Integrated and ecological nutrient management

This VEGINECO method manual is one of a series of publications resulting from the VEGINECO project. VEGINECO specialises in producing tested and improved multi-objective farming methods for key farming practices – e.g. crop rotation, fertilisation and crop protection – to facilitate the integration of potentially conflicting objectives like economy and ecology. This report describes a methodology for developing nutrient management strategies. In addition, examples of its application under different conditions in Europe are presented

System and method for extracting physiological information from remotely detected electromagnetic radiation

The present invention relates to a device and a method for extracting physiological information indicative of at least one health symptom from remotely detected electromagnetic radiation. The device comprises an interface (20) for receiving a data stream comprising remotely detected image data representing an observed region comprising at least one subject of interest (12), wherein the image data comprises wavelength-dependent image information, wherein the wavelength-dependent image information is composed of at least two color channels (96, 98, 100) representative of respective wavelength portions; an image processor (22) for detecting channel signal strength information for at least two of the at least two color channels (96, 98, 100); and a data comparison unit (24) for comparing detected channel signal strengths with respective reference values.</p

Device, system and method for skin detection

The present invention relates to a device, system and method for skin detection. To enable a reliable, accurate and fast skin detection the proposed device comprises an input unit (20) for obtaining a sequence of image frames acquired over time, a segmentation unit (22) for segmenting an image frame of said sequence of image frames, a tracking unit (24) for tracking segments of the segmented image frame over time in said sequence of image frames, and a clustering unit (26) for clustering the tracked segments to obtain clusters representing skin of a subject by use of one or more image features of said tracked segments.</p

Device, system and method for extracting physiological information

The present invention relates to a device, system and a method for extracting physiological information indicative of at least one vital sign of a subject. To provide a high motion robustness, the proposed device comprises an input interface configured to obtain at least two detection signals derived from detected electromagnetic radiation transmitted through or reflected from a skin region of a subject, wherein each detection signal comprises wavelength-dependent reflection or transmission information in a different wavelength channel, a pulse signal computation unit configured to compute at least two pulse signals from said at least two detection signals using different signature vectors for the computation of each pulse signal, a quality indicator computation unit configured to compute quality indicator values for said pulse signals indicating a characteristic of the respective pulse signal, and a processing unit configured to derive physiological information indicative of at least one vital sign from the signature vector that results in the pulse signal with the best quality indicator value and/or from said pulse signal.</p

Device and method for determing vital signs of a subject

The present invention relates to a Device for determining vital signs of a subject comprising an interface (22) for receiving a periodic photoplethysmographic, PPG, signal obtained from a subject (14) by a PPG measurement, a signal partitioning unit (24) for partitioning the PPG signal in time into a plurality of PPG sub-signals covering a half period or an integer multiple of a half period, a normalizing unit (26) for normalizing the PPG signal in advance of the partitioning and/or the PPG sub-signals in time and/or amplitude, a signal combination unit (28) for combining a number of normalized PPG sub-signals to obtain a combined PPG sub-signal, and a vital sign processor (30) for deriving a desired vital sign from the PPG signal, one or more combined PPG sub-signals or an enhanced PPG signal obtained by consecutively arranging a number of combined PPG sub-signals.</p

Income Taxation and Household Size: Would French Family Splitting Make German Families Better Off ?

In this paper, we address the question whether family support via the income tax system is more generous in France than in Germany, as it is often claimed in the public debate. We use two micro-data sets and a micro-simulation model to compare effective average tax rates for different household types in France and Germany. Our analysis shows that the popular belief that French high income families with children face lower average tax rates than their German counterparts is true, however not due to the French Family splitting but rather to the different definitions of taxable incomes in both countries. Actually, low income families with less than three children even fare better in terms of tax relief in Germany than in France. The French system leads to lower average tax rates than the German one (over a large range of the income distribution) only for families with three children.Income taxation; Family; Income distribution; France; Germany

Device, system and method for extracting physiological information

The present invention relates to a device, system and a method for extracting physiological information indicative of at least one vital sign of a subject. To provide a high motion robustness, the proposed device comprises an input interface (30) for obtaining at least two detection signals (Cn) derived from detected electromagnetic radiation transmitted through or reflected from a skin region of a subject, wherein each detection signal comprises wavelength-dependent reflection or transmission information in a different wavelength channel, a pulse signal computation unit (32) for computing at least two pulse signals (S1, S2) from said at least two detection signals (Cn) using different signature vectors (Pbv1, Pbv2) for the computation of each pulse signal, a quality indicator computation unit (34) for computing quality indicator values (Q1, Q2) for said pulse signals (S1, S2) indicating a characteristic of the respective pulse signal, and a processing unit (38) for deriving physiological information (V) indicative of at least one vital sign from the signature vector that results in the pulse signal with the best quality indicator value (Q1, Q2) and/or from said pulse signal.</p

