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The availability of video data is an opportunity and a challenge for law enforcement agencies. Face recognition methods can play a key role in the automated search for persons in the data. This work targets efficient representations of low-quality face sequences to enable fast and accurate face search. Novel concepts for multi-scale analysis, dataset augmentation, CNN loss function, and sequence description lead to improvements over state-of-the-art methods on surveillance video footage.

The research presented here is primarily concerned with human-environment interactions on the tropical coast of northern Australia during the late Holocene. Based on the suggestion that significant change can occur within short time-frames as a direct result of interactive processes, the archaeological evidence from the Point Blane Peninsula, Blue Mud Bay, is used to address the issue of how much change and variability occurred in hunter-gatherer economic and social structures during the late Holocene in coastal northeastern Arnhem Land. The suggestion proposed here is that processes of environmental and climatic change resulted in changes in resource distribution and abundance, which in turn affected patterns of settlement and resource exploitation strategies, levels of mobility and, potentially, the size of foraging groups on the coast. The question of human behavioural variability over the last 3000 years in Blue Mud Bay has been addressed by examining issues of scale and resolution in archaeological interpretation, specifically the differential chronological and spatial patterning of shell midden and mound sites on the peninsula in conjunction with variability in molluscan resource exploitation. To this end, the biological and ecological characteristics of the dominant molluscan species is considered in detail, in combination with assessing the potential for human impact through predation. Investigating pre-contact coastal foraging behaviour via the archaeological record provides an opportunity for change to recognised in a number of ways. For example, a differential focus on resources, variations in group size and levels of mobility can all be identified. It has also been shown that human-environment interactions are non-linear or progressive, and that human behaviour during the late Holocene was both flexible and dynamic.

W artykule przedstawiono tradycję dialogowego transformowania polskiego sytemu niedemokratycznego w demokratyczny, by przejść do poszczególnych kwestii łączących się z kryzysem demokracji, ochrony praw człowieka i rządów prawa. Dialog i konsensus to piękne symbole polskich przemian demokratycznych zainicjowanych przy Okrągłym Stole. Niestety jednak szybko stały się niewygodne dla pewnej części polskich polityków i społeczeństwa. Negacja dialogowej formuły podejmowania decyzji w praktyce demokratycznej przekuta została w sukces wyborczy roku 2015, a następnie stała się podstawą rozwiazywania sporów w nieliberalnej Polsce. W tym kontekście wydaje się, że rozważając ewentualne sposoby zażegnania kryzysu i cofnięcia niekorzystnych zmian ustrojowych, powinniśmy uwzględnić także kwestię dialogu oraz jego znaczenia w demokratycznej praktyce. Kryzys ustrojowy, którego elementem jest głęboka niezgoda co do oceny podejmowanych działań oraz ich systemowego charakteru, może być rozwiązany na różne sposoby. Mogą to być zmiany ustrojowe, zmiany ustawowe, wymiana elit politycznych czy też elit urzędniczych. U zbiegu wszystkich sposobów zażegnania kryzysu pozostaje jednak dialog i wola jego prowadzenia tak, aby wszystkie argumenty zostały należycie przedstawione, wysłuchane i rozważone. Uzyskane w taki sposób porozumienie może pretendować do akceptowanego powszechnie i trwałego rozwiązania sytuacji kryzysowej. Niestety od dość dawna już woli takiego działania w Polsce nie ma, a od roku 2015 niechęć do dialogu wydaje się być jednym z elementów nowego systemu. Tekst powstał w ramach realizacji NCN, 2018/29/B/HS5/00232, „Konstytucjonalizm nieliberalny w Polsce i na Węgrzech”

