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In this study, we used recordings of players’ facial expressions that are captured during competitive Hearthstone games to analyse the correlation between in-game player affective responses and subjective post-game self-reports. With this, we aimed to examine whether eye gaze, head pose and emotions gathered as objective data from face recordings would be associated with subjective experiences of players which were collected in the form of a post-game survey. Data was collected during a live offline Hearthstone competition, which involved a total of 17 players and 31 matches played. Correlation analyses between in-game and post-game variables show that players’ facial expressions and eye gaze measurements are associated with both players’ attention to the opponent and their mood influenced by the opponent. In future research, these results may be used to implement predictive player models.

Context: Peer review is a key activity intended to preserve the quality and integrity of scientific publications. However, in practice it is far from perfect. Objective: We aim at understanding how reviewers, including those who have won awards for reviewing, perform their reviews of software engineering papers to identify both what makes a good reviewing approach and what makes a good paper. Method: We first conducted a series of interviews with recognised reviewers in the software engineering field. Then, we used the results of those interviews to develop a questionnaire used in an online survey and sent out to reviewers from well-respected venues covering a number of software engineering disciplines, some of whom had won awards for their reviewing efforts. Results: We analyzed the responses from the interviews and from 175 reviewers who completed the online survey (including both reviewers who had won awards and those who had not). We report on several descriptive results, including: Nearly half of award-winners (45%) are reviewing 20+ conference papers a year, while 28% of non-award winners conduct that many. The majority of reviewers (88%) are taking more than two hours on journal reviews. We also report on qualitative results. Our findings suggest that the most important criteria of a good review is that it should be factual and helpful, which ranked above others such as being detailed or kind. The most important features of papers that result in positive reviews are a clear and supported validation, an interesting problem, and novelty. Conversely, negative reviews tend to result from papers that have a mismatch between the method and the claims and from papers with overly grandiose claims. Further insights include, if not limited to, that reviewers view data availability and its consistency as being important or that authors need to make their contribution of the work very clear in their paper. Conclusions: Based on the insights we gained through our study, w, open access

Public opinion surveying through phones and interviews is an established method in free societies. In societies under authoritarian regimes, however, the challenge is how to measure public opinions in such a way that people express their genuine opinions about sensitive topics without fearing the regime’s retribution. The high demand for understanding public opinions in influential authoritarian countries stimulated institutions and researchers to utilize the conventional sampling methods without considering their context-dependent limitations and misleading results. Knowing this demand, some authoritarian regimes themselves invest in polling as a propaganda tool, buying legitimacy by selling indicators such as high electoral turnouts and regime-confirmative results acquired through conventional methods. Although such probability sampling surveys employ the leading methods, which are widely used as reliable indicators for regime support, political participation, and public satisfaction in democratic countries, they cannot reflect the real picture of public opinions in authoritarian societies due to self-censorship. The widespread access of people to the internet and the popularity of social media, even in authoritarian societies, create a window of opportunity for innovation in measuring public opinions in authoritarian countries. This study presents an innovative usage of online surveys to measure Iranians’ unmeasurable attitudes. Examining the challenges of misinformation provided by conventional survey polls in the Islamic Republic of Iran, this article presents the results of an anonymous online survey conducted in 2021 by the Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in Iran (GAMAAN) among Iranians residing in the country. A comparison of the online survey with the 2020 face-to-face survey conducted by World Values Survey (WVS) confirms the hypothesis that leading scientific methods may result in invalid findings in authoritarian societies while anonymous onl

This dissertation explores the early digitalization in Sweden. As host to the first summit on the environment in Stockholm 1972 (UNCHE), as leading procurer of computer equipment as well as initiator to the world's first national Data Act of 1973, Sweden pioneered domains that have since emerged as critical to our age: environmental challenges and digital technology. Both products of the 1970s, environmental monitoring and population surveillance have typically been studied as separate phenomena. This thesis insists that they belong to the same lineage of procedures. In an effort to move beyond both celebratory and repressive discourses of technology, it turns to the infrastructural and operational aspects of histories of data. Crucially, the investigation traces a series of changes within the cultural techniques of modelling, linking and reuse. In so doing, it positions itself at the intersection of environmental and digital humanities, and contributes to both research fields. The aim of the investigation is to demonstrate how the handling of data shaped the environment and the population as objects of knowledge and to examine its consequences for state administration. By "following data" – noting how they were collected, transformed, played with, transferred, encrypted, stored and erased – the material and procedural elements of historical undertakings are emphasized. The investigation is organized in three parts: environment, population, and administration. Seeking the system dynamics origins of the 1972 Stockholm conference and the cybernetic principles of the systems ecology within the International Biological Program (IBP), the first part attempts to look past the politics of environmental movements and turns, instead, to modelling as a critical operation. The second part questions the generic surveillance studies approach to the 1970 census taking (FoB 70) and privacy debate in Sweden by considering these as part of the longer history of linking. Centering on

Gender bias is a frequent occurrence in NLP-based applications, especially pronounced in gender-inflected languages. Bias can appear through associations of certain adjectives and animate nouns with the natural gender of referents, but also due to unbalanced grammatical gender frequencies of inflected words. This type of bias becomes more evident in generating conversational utterances where gender is not specified within the sentence, because most current NLP applications still work on a sentence-level context. As a step towards more inclusive NLP, this paper proposes an automatic and generalisable rewriting approach for short conversational sentences. The rewriting method can be applied to sentences that, without extra-sentential context, have multiple equivalent alternatives in terms of gender. The method can be applied both for creating gender balanced outputs as well as for creating gender balanced training data. The proposed approach is based on a neural machine translation (NMT) system trained to 'translate' from one gender alternative to another. Both the automatic and manual analysis of the approach show promising results for automatic generation of gender alternatives for conversational sentences in Spanish.

