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To quantify locomotory behavior, tools for determining the location and shape of an animal’s body are a first requirement. Video recording is a convenient technology to store raw movement data, but extracting body coordinates from video recordings is a nontrivial task. The algorithm described in this paper solves this task for videos of leeches or other quasi-linear animals in a manner inspired by the mammalian visual processing system: the video frames are fed through a bank of Gabor filters, which locally detect segments of the animal at a particular orientation. The algorithm assumes that the image location with maximal filter output lies on the animal’s body and traces its shape out in both directions from there. The algorithm successfully extracted location and shape information from video clips of swimming leeches, as well as from still photographs of swimming and crawling snakes. A Matlab implementation with a graphical user interface is available online, and should make this algorithm conveniently usable in many other contexts.TED is a worldwide famous platform designed for everyone to share their ideas, thoughts, and pieces of advice with an audience that consists of millions of listeners across the globe. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, but in reality the range of topics covered by TED speakers spans across every aspect of life and branch of science imaginable. The right TED talks video can inspire you, help you solve your problems, and give you new business or art ideas whenever you visit ted.com. Discover the TED talks top 10 videos of all time right now!
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http://www.ted.com Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don’t: Traditional rewards aren’t always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories — and maybe, a way forward.  Learn more at https://www.ted.com/signup.
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Conversation skills have a great influence over our personal and professional lives, and thanks to Celeste Headlee you will learn that conversation has several essential ingredients, like honesty and clarity, which you can easily master thanks to this talk.
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}dnata, part of the Dubai-headquartered Emirates Group, moved quickly and decisively when the potential impact of Covid-19 was first assessed in early spring this year. According to the handler, its teams worked “around the clock to develop and implement a comprehensive health and safety programme” that involved adapting services, processes and training across its international operations.
Specifically in relation to its ground handling, dnata introduced new disinfection programmes, deployed personal protective equipment (PPE) widely amongst its staff, mandated protective measures such as social distancing, and significantly enhanced its aircraft interior cleaning services.
In May, dnata undertook a mass disinfection programme of all its GSE at its two home hubs in Dubai as part of a wider effort to protect its own employees and passengers. More than 11,500 pieces of GSE – including buses, passenger steps, baggage dollies and pushback tractors – were disinfected at the two Dubai airports where dnata is active: Dubai International and Dubai World Central.
A bowser spray unit and handheld sanitation units were used to disinfect all of dnata’s airside GSE, including its cargo handling equipment.
Dirk Goovaerts is dnata’s regional CEO for the Asia-Pacific region and as such has played a leading role in introducing dnata’s Covid-19 countermeasures in that area. He explains that as soon as the danger of the virus spreading from Wuhan in China had been identified, dnata quickly introduced those aspects of its Business Continuity Plan that were relevant to this specific situation.
Those measures were wide-ranging. As described above, more stringent cabin cleaning measures were introduced, alongside the use of stronger antiviral disinfectant, in order to protect passengers.
All dnata agents and handlers even remotely likely to come into contact with the virus were offered PPE, the perceived danger of their operating environment determining the level of PPE required. Masks and hand sanitisers were widely issued, with equipment such as visors given to those in greater danger: for example, staff who are required to work alongside others in the confined space of an aircraft cargo hold for even short periods during the freight loading/unloading process).
As well as new equipment, new procedures were put in place to minimise the danger to dnata’s employees. Social distancing measures, whether mandated or advised by relevant national, local or airport authorities were instituted, and management ensured that these rules were both understood and observed by staff, says Goovaerts.
dnata has also deployed its teams into self-contained, smaller silos wherever possible in order to ensure that the virus does not spread amongst them. This has built resilience.
The GSP has brought in new rules to minimise contact between its handlers (and other employees) and non-dnata, third-party individuals in order to further reduce the danger of infection to its staff. Furthermore, in addition to the social distancing that applies wherever possible to its employees during their shifts, dnata has also minimised the time they spend working together wherever feasible.
Training of staff has been key to ensuring that the new requirements and guidelines are followed, Goovaerts stresses, adding: “Discipline amongst our agents has been so important.” Cross-training of staff in other areas of dnata’s work has also taken place to increase flexibility in resource deployment – for example, some of dnata’s workers who usually handle passenger flights have been redeployed to handling cargo services, whose operational frequency has remained as high as usual during the pandemic.
As to when dnata and other handlers might be able to begin withdrawing these various precautionary measures, Goovaerts opines: “There can be no definitive answer on this at the moment.
“Personally, I believe that until a vaccine is widely available we will need to keep these precautions in place,” and that dnata will continue to work with airport operator partners, government and other national regulatory bodies, as well as keeping a good eye on the advice of multinational health agencies such as the World Health Organization to maintain the necessary countermeasures.
Goovaerts believes that dnata has played a key role in keeping aircraft flying during this incredibly hard time for the industry, an especially important function in terms of those cargo-carrying aircraft flying medicines and PPE to where it was most needed. It has also