Views Of Object Research Articles

Computerized or Automated Object Recognition and Analysis of Pattern Matching in Runways Using Surface Track Data

In today’s world, accurate and fast information is vital for safe aircraft landings. The purpose of an EMAS (Engineered Materials Arresting System) is to prevent an aeroplane from overrunning with no human injury and minimal damage to the aircraft. Although various algorithms for object detection analysis have been developed, only a few researchers have examined image analysis as a landing assist. Image intensity edges are employed in one system to detect the sides of a runway in an image sequence, allowing the runway’s 3-dimensional position and orientation to be approximated. A fuzzy network system is used to improve object detection and extraction from aerial images. In another system, multi-scale, multiplatform imagery is used to combine physiologically and geometrically inspired algorithms for recognizing objects from hyper spectral and/or multispectral (HS/MS) imagery. However, the similarity in the top view of runways, buildings, highways, and other objects is a disadvantage of these methods. We propose a new method for detecting and tracking the runway based on pattern matching and texture analysis of digital images captured by aircraft cameras. Edge detection techniques are used to recognize runways from aerial images. The edge detection algorithms employed in this paper are the Hough Transform, Canny Filter, and Sobel Filter algorithms, which result in efficient detection.

Agricultural activities and threat to fauna in Brazil: an analysis of the Red Book of Endangered Brazilian Fauna

The recent edition of the Red Book of Endangered Brazilian Fauna brings 1,173 threatened species, 86% of them in terrestrial or freshwater environments. For these species, the main threat vector is agricultural activities that affect 519 species (51%). This information brought by the Red Book is examined in-depth and its consistency is discussed in search of an objective view on the impacts of agriculture, its importance, how they affect the different groups of animals, the different biomes of the country, and the different types of habitats continental. Birds, fish, and invertebrates are the groups with the highest number of species threatened by agricultural activity, accounting for more than 70% of the species. Habitat loss is by far the biggest impact caused by the activity, affecting almost 90% of the species. However, there is a difference between the impact of agriculture and livestock. The work seeks to understand why livestock threatens a smaller number of species, although pastures occupy more than twice the area occupied by crops and forestry. The work brings an objective debate on the relationship between agricultural activities and the conservation of wild fauna in Brazil, without falling into the trap of the useless demonization of human activities, highlighting, instead, the need to define and implement strategies for the conservation of biodiversity in the midst the land use matrix itself, complementary to the conservation units, based on the best available information on the vulnerability of fauna to the impacts of this vector.

Temporal structuring in project organizing: A narrative perspective

Time is at the heart of project organizing because it is fundamentally about drawing on the present and the past to articulate desired future states, yet it has received relatively little explicit attention in the literature. The dominant systems paradigm in project organizing advocates an objective view of time while the actuality counter-perspective advocates a subjective view. Our contribution to theory in project organizing is to propose moving beyond these binary perspectives by arguing that project organizing is both goal-orientated and emergent through temporal structuring. We then develop this insight with the concept of project narratives as a form of future-perfect-thinking by which end states are articulated and resources are mobilized to achieve those desired end states. Drawing on an illustrative vignette, we then identify three different kinds of temporal work in project organizing: convincing oneself; convincing the team; and convincing stakeholders.

Board characteristics, audit committee attributes and firm performance: empirical evidence from emerging economy