Recent years have seen an increasing need for gender-neutral and inclusive language. Within the field of NLP, there are various mono- and bilingual use cases where gender inclusive language is appropriate, if not preferred due to ambiguity or uncertainty in terms of the gender of referents. In this work, we present a rule-based and a neural approach to gender-neutral rewriting for English along with manually curated synthetic data (WinoBias+) and natural data (OpenSubtitles and Reddit) benchmarks. A detailed manual and automatic evaluation highlights how our NeuTral Rewriter, trained on data generated by the rule-based approach, obtains word error rates (WER) below 0.18% on synthetic, in-domain and out-domain test sets.

A small box, hitherto described as white lacquerware, currently displayed at the Chinese Pavilion, Drottningholm, Sweden, is an unusual example of artefacts imported from the Far East during the era of the East India Companies. By using microscopy for cross- and thin sections, X-ray fluorescence microscopy, attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, some of the specific characteristics of the box are described, and it was possible to differentiate original from more recent restoration material. Among other findings, the results suggest that white glue tempera is a better description, based on indications of calcium carbonate and protein, and support an earlier attribution of the box to an Edo period doll maker in Kyoto.

Cosun Beet Company en papierproducent Crown Van Gelder ontwikkelden een papiersoort waarin voor 20 procent vezels uit suikerbietenpulp is verwerkt. Cosun heeft daarmee een hoogwaardige bestemming voor de reststroom en verpakt een deel van zijn producten in het nieuwe papier. Crown Van Gelder brengt de milieu-impact in de productieketen terug.

[EN] MS Tunis, Dār al-kutub al-waṭaniyya, 7116, is the only extant manuscript containing a complete copy of the Isḥāq/Ṯābit version of the Almagest. Paul Kunitzsch has underlined the close similarities between the marginal notes in the Tunis manuscript and those in Gerard of Cremona’s Latin translation of the Almagest, so that Kunitzsch has concluded that Gerard of Cremona had a manuscript close to the Tunis manuscript before him during the revision of his translation of the Almagest. A note in MS Tunis, Dār al-kutub al-waṭaniyya, 7116, points out that this manuscript was copied from a model owned by al-Arawšī, a bibliophile living in Valencia famous for the size of his library, a significant part of which was looted by al-Ma ʾmūn b. Ḏī l-Nūn and sent to Toledo, arguably shortly before Ṣāʿid al-Andalusī wrote his Ṭabaqāt al-umam. Based on MS Tunis, Dār al-kutub al-waṭaniyya, 7116, the present contribution explores the significance of al-Arawšī’s looted library as an important link between Umayyad Cordoba and Toledo. It also calls attention to the highly unusual paper of MS Tunis, Dār al-kutub al-waṭaniyya, 7116, made of woven fibers, maybe flax., [FR] Le manuscrit de Tunis, Dār al-kutub al-waṭaniyya, 7116, est le seul manuscrit existant contenant une copie complète de la version d’Isḥāq/Ṯābit de l’Almageste. Paul Kunitzsch souligna les fortes similitudes entre les notes marginales du manuscrit de Tunis et celles de la traduction latine de l’Almageste par Gérard de Crémone, de sorte qu’il conclut que Gérard de Crémone avait devant lui un manuscrit proche du manuscrit de Tunis lors de la révision de sa traduction de l’Almageste. Une note dans le manuscrit de Tunis, Dār al-kutub al-waṭaniyya, 7116, signale que ce manuscrit a été copié d’après un modèle appartenant à al-Arawšī, un bibliophile vivant à Valence et célèbre pour la taille de sa bibliothèque, dont une importante partie fut pillée par al-Ma ʾmūn b. Ḏī l-Nūn et envoyée à Tolède, sans doute peu avant que Ṣāʿid al-Andalusī ne rédige ses Ṭabaqāt al-umam. S’appuyant sur le manuscrit de Tunis, Dār al-kutub al-waṭaniyya, 7116, la présente contribution explore l’importance de la bibliothèque pillée d’al-Arawšī comme lien essentiel entre la Cordoue omeyyade et Tolède. Elle porte également une attention particulière au papier très inhabituel du manuscrit de Tunis, Dār al-kutub al-waṭaniyya, 7116, fait de fibres tissées, peut-être du lin.

[ES] El presente Trabajo Final de Grado consiste en un estudio técnico y análisis del estado de conservación de un documento notarial en soporte papel de principios del siglo XVIII, procedente de la provincia de Castellón, con el fin de plantear una propuesta de intervención y ejecutarla. El estudio llevado a cabo consta de la búsqueda del contexto histórico del documento así como también de la identificación física de la obra, desde el análisis de los materiales que la componen hasta la realización del diagnóstico de su estado de conservación. Todo ello con el propósito de plantear una propuesta de intervención y poder ejecutarla de la forma más idónea teniendo en cuenta las características del documento. Por último, es importante seguir una serie de recomendaciones sobre la conservación preventiva para asegurar la existencia del documento; con ello se plantea un sistema de almacenamiento para aumentar la estabilidad de la pieza a lo largo de los años., [EN] The present Final Degree Project consists of a technical study and analysis of the state of conservation of a notarial document in paper support. This document is dated to the beginning of the 18th century and it comes from the province of Castellón. The aim of this essay is to raise a proposal of intervention and execute it. The study carried out consists of the search for the historical context of the document as well as the physical identification of the work. To put it simply, it covers from the analysis of the materials that make it up to the diagnosis of its state of conservation. All of this is done with the purpose of proposing an intervention and executing it in the most suitable way, taking into account the characteristics of the document. Finally, it is important to follow a series of recommendations on preventive conservation to ensure the existence of the document. Following this, we propose a storage system to increase the stability of the piece over the years.

