Ukrainian Circus Assembly Poster 20-30-ies of XX century

FLAIRS-30 Poster Abstracts

We identify outstanding challenges for intelligent support of group decision-making. Decision-making is a multidisciplinary term. Technology for large group decision making is undergoing significant advancement with the widespread use of social networks and online decision support tools. Manual rules that govern traditional face-to face meetings need to be adapted to suit virtual meetings where...

A XXI-century alternative to XX-century peer review

The paper starts with a brief review of some criticisms of the Peer Review system – labelled ex-ante topdown PR system – for the evaluation of academic works. The critiques are grouped into efficiency and effectiveness criteria. It then goes on to analyse the roles of Peer Review and how good the system is at fulfilling those roles. The paper then proposes an alternative system for evaluation o...

Evaluating Color Rendition Using IES TM-30-15

ing has been a goal of lighting researchers—and the broader lighting industry—for decades. The utility of the Commission Internationale de l’Eclairage’s (CIE’s) general color rendering index (Ra, commonly called CRI)1 has been demonstrated by its continued use for 50 years, but its limitations and deficiencies are becoming ever more prominent with the advent of solid-state lighting, which provi...

Poster Session 1 2 - 3 : 30 pm

Episodes of Xx Century Cosmology: a Historical Approach

Contents 1. Introduction 2. Cosmological lessons from earlier centuries 3. From nebulae to galaxies 4. The emergence of the idea of expansion 5. The principal cosmological models of the first half of the century 6. The discovery of background radiation and some implications 7. The COBE results and the analysis of the fluctuations 8. Changes in the epistemological status of cosmological research...