Previous experimental studies on concessive connectives have only looked at their local facilitating or predictive effect on discourse relation comprehension and have often viewed them as a class of discourse markers with similar effects. We look into the effect of two connectives, but and although, for inferring contrastive vs. concessive discourse relations to complement previous experimental...

The Radon transform is a fundamental tool in many areas. For example, in reconstruction of an image from its projections (CT scanning). Although it is situated in the core of many modern physical computations, the Radon transform lacks a coherent discrete definition for 2D discrete images which is algebraically exact, invertible, and rapidly computable. We define a notion of 2D discrete Radon t...

We present an algorithm for automatically constructing a decompositional shape model from examples. Unlike current approaches to structural model acquisition, in which one-to-one correspondences among appearance-based features are used to construct an exemplar-based model, we search for many-tomany correspondences among qualitative shape features (multi-scale ridges and blobs) to construct a ge...

There are many computational applications and engines used in mathematics, with some of the best-known arguably being Maple, Mathematica, MATLAB, Mathcad. However, although they very complete powerful, demand use commercial licences, which can be a problem for education institutions or cases where students desire to software on an unlimited number devices access it from several them simultaneou...

The period of the great geographical discoveries and formation European colonial empires caused international debate on freedom seas. Many prominent lawyers became involved in dispute, splitting their support between mare liberum clausum. One many spin-off debates was Anglo-Dutch dispute about fishing around coast Britain. Although its most important figures were Grotious Selden, theoretical gr...

Many students avoid or withdraw/drop out of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) majors (including biomechanics) due to anxiety about science mathematics. Physics education r...