Panel #9: Artificial Intelligence and the Cloud, The acquisition of artificial intelligence (AI) systems is a relatively new challenge for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Given the potential for high-risk failures of AI system acquisitions, it is critical for the acquisition community to examine new analytical and decision-making approaches to managing the acquisition of these systems in addition to the existing approaches (i.e., Earned Value Management, or EVM). Also, many of these systems reside in small start-up or relatively immature system development companies, further clouding the acquisition process due to their unique business processes when compared to the large defense contractors. This can lead to limited access to data, information, and processes that are required in the standard DoD acquisition approach (i.e., the 5000 series). The well-known recurring problems in acquiring information technology automation within the DoD will likely be exacerbated in acquiring complex and risky AI systems. Therefore, more robust, agile, and analytically driven acquisition methodologies will be required to help avoid costly disasters in acquiring these kinds of systems. This research identifies, reviews, and proposes advanced quantitative, analytically based methods within the integrated risk management (IRM) and knowledge value added (KVA) methodologies to complement the current EVM approach., Naval Postgraduate School, Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.

[ES] Con motivo de la práctica en el departamento de restauración de papel del Museo de Sichuan, se ha resumido el proceso de restauración en el campo de la pintura tradicional china, además de varios métodos de tecnología de conservación y restauración de reliquias culturales en papel, y he evaluado las funciones de la técnica tradicional de conservación y restauración, en comparación con la tecnología moderna. La tecnología tradicional de conservación y restauración posee una posición y un papel irremplazables. La efectividad y los procedimientos de la conservación y la restauración del patrimonio cultural en papel es el producto del fortalecimiento de la herencia y la mejora continua de la técnica a través de la tradición. Además, en la actualidad, se cuenta con la estrecha combinación con tecnologías modernas basadas en el desarrollo científico., [EN] On the occasion of my practice in the paper restoration department of the Sichuan Museum, I have summarized the process of restoration of traditional Chinese painting and various methods of technology for the conservation and restoration of cultural relics on paper, and have evaluated the functions of traditional technology of conservation and restoration and modern technology of protection in the conservation and restoration of cultural relics on paper. Traditional conservation and restoration technology has an irreplaceable position and role. The effective way and direction of development of the conservation and restoration of cultural heritage on paper are the strengthening of inheritance and improvement of traditional technology, in close combination with modern technology and scientific evidence.

Due to the increased use of variable renewable energy sources, more capacity for reserves is required. Non-generating resources such as large industrial consumers can arbitrage energy prices and provide reserve capacity by exploiting the inherent flexibility in selected industrial processes. A large enough industrial consumer can capitalize on this flexibility through optimized bidding in electricity markets. In this work, the day-ahead cost minimization of a risk-averse pulp and paper mill is formulated as a two-stage stochastic problem, considering thermodynamic and electrical constraints. The bids in the energy and reserve markets are jointly optimized subject to price uncertainty as well as uncertainty of frequency realization. The results of a case study in Sweden display a significant economic benefit in exploiting the flexibility of integrated pulp and paper mills with electric boilers. The expected cost of the pulp and paper mill resulting from different strategies are compared and the risk-aversion of the pulp and paper mill is investigated. Reserve offers are mainly facilitated by fast-acting electric boilers and supported by flexibility in the steam network. We show that reserve offers can significantly improve the profitability of the pulp and paper mill., QC 20201230

The influence of strain during drying is known to have a large effect on its mechanical properties like tensile strength, Young’s modulus and hygroexpansion. In this study we investigate free and restrained dried paper and investigate the relation between the paper microstructure and its mechanical properties. The first part of the work investigates the development of the mechanical properties as well as paper internal stresses and strains (elastic-, inelastic- and hygrostrain) at different moisture contents during the drying process. Emphasis is put on the changes of hygrostrains and the paper hygroexpansion coefficient during drying. One main finding was that in constrained drying the drying stresses are considerably below the yield stress and, as a consequence, the deformations are mainly inelastic (creep) and only marginally elastic. In the second part we are analyzing the microstructure of free and restrained dried sheets by X-ray microtomography (μ-CT). From the μ-CT analysis relevant network parameters such as number of contact points, fiber bond area, free fiber length and fiber curl were extracted. Also a novel method to investigate the interface angle of the fibers in the vicinity of the bond sites was established. The results showed that the major difference from the drying procedure manifests itself in the out-of-plane curl of the fibers. Statistically number of contact points, bond area and in-plane curl were not different whereas in-plane curl and free fiber length were different. The interface angle appears to be slightly affected by the drying procedure but is overall very low. © 2020, The Author(s)., QC 20201214

We characterize an affordable method of producing stencils for submillimeter physical vapor deposition (PVD) by using paper and a benchtop laser cutter. Patterning electrodes or similar features on top of organic or biological substrates is generally not possible using standard photolithography. Shadow masks, traditionally made of silicon-based membranes, circumvent the need for aggressive solvents but suffer from high costs. Here, we evaluate shadow masks fabricated by CO2 laser processing from quantitative filter papers. Such papers are stiff and dimensionally stable, resilient in handling, and cut without melting or redeposition. Using two exemplary interdigitated electrode designs, we quantify the line resolution achievable with both high-quality and standard lenses, as well as the positional accuracy across multiple length scales. Additionally, we assess the gap between such laser-cut paper masks and a substrate, and quantify feature reproduction onto polycarbonate membranes. We find that ~100 µm line widths are achievable independent of lens type and that average positional accuracy is better than ±100 µm at 4”-wafer scale. Although this falls well short of the micron-size features achievable with typical shadow masks, resolution in the tenths to tens of millimeters is entirely sufficient for applications from contact pads to electrochemical cells, allowing new functionalities on fragile materials., QC 20200811

