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See detailVietnam in transition: Market-creating institutions and private entrepreneurship
Klump, Rainer UL

in Kopp, Herst (Ed.) Area Studies, Business and Culture: Results of the Bavarian Research Network Forarea (2003)

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See detailVietnam: The financial system of an economy in transition
Klump, Rainer UL

in Menkhoff, Lukas; Reszat, Beate (Eds.) Asian Financial Markets – Structures, Policy Issues and Prospects (1998)

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See detailThe view from anywhere: A better orientation towards public justification?
Burks, Deven UL

Scientific Conference (2019, September 05)

If reasoning proceeds from perspectives, from which perspective should one reason when pursuing the ideal of public justification (acceptability (Lister 2013) or justifiability (Vallier 2018) of statutes ... [more ▼]

If reasoning proceeds from perspectives, from which perspective should one reason when pursuing the ideal of public justification (acceptability (Lister 2013) or justifiability (Vallier 2018) of statutes or policy to different perspectives)? Although recent debate focuses on the relative merits of consensus (Quong 2011) or convergence (Gaus and Vallier 2009), public justification may require both consensus and convergence, suitably understood. Accordingly, I survey two broad orientations towards public justification: the views “from nowhere” (Nagel 1986) and “from everywhere” (Muldoon 2016). I argue that neither is adequate to socio-political complexity and privilege instead the “view from anywhere”. I first take up individually the views from nowhere and from everywhere. The former consists in the individual ideal of a neutral perspective between preferences and beliefs, attained through following an impartial procedure. In political morality, Rawls’s original position and its associated standpoints are prominent examples (Rawls 1999). Yet this view underestimates the conceptual difficulties of navigating decisions from an alien perspective and avoiding prejudging what is and is not morally relevant. The latter is an epistemic-moral social orientation which aggregates individual perspectives in collective deliberation in order to evaluate proposals via evidentiary support from different perspectives (Muldoon 2016). Such support frames “economic” bargaining between persons and groups over local, fixed-term social contracts. Though both impartial and epistemically feasible, this view likewise encounters conceptual difficulties: a.) underestimating the importance of some uniformity in bargaining and the risks of epistemic bubbles and alternative facts (Frazer 2017); b.) reifying perspectives as insulated standpoints. Consequently, a distinct orientation to public justification is needed to secure impartiality and epistemic feasibility, to build disagreement into the orientation and to allow for perspectives and their transformation. The view from anywhere does so in two ways. First, it extends McMahon’s (2009) “moral nominalism” to show how perspectives inhere in a shared use-history of prescriptive terms in evaluative judgments. Because judgments constitutive of a perspective are susceptible to extension and novel use which may be challenged by others sharing those terms, perspectives may undergo considerable negotiation. Disagreeing parties may come to agree on certain matters or to see their differences. Deliberative conversions remain possible. Second, it fosters a “social picture of reasoning” (Laden 2012) whereon reasonableness consists in issuing one another invitations to alter certain elements of one’s perspective or judgment history to reach the point where each authorizes each to speak for her on some shared concern. Public reasons are not merely accessible in form and content but via their history of mutual invitation and response. The view from anywhere thus makes more sense of public justification’s perspectival character and provides a better picture of how public justification should proceed and public reasons develop in contemporary democracies by allowing that the person may start from anywhere in the justificatory landscape and, potentially, arrive at a conclusion anywhere therein. To Rawls’s reminder to heed “where we are and whence we speak” (Rawls 2005: 382), I add that one may be and speak from anywhere, with enough time, effort and good will. [less ▲]

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See detailView-Independent Enhanced 3D Reconstruction of Non-Rigidly Deforming Objects
Afzal, Hassan UL; Aouada, Djamila UL; Destelle, Francois et al

in 16th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (2015)

In this paper, we target enhanced 3D reconstruction of non-rigidly deforming objects based on a view-independent surface representation with an automated recursive filtering scheme. This work improves ... [more ▼]

