholder relationship. For example, having a conflict with the chairperson may indeed end in a manager’s immediate dismissal, whilst a conflict with a key workgroup colleague could lead to an emotional contagion that eats away at the fabric of the team

    Маркетинговий моніторинг системи TCAS та ефективність її експлуатації

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    Робота публікується згідно наказу ректора від 27.05.2021 р. №311/од "Про розміщення кваліфікаційних робіт вищої освіти в репозиторії НАУ". Керівник дипломної роботи: старший викладач кафедри авіоніки, Ситнянський Любов Михайлівна70% of all incidents in aviations happenning after human operator made mistake. Traffic collisions are mostly happening after human mistke either by pilots or by air traffic controllers. After number of incidents in 1950s-1960s, concepts of Traffic Collision Avoidance System which abbreviated as TCAS was made. TCAS prevents collisions by warning about traffic in first place using Traffic Advisory (TA) mode and after intruder aircraft is closing by rapidly and distance is low it will give Resolution Advisory (RA) for pilots using commands for climbing or descending. After mid-air collision in 1956 above the Grand Canyon aviation authorities with the help of airlines, started development of collision avoidance system. In the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, manufacturers were trying to make aircraft collision avoidance systems which used principle of operation based and relied on principle interrogator/transponder and also some of them made concepts based on time/frequency techniques. These systems functioned properly when tests were conducting by manufacturers during aircraft encounter testing, but FAA and the airlines have come into agreement that if that systems will be used in normal airline operations, the high rate of unnecessary alarms generated by the system in dense terminal areas will make impossible its operations. In the mid 1970’s, the first collision avoidance concept called Beacon Collision Avoidance System was developed. BCAS used data received from the transponders of Air Traffic Control Radar Beacon System (ATCRBS) to determine other intruding aircraft’s data about range and altitude.70% усіх інцидентів в авіації відбуваються через помилку оператора. Дорожні зіткнення здебільшого відбуваються через людську помилку або пілотів, або повітряного транспорту контролери. Після ряду інцидентів у 1950-х-1960-х роках концепції дорожньо-транспортних пригод Була створена система уникнення, яка скорочено називається TCAS. TCAS запобігає зіткненням попередження про дорожній рух спочатку за допомогою режиму Traffic Advisory (TA) і після порушника повітряне судно швидко наближається, а відстань мала, це дасть попередження щодо роздільної здатності (RA). пілоти використовують команди для набору висоти або зниження. Після зіткнення в повітрі в 1956 році над Гранд-Каньйоном авіаційна влада з допомоги авіакомпаній, почали розробку системи попередження зіткнень. Наприкінці 1960-х років і на початку 1970-х років виробники намагалися створити системи запобігання зіткненням літаків, які використовуваний принцип роботи заснований на принципі запитувач/транспондер, а також деякі з них створили концепції, засновані на методах часу/частоти. Ці системи функціонували належним чином, коли випробування проводили виробники під час випробувань літаків, але FAA та авіакомпанії домовилися, що ці системи будуть використовуватися в звичайному режимі операцій авіакомпанії, високий рівень непотрібних тривог, створених системою в щільному термінальні зони унеможливлять його роботу. У середині 1970-х перше зіткнення була розроблена концепція уникнення під назвою Beacon Collision Avoidance System. Використовується BCAS дані, отримані від транспондерів радіолокаційної системи контролю повітряного руху (ATCRBS) щоб визначити дані про дальність і висоту інших літаків-порушників

    Naval Postgraduate School Academic Catalog - February 2023

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    The Fifteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting

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    The three volumes of the proceedings of MG15 give a broad view of all aspects of gravitational physics and astrophysics, from mathematical issues to recent observations and experiments. The scientific program of the meeting included 40 morning plenary talks over 6 days, 5 evening popular talks and nearly 100 parallel sessions on 71 topics spread over 4 afternoons. These proceedings are a representative sample of the very many oral and poster presentations made at the meeting.Part A contains plenary and review articles and the contributions from some parallel sessions, while Parts B and C consist of those from the remaining parallel sessions. The contents range from the mathematical foundations of classical and quantum gravitational theories including recent developments in string theory, to precision tests of general relativity including progress towards the detection of gravitational waves, and from supernova cosmology to relativistic astrophysics, including topics such as gamma ray bursts, black hole physics both in our galaxy and in active galactic nuclei in other galaxies, and neutron star, pulsar and white dwarf astrophysics. Parallel sessions touch on dark matter, neutrinos, X-ray sources, astrophysical black holes, neutron stars, white dwarfs, binary systems, radiative transfer, accretion disks, quasars, gamma ray bursts, supernovas, alternative gravitational theories, perturbations of collapsed objects, analog models, black hole thermodynamics, numerical relativity, gravitational lensing, large scale structure, observational cosmology, early universe models and cosmic microwave background anisotropies, inhomogeneous cosmology, inflation, global structure, singularities, chaos, Einstein-Maxwell systems, wormholes, exact solutions of Einstein's equations, gravitational waves, gravitational wave detectors and data analysis, precision gravitational measurements, quantum gravity and loop quantum gravity, quantum cosmology, strings and branes, self-gravitating systems, gamma ray astronomy, cosmic rays and the history of general relativity

    Shield human factors taxonomy and database for learning from aviation and maritime safety occurrences

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    Human factors (HF) in aviation and maritime safety occurrences are not always systematically analysed and reported in a way that makes the extraction of trends and comparisons possible in support of effective safety management and feedback for design. As a way forward, a taxonomy and data repository were designed for the systematic collection and assessment of human factors in aviation and maritime incidents and accidents, called SHIELD (Safety Human Incident and Error Learning Database). The HF taxonomy uses four layers: The top layer addresses the sharp end where acts of human operators contribute to a safety occurrence; the next layer concerns preconditions that affect human performance; the third layer describes decisions or policies of operations leaders that affect the practices or conditions of operations; and the bottom layer concerns influences from decisions, policies or methods adopted at an organisational level. The paper presents the full details, guidance and examples for the effective use of the HF taxonomy. The taxonomy has been effectively used by maritime and aviation stakeholders, as follows from questionnaire evaluation scores and feedback. It was found to offer an intuitive and well-documented framework to classify HF in safety occurrences

    The International Handbook of Social Enterprise Law

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    This open-access book brings together international experts who shed new light on the status of social enterprises, benefit corporations and other purpose-driven companies. The respective chapters take a multidisciplinary approach (combining law, philosophy, history, sociology and economics) and provide valuable insights on fostering social entrepreneurship and advancing the common good. In recent years, we have witnessed a significant shift of how business activities are conducted, mainly through the rise of social enterprises. In an effort to target social problems at their roots, social entrepreneurs create organizations that bring transformative social changes by considering, among others, ethical, social, and environmental factors. A variety of social enterprise models are emerging internationally and are proving their vitality and importance. But what does the term “social enterprise” mean? What are its roots? And how does it work in practice within the legal framework of any country? This handbook attempts to answer these questions from a theoretical, historical, and comparative perspective, bringing together 44 contributions written by 71 expert researchers and practitioners in this field. The first part provides an overview of the social enterprise movement, its evolution, and the different forms entities can take to meet global challenges, overcoming the limits of what governments and states can do. The second part focuses on the emergence of benefit corporations and the growing importance of sustainability and societal values, while also analyzing their different legal forms and adaptation to their regulatory environment. In turn, the last part presents the status quo of purpose-driven companies in 36 developed and emerging economies worldwide. This handbook offers food for thought and guidance for everyone interested in this field. It will benefit practitioners and decision-makers involved in social and community organizations, as well as in international development and, more generally speaking, social sciences and economics
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