A computationally efficient method to study the in-plane and out-of-plane dimensional instability of thin paper sheets under the influence of moisture changes is presented. The method explicitly resolves the bonded and the free segments of fibers in the sheet, capturing the effect of anisotropic hygroexpansion at the fiber level. The method is verified against a volumetric model. The importance of longitudinal fiber hygroexpansion is demonstrated in spite of the absolute value of longitudinal hygroexpansion being an order of magnitude lower than the transverse hygroexpansion component. Finally, the method is used to demonstrate the formation of macroscopic sheet curl due to a moisture gradient in structurally uniform sheets in the absence of viscoelastic or plastic constitutive behavior and through-thickness residual stress profiles., Not duplicate with DiVA 1355440QC 20200612

The conservation of textiles is a challenge due to the often fast degradation that results from the acidity combined with a complex structure that requires remediation actions to be conducted at several length scales. Nanomaterials have lately been used for various purposes in the conservation of cultural heritage. The advantage with these materials is their high efficiency combined with a great control. Here, we provide an overview of the latest developments in terms of nanomaterials-based alternatives, namely inorganic nanoparticles and nanocellulose, to conventional methods for the strengthening and deacidification of cellulose-based materials. Then, using the case of iron-tannate dyed cotton, we show that conservation can only be addressed if the mechanical strengthening is preceded by a deacidification step. We used CaCO3 nanoparticles to neutralize the acidity, while the stabilisation was addressed by a combination of nanocellulose, and silica nanoparticles, to truly tackle the complexity of the hierarchical nature of cotton textiles. Silica nanoparticles enabled strengthening at the fibre scale by covering the fibre surface, while the nanocellulose acted at bigger length scales. The evaluation of the applied treatments, before and after an accelerated ageing, was assessed by tensile testing, the fibre structure by SEM and the apparent colour changes by colourimetric measurements., Article; Funding details: China Scholarship Council, CSC; Funding details: Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, H2020, 646063; Funding text 1: Funding: This work received funding from the China Scholarship Council (CSC) and from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the NanoRestArt Project (Grant 646063).

The conservation of textiles is a challenge due to the often fast degradation that results from the acidity combined with a complex structure that requires remediation actions to be conducted at several length scales. Nanomaterials have lately been used for various purposes in the conservation of cultural heritage. The advantage with these materials is their high efficiency combined with a great control. Here, we provide an overview of the latest developments in terms of nanomaterials-based alternatives, namely inorganic nanoparticles and nanocellulose, to conventional methods for the strengthening and deacidification of cellulose-based materials. Then, using the case of iron-tannate dyed cotton, we show that conservation can only be addressed if the mechanical strengthening is preceded by a deacidification step. We used CaCO3 nanoparticles to neutralize the acidity, while the stabilisation was addressed by a combination of nanocellulose, and silica nanoparticles, to truly tackle the complexity of the hierarchical nature of cotton textiles. Silica nanoparticles enabled strengthening at the fibre scale by covering the fibre surface, while the nanocellulose acted at bigger length scales. The evaluation of the applied treatments, before and after an accelerated ageing, was assessed by tensile testing, the fibre structure by SEM and the apparent colour changes by colourimetric measurements., Article; Funding details: China Scholarship Council, CSC; Funding details: Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, H2020, 646063; Funding text 1: Funding: This work received funding from the China Scholarship Council (CSC) and from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the NanoRestArt Project (Grant 646063).

We characterize an affordable method of producing stencils for submillimeter physical vapor deposition (PVD) by using paper and a benchtop laser cutter. Patterning electrodes or similar features on top of organic or biological substrates is generally not possible using standard photolithography. Shadow masks, traditionally made of silicon-based membranes, circumvent the need for aggressive solvents but suffer from high costs. Here, we evaluate shadow masks fabricated by CO2 laser processing from quantitative filter papers. Such papers are stiff and dimensionally stable, resilient in handling, and cut without melting or redeposition. Using two exemplary interdigitated electrode designs, we quantify the line resolution achievable with both high-quality and standard lenses, as well as the positional accuracy across multiple length scales. Additionally, we assess the gap between such laser-cut paper masks and a substrate, and quantify feature reproduction onto polycarbonate membranes. We find that ~100 µm line widths are achievable independent of lens type and that average positional accuracy is better than ±100 µm at 4”-wafer scale. Although this falls well short of the micron-size features achievable with typical shadow masks, resolution in the tenths to tens of millimeters is entirely sufficient for applications from contact pads to electrochemical cells, allowing new functionalities on fragile materials., QC 20200811

We characterize an affordable method of producing stencils for submillimeter physical vapor deposition (PVD) by using paper and a benchtop laser cutter. Patterning electrodes or similar features on top of organic or biological substrates is generally not possible using standard photolithography. Shadow masks, traditionally made of silicon-based membranes, circumvent the need for aggressive solvents but suffer from high costs. Here, we evaluate shadow masks fabricated by CO2 laser processing from quantitative filter papers. Such papers are stiff and dimensionally stable, resilient in handling, and cut without melting or redeposition. Using two exemplary interdigitated electrode designs, we quantify the line resolution achievable with both high-quality and standard lenses, as well as the positional accuracy across multiple length scales. Additionally, we assess the gap between such laser-cut paper masks and a substrate, and quantify feature reproduction onto polycarbonate membranes. We find that ~100 µm line widths are achievable independent of lens type and that average positional accuracy is better than ±100 µm at 4”-wafer scale. Although this falls well short of the micron-size features achievable with typical shadow masks, resolution in the tenths to tens of millimeters is entirely sufficient for applications from contact pads to electrochemical cells, allowing new functionalities on fragile materials., QC 20200811

