Tracing Path Research Articles

Feeling through Empathy, Judging through Sympathy: Environmental Ethics and Eco-terrorism in Fiction

This research paper explores the environmental ethics depicted in Kim Stanley Robinson’s latest eco-fictional novel The Ministry for the Future (2020) through an analysis of empathy, sympathy, and environmental justice. It also seeks to challenge the common division of empathy and sympathy reactions from characters as different from those of people in real life situations to theorize a case for how people might better react and understand their role in the face of climatic crisis as a consequence of reading fiction. In so doing, it accentuates the importance of reading environmental literature to awaken readers’ sensitivities and trace paths outside the “planetary crisis” (Ghosh, 2021). Methodologically, it borrows concepts from reading-response criticism (character, empathy, and sympathy) to navigate the fabric of eco-criticism: the ethics of climate change through the injustices portrayed in Robinson’s novel. In addition to this two-dimensional approach, this paper is clearly divided in three main sections. In the first section, I approach empathy and sympathy in various ways including the former being the precursor of the later for rhetorical purposes; that is, it is unique in the making of resonances for readers. Also, I argue that readers are lured to feel empathy through the novel’s imagery and through readers’ predilection to “read minds” (Zunshine, 2006) or take “imaginative leaps” (Sutrop, 2000). The second section inspects unity through climate outrage and nation-wide agency in the aftermath of the Indian heatwave. Such unity scaffolds the last section. The third part searches an ethical dimension to eco-terrorism in the novel given a shift of national intersubjective Indian unity that entitles climate justice to their own hands. This investigation concludes by suggesting directions to an analysis of empathy and sympathy within the realm of realistic, climate fiction.

Brightness temperature calculation of corner reflector on the sea surface and analysis of its jamming on ship recognition in passive millimetre-wave

Corner reflector, as a passive jammer, can generate a large radar cross section (RCS) to interfere with radar for target recognition. However, the impact of corner reflectors on passive millimetre-wave (PMMW) recognition is unclear. In this paper, based on ray tracing, the brightness temperature (TB) of corner reflectors is calculated. Ray tracing paths are used to analyze the impact of the sky, sea surface, and sun on the TB of corner reflectors. The antenna temperature of corner reflectors and their array at different distances is simulated and compared with that of a metal ship to evaluate their jamming performance. Four series of experiments measuring the antenna temperature of corner reflectors and the ship are conducted to verify the jamming performance. The results indicate that the contrast of corner reflectors is much smaller than that of ship target, causing little jamming for PMMW recognition.

Odor Fingerprinting of Chitosan and Source Identification of Commercial Chitosan: HS-GC-IMS, Multivariate Statistical Analysis, and Tracing Path Study.

Chitosan samples were prepared from the shells of marine animals (crab and shrimp) and the cell walls of fungi (agaricus bisporus and aspergillus niger). Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) was used to detect their molecular structures, while headspace-gas chromatography-ion mobility spectrometry (HS-GC-IMS) was employed to analyze their odor composition. A total of 220 volatile organic compounds (VOCs), including esters, ketones, aldehydes, etc., were identified as the odor fingerprinting components of chitosan for the first time. A principal component analysis (PCA) revealed that chitosan could be effectively identified and classified based on its characteristic VOCs. The sum of the first three principal components explained 87% of the total variance in original information. An orthogonal partial least squares discrimination analysis (OPLS-DA) model was established for tracing and source identification purposes, demonstrating excellent performance with fitting indices R2X = 0.866, R2Y = 0.996, Q2 = 0.989 for independent variable fitting and model prediction accuracy, respectively. By utilizing OPLS-DA modeling along with a heatmap-based tracing path study, it was found that 29 VOCs significantly contributed to marine chitosan at a significance level of VIP > 1.00 (p < 0.05), whereas another set of 20 VOCs specifically associated with fungi chitosan exhibited notable contributions to its odor profile. These findings present a novel method for identifying commercial chitosan sources, which can be applied to ensure biological safety in practical applications.