Chapter ten serves as an introduction to the monograph, which focuses on topics related to disability in work contexts. The individual parts of the monograph analyze the situation of people with disabilities in the labor market, discussing the problems and barriers they face when seeking employment and performing professional duties, and presenting ways to address them. It also focuses on issues related to supporting people with disabilities and those at risk of losing their ability to work. The various perspectives presented in the monograph aim to highlight the problems, existing or proposed solutions, and changes occurring in the labor market. In the context of these challenges and perspectives, both for people with disabilities and for employers and those responsible for education and vocational activation programs, the monograph seeks to present a comprehensive picture of the situation. It should be noted that despite the increase in employment in Poland, there are still barriers hindering the full participation of people with disabilities in the labor market. These barriers have both systemic and social roots, requiring a holistic approach and interdisciplinary analysis of existing problems.

Alexander Pushkin's dazzling poetic masterpiece, Eugene Onegin (1823–1831), occupies a unique place in the history of Russian culture, regarded as the national epic as well as the cornerstone of the nineteenth-century Russian novel. Onegin is so central to Russian culture that generations of Russians have been on intimate terms with its characters, its form, and its flavor, and, from the time of its publication until the present, every important critical movement or literary theory has addressed it. Yet, because the poem's literary qualities are exceptionally difficult to convey in translation, Onegin is little known among non-Russians. This anthology, presenting in English the most influential nineteenth- and twentieth-century criticism devoted to Onegin, offers English-speaking readers an appreciation of the poem's hold on the Russian imagination while illuminating the history of Russian criticism itself.

Aquaculture is the art, science and business of cultivating aquatic animals and plants in fresh or marine waters. It is the extension of fishing, resulted from the fact that harvests of wild sources of fish and other aquatic species cannot keep up with the increased demand of a growing human population. Expansion of aquaculture can result with less care for the environment. The first pre-requisite to sustainable aquaculture is clean wate, but bad management of aquatic species production can alter or even destroy existing wild habitat, increase local pollution levels or negatively impact local species. Aquatic managers are aware of this and together with scientists are looking for modern and more effective solutions to many issues regarding fish farming. This book presents recent research results on the interaction between aquaculture and environment, and includes several case studies all over the world with the aim of improving and performing sustainable aquaculture.

This book is a open access. The primary purpose of this book is to serve as a comprehensive guide, translating research into best practices to promote gender inclusivity in informatics. The handbook seeks to empower its readers, providing them with actionable recommendations to bridge the gender gap in informatics. This initiative aims to have an immediate impact on the informatics community, raising awareness and interest through its practical resources, and on the society bringing more women into computer science and technological studies and following career steps. This book provides you with five years of research on gender equity and improving the gender balance in Informatics across Europe. It translates current research on gender inclusivity into practical strategies and intervention methods. It offers recommendations for the recruitment, retention, and promotion of female computer scientists at different academic and industrial levels, and insights into fostering mutually beneficial cooperation between universities and industries. We have collected data from different target audiences and different education and career levels to provide insights into why we have low girl and women participation rates in sciences, why we have a leaky pipeline in academia, and why women leave the industry. We have analyzed this data and identified four target audiences for activities and policy influence. We provide sets of recommendations for each of these target groups on how to become active in advocacy as well as specific actions in their daily environments to improve learning and work environments as well as retention of women students and personnel. We provide ample scenarios of how to apply our findings in practice and share materials both in the book as well as in free public access online documentation to further disseminate and make use of this knowledge. The book serves as joint European voice of Informatics to increase the equity for women in the field.

This monograph describes a federal freight policy designed to address growing challenges faced by the U.S. freight network in an environment dominated by declining revenues and public resistance to increasing taxes. The strategy emphasizes disaggregating project costs and benefits by location, stakeholder, and level of government and requiring identifiable beneficiaries to pay a share of project costs proportionate to the benefits they receive.

Emergency Medicine is an expanding field that has spread beyond the shores of North America and has taken on different characteristics around the world. Although many of the struggles of emergency practitioners are similar, the field and its principles have adapted to local needs and resources. This book seeks to educate readers not only on emergency medicine theory, science and practice, but also reflects that multinational nature of emergency medicine, allowing readers to learn from experiences of others. This diverse group of authors presents a true international view of emergency medicine practice and science that will be educational for any reader.

