The goal of this article is to show that it is possible to construct an index to measure a country's relative specialization in different scientific fields in a way which is both reliable and relevant for macro-strategic analysis. We will call this index a Revealed Scientific Advantages Index. The technical problem to be discussed is one of aggregation: how can we be sure that an index calculated for a small number of relatively large fields does not mask significant policy needs synthetic measures which are easy to interpret. We will show that the Revealed Scientific Advantages approach offers the possibility of building them. The study itself is based on figures obtained through an exploitation of the INIST/CNRS PASCAL database classification of science. 107 sub-fields of this classification were initially used to determine the areas of specialization for 11 countries (revealed national advantages). Clustering techniques were then used to aggregate this data and 13 specific fields were identified. The science policy information produced during the study concerned these 13 fields. It proved to be both easily understandable and relevant for macro-strategic analysis. 相似文献
The dimensional changes of dendritic and non-dendritic (stir-cast) Zn-Al alloy (ZA-27) were investigated during ageing at temperatures in the range 20–245 °C. The linear expansion of both dendritic and non-dendritic samples increased rapidly with ageing time after about 24 h at 95 °C. An initial normalization treatment led to a large initial growth of the alloy which increased further after prolonged ageing times ( 104h). Accelerated ageing tests in the range 75–250 °C showed that increasing the ageing temperature decreased the long term linear expansion of the alloy. In comparing the behaviour of the two materials, the stir-cast material grew less than the dendritic alloy. Extensive SEM and TEM done on as-stir-cast and aged samples showed that the main changes during ageing occurred in the (FCC) lamellae of the +(Zn) eutectoid, the phase at the primary particles/eutectoid interface and in the interparticle areas. In the lamellae and at the interface, zinc precipitated whilst the phase precipitated in the interparticle areas. It is considered that the occurrence of this latter phase, rich in copper, is responsible for the growth of stir-cast material during ageing. 相似文献
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This paper first presents a novel approach for modelling facial features, Local Directional Texture (LDT), which exploits the unique directional information in image textures for the problem of face recognition. A variant of LDT with privacy-preserving temporal strips (TS) is then considered to achieve faceless recognition with a higher degree of privacy while maintaining high accuracy. The TS uses two strips of pixel blocks from the temporal planes, XT and YT, for face recognition. By removing the reliance on spatial context (i.e., XY plane) for this task, the proposed method withholds facial appearance information from public view, where only one-dimensional temporal information that varies across time are extracted for recognition. Thus, privacy is assured, yet without impeding the facial recognition task which is vital for many security applications such as street surveillance and perimeter access control. To validate the reliability of the proposed method, experiments were carried out using the Honda/UCSD, CK+, CAS(ME)2 and CASME II databases. The proposed method achieved a recognition rate of 98.26% in the standard video-based face recognition database, Honda/UCSD. It also offers a 81.92% reduction in the dimension length required for storing the extracted features, in contrast to the conventional LBP-TOP.
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