Preventing The Impact of Unequal Thought Social Media on LGBT and HIV-AIDS In Mindset of Gen Z

The present study reports the comprehensive study after pandemic era in early 2024, aims to determine an effective methodical approach in exploiting the impact of thought inequality when using social media as an effort to prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS (LGBT) infections. The preparation of this literature review uses the narrative literature review method by entering keywords into the PubMed, ProQuest, Wiley, CINAHL and databases of ScienceDirect. The results of the research show that the effective method used in utilizing social media in efforts to prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS (LGBT) infections including Network Monitoring Systems and direct intervention. The Network Monitoring System method can analyze the scientific role of health sociology in statistical data or social change trends which are used as material considerations in formulating health promotion policies. Meanwhile, direct intervention with a comprehensive educational approach in empowering individuals, communities or groups becomes a stimulant for one is the potential to oversee health problems independently. In conclusion, both produce outputs in the form of increasing awareness in the prevention and transmission of HIV/AIDS (LGBT), healthy sexual knowledge, minimizing stigma towards HIV/AIDS sufferers, getting accurate target tracing paths, education will be provided.

Computation and Modelling of Seismic Refraction Tomography for Anisotropic Medium Based on Pseudo Bending Method

Seismic refraction tomography is one of the imaging techniques in geophysical methods used to remodel the near-surface velocity layer structure of the Earth. In this study, we carried out a new computational approach and modelling of seismic refraction tomography using the pseudo-bending method. The true model of the near-surface is designed to be anisotropic medium which is having a low velocity anomaly distribution. This anomaly is constructed in such a way as to be similar to a model of liquid waste away spreading, which exhibits seismic velocities ranging from 1600 m/s to 1800 m/s. Based on our computations and numerical modelling results, it was found that the ray tracing path using pseudo-bending method displays an asymmetrical trajectory when the positions of the source and geophone are exchanged. Altering the shooting configuration from direct shoot (DS) to reversed shoot (RS) also reveals a significant difference in travel time values. The results of delay time tomography inversion, which represents the difference between travel times in the true model and the initial model using the SIRT method, indicate the presence of a low velocity anomaly that can be interpreted as the distribution of liquid waste.

Between psychoanalysis and Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology: tracing paths towards a notion of experience

Resumo Partindo de uma articulação entre a psicanálise e a fenomenologia de Merleau-Ponty, o objetivo deste artigo é traçar um caminho na psicanálise para uma noção de experiência. A experiência, seja pensada a partir de problemáticas levantadas pela psicanálise contemporânea, mais especificamente no que concerne aos estados limites, seja a partir da fenomenologia, não pertence a um sujeito, mas comporta uma abertura para o mundo. Com base em certas noções e interpretações de diferentes autores na psicanálise, buscam-se caminhos que permitam alcançar um deslocamento de uma posição idealista ou objetivista. Seguindo as indicações de Winnicott, três eixos são destacados como hipóteses centrais para definir a experiência: a corporeidade, o tempo e o sentido. Por fim, propõe-se um questionamento sobre a possibilidade de conceber a experiência como um conceito para a psicanálise contemporânea.

A Deep Probabilistic Machine Learning Approach to Ray Tracing Path Loss Prediction at 900 MHz

A Deep Probabilistic Machine Learning Approach to Ray Tracing Path Loss Prediction at 900 MHz

Green Innovation Culture: Traceability Path, Current Research and Future Prospects

One of the most important topics in international innovation management research in recent years has been the new technological breakthroughs that many organizations are using to solve the technical challenges of "green performance". However, the existing studies have been focusing on green, ecological, product and technology perspectives to explore sustainable green strategies and build up core competencies globally, but they have always neglected the efficient path of innovation from the spiritual level to help green, which in turn has led to the failure of green innovation culture to be implemented and effectively guide the practice. In view of this, this paper analyzes the current research status of green innovation culture based on literature review and reveals the tracing path of green innovation culture. Finally, this paper makes a prospective view to provide important theoretical and practical guidance for promoting the in-depth study of green innovation culture.

