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Project developed by Giovanni Federico (New York University Abu Dhabi) and Antonio Tena Junguito (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid). Dataset: Estonia

The database consists of FIR images collected from a vehicle driven in outdoors urban scenarios. Images were acquired with an Indigo Omega imager, with a resolution of 164x129 pixels, a grey-level scale of 14 bits, and focal length of 318 pixels. The camera was mounted on the exterior of the vehicle, to avoid infrared filtering of the windshield. Recorded images were manually annotated, where each pedestrian is labelled as a bounding box. To prevent bias introduced by border artifacts their height is subsequently upscaled by 5%. The pedestrians appear in an up-right position., The dataset is divided in two: (i) Classification dataset: positives and randomly sampled negatives with a fixed height-width ratio of (1/2) and rescaled to 64x32 pixels, and (ii) Detection Dataset: Original positive and negative images with annotations., The classification Database is divided in a Train and a Test subset. The Train set contains 10208 positives and 43390 negatives, while the Test set contains 5944 positives and 22050 negatives. The annotated bounding boxes are resized to a constant aspect ratio (w/h) = 0.5 by changing their width appropriately. Any bounding box below 10 pixels in height is ignored. The remaining bounding boxes are resized to 64x32 pixels using bilinear interpolation. The negative samples were randomly selected from images not containing pedestrians.

El envejecimiento extraordinario de la población provoca la necesidad de desarrollar ayudas técnicas que asistan tanto a personas discapacitadas como a ancianos. Si bien el campo de la robótica asistencial lleva más de 25 años en desarrollo, todavía no se ha llegado a soluciones útiles y eficientes en cuanto al ratio beneficio-coste para el conjunto de la sociedad, y las actuales soluciones, se limitan a cubrir nichos de mercado., Esta tesis propone una metodología para el diseño de robots asistenciales, que a de partir de un equipo de diseño multidisciplinar e incluir a los usuarios en el proceso de diseño. Permite analizar, con enfoque global y no sólo científico, cómo influyen en la toma de decisiones los factores relacionados con el entorno, las tareas, el usuario y su seguridad. Plantea el diseño con el objetivo de desarrollar productos que llegan a todos y por tanto sean potencialmente económicos. La aplicación de esta metodología ha dado lugar al desarrollo de un sistema modular asistencial portátil, capaz de integrarse fácilmente en un entorno adaptado y de responder satisfactoriamente a las necesidades de un amplio espectro de personas con movilidad reducida. ___________________________________________, Nowadays, the growing number of elderly people in today’s populations has created the need for developing some technical aids that helps disabled as well as elderly people. Although the field of rehabilitation robotics has been developing for over 25 years, still no useful efficient solutions have been achieved concerning the benefit-cost ratio for the general society, and the solutions that do exist are limited to certain specific market segments., This thesis proposes a methodology for the design of robotic assistant devices, from the creation of a multidisciplinary design team with the participation of the user, to the analysis of how the environment, tasks, users and safety issues, influence the decision making process using a scientific and also a humanistic point of view. The main goal of this methodology is to create robotic products which reach the all the market segments, thereby reducing the costs of these. The application of this methodology has led to the development of a portable assistance modular robot that can be easily integrated in to adapted environment and that responds to the special needs of a wide range of people.

Proyecto de un mecanismo divisor sinusoidal. Project of a senoidal divider, Ingeniería Técnica en Mecánica

Abstract y presentación presentados en el Workshop, The HIVE (Helping Interdisciplinary Vocabulary Engineering) and HIVE-España (ES) projects both support dynamic, automatic metadata generation using multiple vocabularies. This demonstration will present both the HIVE and HIVE-ES projects and showcase the overarching HIVE framework and functionalities, and give insight into the broader issues relating to linked open vocabularies—LOV. HIVE relies on the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) and the Kea++/Maui algorithms, which enable more sophisticated terminological selection compared to frequency counts. Baseline studies provide some positive, yet mixed results, and a framework for further study. The adequacy of HIVE and HIVE-ES's searching and browsing capabilities are required to be addressed; and the research should target SKOS use for different types of vocabularies (thesaurus vs. subject heading lists) and, specially on the performance of the text indexing algorithms used depending on the type of vocabulary, the features of the training set documents and those indexed, and the language of all of them.

