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Open AccessUrban Life Affects Differentiation and Phenotypic Variation but not Asymmetry in a Fully Terrestrial Salamander
The environmental transformations associated with cities are expected to affect organisms at the demographic, phenotypic, and evolutionary level, often negatively. The prompt detection of stressed populations ...
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Introduction to Computed Tomography: Application to the Inspection of Material Extruded Tensile Testing Specimens
in the industry must overcome several issues regarding the quality inherent in the printing process. The increasing use has contributed to the development of new materials and market growth. Fortunately, ...
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ALPI: Enhancing Portability and Interoperability of Task-Aware Libraries
Task-based programming models are a promising approach to exploiting complex distributed and heterogeneous systems. However, integrating different communication, offloading, and storage APIs within tasks poses...
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Polymers Injection Molding, Process & Defects
presents a theoretical background of that will be provided to the students and clinch with practical activities. Mainly theoretical points to be discussed will be the origin and importance of this process...
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Enhancing Materials and Manufacturing Education with Materials Databases: A Case Study in Aerospace Engineering
This chapter presents a case study on the implementation of CES EduPack, a powerful materials selection and education software, in an engineering classroom setting. Focusing on the field engineering, the stu...
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Mobile Architecture for Forest Fire Simulation Using PhyFire-HDWind Model
This article presents the design and implementation of a new visualization system for mobile platforms for the PhyFire-HDWind fire simulation model, called AppPhyFire. It proposes a mobile computing infrastruc...
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Visual and Tactile Fusion for Estimating the Pose of a Grasped Object
This paper considers the problem of fusing vision and touch senses together to estimate the 6D pose of an object while it is grasped. Assuming that a textured 3D model of the object is available, first, Scale-...
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Global Residents in Urban Networks: The Right to Asylum in European Cosmopoleis
The purpose of this chapter is to examine the limitations of our current political structures in incorporating the cosmopolitan principles that may be emerging in the normative developments of our global order...
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Tactile-Based In-Hand Object Pose Estimation
This paper presents a method to estimate the pose of an object inside a robotic hand by exploiting contact and joint position information. Once an initial visual estimation is provided, a Bootstrap Particle Fi...
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Path Planning for Mars Rovers Using the Fast Marching Method
This paper presents the application of the Fast Marching Method, with or without an external vectorial field, to the path planning problem of robots in difficult outdoors environments. The resulting trajectory...
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3D Robot Formations Path Planning with Fast Marching Square
This work presents a path planning algorithm for 3D robot formations based on the standard Fast Marching Square (FM2) path planning method. This method is enlarged in order to apply it to robot formations motion ...
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Assessment of census (N) and effective population size (N e ) reveals consistency of N e single-sample estimators and a high N e /N ratio in an urban and isolated population of fire salamanders
Amphibians are the most threatened vertebrates on Earth, and one of the main factors involved in their decline is the loss and fragmentation of their natural habitats. Contemporary urban development is a major...
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Neighbouring populations, opposite dynamics: influence of body size and environmental variation on the demography of stream-resident brown trout (Salmo trutta)
In organisms such as fish, where body size is considered an important state variable for the study of their population dynamics, size-specific growth and survival rates can be influenced by local variation in ...
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Stroke-Based Intelligent Word Recognition Using a Formal Language
In this paper, we propose a new approach for off-line intelligent word recognition. Firstly, we segment a word into its single characters. Then, we tag every pixel of a character as vertical or horizontal and ...
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Expert System for Handwritten Numeral Recognition Using Dynamic Zoning
This paper introduces an expert system for handwritten digit recognition. The system considers that a numeric handwritten character can be decomposed into vertical and horizontal strokes. Then, the positions w...
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Adaptive evolving strategy for dextrous robotic manipulation
A robot task can be represented as a set of trajectories conformed by a sequence of poses. In this way it is possible to teach a mobile robot to accomplish a manipulation task, and also to reproduce it. Nevert...
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Learning-Based Floor Segmentation and Reconstruction
This paper presents a comparison of the different colour spaces used in an environment modelling algorithm. This algorithm is based on the fusion of depth and colour information of a low-cost RGB-D camera to m...
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Improving Sampling-Based Path Planning Methods with Fast Marching
Sampling-based path planning algorithms are well-known because they are able to find a path in a very short period of time, even in high-dimensional spaces. However, they are non-smooth, random paths far away ...
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Open AccessMolecular epidemiology, antimicrobial susceptibilities and resistance mechanisms of Streptococcus pyogenes isolates resistant to erythromycin and tetracycline in Spain (1994–2006)
Group A Streptococcus (GAS) causes human diseases ranging in severity from uncomplicated pharyngitis to life-threatening necrotizing fasciitis and shows high rates of macrolide resistance in several countries. Ou...
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Benhabib, Seyla