3D reconstruction of nonuniform and unsteady flow velocity distribution using nonlinear acoustic ray tracing and tomography

The nonuniform and unstable gas flow distribution at the air inlets of the boiler combustion chamber can negatively affect the energy efficiency and safety of the boiler. Accurately reconstructing the flow velocity inside the furnace in three dimensions can help the boiler automatically adjust the air supply to reduce unwanted energy waste and gas emissions.In this study, we propose a novel method for three-dimensional velocity reconstruction based on nonlinear acoustic ray tracing and tomography. The model provides the equation of acoustic ray motion in the flow field, which includes spatial and temporal parameters. During the process of measuring flow velocity, higher precision reconstruction of the three-dimensional velocity distribution was achieved by combining acoustic refractive paths based on derivative-free optimization iteration updates with radial basis functions that use Gaussian kernels.The computational time cost and reconstruction accuracy of the proposed algorithm were analyzed numerically and through simulations. The results indicate that the method incorporating acoustic ray tracing greatly improves the reconstruction accuracy of large gradient nonuniform flow fields. Additionally, we analyzed the impact of different numbers of sound tracing paths on reconstruction quality and computation time, providing a reference for the rational placement of microphones and the selection of the most efficient paths in boilers.Experimental results show that this method has good reconstruction capabilities for nonuniform flow fields and practical applications.

THE ROLE OF THE SCHOOL MANAGER FOR THE EFFECTIVE INCLUSION OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES IN THE REGULAR EDUCATION NETWORK

The present research was carried out with the intention of verifying which attributions the school manager has for the effectuation of a true inclusion of students with disabilities in the regular education network. We know that inclusion is something that can truly happen, just think about the needs of the disabled and see them like any other citizen, with their difficulties yes, but also with their capabilities and that they have the right to education and to live in society, attending schools like any other. another student. Today, the Federal Constitution and the Law of Guidelines and Bases of Education guarantee the right of these students to preferential assistance in the regular education network, with respect for their abilities and individualities. The laws say that education is everyone’s right, so it is up to the school to learn to live with differences and trace paths that actually lead to inclusion. For this to happen, a prepared and organized school is necessary, with the school manager responsible for mobilizing and influencing those involved in the teaching process, through democratic management, in which everyone feels responsible for achieving the school’s objectives, for offering quality education.

Cyberattack Tracing System Operational Architecture

APT cyber attacks have been a problem for over a past decade, but still remain a challenge today as attackers use more sophisticated techniques and the number of objects to be protected increases. ‘Cyberattack Tracing System’ allows analysts to find undetected attack codes that penetrated and hid in enterprises, and to investigate their lateral movement propagation activities. The enterprise is characterized by multiple networks and mass hosts (PCs/servers). This paper presents a data processing procedure that collects event data, generates a temporally and spatially extended provenance graph and cyberattack tracing paths. In each data process procedure phases, system design considerations are suggested. With reflecting the data processing procedure and the characteristics of enterprise environment, an operational architecture for CyberAttack Tracing System is presented. The operational architecture will be lead to the detailed design of the system.

Tracing Paths of Love through Poetic Inquiry

In response to this call for poetic inquiries that speak the dynamism of an animate pluriverse, that honor what we hold sacred, and that might serve as medicine during these cataclysmic times, these poems-as-research offer a meditation on the power of love in myriad forms, to teach, inspire and sustain us. Weaving mythopoetic thought and imagery amongst everyday events and mundane realities, love surfaces as core currency. Evoking the wonder of children, and the love and care of teachers, mentors, and friends, these poems sing love in the world, and love of the world—the animated natural world, and the written wor(d)ld as expressive animation of what we love. Specifically, this poetic inquiry traces three synchronous veins of love in my life as they weave through my writing-as-research: love for my daughters (and the intractable wonder of childhood); love for a beloved teacher and mentor, American poet Robert Bly; and love as secular-spiritual awakening, the beating heart of social justice and personal/political activism. Tracings of love in our lives, etched and echoed through poetry as inquiry.

Efficient Differentiation of Pixel Reconstruction Filters for Path-Space Differentiable Rendering

Pixel reconstruction filters play an important role in physics-based rendering and have been thoroughly studied. In physics-based differentiable rendering, however, the proper treatment of pixel filters remains largely under-explored. We present a new technique to efficiently differentiate pixel reconstruction filters based on the path-space formulation. Specifically, we formulate the pixel boundary integral that models discontinuities in pixel filters and introduce new antithetic sampling methods that support differentiable path sampling methods, such as adjoint particle tracing and bidirectional path tracing. We demonstrate both the need and efficacy of antithetic sampling when estimating this integral, and we evaluate its effectiveness across several differentiable- and inverse-rendering settings.

