Results 11 to 20 of about 184,287 (297)

Gradient Estimation Revitalized [PDF]

open access: yesIEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2010
We investigate the use of a Fourier-domain derivative error kernel to quantify the error incurred while estimating the gradient of a function from scalar point samples on a regular lattice. We use the error kernel to show that gradient reconstruction quality is significantly enhanced merely by shifting the reconstruction kernel to the centers of the ...
Alim, Usman, R.   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Language Revitalization [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The world is home to an extraordinary level of linguistic diversity, with roughly 7,000 languages currently spoken and signed. Yet this diversity is highly unstable and is being rapidly eroded through a series of complex and interrelated processes that result in or lead to language loss.
Pine, Aidan, Turin, Mark
openaire   +2 more sources

Linear Interpolation Revitalized [PDF]

open access: yesIEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2004
We present a simple, original method to improve piecewise-linear interpolation with uniform knots: we shift the sampling knots by a fixed amount, while enforcing the interpolation property. We determine the theoretical optimal shift that maximizes the quality of our shifted linear interpolation.
Thierry, Blu   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Distribution and Ecologica Risk of Sediment Heavy Metals in the Water-Level-Fluctuation Zone of the Shawan River Section of Yelang Lake

open access: yesJournal of Chemistry, 2021
With the aim of revealing the potential ecological risk and distribution characteristics of heavy metals on the surface sediment at the Shawan River section of Yelang Lake, the following three analyses were first performed: (1) analysis of grain-size ...
Xiaojuan Zhang, Yutao Zhang
doaj   +1 more source

Indigenous Language Revitalization

open access: yes, 2023
Countless Indigenous languages around the world are the focus of innovative community regeneration efforts, as the legacies of colonialism have created conditions of extreme sociopolitical, educational, and economic adversity for the speakers of these languages—and their descendants. In response to these conditions that Indigenous people face globally,
Guerrettaz, Anne Marie, Engman, Mel
openaire   +3 more sources

A Case Study of Growth of Community Revitalization Movement in Chizu, Tottori Prefecture, Japan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Kaso is the deterioration of community infrastructure resulting from the migration of young people from rural areas to urban centers. It occurred in Japan during the period of rapid economic growth after World War II.
Des Marais Eric   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Motives for exercising and associations with body composition in Icelandic adolescents [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The aim of this study is to identify and analyze the motives that lead Icelandic teenagers to engage in physical exercise and the possible associations with variables of their body composition.
Galán López, Pablo, Ries, Francis
core   +2 more sources

How to Rebalance the Land-Use Structure after Large Infrastructure Construction? From the Perspective of Government Attention Evolution

open access: yesLand, 2023
Large infrastructure projects play a crucial role in regional development but can also negatively impact cultivated-land protection. This study focuses on the role of local governments in land-use conflicts and the rebalancing of land-use structures ...
Junbo Gao   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

From Transformation to Revitalization: A New Research Agenda for a Contested Global Economy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
[Excerpt] The revitalization perspective is hardly new. With deep roots in both labor movement history and industrial relations research, such work was marginalized for much of the postwar period both in union strategy and in the field of industrial ...
Turner, Lowell
core   +2 more sources

The Environmental and Socio-Economic Effect of Farmland Management Right Transfer in China: A Systematic Review

open access: yesLand, 2022
Small and fragmented arable land is a key challenge for small-scale agricultural countries, resulting in low labor productivity, ecological damage, and inefficient land use.
Meseret Abatechanie   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy