Kinematic chain is a combination of links connected by different kinematic pairs (joints). The study of the nature of connection among various links of a kinematic chain is known as structural analysis or topological analysis. In this paper to help the analysis, several methods of representation of the kinematic structure are presented. The study includes the functional schematic representation...

The structural analysis of metabolic networks aims both at understanding the function and the evolution of metabolism. While it is commonly admitted that metabolism is modular, the identification of metabolic modules remains an open topic. Several definitions of what is a module have been proposed. We focus here on the notion of chemical organisations, i.e. sets of molecules which are closed an...

In the present study, the social linkages of street-involved youth and correlates of infection with chlamydia and gonorrhea are explored. This is the first study to assess the social linkages of streetinvolved youth using RDS. Eleven street-involved youth aged 14 to 24 were selected as seeds to recruit their peers into the study using RDS (N=169). Study staff administered a questionnaire, obtai...

This paper compares the efficiency of different sets of tonal descriptors in music structural discovery. Herein, we analyze the use of three different pitch-class distribution features, i.e. Constant-Q Profile, Pitch Class Profile (PCP) and Harmonic Pitch Class Profile (HPCP), to perform structural analysis of a piece of music audio. We hypothesize that proper segmentation serves as an importan...

Since stroke components are the most basic structural featurea of patterns like ch.aracters or linea in im.ages. Prom a tiieui point of bein.g applicable to docum.en.t image understandin.g, it ia necessary to provide a good represen.tation th.at can. express such features, so th,at an interpretation of im.ages can be facilita.ted. Th.is article pre,qen.ta a new tech,n.ique used for ezpressin.g ...

Structural analysis of compound words is necessary and an important process in natural language processing. Proposed here is a corpusand statisticsbased method for the structural analysis of compound words in Japanese. We determine the structure of a compound word by using Internet corpus and calculating the strength of word association among its constituent words. Experiments with 5, 6, 7, and...

The lattice approach to biological structural analysis was made popular by the HP model for protein folding, but had not been used previously for RNA secondary structure prediction. We introduce the Delta toolset for the structural analysis of biological sequences on a 3D triangular lattice. The Delta toolset includes a proof-of-concept RNA folding program that is both fast and accurate in pred...

This paper compares the efficiency of different sets of tonal descriptors in music structural discovery. Herein, we analyze the use of three different pitch-class distribution features, i.e. Constant-Q Profile, Pitch Class Profile (PCP) and Harmonic Pitch Class Profile (HPCP), to perform structural analysis of a piece of music audio. We hypothesize that proper segmentation serves as an importan...

This article provides a structural analysis of corporate interlocks in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. The main goal is, first, to point out that dense interlocking goes along with a socio-economic concentration process originating in the German Empire, and is "freezing" as a proved institutional solution during the Weimar Republic (Abelshauser, 2005; Streeck et al., 2001). Second...