Device, system and method for extracting physiological information

A device for extracting physiological information indicative of at least one vital sign of a subject from detected electromagnetic radiation transmitted through or reflected from a subject comprises an input interface for receiving a data stream of detection data derived from detected electromagnetic radiation transmitted through or reflected from a skin region of a subject. The detection data comprises wavelength-dependent reflection or transmission information in at least two signal channels representative of respective wavelength portions. A signal mixer dynamically mixes the at least two signal channels into at least one mixed signal. A processor derives physiological information indicative of at least one vital sign from the at least one mixed signal, and a controller controls the signal mixer to limit the relative contributions of the at least two signal channels mixed into at least one mixed signal and/or the rate-of-change at which said relative contributions are allowed to dynamically change.</p

Green Tiger Prawn Penaeus semisulcatus (De Haan, 1844)

Green tiger prawn is a commercially important penaeid shrimp species, dominant in the coastal waters of Tamil Nadu. Grows to 230 mm and 270 mm in TL in case of males and females, respectively

Atenuación, género e intensificación en el discurso político: las reacciones mediáticas del caso de una legisladora de nuevo león, México (2015) = Attenuation, gender and intensification in political discourse: the media reaction in the case of a congresswoman of Nuevo Leon, Mexico (2015)

El presente estudio constituye un primer acercamiento al análisis del fenómeno pragmático de la atenuación e intensificación en la argumentación (Zárate, 2015; Toulmin, Rieke & Janik ,1979; Gilbert, 1997) y también a las posibles relaciones entre evidencialidad y evidencialidad y evidencialidad y evidencialidad y evidencialidad y epistemicidad (De Haanepistemicidad (De Haan epistemicidad (De Haanepistemicidad (De Haan epistemicidad (De Haanepistemicidad (De Haan epistemicidad (De Haan epistemicidad (De Haanepistemicidad (De Haanepistemicidad (De Haan epistemicidad (De Haanepistemicidad (De Haan, 1999), 1999), presentes en el discurso político y de género en el entendido que todo acto de habla implica una amenaza y por ende, un acto de poder (Briz, 2001), aplicado al caso de una legisladora legisladora legisladora legisladora legisladora legisladora que que ro mpe con el protocolo mpe con el protocolompe con el protocolo mpe con el protocolompe con el protocolo mpe con el protocolo mpe con el protocolo dentro de la Cámara dentro de la Cámara dentro de la Cámara dentro de la Cámara dentro de la Cámara dentro de la Cámara dentro de la Cámara dentro de la Cámara dentro de la Cámara dentro de la Cámara dentro de la Cámara de Diputados en el últ de Diputados en el últde Diputados en el últ de Diputados en el últde Diputados en el últ de Diputados en el últde Diputados en el últ de Diputados en el últ imo informe del gobernador informe del gobernador imo informe del gobernador al mostrar una pancarta que dice ”No pasaran [sic] las cuentas mochas” (Benvenutti, 2015). Se presentan las reacciones Se presentan las reacciones Se presentan las reacciones mediáticas en dos artículos, en la revista Proceso y el periódico El Norte, así como la réplica que hizo la diputada en las redes sociales para defender su cargo como legisladora el 28 de septiembre 2015. ABSTRACT This paper is a first approach to the analysis of pragmatic attenuation and intensification in argumentation (Zárate 2015; Toulmin, Rieke & Janik 1979; Gilbert 1997), through cognitive metaphors (Lakoff y Johnson 1980) and also possible links between evidentiality and epistemicity (De Haan 1999), (De Haan 1999),(De Haan 1999),(De Haan 1999),(De Haan 1999),(De Haan 1999),(De Haan 1999), (De Haan 1999), (De Haan 1999),in political and gender discourse in the understanding that all speech act implies a threat, and thus, power act (Briz, 2001). This is applied to the case of a Congresswoman who breaks the protocol during the Governor’s last speech before the state Congress: “No pasarán las cuentas mochas” [“Blunt accounts will not pass”] (Benvenutti, 2015). Two articles of media discourse are analyzed, one from Proceso and one from Quorum Informativo, as well as Congresswoman Benvenutti’s rebuttal in her Facebook private account on September 28, 2015