Concepts of kinds of things (e.g. DOG), have the dual function of specifying how to think about indefinitely many things as well as providing the means for thinking about a single abstract kind which is constituted by indefinitely many instances. In this talk, I sketch a theory of conceptual representation that places this dual function of concepts at its core. The theory is shown to provide a ...

Motivated by claims to ‘bridge the representational gap between image and model features’ and by the growing importance of topological properties we discuss several extensions to dual graph pyramids: structural simplification should preserve important topological properties and content abstraction could be guided by an external knowledge base. We review multilevel graph hierarchies under the sp...

The module of splines on a polyhedral complex can be viewed as the syzygy module of its dual graph with edges weighted by powers of linear forms. When the assignment of linear forms to edges meets certain conditions, we can decompose the graph into disjoint cycles without changing the isomorphism class of the syzygy module. Thus we can use this decomposition to compute the homological dimension...

Due to the impact of climate change, the process of salinity intrusion occurs frequently in coastal areas of Vietnam. The main objective of this study is therefore to try diff erent nanofi ltration (NF) processes (such as single-stage and dual-stage NF) to treat brackish water for residential areas in Thu Bon river basin, where the salinity varies signifi cant with seas...

The study of the c$k$-fusions frames shows that the emphasis on the measure spaces introduces a new idea, although some similar properties with the discrete case are raised. Moreover, due to the nature of measure spaces, we have to use new techniques for new results. Especially, the topic of the dual of frames  which is important for frame applications, have been specified  completely for the c...

background: water filtration units have been faced problems in water turbidity removal related to their media, which is determined by qualitative indices. moreover, current qualitative indices such as turbidity and escaping particle number could not precisely determine the efficiency of the media in water filtration, so defining new indices is essential. in this study, the efficiency of anthrac...

this study aims to design some dual-target anticancer candidates, capable to act as an alkylating agent as well as a thymidylate synthase (ts) inhibitor. the designed scaffold is a combination of nucleobase, amino acid and aziridine structures. the candidates are docked into ts and three dna double strand structures and evaluated based on their binding interaction energies and ligand efficienci...

temporal bone chondroblastoma is an extremely rare benign bone tumor. we encountered two cases showing similar imaging findings on computed tomography (ct), magnetic resonance imaging (mri), and dual-time-point 18f-fluorodeoxyglucose (18f-fdg) positron emission tomography (pet)/ct. in both cases, ct images revealed temporal bone defects and sclerotic changes around the tumor. most parts of the ...

effects of different levels of cadmium (0.1, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256 mg/l of culture medium) were evaluated using gas production technique. in the glass vials used to measure gas production 30 mg of buffered rumen fluid (2:1 ratio of rumen fluid: buffer) poured in glass and cultured at 38.6 temperature. volume and pressure of produced gas were measured with syringes and digital pressur...