We compare national education policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in England, Germany and Italy explore negotiations about public good identify role that research has played framing, legitimating rendering trustworthy settlements reached. National data, comprising news media reports publically available documents, are analysed compared debates their consequences within across contexts. Ou...

The support for displaying HTML and especially complex Web sites has always been problematic in Tk. Several efforts have been made in order to alleviate this problem, and this paper presents another (and still incomplete) one. This paper presents TkGecko, a Tcl/Tk extension written in C++, which allows Gecko (the HTML processing and rendering engine developed by the Mozilla Foundation) to be em...

Mean Radiant Temperature (MRT) is a critical physical quantity that indicates how human beings experience radiation in their surrounding environment. If taken outdoors, MRT depends on the temperature of the sky, ground, vegetation and surrounding buildings, and is therefore difficult to predict reliably. An additional challenge for designers is that publically available simulation tools do not ...

We investigate the use of the standard morphological texture characterisation methods, the granulometry and the variogram, in the task of texture classification. These methods are applied to both colour and greyscale texture images. We also introduce a method for minimising the effect of different illumination conditions and show that its use leads to improved classification. The classification...

The Hypercube Neural Network Algorithm is a novel supervised method for classification. One hypercube is defined per class in the attribute space based on the training data. Each dimension of a hypercube is set to cover the full range of values in the class. The hypercube learning is therefore a rapid, one-shot form of learning. This paper presents three versions of the algorithm: hypercube wit...

Carotenoid-protein complex (CPC) was isolated from chromoplast-enriched suspensions of cassava storage root (CSR) using size exclusion chromatography and characterized. Peptide sequences (LC_MS/MS spectrum) obtained from CPC and their corresponding proteins were obtained using publically available databases. Small Heat Shock Proteins (sHSPs) were the most abundant proteins identified in the CPC...

MOTIVATION Chloroplast genomes are now produced in the hundreds for angiosperm phylogenetics projects, but current methods for annotation, alignment and tree estimation still require some manual intervention reducing throughput and increasing analysis time for large chloroplast systematics projects. RESULTS Verdant is a web-based software suite and database built to take advantage a novel ann...

Dynamic storage allocation is an important part of a large class of computer programs written in C and C High performance algorithms for dynamic storage allocation have been and will continue to be of considerable interest This paper presents detailed measurements of the cost of dynamic storage allocation in diverse C and C programs using ve very di erent dynamic storage allocation implementati...

We want to investigate how well animated face models can express emotions when controlled by low level MPEG-4 FAPs reproducing the facial motion captured from real persons acting out the emotions. We propose a test procedure for evaluating the expressiveness of a face model and compare it to other face models as well as to real video. The test is reproducible, and the software and data used are...

Optical strain maps calculated during a facial expression describe a bio-mechanical property of facial skin tissue, and are derived from the non-rigid motion incurred during facial expressions. In this paper, we propose a method for accurately estimating and modeling the three-dimensional strain impacted onto the face using standard optical flow techniques and a dynamic depth map. We demonstrat...