[ES] El presente Trabajo Final de Grado consiste en un estudio técnico y análisis del estado de conservación de un documento notarial en soporte papel de principios del siglo XVIII, procedente de la provincia de Castellón, con el fin de plantear una propuesta de intervención y ejecutarla. El estudio llevado a cabo consta de la búsqueda del contexto histórico del documento así como también de la identificación física de la obra, desde el análisis de los materiales que la componen hasta la realización del diagnóstico de su estado de conservación. Todo ello con el propósito de plantear una propuesta de intervención y poder ejecutarla de la forma más idónea teniendo en cuenta las características del documento. Por último, es importante seguir una serie de recomendaciones sobre la conservación preventiva para asegurar la existencia del documento; con ello se plantea un sistema de almacenamiento para aumentar la estabilidad de la pieza a lo largo de los años., [EN] The present Final Degree Project consists of a technical study and analysis of the state of conservation of a notarial document in paper support. This document is dated to the beginning of the 18th century and it comes from the province of Castellón. The aim of this essay is to raise a proposal of intervention and execute it. The study carried out consists of the search for the historical context of the document as well as the physical identification of the work. To put it simply, it covers from the analysis of the materials that make it up to the diagnosis of its state of conservation. All of this is done with the purpose of proposing an intervention and executing it in the most suitable way, taking into account the characteristics of the document. Finally, it is important to follow a series of recommendations on preventive conservation to ensure the existence of the document. Following this, we propose a storage system to increase the stability of the piece over the years.

[ES] Con motivo de la práctica en el departamento de restauración de papel del Museo de Sichuan, se ha resumido el proceso de restauración en el campo de la pintura tradicional china, además de varios métodos de tecnología de conservación y restauración de reliquias culturales en papel, y he evaluado las funciones de la técnica tradicional de conservación y restauración, en comparación con la tecnología moderna. La tecnología tradicional de conservación y restauración posee una posición y un papel irremplazables. La efectividad y los procedimientos de la conservación y la restauración del patrimonio cultural en papel es el producto del fortalecimiento de la herencia y la mejora continua de la técnica a través de la tradición. Además, en la actualidad, se cuenta con la estrecha combinación con tecnologías modernas basadas en el desarrollo científico., [EN] On the occasion of my practice in the paper restoration department of the Sichuan Museum, I have summarized the process of restoration of traditional Chinese painting and various methods of technology for the conservation and restoration of cultural relics on paper, and have evaluated the functions of traditional technology of conservation and restoration and modern technology of protection in the conservation and restoration of cultural relics on paper. Traditional conservation and restoration technology has an irreplaceable position and role. The effective way and direction of development of the conservation and restoration of cultural heritage on paper are the strengthening of inheritance and improvement of traditional technology, in close combination with modern technology and scientific evidence.

El CAV-AEP publica anualmente el calendario de vacunaciones que estima idóneo para los niños residentes en España, teniendo en cuenta la evidencia científica disponible. Se mantiene el esquema 2 + 1 (2, 4 y 11 meses) con vacunas hexavalentes (DTPa-VPI-Hib-HB) y con antineumocócica conjugada 13-valente. Se aconseja un refuerzo a los 6 años, preferentemente con DTPa (si está disponible), junto a una dosis de polio para aquellos que recibieron esquemas 2 + 1, así como vacunación con Tdpa en adolescentes y en cada embarazo, preferentemente entre las 27 y las 32 semanas. La vacuna del rotavirus debería ser sistemática para todos los lactantes. Se sigue proponiendo la incorporación en el calendario de la vacuna antimeningocócica B, con esquema 2 + 1 en lactantes. Además de la inclusión de la vacuna antimeningocócica conjugada tetravalente (MenACWY) a los 12 años con rescate hasta los 18 años, inclusive, el CAV recomienda que esta vacuna sea introducida también a los 12 meses de edad, sustituyendo a MenC. Igualmente, se recomienda en los mayores de 6 semanas de edad con factores de riesgo o que viajen a países de elevada incidencia de estos serogrupos. Se emplearán esquemas de 2 dosis para triple vírica (12 meses y 3-4 años) y varicela (15 meses y 3-4 años). La segunda dosis se podría aplicar como vacuna tetravírica. Se recomienda la vacunación sistemática universal frente al VPH, tanto a chicas como a chicos, preferentemente a los 12 años, debiendo realizar un mayor esfuerzo para mejorar las coberturas. La de 9 genotipos amplía la cobertura para ambos sexos., The CAV-AEP annually publishes the immunisation schedule considered optimal for all children resident in Spain, taking into account the available evidence. The 2 + 1 schedule is recommended (2, 4, and 11 months) with hexavalent vaccines (DTPa-VPI-Hib-HB) and with 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate. A 6-year booster is recommended, preferably with DTPa (if available), with a dose of polio for those who received 2 + 1 schemes, as well as vaccination with Tdpa in adolescents and in each pregnancy, preferably between 27 and 32 weeks. Rotavirus vaccine should be systematic for all infants. Meningococcal B vaccine, with a 2+1 schedule, should be included in routine calendar. In addition to the inclusion of the conjugated tetravalent meningococcal vaccine (MenACWY) at 12 years of age with catch up to 18 years, inclusive, the CAV recommends this vaccine tobe also included at 12 months of age, replacing MenC. Likewise, it is recommended in those over 6 weeks of age with risk factors or who travel to countries with a high incidence of these serogroups. Two-dose schedules for MMR (12 months and 3-4 years) and varicella (15 months and 3-4years) will be used. The second dose could be applied as a tetraviral vaccine. Universal systematic vaccination against HPV is recommended, both for girls and boys, preferably at 12 years, and greater effort should be made to improve coverage. The 9 genotype extends coverage for both genders

[ES] Con motivo de la práctica en el departamento de restauración de papel del Museo de Sichuan, se ha resumido el proceso de restauración en el campo de la pintura tradicional china, además de varios métodos de tecnología de conservación y restauración de reliquias culturales en papel, y he evaluado las funciones de la técnica tradicional de conservación y restauración, en comparación con la tecnología moderna. La tecnología tradicional de conservación y restauración posee una posición y un papel irremplazables. La efectividad y los procedimientos de la conservación y la restauración del patrimonio cultural en papel es el producto del fortalecimiento de la herencia y la mejora continua de la técnica a través de la tradición. Además, en la actualidad, se cuenta con la estrecha combinación con tecnologías modernas basadas en el desarrollo científico., [EN] On the occasion of my practice in the paper restoration department of the Sichuan Museum, I have summarized the process of restoration of traditional Chinese painting and various methods of technology for the conservation and restoration of cultural relics on paper, and have evaluated the functions of traditional technology of conservation and restoration and modern technology of protection in the conservation and restoration of cultural relics on paper. Traditional conservation and restoration technology has an irreplaceable position and role. The effective way and direction of development of the conservation and restoration of cultural heritage on paper are the strengthening of inheritance and improvement of traditional technology, in close combination with modern technology and scientific evidence.

