In analogy with flasque sheaves, we introduce the notion of flasque meadow as a common meadow where the transition maps are all surjective. We study some properties of flasque meadows and illustrate them with several examples and counterexamples.
Coastal sand dunes are multifunctional landscapes with rich biodiversity. In New Zealand, with the establishment of European settlement around 1840, dunes in the Manawatu-Whanganui region were affected due to the removal of their vegetation cover by human activities and animal grazing. As a result, sand drifted further inland affecting villages, infrastructure and agricultural areas. The main response was to in...
We analyze potential Late Holocene metal contamination along a sediment core collected in the distal zone of Ria de Vigo (North Spain). Statistical treatment of the dataset based on a multiproxy approach enabled us to identify and disentangle factors influencing the depositional processes and the preservation of the records of this activity in the area over the last approximate to 3000 years BP. Some layers of ...
Background: Difficulties in emotion regulation are common in adolescence and are associated with poor social and mental health outcomes. However, psychological therapies that promote adaptive emotion regulation may be inaccessible and unattractive to youth. Digital interventions may help address this need. Objective: The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to synthesize evidence on the efficacy,...
Style and emotional expressiveness are essential aspects of virtual character computer animation. For a virtual character to display different emotions, motion capture data conveying each desired style has to be recorded, even if the baseline motion is the same. Animators then have to refine and conjoin each recording in order to create the final animations making it a timely and costly process. Although there ...
Hand impairment severely limits basic activities of daily living (ADL). The use of motorized hand orthoses may provide enough functional assistance to perform basic tasks, such as grasping objects. Several prototypes have been proposed in the last decade, but there are still no solutions with the desired features regarding the weight, wearability and functionality. This paper describes the overall implementatio...
The village of Furadouro, on the north-western coast of Portugal, is emblematic of current problems of coastal management. The purpose of this article is to analyse the interaction between human communities and the coast in Furadouro, in order to understand how practices and arrangements have contributed to potentiate coastal erosion effects in the last century. The conceptual tools of 'socio-natural sites'; 'c...