Use of qualitative features facilitates viewpoint-invariant recognition. Are such features processed by a structural description system? Subjects responded that they \remembered" or were only \familiar" with previously seen objects that were either qualitatively (QL) or quantitatively (QT) diierent from one another. The proportion of remember responses was equivalent for QL and QT objects and d...

We design a temporal description logic, TQL, that extends the standard ontology language OWL2QL, provides basic means for temporal conceptual modelling and ensures first-order rewritability of conjunctive queries for suitably defined data instances with validity time.

We consider an application of the mathematical formalism of quantum mechanics (QM) outside physics, namely, to game theory. We present a simple game between macroscopic players, say Alice and Bob (or in a more complex form Alice, Bob and Cecilia), which can be represented in the quantum-like (QL) way – by using a complex probability amplitude (game’s “wave function”) and noncommutative operator...

BACKGROUND To assess the relationship between dosimetric parameters and the quality of life (QL) outcomes of patients with low-intermediate-risk localised prostate cancer (LPC) treated with low-dose-rate brachytherapy (LDR-BT). MATERIALS AND METHODS We evaluated the participants in two consecutive prospective studies of the QL of patients treated with LDR-BT for LPC. QL was evaluated by means...

The aims of the present study were to examine whether Asian American youth experience disparities in quality of life (QL) compared with Hispanic, African American, and white youth in the general population and to what extent socioeconomic status (SES) mediates any disparities among these racial/ethnic groups. Data were obtained from the Healthy Passages study, in which 4,972 Asian American (148...

We propose a new mathematical engine for reasoning with abstraction to support engineering design. The new Qua,|i|y Lattice (qL) will built on the foundation of the existing Quantity Lattice by Reid Simmons [Simmons, 1986], the Bounder inequality reasoner by Elisha Sacks [Sacks, 1987], and the Minima hybrid real/sign algebra by Brian Williams [Williams, 1991]. The new qL supports representation...

We propose a new mathematical engine for reasoning with abstraction to support engineering design. The new Quantity Lattice (ql) will be built on the foundation of the existing Quantity Lattice by Reid Simmons Simmons, 1986], the Bounder inequality reasoner by Elisha Sacks Sacks, 1987b], and the Minima hybrid real/sign algebra by Brian Williams Williams, 1991]. The new ql supports representatio...

The paper analyzes errors in retrievals of cloud liquid water content (Ql) and precipitation flux (R) based on three different sets of parameters: a) radar reflectivity, Z, b) radar reflectivity and Doppler velocity, V , and c) radar reflectivity and Doppler velocity spectrum width, σ d d. As radar reflectivity represents the sixth moment of the drop size distribution (DSD), one can expect it t...