[ES] Este trabajo se plantea como una investigación plástica de carácter tautológico en torno a las técnicas y procesos propios del arte gráfico -entendido principalmente como ámbito de creación que se establece sobre el principio y los medios de reproducción de imágenes-. Así, desde un proceder propio de la gráfica contemporánea y experimental, este TFG indaga en la naturaleza ontológica y en los elementos y cuestiones clave de la imagen "grabada" e impresa; y al mismo tiempo propone un análisis y reflexión sobre la manera en que se relacionan los medios gráficos considerados tradicionales o históricos y los nuevos medios gráficos electrográficos y digitales. Para llevar a cabo tal aproximación, la práctica artística desarrollada tanto de forma teórico-conceptual como técnica se ha formalizado en la creación de una carpeta de estampas cuyo planteamiento parte del proceso de registro electrográfico digital mediante escáner., [EN] This work is presented as a plastic research of tautological nature around the techniques and processes of graphic art -understood mainly as a field of creation that is established on the principle and means of image reproduction-. Thus, from a procedure typical of the contemporary and experimental graphic art, this work explores the ontological nature and the key elements and issues of the "engraved" and printed image; and at the same time it proposes an analysis and reflection on how traditional or historical graphic media are related with new electrographic and digital graphic techniques. To carry out this approach, I have created a collection of prints that is originated in the process of digital electrographic capture with a scanner. This artistic practice has been developed both in a theoretical-conceptual and technical way.

The article provides an introduction to technology (work) education in elementary grades with close links to fine arts and mathematics. Also, studying the subject of elementary technology (work) in relation to fine arts and maths were mentioned both practically and theoretically. Finally, it concluded with relevant examples as the whole.

The article provides an introduction to technology (work) education in elementary grades with close links to fine arts and mathematics. Also, studying the subject of elementary technology (work) in relation to fine arts and maths were mentioned both practically and theoretically. Finally, it concluded with relevant examples as the whole.

The development of a two-stage process which combines shredding and impact crushing for the production of pure recycled gypsum from gypsum-plasterboard construction waste is presented. The first stage of the process uses a two-shaft VSR pre-shredder equipped with tearing tools and allows the sorting of larger metallic impurities in the gypsum-plasterboard feed material. The second stage employs a PB impact crusher with a horizontal shaft which separates the gypsum particles from adhering cardboard residues, wood fibres and small metallic parts. The process enables the preparation of chemically pure gypsum useful in applications such as cement production and additionally facilitates recovery of paper and metal in the gypsum-plasterboard waste for recycling., The development of a two-stage process which combines shredding and impact crushing for the production of pure recycled gypsum from gypsum-plasterboard construction waste is presented. The first stage of the process uses a two-shaft VSR pre-shredder equipped with tearing tools and allows the sorting of larger metallic impurities in the gypsum-plasterboard feed material. The second stage employs a PB impact crusher with a horizontal shaft which separates the gypsum particles from adhering cardboard residues, wood fibres and small metallic parts. The process enables the preparation of chemically pure gypsum useful in applications such as cement production and additionally facilitates recovery of paper and metal in the gypsum-plasterboard waste for recycling.

[ES] Este trabajo se plantea como una investigación plástica de carácter tautológico en torno a las técnicas y procesos propios del arte gráfico -entendido principalmente como ámbito de creación que se establece sobre el principio y los medios de reproducción de imágenes-. Así, desde un proceder propio de la gráfica contemporánea y experimental, este TFG indaga en la naturaleza ontológica y en los elementos y cuestiones clave de la imagen "grabada" e impresa; y al mismo tiempo propone un análisis y reflexión sobre la manera en que se relacionan los medios gráficos considerados tradicionales o históricos y los nuevos medios gráficos electrográficos y digitales. Para llevar a cabo tal aproximación, la práctica artística desarrollada tanto de forma teórico-conceptual como técnica se ha formalizado en la creación de una carpeta de estampas cuyo planteamiento parte del proceso de registro electrográfico digital mediante escáner., [EN] This work is presented as a plastic research of tautological nature around the techniques and processes of graphic art -understood mainly as a field of creation that is established on the principle and means of image reproduction-. Thus, from a procedure typical of the contemporary and experimental graphic art, this work explores the ontological nature and the key elements and issues of the "engraved" and printed image; and at the same time it proposes an analysis and reflection on how traditional or historical graphic media are related with new electrographic and digital graphic techniques. To carry out this approach, I have created a collection of prints that is originated in the process of digital electrographic capture with a scanner. This artistic practice has been developed both in a theoretical-conceptual and technical way.

