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Chronicles in stone : preservation, patriotism, and identity in Northwest Russia
\"The book's central argument is that the Soviet state exploited the cultural heritage of the Northwest to craft patriotic narratives of the people's genius, heroism and strength that could bind the nation together after 1945\"-- Provided by publisher.
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A comparison of the EU regulatory approach to directed mutagenesis with that of other jurisdictions, consequences for international trade and potential steps forward
A special regulatory regime applies to products of recombinant nucleic acid modifications. A ruling from the European Court of Justice has interpreted this regulatory regime in a way that it also applies to emerging mutagenesis techniques. Elsewhere regulatory progress is also ongoing. In 2015, Argentina launched a regulatory framework, followed by Chile in 2017 and recently Brazil and Colombia. In March 2018, the USDA announced that it will not regulate genome-edited plants differently if they could have also been developed through traditional breeding. Canada has an altogether different approach with their Plants with Novel Traits regulations. Australia is currently reviewing its Gene Technology Act. This article illustrates the deviation of the European Union’s (EU’s) approach from the one of most of the other countries studied here. Whereas the EU does not implement a case-by-case approach, this approach is taken by several other jurisdictions. Also, the EU court ruling adheres to a process-based approach while most other countries have a stronger emphasis on the regulation of the resulting product. It is concluded that, unless a functioning identity preservation system for products of directed mutagenesis can be established, the deviation results in a risk of asynchronous approvals and disruptions in international trade.
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The Role of Schools in Facilitating Traditional Festivals to Preserve Cultural Heritage: A Study in West Sulawesi Province of Indonesia
Background/Objective. This study aims to explore the role and identity of collaboration in traditional festival performances in one of Indonesia's provinces, West Sulawesi. In the midst of the rapid pace of globalization, maintaining cultural identity is very important to foster social cohesion in society and educate future generations about existing local cultural values. Traditional festivals, with their involvement in social and educational life, play an important role in preserving culture and strengthening local identity. Material/Methods. This study used a case study research design with semi-structured interviews. Interviews were conducted with key representatives who have deep experience and are directly involved in implementing the traditional festival as an annual event to gain insight into the cultural dynamics and collaboration involved in implementing the festival. Results. The findings of the study show that traditional festival performances in these communities serve as a means of shaping community identity in response to globalization. This festival is also an effective medium in preserving local cultural values that have been passed down from previous generations to the current generation. In addition, the performance is recognized as an important form of learning for students to understand and appreciate their local culture and traditions. Conclusions. Although this study was limited to interviews as a data collection method, these findings highlight the importance of traditional festivals in introducing, promoting, and preserving local cultural identities and strengthening social cohesion in the midst of changing times. The festival also has a strategic role in education by providing the younger generation with deeper insight into their cultural values and traditions.
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ClipFaceFusion multi modal diffusion for high fidelity facial generation and modification
The generation of photorealistic human faces utilizing multi-modal inputs presents significant challenges, as existing methodologies like DiffusionCLIP are limited to text-based directives and often struggle with precise attribute control and cross-modal consistency. This paper presents ClipFaceFusion, a diffusion-based framework that amalgamates multi-signal conditioning (text, audio, reference images) with explicit semantic control signals (age and emotion) to produce and alter photorealistic faces. Proposed approach presenting a trainable multi-signal fusion module in conjunction with novel consistency loss functions that provide audio-visual alignment and precise age/emotion regulation within a cohesive Denoising Diffusion Implicit Models (DDIM) framework. Specialized loss functions for age and emotion consistency, along with a multi-tiered identity preservation system utilizing ArcFace, perceptual loss, and reference image alignment, ensure precise attribute regulation and identity conservation. Experiments demonstrate that ClipFaceFusion outperforms leading techniques such as DiffusionCLIP and StyleCLIP in generating realistic faces with precise age and emotional expressions, while facilitating dependable image modification. The framework facilitates applications in media creation, psychological simulations, historical facial reconstruction, and interactive virtual environments by providing superior Cross-Modal Coherence (CMC) and reduced visual artifacts. ClipFaceFusion seamlessly integrates multi-modal inputs into a unified diffusion-based model, establishing a new benchmark for personalized face synthesis and manipulation.
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Hairstyle-and-identity-aware facial image style transfer with region-guiding masks
Face style transfer aims to transfer parts of appearance features from a reference to a source face and to keep the important characteristics of the source as well. During face style transfer, hairstyle structure of the reference and personal identity of the source are two important appearance characteristics, but few existing models can maintain both of these features during the transfer process simultaneously. To concurrently retain the two important features, we propose a framework with two stages to deal with the two sub-tasks respectively. In the first stage, our model uses region-guiding masks and the modified cycle loss to generate an image where the hairstyle is transferred adequately. Based on the hairstyle-transferred face, we focus on preserving the identity with a face replacement procedure and refining the image quality in the second stage. In addition to hair-style-aware transfer, we also exhibit that this framework can be extended for other region-aware tasks, such as eyeglasses transfer. User evaluation and the application of face recognition as a metric demonstrated that our proposed framework can generate high-quality images with accurate hairstyle transfer from the reference image while preserving the identity of the source image.
