Policy makers worldwide have increasingly considered the adoption of a carbon adjustment at border to equalize pricing on foreign goods with policies imposed domestic production. The implementation (BCA) in European Union has been recently proposed by Commission, followed similar plans United States and Canada, as an instrument designed address concerns about competitiveness emissions leakage r...

Recently, there has been a surge of diverse methods for performing image editing by employing pre-trained unconditional generators. Applying these on real images, however, remains challenge, as it necessarily requires the inversion images into their latent space. To successfully invert image, one needs to find code that reconstructs input accurately, and more importantly, allows its meaningful ...

Today e-learning increasingly requires, even at an International level, highly competent professionals of learning design. For this reason, the role of traditional academic institutions becomes fundamental in conveying those abilities, knowledge and skills which can be immediately put to use in an e-learning working context. This request of instructional designer training is responded by the in...

Research on learning has proposed various models for learning. However, generally, there has been an inadequate research of the application of these models for learning for example the Kolb’s experiential learning cycle or the Jarvis’s model of reflection and learning to the development of e-learning materials. This is more so especially due to lack of effective yet practical design model for d...

Research works and surveys focusing on e-Government Digital Services availability and usage, reveal that often services are available but ignored by citizens. In our hypothesis this situation can be justified since defined service delivery processes do not sufficiently take into account social aspects and mainly focus just on technical aspects. Domain knowledge, related to how delivering high q...

The viability of the application of the e-Institution paradigm for obtaining overall desired behavior in open multiagent systems (MAS) lies in the possibility of bringing the norms of the institution to have an actual impact on the MAS. Institutional norms have to be implemented in the society. The paper addresses two possible views on implementing norms, the so-called regimentation of norms, a...

This paper claims that the strategies applied in designing e-learning solutions tend to focus on how to proceed after the precondition, e.g., learners requirements, pedagogical choice, etc., have been decided upon. Investigating the HCI research field, we find that the methodological approaches focus on end-users and primarily address the phases succeeding the initial pre-analysis. The HCI appr...

Distance learning via the Internet (e-learning) requires good course material and a high degree of interactivity. On the basis of an elearning course of the European Organisation for Spatial Data Research (EuroSDR, formerly OEEPE) about a photogrammetric research topic various tools for producing the user interface, the knowledge pages, multiple-choice quizzes, and interactive learning programs...

Let S = Sg,n be a connected, orientable surface of genus g ≥ 0 with n ≥ 0 punctures. Let Teich(S) denote the corresponding Teichmüller space, and let Mod(S) denote the mapping class group of S. Understanding the analogy of Teich(S) with symmetric spaces is a wellknown theme. Recall that a complete Riemannian manifold X is symmetric if it is symmetric at each point x ∈ X: the map γ(t) 7→ γ(−t) w...