[ES] Con motivo de la práctica en el departamento de restauración de papel del Museo de Sichuan, se ha resumido el proceso de restauración en el campo de la pintura tradicional china, además de varios métodos de tecnología de conservación y restauración de reliquias culturales en papel, y he evaluado las funciones de la técnica tradicional de conservación y restauración, en comparación con la tecnología moderna. La tecnología tradicional de conservación y restauración posee una posición y un papel irremplazables. La efectividad y los procedimientos de la conservación y la restauración del patrimonio cultural en papel es el producto del fortalecimiento de la herencia y la mejora continua de la técnica a través de la tradición. Además, en la actualidad, se cuenta con la estrecha combinación con tecnologías modernas basadas en el desarrollo científico., [EN] On the occasion of my practice in the paper restoration department of the Sichuan Museum, I have summarized the process of restoration of traditional Chinese painting and various methods of technology for the conservation and restoration of cultural relics on paper, and have evaluated the functions of traditional technology of conservation and restoration and modern technology of protection in the conservation and restoration of cultural relics on paper. Traditional conservation and restoration technology has an irreplaceable position and role. The effective way and direction of development of the conservation and restoration of cultural heritage on paper are the strengthening of inheritance and improvement of traditional technology, in close combination with modern technology and scientific evidence.

[ES] El presente Trabajo Final de Grado consiste en un estudio técnico y análisis del estado de conservación de un documento notarial en soporte papel de principios del siglo XVIII, procedente de la provincia de Castellón, con el fin de plantear una propuesta de intervención y ejecutarla. El estudio llevado a cabo consta de la búsqueda del contexto histórico del documento así como también de la identificación física de la obra, desde el análisis de los materiales que la componen hasta la realización del diagnóstico de su estado de conservación. Todo ello con el propósito de plantear una propuesta de intervención y poder ejecutarla de la forma más idónea teniendo en cuenta las características del documento. Por último, es importante seguir una serie de recomendaciones sobre la conservación preventiva para asegurar la existencia del documento; con ello se plantea un sistema de almacenamiento para aumentar la estabilidad de la pieza a lo largo de los años., [EN] The present Final Degree Project consists of a technical study and analysis of the state of conservation of a notarial document in paper support. This document is dated to the beginning of the 18th century and it comes from the province of Castellón. The aim of this essay is to raise a proposal of intervention and execute it. The study carried out consists of the search for the historical context of the document as well as the physical identification of the work. To put it simply, it covers from the analysis of the materials that make it up to the diagnosis of its state of conservation. All of this is done with the purpose of proposing an intervention and executing it in the most suitable way, taking into account the characteristics of the document. Finally, it is important to follow a series of recommendations on preventive conservation to ensure the existence of the document. Following this, we propose a storage system to increase the stability of the piece over the years.

[ES] Este trabajo se plantea como una investigación plástica de carácter tautológico en torno a las técnicas y procesos propios del arte gráfico -entendido principalmente como ámbito de creación que se establece sobre el principio y los medios de reproducción de imágenes-. Así, desde un proceder propio de la gráfica contemporánea y experimental, este TFG indaga en la naturaleza ontológica y en los elementos y cuestiones clave de la imagen "grabada" e impresa; y al mismo tiempo propone un análisis y reflexión sobre la manera en que se relacionan los medios gráficos considerados tradicionales o históricos y los nuevos medios gráficos electrográficos y digitales. Para llevar a cabo tal aproximación, la práctica artística desarrollada tanto de forma teórico-conceptual como técnica se ha formalizado en la creación de una carpeta de estampas cuyo planteamiento parte del proceso de registro electrográfico digital mediante escáner., [EN] This work is presented as a plastic research of tautological nature around the techniques and processes of graphic art -understood mainly as a field of creation that is established on the principle and means of image reproduction-. Thus, from a procedure typical of the contemporary and experimental graphic art, this work explores the ontological nature and the key elements and issues of the "engraved" and printed image; and at the same time it proposes an analysis and reflection on how traditional or historical graphic media are related with new electrographic and digital graphic techniques. To carry out this approach, I have created a collection of prints that is originated in the process of digital electrographic capture with a scanner. This artistic practice has been developed both in a theoretical-conceptual and technical way.

Panel #12: Persistent Issues in Defense Management, Naval Postgraduate School, Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.

Panel #15: Enabling Innovation Ecosystems in Defense Acquisition, Naval Postgraduate School, Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.

Panel #6: Unmanned Vehicles in a Model Based Systems Engineering Universe, Naval Postgraduate School, Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.

Panel #25: Unlocking the Value of Acquisition Data, Naval Postgraduate School, Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.

Panel #11: Analytics in Acquisition Management, Naval Postgraduate School, Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.

[ES] Este trabajo se plantea como una investigación plástica de carácter tautológico en torno a las técnicas y procesos propios del arte gráfico -entendido principalmente como ámbito de creación que se establece sobre el principio y los medios de reproducción de imágenes-. Así, desde un proceder propio de la gráfica contemporánea y experimental, este TFG indaga en la naturaleza ontológica y en los elementos y cuestiones clave de la imagen "grabada" e impresa; y al mismo tiempo propone un análisis y reflexión sobre la manera en que se relacionan los medios gráficos considerados tradicionales o históricos y los nuevos medios gráficos electrográficos y digitales. Para llevar a cabo tal aproximación, la práctica artística desarrollada tanto de forma teórico-conceptual como técnica se ha formalizado en la creación de una carpeta de estampas cuyo planteamiento parte del proceso de registro electrográfico digital mediante escáner., [EN] This work is presented as a plastic research of tautological nature around the techniques and processes of graphic art -understood mainly as a field of creation that is established on the principle and means of image reproduction-. Thus, from a procedure typical of the contemporary and experimental graphic art, this work explores the ontological nature and the key elements and issues of the "engraved" and printed image; and at the same time it proposes an analysis and reflection on how traditional or historical graphic media are related with new electrographic and digital graphic techniques. To carry out this approach, I have created a collection of prints that is originated in the process of digital electrographic capture with a scanner. This artistic practice has been developed both in a theoretical-conceptual and technical way.