In this paper, we target enhanced 3D reconstruction of non-rigidly deforming objects based on a view-independent surface representation with an automated recursive filtering scheme. This work improves upon the KinectDeform algorithm which we recently proposed. KinectDeform uses an implicit viewdependent volumetric truncated signed distance function (TSDF) based surface representation. The view-dependence makes its pipeline complex by requiring surface prediction and extraction steps based on camera’s field of view. This paper proposes to use an explicit projection-based Moving Least Squares (MLS) surface representation from point-sets. Moreover, the empirical weighted filtering scheme in KinectDeform is replaced by an automated fusion scheme based on a Kalman filter. We analyze the performance of the proposed algorithm both qualitatively and quantitatively and show that it is able to produce enhanced and feature preserving 3D reconstructions. [less ▲]

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See detailVIEW-INVARIANT ACTION RECOGNITION FROM RGB DATA VIA 3D POSE ESTIMATION
Baptista, Renato UL; Ghorbel, Enjie UL; Papadopoulos, Konstantinos UL et al

in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Brighton, UK, 12–17 May 2019 (2019, May)

In this paper, we propose a novel view-invariant action recognition method using a single monocular RGB camera. View-invariance remains a very challenging topic in 2D action recognition due to the lack of ... [more ▼]

In this paper, we propose a novel view-invariant action recognition method using a single monocular RGB camera. View-invariance remains a very challenging topic in 2D action recognition due to the lack of 3D information in RGB images. Most successful approaches make use of the concept of knowledge transfer by projecting 3D synthetic data to multiple viewpoints. Instead of relying on knowledge transfer, we propose to augment the RGB data by a third dimension by means of 3D skeleton estimation from 2D images using a CNN-based pose estimator. In order to ensure view-invariance, a pre-processing for alignment is applied followed by data expansion as a way for denoising. Finally, a Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM) architecture is used to model the temporal dependency between skeletons. The proposed network is trained to directly recognize actions from aligned 3D skeletons. The experiments performed on the challenging Northwestern-UCLA dataset show the superiority of our approach as compared to state-of-the-art ones. [less ▲]

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See detailA View-invariant Framework for Fast Skeleton-based Action Recognition Using a Single RGB Camera
Ghorbel, Enjie UL; Papadopoulos, Konstantinos UL; Baptista, Renato UL et al

in 14th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, Prague, 25-27 February 2018 (2019, February)

View-invariant action recognition using a single RGB camera represents a very challenging topic due to the lack of 3D information in RGB images. Lately, the recent advances in deep learning made it ... [more ▼]

View-invariant action recognition using a single RGB camera represents a very challenging topic due to the lack of 3D information in RGB images. Lately, the recent advances in deep learning made it possible to extract a 3D skeleton from a single RGB image. Taking advantage of this impressive progress, we propose a simple framework for fast and view-invariant action recognition using a single RGB camera. The proposed pipeline can be seen as the association of two key steps. The first step is the estimation of a 3D skeleton from a single RGB image using a CNN-based pose estimator such as VNect. The second one aims at computing view-invariant skeleton-based features based on the estimated 3D skeletons. Experiments are conducted on two well-known benchmarks, namely, IXMAS and Northwestern-UCLA datasets. The obtained results prove the validity of our concept, which suggests a new way to address the challenge of RGB-based view-invariant action recognition. [less ▲]

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See detailViewing Time Effects Revisited: Prolonged Response Latencies for Sexually Attractive Targets Under Restricted Task Conditions
Imhoff, Roland; Schmidt, Alexander F. UL; Nordsiek, Uta et al

in ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR (2010), 39(6), 1275-1288

Sexually attractive stimuli are watched longer than unattractive stimuli. The processes underlying this robust and reliable viewing time effect are presently not well understood. In the present research ... [more ▼]