PurposeThis study is designed and directed to analyze the effect of board characteristics and audit committee attributes on the firm performance of publicly listed commercial banks of Bangladesh.Design/methodology/approachThirty publicly listed commercial banks of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) have been taken as sample for this study. Data have been collected from annual reports between 2011 and 2017 of the assessed banks. Pooled OLS model has been used for running regression model of this study.FindingsBoard independence has a negative and significant relationship with ROA and Tobin's Q. However, Board Independence has a positive and significant relationship with Stock Return. On the other hand, Board Diversity has a negative and significant relationship with ROA and ROE, which implies inefficiency of diversified board members in the context of Bangladesh. Family duality has a positive and significant relationship with ROA and a negative and significant relationship with Stock return. Board Meeting has a positive and significant relationship with ROA. Audit Committee Size has a negative and significant relationship with Tobins' Q. Independence of audit committee chairman has a negative and significant relationship with Tobin's Q and Stock Returns. Presence of non-executive directors and number of audit meetings have no significant relationship with any of the predicted variables.Research limitations/implicationsAmong all variables of the board characteristics, role of independent directors and participation of female directors have conflicting results in this study. This has raised a question about the fair appointment independent directors and their objective view on the board. Female directors' role is not convincing in the context of Bangladesh as most of the commercial banks are family-owned. Policymakers can tighten and supervise the appointment of independent directors to ensure good governance in the banking sector. Moreover, role of audit committee and independence of audit committee chairman have generated conflicting results in terms of market-based performance measure.Originality/valueBanking sector of Bangladesh experiences huge corruption in the form of excessive NPLs and poor management quality which results in low profit for the firm. This study has explored the problems of management quality and flaws of audit committee which is hampering overall growth of banking industry. Improvement of independent directors' appointment and audit committee formation and reporting will certainly help banking industry of Bangladesh to improve overall performance.

A two‐stage recursive ray tracing algorithm to automatically identify external building objects in building information models

AbstractThe internal or external attribute of building information modeling (BIM) objects is vital information for many BIM‐based engineering analyses such as building energy analysis and cost estimation. Unfortunately, such information is often inaccurate, incomplete, or missing entirely in most BIM models. Manually checking, correcting, or inputting this data for large‐scale BIM models can be time‐consuming, laborious, and error‐prone. This study proposes a two‐stage ray tracing algorithm to automatically identify external BIM objects, based on the idea that external objects of a building can be viewed from somewhere outside the building. The first‐stage ray tracing samples viewpoints from the six faces of an offset axis‐aligned bounding box (AABB) of the building and emits a ray for each viewpoint to detect relevant external objects. The second‐stage ray tracing recursively searches for any remaining external objects from the view of the external objects that have been detected in the previous round of ray tracing. Both stages are carefully designed for efficiency. Furthermore, a two‐tier AABB tree is introduced to spatially index building objects on both model and object levels to accelerate relevant geometry operations. The proposed algorithm is validated with one synthetic and two large‐scale real‐world building models. The results show that all the external objects in the three models are accurately and efficiently identified, and the two‐tier spatial indexing and other acceleration techniques improve the algorithm's efficiency significantly.

Implementation of Visual Sentiment Analysis on Flickr Images

Visual sentiment analysis is the way to automatically recognize positive and negative emotions from images, videos, graphics and stickers. To estimate the polarity of the sentiment evoked by images in terms of positive or negative sentiment, most of the state of the art works exploit the text associated with a social post provided by the user. However, such textual data is typically noisy due to the subjectivity of the user, which usually includes text useful to maximize the diffusion of the social post. This System will extract three views: visual view, subjective text view and objective text view of Flickr images and will give sentiment polarity positive, negative or neutral based on the hypothesis table. Subjective text view gives sentiment polarity using VADER (Valence Aware Dictionary and sEntiment Reasoner) and objective text view gives sentiment polarity with three convolution neural network models. This system implements VGG-16, Inception-V3 and ResNet-50 convolution neural networks with pre pre-trained ImageNet dataset. The text extracted through these three convolution networks is given to VADER as input to find sentiment polarity. This system implements visual view using a bag of visual word model with BRISK (Binary Robust Invariant Scalable Key points) descriptor. System has a training dataset of 30000 positive, negative and neutral images. All the three views’ sentiment polarity is compared. The final sentiment polarity is calculated as positive if two or more views gives positive sentiment polarity, as negative if two or more views gives negative sentiment polarity and as neutral if two or more views gives neutral sentiment polarity. If all three views give unique polarity then the polarity of the objective text view is given as output sentiment polarity.

Innovative and project activities of future education

The article examines the features of the innovative and project activities of future education managers. The authors focus on project technology as one of the forms of innovative methodological technologies for training future education managers, describes the elements of project technology, defines the basic principles of work on a project and the specifics of attracting future education managers to participate in them. The fact is emphasized that future education managers can be active participants in the process of creating a project, develop their own view of information, identify goals, objectives and look for ways to solve them. The purpose of this article is to focus on innovation project activities as one of the forms of innovative methodological learning technologies, to describe the elements of project technology, to highlight the basic principles of work on a project and the peculiarities of attracting future education managers to participate in them.

