the notion of ‘global citizenship’, however, remains very broad, if not contested, and consequently difficult to operationalize in education. there are two possible reasons for this. firstly, it is unclear whether the very notion of ‘global citizenship’ is a metaphor, a contradiction of terms, or an oxymoron (davies, 2006). what does ‘global citizenship’ possibly imply both from a legal perspec...

The temporal behaviour of the early optical emission from Gamma-Ray Burst afterglows can be divided in four classes: fast-rising with an early peak, slow-rising with a late peak, flat plateaus, and rapid decays since first measurement. The fast-rising optical afterglows display correlations among peak flux, peak epoch, and post-peak power-law decay index that can be explained with a structured ...

Post-inflationary boundary conditions are essential to the existence of our highly structured universe, and these can only come about through quantum mechanical state reductions – i.e., through measurements. The choice is between: An ‘objective’ measurement that allows reduction to occur independent of conscious observers, and an ‘observer’ based measurement that ties reduction to the existence...

This paper performs a global analysis of entrainment between dyads in map-task dialogues in European Portuguese (EP), including 48 dialogues, between 24 speakers. Our main goals focus on the acoustic-prosodic similarities between speakers, namely if there are global entrainment cues displayed in the dialogues, if there are degrees of entrainment manifested in distinct sets of features shared am...

A new chaotic communication scheme using sliding-mode adaptive observer is presented. Using synchronization in conjunction with digital communication schemes, we have enhanced the security of the transmitted signal and achieved a satisfactory, typical, secure communication scheme. The proposed system requires only one observer, which is an advantage over some of related work in this area. The s...

2 Algebraic preliminaries 4 2.1 Notations and conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.2 Duality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.2.1 Local Duality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.2.2 Global Duality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.3 Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.4 Prelimin...

a fuzzy observer based scheme for synchronizing two hyperchaoticoscillators via a scalar transmitted signal for cryptographic application isproposed. the takagi-sugeno fuzzy model exactly represents chaotic systems.based on the general fuzzy model, the fuzzy observer of a chaotic system isdesigned on the basis of the n-shift multiple state based key encryption algorithm.the scalar transmitted s...

BACKGROUND Heart-type fatty acid-binding protein (h-FABP) may help to improve the early diagnosis of acute coronary syndromes in patients presenting to the Emergency Department (ED) with chest pain. A novel qualitative point of care h-FABP lateral flow immunoassay (True Rapid, FABPulous BV) could provide results to clinicians within just 5min. Given the qualitative nature of this test and prior...

Recent developments in optimal observer design for dynamic positioning have led to application of contraction analysis. In this paper a theoretical method for nonlinear optimal observer design and a suboptimal observer using a state-dependent Riccati equation approach are presented. The observer will be compared to an existing observer and its properties and performance is discussed. Early obse...

Qualitative assessments of behaviour integrate and summarize the different aspects of an animal's dynamic style of interaction with the environment, using descriptors such as 'timid' or 'confident'. Although such qualitative terms are widely used in the study of animal temperament and personality, their use in relation to questions of animal welfare has yet to be formally explored. The terms us...