Sexually attractive stimuli are watched longer than unattractive stimuli. The processes underlying this robust and reliable viewing time effect are presently not well understood. In the present research comprising four experiments (total N = 250), four classes of potential explanations are proposed and the derived implications were experimentally tested. Contrary to explanations based on either deliberate delay or attentional adhesion to sexually attractive stimuli, prolonged response latencies were also found under restricted task conditions. Sexually preferred targets elicited longer response latencies in a self-paced evaluation task when stimulus pictures were presented for 750 ms (Experiment 1) or for 500 ms and followed by a pattern mask (Experiment 2). Prolonged latencies for sexually preferred targets were also observed when sexual attractiveness was rated in a speeded binary decision task with a response window of 1000 ms (Experiment 3). Eventually, it was shown that the response latency effect in the speeded binary choice task was still preserved when only the heads of target individuals were presented instead of the bodies (Experiment 4). Mate identification and schematic processes are discussed as the remaining plausible mechanisms for prolonged response latencies for sexually attractive targets under restricted conditions. [less ▲]

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See detailViewpoint: Atomic-Scale Design Protocols toward Energy, Electronic, Catalysis, and Sensing Applications
Belviso, Florian; Claerbout, Victor E. P.; Comas-Vives, Aleix et al

in INORGANIC CHEMISTRY (2019), 58(22), 14939-14980

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See detailThe views of key stakeholders on an evolving food risk governance framework: Results from a Delphi study
Wentholt, M.T.A.; Rowe, G.; König, Ariane UL et al

in Food Policy (2009), 34(6), 539-548

Evidence of a decline in public trust associated with food risk governance over recent years has called into question the appropriateness of the current dominant risk analysis framework. Within the EU ... [more ▼]

Evidence of a decline in public trust associated with food risk governance over recent years has called into question the appropriateness of the current dominant risk analysis framework. Within the EU-funded SAFE FOODS project a novel risk analysis framework has been developed that attempts to address potential shortcomings by increasing stakeholder (including consumer) input, improving transparency, and formally incorporating benefit and non-health aspects into the analysis. To assess the viability of this novel framework, the views of food risk experts from the EU and beyond were sought using a distributed online questionnaire process called Delphi. In this paper the main results of this survey are described, revealing varying levels of support for the key innovations of the novel framework. Implications of our results for the new and old frameworks, for the future of risk analysis, and for the policy community more widely, are discussed. [less ▲]

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See detailViews on Ageing - A Lifespan Approach
Kornadt, Anna Elena UL; Kessler, Eva-Marie; Wurm, Susanne et al

in European Journal of Ageing (2020), 17

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See detailViews on Aging and Well-Being in the Covid Crisis – A Longitudinal Study in Luxembourg
Kornadt, Anna Elena UL; Hoffmann, Martine; Murdock, Elke UL et al

in Innovation in Aging (2020), 4(Supplement_1), 961-961

During the Covid-Crisis, stereotypes of older adults as helpless and vulnerable were spread, and intergenerational conflict was stirred more or less openly. We thus focused on perceived ageism during the ... [more ▼]

During the Covid-Crisis, stereotypes of older adults as helpless and vulnerable were spread, and intergenerational conflict was stirred more or less openly. We thus focused on perceived ageism during the crisis and its effects on well-being and health of older adults. Since views on aging are multifaceted and can be both, risk and resource for individual development, we assessed people’s self-perceptions of aging (SPA) as social loss, continued growth and physical decline and subjective age (SA). We hypothesized that people with SPA of social loss and physical decline would be more susceptible to negative effects of perceived ageism, whereas those with SPA of continued growth and younger SA would be less affected. NT1 = 611 community-dwelling adults aged 60 – 98 (Mage = 69.92 years) were recruited in June 2020 online and via phone in Luxembourg. In September 2020, participants will be contacted again for a follow-up. Analyses with cross-sectional data show that participants who felt more discriminated reported lower life satisfaction after the onset of the crisis (r = -.35) and worse subjective health (r = -.14). SPA of social loss and higher SA increased the negative effect of ageism on well-being (beta = -.57) and subjective health (beta = -.53), respectively. Our results point to mid- and long-term consequences of age discriminatory and stereotype-based crisis communication for the well-being of older adults and the importance of individual SPA in critical situations. [less ▲]