Emerging trends in roadmapping research: A bibliometric literature review

ABSTRACT Roadmapping practice and research have evolved together over the past three decades, in response to the changing application context, such as the emergence of cutting-edge technologies and rapid social changes. The widespread adoption and adaptation of (technology) roadmapping has been enabled by its simplicity, flexibility and usefulness, reflected in a surge in the volume of literature on roadmapping. A limited number of literature reviews have been conducted, mostly using qualitative and micro-oriented approaches. This paper, however, deploys a quantitative and macro-oriented approach to provide an objective and comprehensive view of the literature by following DNCT procedures, consisting of citation network and text mining analysis. This paper identifies contributing authors, journals and countries, sets out key research themes, and highlights significant developments in roadmapping practice and theory, with reference to previous studies. Results have proven that roadmapping has become an established research topic. 10 clusters of research streams are detected: General Concept & Scenario; Technology Management Tool; Implementation in National and Industrial Levels; Fundamental Research; Implementation in Organisational Level; Innovation Planning; Strategic Planning Synchronisation; Strategic Foresight; Industrial Emergence; and Design & Visualisation. In addition, an academic landscape of the field is graphically illustrated, and potential avenues for future research are suggested.

The evolution of sustainable innovation: from the past to the future

PurposeOver the last few decades, more emphasis has been placed on those innovations that can reconcile economic, social and environmental goals in order to achieve a “win-win-win” situation. This paper aims to systematise the scientific literature on Sustainable Innovation as a broad field in order to identify the most relevant scholars and their significant contributions as well as existing lines of research. Finally, future research directions are suggested.Design/methodology/approachA novel methodology, the Systematic Literature Network Analysis, has been applied. By using a dynamic approach to the traditional Systematic Literature Review, the present review investigates the creation, transfer, and development of knowledge throughout the epistemic community of Sustainable Innovation.FindingsStarting from a sample of 1,108 articles, the critical assessment of the results detected five main themes: (1) “the role of Regulation, Market and Technology”; (2) “Eco-Innovation determinants and firm specific factors and the debate between corporate environmental performance and corporate financial performance”; (3) “Green innovation and internal and external drivers”; (4) “The strategic determinants of green (non-green) innovation”; (5) “The interplay between policy, regulations and the green innovation”.Practical implicationsFrom a practitioner's perspective, this study provides an objective view on the current internal, external drivers and strategic determinants of sustainability-oriented innovations and relevant studies that can guide managers in their decision-making processes and enhance sustainable innovation performance.Originality/valueThis study is a first attempt to unveil the evolution of knowledge in the field of sustainable innovation by utilizing bibliometric tools.

Weight bias among health care professionals: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Weight-biased attitudes and views held by health care professionals can have a negative impact on the patient-provider relationship and the provision of care, but studies have found mixed results about the extent and nature of bias, which warrants a review of the evidence. A systematic review and random-effects meta-analysis were conducted by including studies up to January 12, 2021. A total of 41 studies met inclusion criteria, with 17 studies providing sufficient data to be meta-analyzed. A moderate pooled effect (standardized mean difference = 0.66; 95% CI: 0.37-0.96) showed that health care professionals demonstrate implicit weight bias. Health care professionals also report explicit weight bias on the Fat Phobia Scale, Antifat Attitudes Scale, and Attitudes Towards Obese Persons Scale. Findings show that medical doctors, nurses, dietitians, psychologists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech pathologists, podiatrists, and exercise physiologists hold implicit and/or explicit weight-biased attitudes toward people with obesity. A total of 27 different outcomes were used to measure weight bias, and the overall quality of evidence was rated as very low. Future research needs to adopt more robust research methods to improve the assessment of weight bias and to inform future interventions to address weight bias among health care professionals.

