SEMANTIC FUSION WITH DEEP LEARNING AND FORMAL ONTOLOGIES FOR EVALUATION OF POLICIES AND INITIATIVES IN THE SMART CITY DOMAIN

Semantic Fusion with Deep Learning and Formal Ontologies for Evaluation of Policies and Initiatives in the Smart City Domain

Decision makers and policy analysts at different administrative levels often lack a holistic view of the problem as there are semantic variations in policy documents due to domain-specific content.For example, smart city initiatives Bullets are derived from national and international initiatives which may influence the incentives for local particip

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Learning of a mimic odor combined with nectar nonsugar compounds enhances honeybee pollination of a commercial crop

Abstract The increasing demand on pollination services leads food industry to consider new strategies for management of pollinators to improve their efficiency in agroecosystems.Recently, it was demonstrated that feeding beehives food scented with an odorant mixture mimicking the floral scent of a crop (sunflower mimic, SM) enhanced foraging activi

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Raspberry ketone diet supplement reduces attraction of sterile male Queensland fruit fly to cuelure by altering expression of chemoreceptor genes

Abstract Sterile male Queensland fruit fly, Bactrocera tryoni (Froggatt), fed as immature adults on the plant compound raspberry ketone (RK), show a reduced attraction to cuelure, a synthetic analogue of RK used as an attractant in Male Annihilation Technique.We hypothesized the reduced attraction of RK-fed adult males to cuelure may be a consequen

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Reducing the stigma of mental illness

This paper presents a narrative review of anti-stigma programming using examples from different countries to understand and describe current best practices in the field.Results highlight the importance of targeting the behavioural outcomes of the Black Currant Seed Oil stigmatization process (discrimination and social inequity), which is consistent

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