Paweł Daniluk, Przestępstwa podobne w polskim prawie karnym, Wyd. C.H. Beck, Warszawa 2013 (ss. 449)

recenzjaUniwersytet w Białymstok

Generating detailed saliency maps using model-agnostic methods

The emerging field of Explainable Artificial Intelligence focuses on researching methods of explaining the decision making processes of complex machine learning models. In the field of explainability for Computer Vision, explanations are provided as saliency maps, which visualize the importance of individual pixels of the input w.r.t. the model's prediction. In this work we focus on a perturbation-based, model-agnostic explainability method called RISE, elaborate on observed shortcomings of its grid-based approach and propose two modifications: replacement of square occlusions with convex polygonal occlusions based on cells of a Voronoi mesh and addition of an informativeness guarantee to the occlusion mask generator. These modifications, collectively called VRISE (Voronoi-RISE), are meant to, respectively, improve the accuracy of maps generated using large occlusions and accelerate convergence of saliency maps in cases where sampling density is either very low or very high. We perform a quantitative comparison of accuracy of saliency maps produced by VRISE and RISE on the validation split of ILSVRC2012, using a saliency-guided content insertion/deletion metric and a localization metric based on bounding boxes. Additionally, we explore the space of configurable occlusion pattern parameters to better understand their influence on saliency maps produced by RISE and VRISE. We also describe and demonstrate two effects observed over the course of experimentation, arising from the random sampling approach of RISE: "feature slicing" and "saliency misattribution". Our results show that convex polygonal occlusions yield more accurate maps for coarse occlusion meshes and multi-object images, but improvement is not guaranteed in other cases. The informativeness guarantee is shown to increase the convergence rate without incurring a significant computational overhead.Comment: 85 pages, 70 figures, Master's thesis, defended on 2021-12-23 (Gdansk University of Technology

Przełamywanie barier komunikacyjnych warunkiem powodzenia edukacji integracyjnej uczniów z wadą słuchu

Wydział Pedagogiki i Psychologii Uniwersytetu w Białymstok

Researching the Historical Representations of Andrew Jackson in Trade Books

State and national standards compel teachers to introduce historical topics through multiple diverse texts, emphasizing the use of informational texts. Trade books allow teachers to meet these standards while also meeting the needs of diverse students. Primary sources serve as an additional curricular resource that fill the gaps in information covered by textbooks and trade books, allowing students to gain a more complete and accurate understanding of historical figures and events. Standards leave the selection and implementation of appropriate trade books, primary sources, and other curricular resources to the classroom teacher. In this research I qualify and quantify how Andrew Jackson is portrayed in trade books. Misrepresentations within trade books concerning Jackson are reported and analyzed. This empirical research guides educators in selecting books for teaching about Jackson, a controversial historical figure. Suggestions and rationale for trade book and primary source selection and implementation are addressed

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Cezary Kulesza - Uniwersytet w BiałymstokuAndrzej Sakowicz -Uniwersytet w Białymstok

Multilocus genomic associations among selected taxa of genus Potentilla (Rosaceae) in Poland using RAPD analysis

Nine taxa of Potentilla species from Poland representing P. sect. Terminales (Dõll.) Gren et Godr. and P. sect. Aureae (Wolf) Juz. were analyzed via a series of random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analyses to test (1) the hypothesis that the six species representing P. subsect. Collinae Juz. of the P. Terminales sect., i.e. P. collina Wibel, P. thyrsiflora Zimmeter, P. wimannania Günther et Schummel, P. leucopolitana P. J. Müll., P. ´gabarae Kolodziejek, P. koernickei Zimmeter, are genetically differentiated enough to be considered as separate taxa, and (2) the position of populations of P. thyrsiflora and P. collina with respect to the Terminales sect. (P. argentea L) and the Aureae sect. (P. tabernaemontani Ascherson and P. incana P. Gaertner, B.Meyer et Scherb.). RAPD-based genetic similarity values using the UPGMAmethod and corresponding dendrogram exhibited incomplete accordance between RAPD and morphological variations. According to \u27overgenomic\u27 associations based on a series of genomic loci selected at random, P. thyrsiflora and P. collina are closely related and similarly related to the species: P. argentea, P. tabernaemontani and P. incana hypothesized as being \u27parental\u27. Within Terminales sect., our dendrogram shows P. argentea to be relatively isolated from the other members of the section analysed, P. thyrsiflora and P. collina

Multilocus genomic associations among selected taxa of genus Potentilla (Rosaceae) in Poland using RAPD analysis

Nine taxa of Potentilla species from Poland representing P. sect. Terminales (Dõll.) Gren et Godr. and P. sect. Aureae (Wolf) Juz. were analyzed via a series of random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analyses to test (1) the hypothesis that the six species representing P. subsect. Collinae Juz. of the P. Terminales sect., i.e. P. collina Wibel, P. thyrsiflora Zimmeter, P. wimannania Günther et Schummel, P. leucopolitana P. J. Müll., P. ´gabarae Kolodziejek, P. koernickei Zimmeter, are genetically differentiated enough to be considered as separate taxa, and (2) the position of populations of P. thyrsiflora and P. collina with respect to the Terminales sect. (P. argentea L) and the Aureae sect. (P. tabernaemontani Ascherson and P. incana P. Gaertner, B.Meyer et Scherb.). RAPD-based genetic similarity values using the UPGMAmethod and corresponding dendrogram exhibited incomplete accordance between RAPD and morphological variations. According to \u27overgenomic\u27 associations based on a series of genomic loci selected at random, P. thyrsiflora and P. collina are closely related and similarly related to the species: P. argentea, P. tabernaemontani and P. incana hypothesized as being \u27parental\u27. Within Terminales sect., our dendrogram shows P. argentea to be relatively isolated from the other members of the section analysed, P. thyrsiflora and P. collina