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See detailViews on Aging – Current Trends and Future Directions for Cross- Cultural Research
Kornadt, Anna Elena UL; De Paula Couto, Clara M. P.; Rothermund, Klaus

in Online Readings in Psychology and Culture (2022), 6(2),

The investigation of what enables societies and individuals to age well remains one of the greatest challenges of our time. Views on aging are a decisive factor in this process, and thus, improving their ... [more ▼]

The investigation of what enables societies and individuals to age well remains one of the greatest challenges of our time. Views on aging are a decisive factor in this process, and thus, improving their understanding through cross-cultural research is of utmost importance. In the current review, we address the role of socio-ecological variables and cultural values and beliefs when investigating country differences in what people think about older persons and getting old themselves. Several complexities are introduced in terms of a differentiated conceptualization of views on aging that takes life domains and normative prescriptions into account, and also in terms of a differentiated and extended view on the factors through which societal and cultural aspects and views on aging mutually influence each other. We propose that an encompassing, lifespan framework on views on aging enhances our understanding of aging well in different cultural and societal contexts. [less ▲]

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See detailViews on aging: Domain-specific approaches and implications for developmental regulation
Kornadt, Anna Elena UL; Rothermund, Klaus

in Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics (2015)

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See detailVIEWS ON AGING: NEW PERSPECTIVES FOR THEORY AND RESEARCH
Klusmann, Verena; Kornadt, Anna Elena UL

in Innovation in Aging (2019), 3(Supplement_1), 786-786

Over the past 20 years, research on views on aging has substantiated their importance for successful development and sustained quality of life over the full length of the life span. However, a deep ... [more ▼]

Over the past 20 years, research on views on aging has substantiated their importance for successful development and sustained quality of life over the full length of the life span. However, a deep understanding of the origins of views on aging and the underlying processes of their lifespan development and manifestation is lacking. Since 2017, the scientific network “Images of Aging” funded by the German Research Foundation (http://www.health.uni-konstanz.de/images-of-aging) assembles national and international renowned experts in the field. The network engages in empirical clarifications on both the distinctness and validity of the construct (contribution of Klusmann et al.) as well as in critically reviewing terminology and measures of views on aging (contribution of Notthoff et al.). The network aims to help clarifying the dynamic interplay of determinants and outcomes in the context of health (contribution of Wolff et al.) as well as disentangling intra- and intergenerational stereotypic perceptions (contribution of Kornadt et al.). Both of these are understudied issues with highly practical implications for two of the largest demographic challenges: shaping the coexistence of generations as well as providing adequate health care supply. Integrating both pertinent theoretical approaches and empirical findings the network regards views on aging under a lifespan perspective. Recently, it suggested three core principles of views on aging regarding lifelong bio-psycho-social development, their multidimensional nature, and their impact across life. These considerations provide a background for an integrative discussion of the symposium’s contributions. [less ▲]

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See detailLa vigueur des garanties et sûretés personnelles dans les procédures collectives
Prüm, André UL

in Revue de Droit de l'ULB (2001), 24

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See detailLa vigueur des garanties et sûretés personnelles dans les procédures collectives
Prüm, André UL

in Vers l'harmonisation en Europe du droit de l'insolvabilité et des garanties, 24/2001-2 (2001)

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See detailVillanova Truschedu
Camarda, Sandra UL

in Brigaglia, Manlio; Tola, Salvatore (Eds.) Dizionario storico-geografico dei Comuni della Sardegna Vol. 5 (2009)

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See detailVillaurbana
Camarda, Sandra UL

in Brigaglia, Manlio; Tola, Salvatore (Eds.) Dizionario storico-geografico dei Comuni della Sardegna Vol. 5 (2009)

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