We present a Kernel Ridge Regression (KRR) based supervised learning method combined with Genetic Algorithms (GAs) for the calculation of quasiparticle energies within Many-Body Green’s Functions Theory. These energies representing electronic excitations of a material are solutions to a set of non-linear equations, containing the electron self-energy (SE) in the GW approximation. Due to the frequency-dependence of this SE, standard approaches are computationally expensive and may yield non-physical solutions, in particular for larger systems. In our proposed model, we use KRR as a self-adaptive surrogate model which reduces the number of explicit calculations of the SE. Transforming the standard fixed-point problem of finding quasiparticle energies into a global optimization problem with a suitably defined fitness function, application of the GA yields uniquely the physically relevant solution. We demonstrate the applicability of our method for a set of molecules from the GW100 dataset, which are known to exhibit a particularly problematic structure of the SE. Results of the KRR-GA model agree within less than 0.01 eV with the reference standard implementation, while reducing the number of required SE evaluations roughly by a factor of ten.

In der Studie „Lernen mit Rubrics” (LERU) wurde ein Beurteilungsraster (Rubric) für die formative Beurteilung des mathematischen Argumentierens während 9 Wochen in 22 Klassen der 5. und 6. Jahrgangsstufe eingesetzt. Es interessierte insbesondere die Frage, ob Schüler/-innen und Lehrpersonen den Rubric hinsichtlich Selbstregulation als nützlich einschätzen. Mittels quantitativer Analysen wurde zuerst ermittelt, ob ein Zusammenhang zwischen kognitiven und motivationalen Aspekten der Nützlichkeit und der selbst eingeschätzten Fähigkeit zur Selbstregulation bei Textaufgaben besteht. Anschliessend liess sich mit Hilfe linearer Wachstumsmodelle prüfen, ob eine positiv eingeschätzte Nützlichkeit auch Unterschiede in der individuellen Entwicklung der Selbstregulation erklärt. Beide Fragen lassen sich positiv beantworten. Schülerinnen und Schüler, die ihre Selbstregulationsfähigkeiten geringer einschätzten, machten zudem grössere Fortschritte im Laufe des Projekts als solche, die ihre Selbstregulationsfähigkeiten höher einschätzten. Die Ergebnisse werden schlussendlich diskutiert hinsichtlich der praktischen Konsequenzen für Steuerung und Beurteilung des Lernprozesses.

We describe the first productization of bidirectional LiFi architecture based on latest ITU-T standard G.9991 (G.vlc). We report experiences in-offering a gross data-rate of 250 Mbps downlink and 200 Mbps uplink in point-to-multipoint system configuration.

Memristor-based, non-von-Neumann architectures performing tensor operations directly in memory are a promising approach to address the ever-increasing demand for energy-efficient, high-throughput hardware accelerators for Machine Learning (ML) inference. A major challenge for the programmability and exploitation of such Computing-In-Memory (CIM) architectures consists in the efficient mapping of tensor operations from high-level ML frameworks to fixed-function hardware blocks implementing in-memory computations. We demonstrate the programmability of memristor-based accelerators with TC-CIM, a fully-automatic, end-to-end compilation flow from Tensor Comprehensions, a mathematical notation for tensor operations, to fixed-function memristor-based hardware blocks. Operations suitable for acceleration are identified using Loop Tactics, a declarative framework to describe computational patterns in a poly-hedral representation. We evaluate our compilation flow on a system-level simulator based on Gem5, incorporating crossbar arrays of memristive devices. Our results show that TC-CIM reliably recognizes tensor operations commonly used in ML workloads across multiple benchmarks in order to offload these operations to the accelerator.

The field of deep learning is commonly concerned with optimizing predictive models using large pre-acquired datasets of densely sampled datapoints or signals. In this work, we demonstrate that the deep learning paradigm can be extended to incorporate a subsampling scheme that is jointly optimized under a desired sampling rate. We present Deep Probabilistic Subsampling (DPS), a widely applicable framework for task-adaptive compressed sensing that enables end-to-end optimization of an optimal subset of signal samples with a subsequent model that performs a required task. We demonstrate strong performance on reconstruction and classification tasks of a toy dataset, MNIST, and CIFAR10 under stringent subsampling rates in both the pixel and the spatial frequency domain. Thanks to the data-driven nature of the framework, DPS is directly applicable to all real-world domains that benefit from sample rate reduction. The code used for this paper is made publicly available.

The effect of background rotation on the dispersion of (inertial) particles in confined forced rotating turbulence and in turbulent rotating convection has been studied and compared where possible. We choose the coordinate system such that both the rotation vector and gravity is parallel to the vertical axis. With 3D Particle Tracking Velocimetry experiments we have quantified statistically the effect of system rotation on the PDFs and autocorrelations of velocities and accelerations of (passive) fluid particles in rotating turbulence. Subsequently we have extended this study by exploring the effect of system rotation and buoyancy on the dispersion of passive and inertial particles in rotating thermally driven turbulence between two horizontal flat plates. The PDFs of horizontal and vertical accelerations of passive particles in turbulent rotating convection show similar behaviour as found in the laboratory experiments in isothermal forced rotating turbulence. When the particles have inertia it is observed that the particles tend to collect in anticyclonic regions of the flow eventually resulting in depletion of particles in the bulk of the flow (and accumulating near the top and bottom wall).

A well-known phenomenon in the atmospheric boundary layer is the facts that winds may become very weak in the evening after a clear sunny day. In these quiet conditions usually hardly any turbulence is present. Consequently, this type of boundary layer is referred to as the quasi-laminar boundary layer. In spite of its omnipresence, the appearance of the laminar boundary layer is poorly understood and forms a long-standing problem in meteorological research. In the present study we investigate an analogue problem in the form of a stably stratified channel flow. The flow is studied by using direct numerical simulations (DNS). Simulations reveal that flow laminarization occurs when the normalized surface heat extraction h/L is larger than 1.23. In a companioning study this laminarisation is explained by the maximum sustainable heat flux theory (MSHF), which will be validated in the present research.