Póster y vídeo presentados en LATmétricas - III LATmetrics - II Simposio Latinoamericano sobre Estudios Métricos en Ciencia y Tecnología, celebrado de forma virtual del 13-14 de septiembre de 2021., El crecimiento del acceso a la Ciencia Abierta durante los últimos años, ha puesto de manifiesto la necesidad de avanzar hacia un sistema de análisis estadístico que ofrezca datos medibles y comparables entre repositorios. Hace unos años, se intentó poner en marcha un sistema de estadísticas que no llegó a cuajar por su complejidad y por la escasa repercusión de los Repositorios en la Investigación española del aquel momento. La participación de varios Repositorios Institucionales en las métricas de OpenAire, nos hizo retomar la idea de abordar el proyecto de adopción de un sistema de análisis común, aprovechando el utilizado por OpenAire, creando así, en 2019, la acción de Métricas y Estadísticas del Grupo de trabajo de Repositorios de REBIUN (Red de Bibliotecas Universitarias Españolas). Matomo Analytics, conocido como Piwik hasta enero de 2018, es un sistema de análisis estadístico similar a Google Analytics. Se trata de software libre, desarrollado sobre PHP/MySql, y que ofrece, entre otros datos, la ubicación geográfica y el origen de las visitas, las capacidades técnicas de los visitantes (navegador, sistema operativo, …) las páginas visitadas, las acciones realizadas, la duración de las visitas, etc. El envío de los datos se realiza desde los logs de acceso y siempre de forma anonimizada. El trabajo que presentamos en este póster, son las tareas que venimos realizando desde entonces, de cara a involucrar a más repositorios en la utilización de este sistema y poder avanzar hacia un sistema común.

The numbers and impacts of non-native species (NNS) continue to grow. Multiple ranking protocols have been developed to identify and manage the most damaging species. However, existing protocols differ considerably in the type of impact they consider, the way evidence of impacts is included and scored, and in the way the precautionary principle is applied. These differences may lead to inconsistent impact assessments. Since these protocols are considered a main policy tool to promote mitigation efforts, such inconsistencies are undesirable, as they can affect our ability to reliably identify the most damaging NNS, and can erode public support for NNS management. Here we propose a broadly applicable framework for building a transparent NNS impact evidence base. First, we advise to separate the collection of evidence of impacts from the act of scoring the severity of these impacts. Second, we propose to map the collected evidence along a set of distinguishing criteria: where it is published, which methodological approach was used to obtain it, the relevance of the geographical area from which it originates, and the direction of the impact. This procedure produces a transparent and reproducible evidence base which can subsequently be used for different scoring protocols, and which should be made public. Finally, we argue that the precautionary principle should only be used at the risk management stage. Conditional upon the evidence presented in an impact assessment, decision-makers may use the precautionary principle for NNS management under scientific uncertainty regarding the likelihood and magnitude of NNS impacts. Our framework paves the way for an improved application of impact assessments protocols, reducing inconsistencies and ultimately enabling more effective NNS management., Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla. Departamento de Biología Molecular e Ingeniería Bioquímica

[Esto es una prueba de depósito de datasets en RIO], The perceptions of the general public regarding invasive alien species (IAS) are important in the prevention of future invasions and the success of management programmes. Here we use a novel visual method to investigate the perception of a charismatic IAS, the rose-ringed parakeet, across different stakeholders in Seville, Spain. Respondents were asked to select images of 10 bird species they would like to have present in their surroundings, out of 20 available images, including the parakeet and three other non-natives., UPO

There are two spreadsheets with data. The spreadsheet "soil dataset" contains the raw soil data. The spreadsheet "tree dataset" contains the information about neighbour trees (species, position, size and defoliation index). After each data spreadsheet there is a spreadshet with the associated metadata, where a description of all the variables and units can be found. dataset_cicles.xls Publicado anteriormente en Dryad: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.6nd4k, An increase in tree mortality rates has been recently detected in forests world-wide. However, few works have focused on the potential consequences of forest dieback for ecosystem functioning. Here we assessed the effect of Quercus suber dieback on carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycles in two types of Mediterranean forests (woodlands and closed forests) affected by the aggressive pathogen Phytophthora cinnamomi. We used a spatially explicit neighbourhood approach to analyse the direct effects of Q. suber dieback on soil variables, comparing the impact of Q. suber trees with different health status, as well as its potential long-term indirect effects, comparing the impact of non-declining coexistent species. Quercus suber dieback translated into lower soil respiration rates and phosphorus availability, whereas its effects on nitrogen varied depending on forest type. Coexistent species differed strongly from Q. suber in their effects on nutrient availability, but not on soil respiration rates. Our models showed low interannual but high intra-annual variation in the ecosystem impacts of tree dieback. Synthesis. Our results support that tree dieback might have important short- and long-term impacts on ecosystem processes in Mediterranean forests. With this work, we provide valuable insights to fill the existent gap in knowledge on the ecosystem-level impacts of forest dieback in general and P. cinnamomi-driven mortality in particular. Because the activity and range of this pathogen is predicted to increase due to climate warming, these impacts could also increase in the near future altering ecosystem functioning world-wide., Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla. Departamento de Sistemas Físicos, Químicos y Naturales