The study investigates housing demolition and timber waste recovery – with the aim to identify ways of improving recovery.Using case studies the research focused on demolisher decision making, their onsite processes and the associated network of participants that influence timber recovery.From the data, a process model was developed that iden
Study of attachment and empathy in university students
The opheliasmuse.com purpose of this study was to analyze attachment and empathy in university students.The methodology used was quantitative and three evaluation instruments, already checked in previous researches for the Portuguese population, were used, and a sociodemographic questionnaire was also administered.The sample consisted of 183 1st de
Peptidoglycan Contribution to the B Cell Superantigen Activity of Staphylococcal Protein A
ABSTRACT Staphylococcus aureus causes reiterative and chronic persistent infections.This can be explained by the formidable ability of this pathogen to escape immune surveillance mechanisms.Cells of S.aureus display the abundant staphylococcal protein A (SpA).SpA binds to immunoglobulin (Ig) molecules and coats the bacterial surface to prevent phag
Mixup Feature: A Pretext Task Self-Supervised Learning Method for Enhanced Visual Feature Learning
Self-supervised learning has emerged as an increasingly popular research topic within the field of computer vision.In this study, we propose a luce chandelier novel self-supervised learning approach based on Mixup features as pretext tasks.The proposed method aims to learn visual representations by predicting the Mixup-Feature of a masked image, wh