In mechanical engineering and architecture, structural elements with low material consumption and high loadbearing capabilities are essential for light-weight and even self-supporting constructions. This paper deals with so called point-folding elements – non-planar, pyramidal panels, usually formed from thin metal sheets, which exploit the increased structural capabilities emerging from folds ...

Background and Objectives: Action recognition, as the processes of labeling an unknown action of a query video, is a challenging problem, due to the event complexity, variations in imaging conditions, and intra- and inter-individual action-variability. A number of solutions proposed to solve action recognition problem. Many of these frameworks suppose that each video sequence includes only one ...

In 1908 the Welsh neurologist and psychoanlayst Ernest Jones described human beings as rationalizers whose behavior is governed by "the necessity of providing an explanation." We construct a formal model of rationalization. In our model a decision maker selects the best feasible alternative (according to her preferences) from among those that she can rationalize. We show that this theory can ac...

We solve a problem proposed by Khovanov by constructing, for any set of primes S, a triangulated category (in fact a stable∞-category) whose Grothendieck group is S−1Z. More generally, for any exact∞-category E, we construct an exact∞-category S−1E of equivariant sheaves on the Cantor space with respect to an action of a dense subgroup of the circle. We show that this∞-category is precisely the...

Abstract This research conducts a case study on Odebrecht, heavy construction company, to answer the question of how an individual rationalizes crime in corrupt organization? The is based concepts organization, continuum destructiveness, moral disengagement, and rationalization. We analyze four books, artifacts Odebrecht’s culture videos 49 executives that collaborated Car Wash corruption probe...

After making a choice between 2 objects, people reevaluate their chosen item more positively and their rejected item more negatively (i.e., they spread the alternatives). Since Brehm's (1956) initial free-choice experiment, psychologists have interpreted the spreading of alternatives as evidence for choice-induced attitude change. It is widely assumed to occur because choosing creates cognitive...

Recent academic investigations of computer security policy violations have largely focused on non-malicious noncompliance due to poor training, low employee motivation, weak affective commitment, or individual oversight. Established theoretical foundations applied to this domain have related to protection motivation, deterrence, planned behavior, self-efficacy, individual adoption factors, orga...