In this paper, we describe a design and an implementation of Self-Evolving Database (SEDB), which manages various digital documents with links of five types and supports document management tasks by automating link generation and repair. The SEDB stores only links in a centralized fashion while documents are left in their native formats at their original locations. Each of the links reflects a ...

Previous research studies have demonstrated that the relationship between remote sensing-derived parameters and aboveground biomass (AGB) could vary across different species types. However, there are few studies that calibrate reliable statistical models for mangrove AGB. This study quantifies the differences of accuracy in AGB estimation between the results obtained with and without the consid...

An indicator variable was developed that may be used to visualize and detect bi–directionality in wind tunnel strain–gage balance calibration data. First, the calculation of the indicator variable is explained in detail. Then, an empirical criterion is proposed that may be used to decide which load components of a balance have bi–directional behavior. The criterion could be used, for example, t...

Let SN(P) be the poset obtained by adding a dummy vertex on each diagonal edge of the N’s of a finite poset P. We show that SN(SN(P)) is N-free. It follows that this poset is the smallest N-free barycentric subdivision of the diagram of P, poset whose existence was proved by P.A. Grillet. This is also the poset obtained by the algorithm starting with P0 := P and consisting at step m of adding a...

Central and Western Basque (CWB) dialects have a verb focalization construction involving the dummy verb egin, which as a lexical verb is akin to English ‘make’ or ‘do.’ (Rebuschi 1984, Ortiz de Urbina 1989, Zuazo 1998, Etxepare and Ortiz de Urbina 2003). An example of this construction is given in (1), which Ortiz de Urbina (1989) gives as a felicitous answer to the question, “What happened to...

Discount rate changes always receive considerable attention in financial markets. Two hypotheses compete to explain financial market reactions: the direct ‘borrowing cost effect’ and the announcement effect. This paper examines the issue for the Bundesbank’s discount rate changes after 1979. Summing up we find that market reactions cannot be attributed to a direct borrowing cost effect but excl...

Existing methods that use a fringe projection technique for prosthetic designs produce good results for the trunk and lower limbs; however, the devices used for this purpose are expensive. This paper investigates the use of an inexpensive passive method involving 3D surface reconstruction from video images taken at multiple views. The method that focuses on fitting the reference model of an obj...

By generalizing the standard solution for 2-person games into n-person cases, this paper develops a new solution concept for cooperative games: the consensus value. We characterize the consensus value as the unique function that satisfies efficiency, symmetry, the quasi dummy property and additivity. By means of the transfer property, a second characterization is provided. By defining the stand...

Handling the procedure interface in an HPF compiler is complex due to the many possible combinations of Fortran 90/HPF properties of an actual array argument and its associated dummy argument. This paper describes an algorithm that reduces this complexity by mapping all the combinations of properties to a small set of canonical Internal Representations. These internal representations as well as...

In the discrete cost sharing model with technological cooperation (Bahel and Trudeau (IJGT, 2013)), we study the implications of a number of properties that strengthen the well-known Dummy axiom. Our main axiom, which requires that costless units of demands do not affect the cost shares, is used to characterize two classes of rules. Combined with anonymity and a specific stability property, thi...