The present article discusses how an ethical and environmental labelling system can be implemented in fashion garment markets. Consumers act in markets that provide them with more information than their limited cognitive capacity allows them to handle. Ethical and environmental labelling in markets characterized by change, such as the fashion garment market, makes decision-making even more comp...

The salivary glands of the dipteran Chironomus tentans provide an elegant model system for the analysis of specific messenger ribonucleoprotein particles, the Balbiani Ring (BR) mRNP. BR mRNP particles contain long RNA transcripts of roughly 35-40 kb in size which possess a highly repetitive sequence. The diameter of the granular BR mRNP particles is around 50 nm and their geometry was meanwhil...

Deterministic annealing and relaxation labeling algorithms for classiication and matching are presented and discussed. A new approach |self annealing|is introduced to bring deterministic annealing and relaxation labeling into accord. Self annealing results in an emergent linear schedule for winner-take-all and assignment problems. Also, the relaxation labeling algorithm can be seen as an approx...

In this paper, we tackle the problem of matching of objects in video in the context of the rough indexing paradigm. The approach developed is based on matching of region adjacency graphs (RAG) of pre-segmented objects. In the context of the rough indexing paradigm, the video data are of very low resolution and segmentation is consequently inaccurate. Hence the RAGs vary with the time. The contr...

A novel approach to junction detection using an explicit line finder model and contextual rules is presented. Contextual rules expressing properties of 3D-edges (surface orientation discontinuities) limit the number of line intersections interpreted as junctions. Probabilistic relaxation labelling scheme is used to combine the a priori world knowledge represented by contextual rules and the inf...

We present a comparative study of several optimisation approaches used in probabilistic relaxation labelling. For test purposes, we propose a 3 node 2 label variant of Rosenfelds famous triangle labelling problem. Experiments comparing Rosenfelds original probability updating rule with the theoretically better justified projected gradient method of Hummel et al show that the latter is to prefer...

BACKGROUND Precautionary 'may contain' warnings are used to indicate possible allergen contamination. Neither food safety nor foods labelling legislation address this issue. The aim of this study is to understand how peanut and nut allergic adults interpret 'may contain' labelling and how they use this information when purchasing food. METHODS Qualitative methods were used to explore both beh...