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Towards a Sustainable Cultural Identity for Arabic Calligraphy in Furniture Design Through Artificial Intelligence Applications
Sustainability is a modern design philosophy, and this concept prompted this study to focus on the possibility of achieving sustainability principles practically by using artificial intelligence techniques to create sustainable contemporary furniture elements inspired by the heritage and arts of Arabic calligraphy. Heritage-inspired design has cultural meaning and significance as a type of sustainable thinking. Arabic calligraphy has multiple forms and the possibility of adapting it, in addition to its role in enriching the cultural and creative stock. This study aimed to benefit from Arabic calligraphy as a source to enrich and sustain furniture design that is characterized by authenticity and modernity, and to preserve a heritage design product by reformulating it using artificial intelligence methods. In a way that enhances belonging and preserves the community’s heritage and values from extinction, this study followed the descriptive analytical approach in identifying the origins and characteristics of Arabic calligraphy, analyzing its vocabulary, reformulating it, and drawing inspiration from it to enrich furniture designs, in addition to the experimental approach in the applied study through the use of different techniques and materials. The results of this study concluded that there are various aesthetic values in the use of Arabic calligraphy that can be used to create contemporary furniture designs using artificial intelligence techniques to preserve its sustainability. In addition to opening up broad possibilities for creativity and innovation by integrating Arabic calligraphy into furniture design using artificial intelligence technology, this study recommended the need to pay attention to studying the sustainability of heritage and arts in general in appreciation of art and its preservation.
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Disentangled face editing via individual walk in personalized facial semantic field
Recent generative adversarial networks (GANs) can synthesize high-fidelity faces and the closely followed works show the existence of facial semantic field in the latent spaces. This motivates several latest works to edit faces via finding semantic directions in the universal facial semantic field of GAN to walk along. However, several challenges still exist during editing: identity loss, attribute entanglement and background variation. In this work, we first propose a personalized facial semantic field (PFSF) for each instead of a universal facial semantic field for all instances. The PFSF is built via portrait-masked retraining of the generator of StyleGAN together with the inversion model, which can preserve identity details for real faces. Furthermore, we propose an individual walk in the learned PFSF to perform disentangled face editing. Finally, the edited portrait is fused back into the original image with the constraint of the portrait mask, which can preserve the background. Extensive experimental results validate that our method performs well in identity preservation, background maintenance and disentangled editing, significantly surpassing related state-of-the-art methods.
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Efficacy of tiafenacil applied preplant alone or mixed with metribuzin for glyphosate-resistant horseweed control in soybean
Tiafenacil is a recently developed protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase (PPO)-inhibiting herbicide from the pyrimidinedione chemical class that is proposed for use as a preplant (PP) burndown in soybean. Glyphosate-resistant (GR) horseweed is a troublesome weed often found in no-till systems that can dramatically reduce soybean yield; control in soybean has been variable. Five field experiments were conducted over 2019 and 2020 in commercial soybean fields with GR horseweed to determine the biologically effective dose (BED) of tiafenacil and tiafenacil + metribuzin and to compare their efficacy to currently accepted industry standard herbicide treatments in identity-preserved (IP, non-GMO), GR, and glyphosate/dicamba-resistant (GDR) soybean systems. There was no soybean injury with treatments evaluated. The calculated doses of tiafenacil for 50%, 80%, and 95% control of GR horseweed control were 21, 147, and >200 g ai ha–1, respectively, at 8 wk after application (WAA). Lower doses were calculated with the addition of metribuzin (400 g ai ha–1) to tiafenacil for 50% and 80% control, with no dose of tiafenacil + metribuzin providing 95% control. Tiafenacil + metribuzin at 25 + 400 and 50 + 400 g ai ha–1 controlled GR horseweed 88% and 93%, respectively, which was similar to the industry standards of saflufenacil + metribuzin (25 + 400 g ai ha–1) and glyphosate/dicamba + saflufenacil (1,200/600 + 25 g ai ha–1) that provided 98% and 100% control, respectively, at 8 WAA. This study presents the potential utility of tiafenacil + metribuzin as a GR horseweed management strategy in soybean. Nomenclature: Dicamba; glyphosate; metribuzin; saflufenacil; tiafenacil; horseweed; Conyza canadensis (L.) Cronquist; soybean; Glycine max (L.) Merr.
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Certification of Markets, Markets of Certificates: Tracing Sustainability in Global Agro-Food Value Chains
There is a blossoming of voluntary certification initiatives for sustainable agro-food products and production processes. With these certification initiatives come traceability in supply chains, to guarantee the sustainability of the products consumed. No systematic analysis exists of traceability systems for sustainability in agro-food supply chains. Hence, the purpose of this article is to analyze the prevalence of four different traceability systems to guarantee sustainability; to identify the factors that determine the kind of traceability systems applied in particular supply chains; and to assess what the emergence of economic and market logics in traceability mean for sustainability. Two conclusions are drawn. Globalizing markets for sustainable agro-food products induces the emergence of book-and-claim traceability systems, but the other three systems (identity preservation, segregation and mass balance) will continue to exist as different factors drive traceability requirements in different supply chains. Secondly, traceability itself is becoming a market driven by economic and market logics, and this may have consequences for sustainability in agro-food supply chains in the future.
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