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Cultural and educational background of formation of sustainable lifestyle
In the XXI century mankind has approached the global transformation of society, which resulted in creation of a qualitatively new socioeconomic system, which is the knowledge society and the informational society, the foundation of which is the "economy of knowledge." Since the main factor in the formation and development of the "economy of knowledge" is human capital, need for a permanent way of human life gains currency more and more. That is, a way of life, which will provide the usage of the human capital (knowledge and skills) to meet the diverse needs of people who are not putting the state at risk of social, economic and ecological systems of society.
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Rate-Accuracy Trade-Off In Video Classification With Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Advanced video classification systems decode video frames to derive the
necessary texture and motion representations for ingestion and analysis by
spatio-temporal deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, when
considering visual Internet-of-Things applications, surveillance systems and
semantic crawlers of large video repositories, the video capture and the
CNN-based semantic analysis parts do not tend to be co-located. This
necessitates the transport of compressed video over networks and incurs
significant overhead in bandwidth and energy consumption, thereby significantly
undermining the deployment potential of such systems. In this paper, we
investigate the trade-off between the encoding bitrate and the achievable
accuracy of CNN-based video classification models that directly ingest
AVC/H.264 and HEVC encoded videos. Instead of retaining entire compressed video
bitstreams and applying complex optical flow calculations prior to CNN
processing, we only retain motion vector and select texture information at
significantly-reduced bitrates and apply no additional processing prior to CNN
ingestion. Based on three CNN architectures and two action recognition
datasets, we achieve 11%-94% saving in bitrate with marginal effect on
classification accuracy. A model-based selection between multiple CNNs
increases these savings further, to the point where, if up to 7% loss of
accuracy can be tolerated, video classification can take place with as little
as 3 kbps for the transport of the required compressed video information to the
system implementing the CNN models
CoBe -- Coded Beacons for Localization, Object Tracking, and SLAM Augmentation
This paper presents a novel beacon light coding protocol, which enables fast
and accurate identification of the beacons in an image. The protocol is
provably robust to a predefined set of detection and decoding errors, and does
not require any synchronization between the beacons themselves and the optical
sensor. A detailed guide is then given for developing an optical tracking and
localization system, which is based on the suggested protocol and readily
available hardware. Such a system operates either as a standalone system for
recovering the six degrees of freedom of fast moving objects, or integrated
with existing SLAM pipelines providing them with error-free and easily
identifiable landmarks. Based on this guide, we implemented a low-cost
positional tracking system which can run in real-time on an IoT board. We
evaluate our system's accuracy and compare it to other popular methods which
utilize the same optical hardware, in experiments where the ground truth is
known. A companion video containing multiple real-world experiments
demonstrates the accuracy, speed, and applicability of the proposed system in a
wide range of environments and real-world tasks. Open source code is provided
to encourage further development of low-cost localization systems integrating
the suggested technology at its navigation core
Three Essays on Corporate Governance, Accounting Conservatism and Corporate Financial Decisions
This thesis consists of three essays on corporate governance, accounting conservatism and corporate financial decisions in the GCC region. It is found that Saudi firms with ruling-family directors practise less accounting conservatism, but that this effect is negated following regulatory changes in 2010 when corporate governance regulations became mandatory.
Family-controlled firms in GCC have lower cash holdings than their non-family-controlled counterparts and tend to reduce cash in the growth, mature and shakeout stages of a firm's life cycle.
Firms with busyness of directors in GCC increase cash holdings and SG&A expenses; decrease capital expenditure and performance
Body Part Structure Knowledge in Infancy
Human faces, bodies, and hands convey critical social information (e.g., emotions, goals, and desires). Infants, like adults, are sensitive to such social information. Unlike infants’ knowledge of the structure of the human face and body, not much is known about infants’ knowledge of hands and feet. The current study tested infants for their preference between intact hand images and ones in which the same hands were distorted (i.e., location of at least one finger was altered to distort the typical structure of the hand). Infants at 3.5 months of age had a preference for the reorganized hand image, demonstrating that 3.5-month-olds have sufficient knowledge of the configural properties of hands to discriminate between intact versus distorted images. Furthermore, when the same images were inverted, infants displayed no such preference, indicating that infants were not relying solely on low-level features to detect differences between intact versus reorganized hands. Contrastingly, when shown images of intact and reorganized feet, even 9-month-olds did not exhibit evidence of sensitivity to structural disruptions in images of feet. These results indicate that infants’ structural knowledge of hands, but not necessarily feet, develops along the same trajectory as their knowledge of faces and bodies
Association between essencial hypertension and bone mineral density
Department of Internal
Medicine Rheumatology and Nephrology, Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine
and Pharmacy, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, The 8th International Medical Congress for Students and Young Doctors, September 24-26, 2020Introduction. With society trending towards aging and unhealthy lifestyle changes the
prevalence rate of essential hypertension (EH) and osteoporosis (OP) increases every year, to
a point where they have become the two most common diseases in the world.
Aim of the study. To highlight the relationship between essential hypertension (EH) and bone
mineral density (BMD).
Materials and methods. A systematic review on the published literature was conducted. 17
articles on the topic of association between EH and BMD were selected after searching
PubMed, Medline, Medscape, and Google Scholar. The data were anaysed and statistically
compared .
Results. The 17 articles used have a total of 39,491patients. Of these, 13,375 were patients
with EH and 26,116 were patients without EH. The most relevant meta-analysis results showed
that EH can reduce the BMD of the lumbar spine (95% CI: −0.08∼0.01, P=0.006), femoral
neck (95% CI: −0.09∼-0.02, p = 0.001), ward's triangle (95% CI: −0.45∼-0.25, p=0.000),
femoral intertrochanteric (95% CI: −0.90∼-0.64, p = 0.000), calcaneus (95% CI: −0.31∼-0.18,
p = 0.000) and distal forearm (95% CI: −0.09∼-0.03, p = 0.000), but EH cannot reduce the
BMD of the femur rotor (95% CI: −0.07∼0.24, p = 0.273). Another valuable study showed that
EH can reduce the BMD of the lumbar spine (95% CI: −0.11∼-0.03, p = 0.000) and femoral
neck (95% CI: −0.11∼-0.07, p = 0.000) in Asian populations. In non-Asian populations, EH can reduce the BMD of the femoral neck (95% CI: 0.04∼0.19, p = 0.002), but cannot reduce
the BMD of the lumbar spine (95% CI: −0.04∼0.11, p = 0.346).
Conclusions. Summarizing the articles and results analysis suggests that EH can have a
negative effect on BMD, for different parts of bone, the degree of reduction is different.
Furthermore, the reduction level of BMD can vary for different regions and populations
Estimating multiple linear regression parameters using term omission method
In this paper, we introduce a new method to estimate multiple linear regression parameters, namely Multiple Term Omission (MTO). Then, we compare its performance with other three methods: Ordinary Least Square (OLS), Maximum Likelihood (ML) and Bayesian Model using several criteria, such as Mean Average Deviation (MAD), Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) and Root Mean Square Error standard (RMSE). MTO method has the finest consequences as compared to the other methods for the experimented data
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