Unmanned Research Vessel Lost on Deep Sea Dive

Sea dive

shortcoming because it would have allowed to compare conditions under which potential conflicts become real conflicts (e.g. the conflict over sex ratio) and those where they don't (e.g. conflict over queen rearing) — a crucial criterion for the superorganism. The final chapters are devoted to the Ponerine ants — a subfamily characterized by its staggering diversity and by its primitive social o...

Dive deeper: Deep Semantics for Sentiment Analysis

This paper illustrates the use of deep semantic processing for sentiment analysis. Existing methods for sentiment analysis use supervised approaches which take into account all the subjective words and or phrases. Due to this, the fact that not all of these words and phrases actually contribute to the overall sentiment of the text is ignored. We propose an unsupervised rule-based approach using...

NEEC Research: Toward GPS-denied Landing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles on Ships at Sea

This paper reports on a Naval Engineering Education Center (NEEC) design-build-test project focused on the development of a fully autonomous system for landing Navy unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on transiting ships at sea. Our NEEC team of engineering students researched image processing techniques, estimation frameworks, and control algorithms to collaboratively learn and train in Navy-relev...

The Future of Integrated Deep-Sea Research in Europe

Deep sea in deep trouble?

Ahead of the imminent start of the industrial exploitation of deep sea resources, an EU report finds that scientific knowledge and understanding of this environment and its ecosystems still fall short of what would be needed for a sustainable use.