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The Need for Unification and Harmonization in a Maritime Licensing Standard for Recreational Craft
The objective of this document is to make clear the importance of simplifying the transit of pleasure boats and their skippers safely in the European territory with the foreseeable improvement of the functioning of the internal market. In many European countries recreational skippers are required to have specific training and experience in order to demonstrate their maritime competence. These licenses for navigation allow a recreational vessel to be skippered in each national territory. One of the main objectives of these qualifications is to reduce the number of accidents in recreational boating. Generally speaking, in the European Union, as regards the requirements for the management of pleasure craft, both private and professional, the requirements are very different depending on the member state
Live demonstration: Neuro-inspired system for realtime vision tilt correction
Correcting digital images tilt needs huge quantities
of memory, high computational resources, and use to take a
considerable amount of time. This demonstration shows how a
spikes-based silicon retina dynamic vision sensor (DVS) tilt can
corrected in real time using a commercial accelerometer. DVS
output is a stream of spikes codified using the address-event
representation (AER). Event-based processing is focused on
change in real time DVS output addresses. Taking into account
this DVS feature, we present an AER based layer able to correct
in real time the DVS tilt, using a high speed algorithmic
mapping layer and introducing a minimum latency in the
system. A co-design platform (the AER-Robot platform), based
into a Xilinx Spartan 3 FPGA and an 8051 USB microcontroller,
has been used to implement the system
Neuro-inspired system for real-time vision sensor tilt correction
Neuromorphic engineering tries to mimic biological
information processing. Address-Event-Representation (AER)
is an asynchronous protocol for transferring the information of
spiking neuro-inspired systems. Currently AER systems are able
sense visual and auditory stimulus, to process information, to
learn, to control robots, etc. In this paper we present an AER
based layer able to correct in real time the tilt of an AER vision
sensor, using a high speed algorithmic mapping layer. A codesign
platform (the AER-Robot platform), with a Xilinx
Spartan 3 FPGA and an 8051 USB microcontroller, has been
used to implement the system. Testing it with the help of the
USBAERmini2 board and the jAER software.Junta de Andalucía P06-TIC-01417Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia TEC2006-11730-C03-02Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación TEC2009-10639-C04-0
Centennial-scale vegetation and North Atlantic Oscillation changes during the Late Holocene in the southern Iberia
High-reso CE to lution pollen analysis, charcoal, non-pollen palynomorphs and magnetic susceptibility have been analyzed in the sediment record of a peat bog in Sierra Nevada in southern Iberia. The study of these proxies provided the reconstruction of vegetation, climate, fire and human activity of the last ∼4500 cal yr BP. A progressive trend towards aridification during the late Holocene is observed in this record. This trend is interrupted by millennial- and centennial-scale variability of relatively more humid and arid periods. Arid conditions are recorded between ∼4000 and 3100 cal yr BP, being characterized by a decline in arboreal pollen and with a spike in magnetic susceptibility. This is followed by a relatively humid period from ∼3100 to 1600 cal yr BP, coinciding partially with the Iberian-Roman Humid Period, and is indicated by the increase of Pinus and the decrease in xerophytic taxa. The last 1500 cal yr BP are characterized by several centennial-scale climatic oscillations. Generally arid conditions from ∼450 to 1300 CE, depicted by a decrease in Pinus and an increase in Artemisia, comprise the Dark Ages and the Medieval Climate Anomaly. Since ∼ 1300 to 1850 CE pronounced oscillations occur between relatively humid and arid conditions. Four periods depicted by relatively higher Pinus coinciding with the beginning and end of the Little Ice Age are interrupted by three arid events characterized by an increase in Artemisia. These alternating arid and humid shifts could be explained by centennial-scale changes in the North Atlantic Oscillation and solar activity
La formación inicial para una Educación Física inclusiva: situación, prospectiva y competencias
A bibliometric analysis of the presence of finances in high-impact tourism journals
The purpose of this study is to observe the presence of financial research applied to
tourism during the 1995–2012 period. The Scopus database has been used for
tourism journals indexed in Journal Citation Reports and the Mendeley reference
manager was used to manage the results. Two hundred and fifty-two articles were
selected with basically financial content. The results reveal that in the majority of
cases empirical research typology was used; the subject matter that aroused most
interest was corporate finances and, within this, financial management, value
creation, capital structure and investment decisions
AER Neuro-Inspired interface to Anthropomorphic Robotic Hand
Address-Event-Representation (AER) is a
communication protocol for transferring asynchronous events
between VLSI chips, originally developed for neuro-inspired
processing systems (for example, image processing). Such
systems may consist of a complicated hierarchical structure
with many chips that transmit data among them in real time,
while performing some processing (for example, convolutions).
The information transmitted is a sequence of spikes coded using
high speed digital buses. These multi-layer and multi-chip AER
systems perform actually not only image processing, but also
audio processing, filtering, learning, locomotion, etc. This paper
present an AER interface for controlling an anthropomorphic
robotic hand with a neuro-inspired system.Unión Europea IST-2001-34124 (CAVIAR)Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología TIC-2003-08164-C03-02Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología TIC2000-0406-P4- 0
Macroprudential Policy, Countercyclical Bank Capital Buffers and Credit Supply:Evidence from the Spanish Dynamic Provisioning Experiments
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