An industrial heterogeneous data based quality management KPI visualization system for product quality control

Purpose Quality management systems are commonly applied to meet the increasingly stringent requirements for product quality in discrete manufacturing industries. However, traditional experience-driven quality management methods are incapable of handling heterogeneous data from multiple sources, leading to information islands. This study aims to present a quality management key performance indicator visualization (QM-KPIVIS) system to enable integrated quality control and ultimately ensure product quality. Design/methodology/approach Based on multiple heterogeneous data, an integrated approach is proposed to quantify explicitly the relationship between Internet of Things data and product quality. Specifically, this study identifies the tracing path of quality problems based on multiple heterogeneous quality information tree. In addition, a hierarchical analysis approach is adopted to calculate the key performance indicators of quality influencing factors in the quality control process. Findings Proposed QM-KPIVIS system consists of data visualization, quality problem processing, quality optimization and user rights management modules, which perform in a well-coordinated manner. An empirical study was also conducted to validate the effectiveness of proposed system. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first attempt to use industrial Internet of Things and multisource heterogeneous data for integrated product quality management. Proposed approach is more user-friendly and intuitive compared to traditional empirically driven quality management methods and has been initially applied in the manufacturing industry.

Origin of photo-enhanced hysteretic electrical conductance in nanostructured silicon-based heterojunction

Photo-enhanced hysteretic I–V curves have been observed under reverse bias in a p-i-n structure containing electrochemically etched nanostructured silicon (Si) sandwiched between p-Si and n-type a-Si:H layers. These curves have been found to depend on intensity of incident illumination and structural morphology of the nanostructured Si layer. The conductance in trace path is lower than that in retrace path. Charge transport mechanism in this structure has been interpreted using microscopic description of charge trapping and detrapping in the defect states present at the interface of nanocrystalline silicon core and oxide shell in the active layer. An applied voltage dependent probability distribution of trapping and detrapping has been calculated in light of classical random walk problem. The trapping/detrapping of charges leading to development/destruction of potential barriers in the path of charge flow shows an analogy with the river bed deposition/erosion. The rate of trapping has been considered to depend on the empty defect states whereas the rate of detrapping depends on the already filled defects. Moreover, the rate of both trapping and detrapping is expected to depend on the charge flow rate. All these considerations lead the I–V relations for trace and retrace paths in reverse bias fitting nicely with experimental I–V loops. The observed peaks in the voltage dependent dynamic conductance in trace and retrace paths have been explained as a consequence of development and destruction of two barriers in the active layer for electrons and holes separately. Best fit values of the fitting parameters indicates that the trace path is dominated by holes whereas the retrace path is dominated by electronic transport. The difference in mobility of electron and hole leads to different trapping and detrapping rates in the two paths resulting in the observed hysteresis.

The Technology Revolution of The Criminal Jurisdiction Process Without Paper

The technological revolution for the Paperless Criminal Court Process is that in the development of evidence as regulated in the Criminal Procedure Code, it can no longer accommodate developments in information technology; this creates new problems. This problem causes the form of printed media to be shifted to digital media (paperless). This shift makes a significant change in crime using computers because evidence of a crime that will lead to a criminal event is in electronic data. Either on the computer itself (hard disk/floppy disc) or printed out or in another form in the form of a trace (path) of a computer user activity. The judge is not related to the correctness of conformity embodied on the instructions as evidence because electronic evidence cannot stand alone to prove the defendant's guilt. Therefore, it needs to be supported by other evidence.