The maturation of digital objects in innovation projects: the role of interpersonal networks and team sharing atmosphere

ABSTRACT Innovation projects rely increasingly on digital objects as a means of developing and sharing knowledge within an organisation. The maturation of a digital object is important because only those objects that mature lead to actual products. There is, however, a catch 22. For objects to mature, they have to be shared; conversely, only mature objects tend to be shared. This interplay between the functional and social dimensions of object maturation and its role in product development has not been researched. Building on the relational view of objects, we theorise product development as an ensemble of myopic maturation processes of objects that recursively move between formal and informal networks in the organisation using sharing systems such as Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). Investigating patterns, i.e., sequences of events, in these maturation processes is a way to understand how firms overcome this catch 22 situation. We study four product innovation projects in a home appliances company, tracing the maturation and sharing processes of three types of digital objects, namely marketing specifications, technical specifications and virtual prototypes. We find that sharing – maturation patterns are affected by interpersonal networks and by team sharing atmosphere. We also find that sharing and object maturation interactions are coordinated informally through interpersonal networks and formally through PLM systems and stage-gate mechanisms.

Bath Abbey Footprint Project : An architect’s view of the project objectives and the works

Bath Abbey is the largest and arguably the most significant building in the World Heritage City of Bath, recognised by UNESCO as a site of international importance. The Footprint Project sought to prepare the Abbey and its associated buildings for the next century of occupation, to ensure that the fabric of the Abbey is properly looked after and appreciated, as well as providing the kind of facilities that a contemporary church and visitor attraction requires. The Footprint Project not only repaired a failing floor but has taken the opportunity to document and research the carved gravestones that made up the floor, record the archaeology beneath the stones and install an innovative sustainable heating system to provide comfort to parishioners. New spaces have been created in the adjacent buildings that will serve the Abbey and those who work in it, repairing the Georgian buildings, but also creating unexpected spaces within them for learning, administration and for the 60-strong Abbey choir. Over ten years in development, and now close to completion, the Footprint Project has tackled major historic damage to the Abbey floor, while also creating a range of new facilities. This paper discusses the Footprint Project, during which the Abbey sought to put its buildings in a condition that will enable them to serve the mission of the church for the next 100 years. It analyses how the removal of the nave pews at Bath Abbey and the repair of its historic floor enhances the significance of the Grade I Listed Building and the outstanding universal value of the city of Bath World Heritage Site.

"A Dress of Fire": Reading Sándor Ferenczi's Clinical Diary.

Ferenczi's Clinical Diary reveals an exceptional analyst who honestly and bravely documented radical clinical experiences and theoretical insights about the tragic impacts of trauma. The author follows Ferenczi's thinking from his falling out with Freud and his view of the classical psychoanalyst's objectivity and emotional detachment as triggers of the original trauma, through the use of the countertransference to lay bare trauma, eventually issuing in his radical experiment in mutual analysis. The Diary's fate in the history of psychoanalysis reflects that of its thinking on trauma: Beginning with Ferenczi's decades-long silencing and exclusion from the main psychoanalytic community, together with the silencing of actual trauma, this history evolved into the revival and dissemination of Ferenczi's thinking and the reappraisal of the role of actual trauma.

Review: Art Deco Chicago: Designing Modern America

Review: <i>Art Deco Chicago: Designing Modern America</i>

Meta‐analysis of the Impact of Adoption of IFRS on Financial Reporting Comparability, Market Liquidity, and Cost of Capital

A large number of empirical studies have addressed the effects of adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), but the results have been mixed. We use a meta‐analysis of 56 empirical studies with 1,265 effect sizes to determine the impact of adoption of IFRS on financial reporting comparability, market liquidity, cost of equity, and cost of debt. This approach provides an objective view of the empirical results, in contrast to narrative reviews which offer subjective conclusions. We find that IFRS adoption has increased financial reporting comparability and market liquidity, and reduced the cost of equity. For cost of debt, a decrease is observed only for voluntary adoption. Our meta‐regression analysis explains the variation in the observed effect of adoption of IFRS across mandatory and voluntary adoption of IFRS, and choice of measures, control variables, estimation methods, and the strength of the empirical results. We emphasize the importance of these study characteristics and call for further studies focusing on the cost of debt and also studies using recent data to reflect the changes in IFRS. This study should be of interest to regulators and policymakers as they are expected to assess the impacts of adoption of IFRS.