The subject of this study is the life, career, and public activities of John Vitez of Sredna (early 1400s–1472)—a politician, prelate, diplomat and one of the most influential personages in the history of Renaissance humanism in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary. Vitez was a nobleman from medieval Slavonia, who had spent a large portion of his lifetime as the bishop of Oradea (1445–1465), and finished his career and his life as the archbishop of Esztergom and primate of Hungary (1465–1472). He is also the author of the only extant complete collection of letters from the late medieval Kingdom of Hungary. His life is relevant to the history of Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, Poland, and the wider Central European area. This work studies the existing literature on John Vitez, presents new sources on his life and career, and attempts to create a complete image of him within the context of the tumultuous history of early Renaissance Central Europe.

The present text includes some conceptual maps, aimed at defining the potential role of Community-based cooperatives in revitalising Italian inner areas. The conclusions show the great importance of these cooperatives, which are considered as a key factor in favouring local development, and in arresting demographic decline in marginal areas. Though based on the results obtained with respect to Molise region, these findings can be extended to any other Italian inner area.

Oxidative stress is caused by various intrinsic and extrinsic factors. It has been widely accepted that dietary or dietary supplement interventions can decrease levels of oxidative stress. Natural bioactive compounds (flavonoids, stilbenes, terpenes, alkaloids, saponins, polysaccharides, etc.) have been reported to exhibit multiple health-promoting effects, including antioxidant activity. However, the underlying cellular signaling and molecular mechanisms of their effect in ameliorating oxidative stress are not fully understood. In this Special Issue, we have collected and summarized the antioxidant activities of natural bioactive compounds based on the studies from cell culture models, animal models, and clinical trials. This Special Issue contains twelve papers covering the above-mentioned topics, including one systematic review and meta-analysis, one editorial, and ten research papers.

How people traveled, and how people wrote about travel, changed in the interwar years. Novel technologies eased travel conditions, breeding new iterations of the colonizing gaze. The sense that another war was coming lent urgency and anxiety to the search for new places and “authentic” experiences. In Interwar Itineraries: Authenticity in Anglophone and French Travel Writing, Emily O. Wittman identifies a diverse group of writers from two languages who embarked on such quests. For these writers, authenticity was achieved through rugged adventure abroad to economically poorer destinations. Using translation theory and new approaches in travel studies and global modernisms, Wittman links and complicates the symbolic and rhetorical strategies of writers including André Gide, Ernest Hemingway, Michel Leiris, Isak Dinesen, Beryl Markham, among others, that offer insight into the high ethical stakes of travel and allow us to see in new ways how models of the authentic self are built and maintained through asymmetries of encounter.

La obra de Torres Bodet es tomada como objeto de estudio en lo referente a la educación mexicana como como a la mundial, sin entrar al análisis de su carrera como literato y diplomático. Los materiales incluidos en esta publicación son parte de la tesis doctoral "The Educational Philosophy of Jaime Torres Bodet and its Implications for mexican and world education", y han sido seleccionados pensando en el estudiante mexicano interesado en la educación y en asuntos internacionales.

This special issue resulted from the invitation made to selected authors to contribute with an overview of a specific subject of their choice, and is based on a collection of papers chosen to exemplify some of the interests, uses and views of the epidemiology across different areas of research and practice. Rather than the comprehensiveness and coherence of a conventional textbook, readers will find a set of independent chapters, each of them of a great interest in their own specialized areas within epidemiology. Taken together, they illustrate the contrast between the attempt to extend the limits of applicability of epidemiological research, and the "regular" scientific activity in this field or an applied epidemiology. Epidemiologists with different levels of expertise and interests will be able to find informative and inspiring readings among the chapters of this book.