Analytical solution to contact characteristics for a variable hyperbolic circular-arc-tooth-trace cylindrical gear

Abstract. The variable hyperbolic circular-arc-tooth-trace (VH-CATT) cylindrical gear is a new type of gear. In order to research the contact characteristics of the VH-CATT cylindrical gear, tooth surface mathematical models of this kind of gear pair are derived based on the forming principle of the rotating double-edged cutting method with great cutter head in this regard. Then, according to the differential geometry theory and Hertz theory, the formula of the induced normal curvature and equation of the contact ellipse are derived based on the condition of continuous tangency of two meshing surfaces, which proves that the contact form of VH-CATT cylindrical gear is point contact. The present work establishes analytical solutions to research the effect of different parameters for the contact characteristic of the VH-CATT cylindrical gear by incorporating elastic deformation on the tooth surface, which have shown that the module, tooth number and cutter radius have a crucial effect on the induced normal curvature and contact ellipse of the VH-CATT cylindrical gear in the direction of tooth trace and tooth profile. Moreover, a theoretical analysis solution, a finite element analysis and the gear tooth contact pattern are carried out to verify the correctness of the computerized model and to investigate the contact type of the gear; it is verified that the contact form on the concave surface of the driving VH-CATT cylindrical gear rotates from dedendum at the heel to the addendum at toe and is an instantaneous oblique ellipse due to elastic deformation of the contact tooth profile, and the connecting line of the ellipse center is the contact trace path. It is indicated that the research results are beneficial for research on tooth break reduction, pitting, wear resistance and fatigue life improvement of the VH-CATT cylindrical gear. The results also have a certain reference value for development of the VH-CATT cylindrical gear.

C3VFC: A Method for Tracing and Quantification of Microglia in 3D Temporal Images

Automatic glia reconstruction is essential for the dynamic analysis of microglia motility and morphology, notably so in research on neurodegenerative diseases. In this paper, we propose an automatic 3D tracing algorithm called C3VFC that uses vector field convolution to find the critical points along the centerline of an object and trace paths that traverse back to the soma of every cell in an image. The solution provides detection and labeling of multiple cells in an image over time, leading to multi-object reconstruction. The reconstruction results can be used to extract bioinformatics from temporal data in different settings. The C3VFC reconstruction results found up to a 53% improvement on the next best performing state-of-the-art tracing method. C3VFC achieved the highest accuracy scores, in relation to the baseline results, in four of the five different measures: Entire structure average, the average bi-directional entire structure average, the different structure average, and the percentage of different structures.

Ethnographic Biography: Tracing Paths Across Multiple Times and Spaces

In this article, we propose “ethnographic biography” as a research strategy designed to address the basic difficulty of qualitative studies in capturing the temporal dimension of human action and experience. This difficulty is particularly salient when the subjects are dispersed in space and their contacts with the researcher are repeatedly interrupted. To overcome these discontinuities in space and time, the “ethnographic biography” combines complementary research tactics: Alongside biographical follow-up interviews — the commonly acceptable approach to resolving the temporal challenge — we propose two additional ethnographic methods: focused observations of social events and ongoing interactions with the subjects in virtual spaces. The advantage of that set of methods lies in that each method which locates the encounter between the researcher and the subjects in a different space and captures a different temporal dimension.

Path tracing estimators for refractive radiative transfer

Rendering radiative transfer through media with a heterogeneous refractive index is challenging because the continuous refractive index variations result in light traveling along curved paths. Existing algorithms are based on photon mapping techniques, and thus are biased and result in strong artifacts. On the other hand, existing unbiased methods such as path tracing and bidirectional path tracing cannot be used in their current form to simulate media with a heterogeneous refractive index. We change this state of affairs by deriving unbiased path tracing estimators for this problem. Starting from the refractive radiative transfer equation (RRTE), we derive a path-integral formulation, which we use to generalize path tracing with next-event estimation and bidirectional path tracing to the heterogeneous refractive index setting. We then develop an optimization approach based on fast analytic derivative computations to produce the point-to-point connections required by these path tracing algorithms. We propose several acceleration techniques to handle complex scenes (surfaces and volumes) that include participating media with heterogeneous refractive fields. We use our algorithms to simulate a variety of scenes combining heterogeneous refraction and scattering, as well as tissue imaging techniques based on ultrasonic virtual waveguides and lenses. Our algorithms and publicly-available implementation can be used to characterize imaging systems such as refractive index microscopy, schlieren imaging, and acousto-optic imaging, and can facilitate the development of inverse rendering techniques for related applications.