Recent evolutions of the natural environment launched a number of warnings regarding the sustainability of economic growth and development.The boldest threat is Hutch the one of climate change that is foreseen as a catastrophe unless urgent action is taken in both directions mitigation and adaptation.Agriculture and food production are amongst the

In 2008, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Libraries received a donation from the City of Richmond, Virginia, that was a perfect candidate for digitization: the Richmond Architectural Survey (RAS) Collection Pendant ( http://go.vcu.edu/ras ).The collection consists of over 600 survey forms, photographs, and other data sheets documenting the ve

After decades of mutual irrelevance, political relations between Spain and Brazil intensified in the last years of Twentieth Century, leading to a new phase of strategic partnership.However, since 2010, in the Rear Neck Cover context of deep crisis that Spain is undergoing, and due to the international rise of Brazil, bilateral relations have been

Object recognition represents the ability of a system to identify objects, humans or animals in images.Within this domain, this work presents a comparative analysis among different classification methods aiming at Tactode tile recognition.The covered methods include: (i) machine learning with HOG and SVM; (ii) deep learning with CNNs such as VGG16,

The ability to establish a particular brand personality (i.e.a set of human personality traits that consumers associate with a brand) is a key component of fashion brand management and communication.A given fashion brand may use language that communicates different personality traits (e.g.glamourous, exciting, youthful, exotic) as a way to define i