The place of economic analysis of customs payments in the general classification of its types

Subject. The article considers the development of a key hypothesis for the economic analysis of customs payments by identifying them as a separate subject area of the said analysis. Objectives. The purpose is to classify the economic analysis of customs payments in the general structure of its types. Methods. The study employs general scientific methods of research, i.e. dialectical, monographic, logical analysis, and comparison. Results. The paper reviews existing works in the field of economic analysis and activities of customs authorities; substantiates the need to develop a methodology for the economic analysis of customs payments, based on understanding their essence from the point of view of the object of economic analysis and possible classification as an economic category. The findings may be used in the activities of State bodies, as a basis for making managerial decisions, as well as in the educational process. Conclusions. Using a combined approach, I formulate a key hypothesis of the economic analysis of customs payments, which is classified as an integral part of financial-economic analysis. Its implementation will enable to identify patterns and predict the volume of customs duties, depending on the level of their structuring. This will be possible, if there is an information and methodological complex in the form of reporting and indicators.

True lies and Moorean redundancy

According to the subjective view of lying, speakers can lie by asserting a true proposition, as long as they believe this proposition to be false. This view contrasts with the objective view, according to which lying requires the actual falsity of the proposition asserted. The aim of this paper is to draw attention to pairs of assertions that differ only in intuitively redundant content and to show that such pairs of assertions are a reason to favour the subjective view of lying over the objective one.

In search of scientific objectivity: Is there such a property for paediatric concussion?

Concussions are a significant public health problem worldwide. This brain injury is problematic in the paediatric population for a variety of reasons; however, the enquiry into these problems has been mainly through the biomedical perspective. This approach has impacted nursing knowledge and practice of children and youth with a concussion, primarily since other perspectives are viewed as not being objective. In this manuscript, I draw on Thomas Kuhn's view of objectivity to evaluate the biomedical perspective of concussion. I utilize current research and clinical examples to illustrate the advantages and drawbacks of this perspective for nursing. From this discussion, I propose an alternative perspective to capture the complexity of paediatric concussions for nursing, a systems perspective. Although I argue for an alternative perspective to approach paediatric concussions for nursing, I maintain that the biomedical perspective can be incorporated as one part of nursing knowledge and practice for paediatric concussion.

War and Its Objects: Reflections of the Sri Lankan Civil War in S. P. Pushpakanthan’s Art

This paper examines visual texts by the Sri Lankan artist S. P. Pushpakanthan, whose art is positioned at the intersection between the effects of war and its material effect on objects. Two research questions frame this paper: what knowledge(s) about violence do Pushpakanthan’s texts produce as reflecting, reflected objects? how do these texts challenge anthropocentric views of objects and violence and create an esthetics of the “democracy of objects,” as Levi Bryant would put it? To answer the first, I turn to what Steven Miller has called “violence worse than death.” Miller proposes that violence targets more than the death of a single, delimited life, and sees violence as being directed toward the totality of the living and non-living world. To answer the second, I draw on Object-Oriented Ontology, implied closely by the artist’s own description of his work as being about the “ontology of the object.” In Pushpakanthan’s art, objects function as a visual coda for violence; they are traces, not only of the immediacy of killing, but the totality of the violence against all things. The esthetics of such an ontology is a formal reflection of the affective effects of violence of war that destroys much more than mere life.

Re-narrated Stories: A Reflection on Narrative Learning in a First Year Design Studio

This paper explores the implementation of narrative learning in first-year architectural design studios and how it can amplify the making, communicating and reflecting aspects of the study. In particular, this paper examines the estrangement technique, which enables an objective view of a story and its telling. The technique allows the students to detach an existing narrative from its context to be analysed, and then recontextualise it. We focus on the main studio project for the first-semester architecture and interior architecture students in Universitas Indonesia as the context of this study. This paper analyses their process, final outputs, and feedback to see the lesson learned from their perspective. The study suggests that learning narrative framework in architectural design studio supports the students to think systematically. In the end, estrangement technique provides the students with a way to retain some aspects of a narrative while playing with others, producing a fresh view on telling stories through enhancing their ambiguity and interaction between design author and their audience.