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    Southern Adventist University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024

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    Southern Adventist University\u27s undergraduate catalog for the academic year 2023-2024.https://knowledge.e.southern.edu/undergrad_catalog/1123/thumbnail.jp

    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

    2017 GREAT Day Program

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    SUNY Geneseo’s Eleventh Annual GREAT Day.https://knightscholar.geneseo.edu/program-2007/1011/thumbnail.jp

    Southern Adventist University Undergraduate Catalog 2022-2023

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    Southern Adventist University\u27s undergraduate catalog for the academic year 2022-2023.https://knowledge.e.southern.edu/undergrad_catalog/1121/thumbnail.jp

    COGNITIVE CONSEQUENCES OF VISUAL COMPLEXITY

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    Objects and events frequently strike us as being simple or complex. From looking at a child’s drawings to following a weaving storyline, the impression of complexity spans an extremely wide range of categories and domains. What is the nature of this experience, how is complexity represented in the mind, and why do we bother to represent complexity in the first place? This thesis explores these questions in the light of information theory. First, I argue that, in the case of visual objects, complexity is perceived efficiently and automatically, and is captured by the entropy of objects' internal descriptions over and above low-level visual features that may be correlated with complexity. Second, I ask whether objects are remembered as simpler or more complex than they really are. Several studies reveal a "caricature effect" whereby random-looking objects are misremembered as more complex than how they were actually presented. Third, I investigate the relationship between "objective" and "subjective" complexity. By taking a new approach in which subjects freely describe images and animations, my work reveals a striking and surprising quadratic relationship between the raw complexity of these stimuli and the length of their spoken descriptions. Finally, I show that complexity modulates aesthetic preferences: Structural complexity predicts subjective preferences in a Goldilocks fashion — medially complex 'drawings' are selected as the most visually appealing paintings in a gallery room. Collectively, this thesis sheds light on the nature and function of complexity (in vision and beyond), showcasing the power of information-theoretic approaches to understanding core perceptual and cognitive processes

    Mouldable Solids: Exploring Organisational Grid Strategies to Enhance Mud Architecture

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    Mud is a material with deep origins in human ecology and vernacular architecture. Despite housing one-third of the world’s population and almost half in developing countries, the application of mud as a building material has diminished over the years, perhaps due to a worldwide application of industrialised building materials and practices, as well as the perception of mud as a primitive material. On the contrary, mud is cheap, reusable and sustainable yet critical challenges relate to material behaviour and performance. The researcher takes the standpoint that mud architecture is a material practice and explores organisational grids consisting of skin and skeleton to enhance structural performance. Three areas of interest combine to demonstrate how mud as a material operates in a contemporary context: (1) The Natural Philosophy of Aristotle and ibn Sina to understand the transitional state of matter and force-form relations; (2) Isaac Newton’s Laws of Motion and Hooke’s Law to understand force-displacement relationships; (3) Information theory to represent parameters and conditions as information in organisational strategies. While mud is of interest, other materials explored include plastic, concrete, clay, and adobe as they categorise as mouldable solids due to their transitional states. Where a careful focus on mud regarding material, form, motion and force, the research deploys the technical with the philosophical to negotiate the capacities of this particular mouldable solid. The hypothesis is that the greater the variance in the skin and skeleton grid, the better the resilience and adaptability a body has due to the complex interconnections between the parts that make up a whole, organising and re-organising to withstand forces. The dissertation celebrates mud as a reconfigurable architectural material rather than static and outdated, allowing for a multi-approach solution to contemporary and standardised materials in the current industrialised context

    LIPIcs, Volume 277, GIScience 2023, Complete Volume

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    LIPIcs, Volume 277, GIScience 2023, Complete Volum

    ATHENA Research Book, Volume 2

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    ATHENA European University is an association of nine higher education institutions with the mission of promoting excellence in research and innovation by enabling international cooperation. The acronym ATHENA stands for Association of Advanced Technologies in Higher Education. Partner institutions are from France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal and Slovenia: University of Orléans, University of Siegen, Hellenic Mediterranean University, Niccolò Cusano University, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Polytechnic Institute of Porto and University of Maribor. In 2022, two institutions joined the alliance: the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University from Poland and the University of Vigo from Spain. Also in 2022, an institution from Austria joined the alliance as an associate member: Carinthia University of Applied Sciences. This research book presents a selection of the research activities of ATHENA University's partners. It contains an overview of the research activities of individual members, a selection of the most important bibliographic works of members, peer-reviewed student theses, a descriptive list of ATHENA lectures and reports from individual working sections of the ATHENA project. The ATHENA Research Book provides a platform that encourages collaborative and interdisciplinary research projects by advanced and early career researchers
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