State Banking: A Study in Dual Regulation

We introduce the MATLAB package YALMIP. The purpose of YALMIP is to support rapid definition and solution of LMI problems without the hazzle of learning the syntax in the solvers SP, SOCP and MAXDET

State Banking: A Study in Dual Regulation

As mídias sociais criaram novas formas de linguagem, como os emojis, que são cada vez mais utilizados nas interações entre consumidores nesses canais. Esses símbolos são usados por marcas e consumidores para aumentar a relevância de uma mensagem textual, tornando-a mais atrativa, e para influenciar os estados afetivos dos consumidores, aspectos confirmados em estudos anteriores por meio de medidas de autorrelato. Contudo, tais estudos deixaram de capturar aspectos importantes, como o processamento de informações durante a atividade de leitura do texto contendo emojis e as reações emocionais que ocorrem de forma imediata, e não consciente, à apresentação do estímulo. Com base nisso, este estudo busca analisar se os emojis possuem, de fato, um maior impacto na atenção visual e na emoção dos consumidores do que as palavras. Inicialmente, em uma etapa exploratória, buscou-se entender o significado cultural dos emojis faciais e os símbolos mais adequados para representar as emoções que podem emergir em situações de consumo. Na sequência, em uma etapa causal, foi realizado um experimento, cujos cenários foram criados com base nas informações levantadas no primeiro estudo. Durante o experimento, os dados foram coletados e registrados através de ferramentas biométricas: eye tracking, GSR (galvanic skin response) e microexpressões faciais. Os resultados encontrados indicam que, à medida que as mensagens textuais passam a incluir emojis, principalmente para substituir palavras, a leitura vai se tornando mais fácil; logo, os emojis funcionam mais como atalhos cognitivos durante a leitura do que como ponto de atenção. Quanto às emoções, houve maior excitação emocional nos participantes quando os emojis estavam presentes; contudo, essa excitação emocional é relativamente baixa, devido ao total de picos observados. A inclusão de emojis nas comunicações textuais pode sim despertar estados emocionais afetivos nos leitores, aspecto observado por meio da análise das microexpressões faciais e relacionado à noção de contágio emocional dos emojis. Já a dilatação observada na pupila dos participantes está mais relacionada à capacidade de processamento necessária para a realização da atividade de leitura do que à excitação emocional gerada pelos emojis. Este estudo torna-se relevante não apenas por agregar à literatura ainda escassa do marketing e da comunicação sobre o impacto dos emojis na atenção visual e nas emoções dos consumidores, variáveis comumente mensuradas através de medidas racionais, mas também por tentar investigar o efeito que eles exercem levando em consideração o uso de medidas fisiológicas. Como os fenômenos de marketing também são manifestações do comportamento humano, as tecnologias utilizadas neste estudo contribuíram significativamente para o alcance do objetivo inicialmente proposto.Social media has created new forms of language, such as emojis, which are increasingly being used in consumers interactions on these channels. These symbols are used by brands and consumers to increase the relevance of a textual message, making it more attractive, and to influence consumers’ affective states, aspects confirmed in previous studies through self-report measures. However, these studies fail in capture important aspects, such as the information processing during the reading text activity containing emojis and the emotional reactions that occur immediately, and not consciously, at the stimulus presentation. Based on this, this study seeks to analyze whether emoji have, in fact, a greater impact on the visual attention and emotion of consumers than words. Initially, in an exploratory stage, we sought to understand the cultural meaning of facial emojis and the most appropriate symbols to represent the emotions that may emerge in consumer situations. Following, in a causal stage, an experiment was carried out. During the experiment, data were collected and recorded using biometric tools: eye tracking, GSR (galvanic skin response) and facial microexpressions. The results indicate that, as text messages begin to include emojis, the reading activity becomes easier; so, emoji functions more as cognitive shortcuts during the reading than as point of attention. About the emotions, there was more emotional arousal in the participants when emojis were present; however, this emotional arousal is relatively low due to the total peaks observed. The inclusion of emojis in textual communications can evoke affective emotional states in the readers, aspect observed through the facial microexpressions and related to the notion of emotional contagion of emojis. The dilation seen in the participants' pupils is more related to the processing capacity required to perform the reading activity than to the emotional excitation generated by the emoji. This study becomes relevant not only because it adds to the still scarce marketing and communication literature on the impact of emojis on consumers’ visual attention and emotions, variables commonly measured through rational measures, but also for attempting to investigate the effect that they exert through the use of physiological measures. As marketing phenomena are also human behavior manifestations, the technologies used in this study contributed significantly to the achievement of the initially proposed goal

TIRA: An OpenAPI Extension and Toolbox for GDPR Transparency in RESTful Architectures

Transparency - the provision of information about what personal data is collected for which purposes, how long it is stored, or to which parties it is transferred - is one of the core privacy principles underlying regulations such as the GDPR. Technical approaches for implementing transparency in practice are, however, only rarely considered. In this paper, we present a novel approach for doing so in current, RESTful application architectures and in line with prevailing agile and DevOps-driven practices. For this purpose, we introduce 1) a transparency-focused extension of OpenAPI specifications that allows individual service descriptions to be enriched with transparency-related annotations in a bottom-up fashion and 2) a set of higher-order tools for aggregating respective information across multiple, interdependent services and for coherently integrating our approach into automated CI/CD-pipelines. Together, these building blocks pave the way for providing transparency information that is more specific and at the same time better reflects the actual implementation givens within complex service architectures than current, overly broad privacy statements.Comment: Accepted for publication at the 2021 International Workshop on Privacy Engineering (IWPE'21). This is a preprint manuscript (authors' own version before final copy-editing

MECHANICAL/THERMAL PACKAGE DESIGN SAFETY ASSESSMENT AND MANUFACTURING QUALITY ASSURANCE OF SPENT FUEL TRANSPORT CASK NCS 45

ABSTRACT The NCS 45 package is designed for a variety of radioactive contents ranging from irradiated PWR, BWR and FBR fuel rods, parts of fuel rods as well as non-fissile radioactive material. BAM assessed the applicants safety analysis concept and the appropriate report with respect of requirements according to transport regulations under routine, normal and accident transport conditions related to mechanical design and thermal design, activity release and quality assurance aspects. The assesment concept of the safety report was a combination of drop test program, analytic and numerical calculations as well as various components tests. The paper will give details of BAM activities in the official safety assessment that had been summarized in the BAM design examination certificate which was a prerequisite for the Package Design Approval Certificate issued by the German competent authority