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EUROPEAN UNION 1997 SEAFOOD-SAFETY BAN: THE ECONOMIC IMPACT ON BANGLADESH SHRIMP PROCESSING
Major markets for Bangladesh frozen shrimp are the European Union, the United States, and Japan. Bangladesh frozen shrimp imports into the EU and the United States have experienced safety and quality problems. The 1997 European Commission ban on Bangladesh seafood imports into the EU cost the Bangladesh frozen shrimp processing industry US$14.665 million in lost revenues.Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
Activity Recognition based on a Magnitude-Orientation Stream Network
The temporal component of videos provides an important clue for activity
recognition, as a number of activities can be reliably recognized based on the
motion information. In view of that, this work proposes a novel temporal stream
for two-stream convolutional networks based on images computed from the optical
flow magnitude and orientation, named Magnitude-Orientation Stream (MOS), to
learn the motion in a better and richer manner. Our method applies simple
nonlinear transformations on the vertical and horizontal components of the
optical flow to generate input images for the temporal stream. Experimental
results, carried on two well-known datasets (HMDB51 and UCF101), demonstrate
that using our proposed temporal stream as input to existing neural network
architectures can improve their performance for activity recognition. Results
demonstrate that our temporal stream provides complementary information able to
improve the classical two-stream methods, indicating the suitability of our
approach to be used as a temporal video representation.Comment: 8 pages, SIBGRAPI 201
Os trabalhadores, o desenvolvimento e a democracia participativa
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Exploratory research analysis on emissions generated in internal combustion engines
It is common knowledge that internal combustion engines have the function of transforming thermal energy into useful mechanical work. During the combustion process of the fuel and air mixture (heat generation) a quantity of gases are produced and released into the environment by the exhaust system of these engines. When these machines were invented, their creators might not have had the notion that the generated gases would be aggressors to nature. The constant population growth, the increasing demand for the use of these engines and observations of the impact in nature, among them the health and greenhouse effects, evidenced mainly from the end of the last century, led scientists to study the problem related to gaseous emissions from these machines. The present work aims to study and evaluate the emissions of internal combustion engines, their consequences both to the human health and to the environment, the evolution of government legislation and also the control mechanisms implemented to reduce these pollutants. The applied methodology is a qualitative and exploratory study of bibliographic character of theoretical and experimental works that were presented in master's dissertations, doctoral theses, scientific articles and websites of companies specialized in the subject
Ordinal Sums, Clockwise Hackenbush, and Domino Shave
We present two rulesets, Domino Shave and Clockwise Hackenbush. The first is
somehow natural and, as special cases, includes Stirling Shave and Hetyei's
Bernoulli game. Clockwise Hackenbush seems artificial yet it is equivalent to
Domino Shave. From the pictorial form of the game, and a knowledge of
Hackenbush, the decomposition into ordinal sums is immediate. The values of
Clockwise Blue-Red Hackenbush are numbers and we provide an explicit formula
for the ordinal sum of numbers where the literal form of the base is
or , and is a number. That formula generalizes van
Roode's signed binary number method for Blue-Red Hackenbush.Comment: 23 page
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