Whenever a technical task is to be solved with the help of a database application and uncertainties regarding the structure, scope or level of detail of the data model exist (either currently or in the future) the use of a generic database application can reduce considerably the cost of implementation and maintenance. Simultaneously the approach described in this contribution permits the operat...

The bundle structure of the space A of Ashtekar’s generalized connections is investigated in the compact case. It is proven that every stratum is a locally trivial fibre bundle. The only stratum being a principal fibre bundle is the generic stratum. Its structure group equals the space G of all generalized gauge transforms modulo the constant center-valued gauge transforms. For abelian gauge th...

E orts are being put in making available generic, and thus reusable, conceptual software designs for the bene t of knowledge system development. These generic conceptual designs de ne the boundaries of (alternative) solutions to a class of design problems (e.g. design of diagnostic or schedule applications). They allow the design problem to be approached as a con guration task. To increase thei...

We propose a fully-automatic 3D model generating method of individual people from multi-view images. An automatically constructed 3D model can be deformed and animated by controlling the joint. An animatable 3D personalized model of individual people is generated by transferring the joint-skeleton structure and appearance of a generic 3D human model to an individual 3D volumetric model reconstr...

Datatype-generic programming is about defining functions that depend on the structure, or “shape”, of datatypes. It has been around for more than 10 years, and a lot of progress has been made, in particular in the lazy functional programming language Haskell. There are more than 10 proposals for generic programming libraries or language extensions for Haskell. In this paper we compare and chara...

The present study investigated the effect of single and multiple genre movies on listening comprehension of upper intermediate language learners. To this end, a language proficiency test was administered to 40 male and female postgraduates of different majors attending International English Language Testing System (IELTS) classes and ultimately 25 upper intermediate language learners were selec...

The main purpose of this paper is to develop the method of characteristic functions for calculating the detection characteristics in the case of the object surrounded by rough surfaces. This method is to be implemented in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems using optimal resolution algorithms. By applying the specified technique, the expressions have been obtained for the false alarm and cor...

Polygonal meshes are used extensively in computer graphics. A polygonal mesh represents a shape, usually in 3D, by using a set of points, the vertices, connected by edges. Edges form the boundaries of faces. A mesh is convenient to work with because it explicitly represents the surface that one is working with—vertices, edges, and faces are discreetly enumerated and may be manipulated directly....

Document understanding has attained a level of maturity that requires migration from ad-hoc experimental systems, each of which employs its own set of assumptions and terms, into a solid, standard frame of reference, with generic deenitions that are agreed upon by the document understanding community. The logical structure of a document conveys semantic information that is beyond the document's...

Biological evolution is a highly sophisticated dynamical phenomenon, and its complexity is often confusing. For the purpose of analysis it may be partitioned into the four partial processes depicted in gure 1 25]: population dynamics, (population) support dynamics, genotype-phenotype mapping, and tness evaluation. These components are properly visualized as map-pings between abstract metric spa...