This paper explores the system of body part terms used in locative descriptions in Juchitán Zapotec or Juchiteco. In particular, it examines their semantic properties as heads of Ground phrases to determine whether they encode spatial and locative relations or whether they remain as object-part denoting nominals. The analysis shows that structural and functional analogy allows body part terms t...

This paper discusses how to make a distributed multimedia object system exible so as to satisfy applications' requirements in change of the system environment. The system change is modeled to be the change of not only for types of service but also quality of service (QoS) supported by the objects. A method changes not only the state of the object but also QoS of the state. We discuss new equiva...

In object classification tasks from digital photographs, multiple categories are considered for annotation. Some of these visual concepts may have semantic relations and can appear simultaneously in images. Although taxonomical relations and co-occurrence structures between object categories have been studied, it is not easy to use such information to enhance performance of object classificatio...

A clinical approach to the understanding of disturbances of the psyche that otherwise would be regarded as pathological states of mind is described. A parallel is drawn between psychoanalytic object relations theory and "spiritual object relations," working from the premise that mind comes before matter. A number of clinical examples illustrate how both psychological and spiritual interpretatio...

In this paper, we describe the implementation of IUGQL, a graph oriented query language for object oriented databases that is based on the Graph Oriented Object Data (GOOD) model. In the implementation, databases (graphs) are represented as a set of (named) binary relations. The graph oriented queries are translated into equivalent Tarski algebra expressions. These Tarski expressions manipulate...

We describe how a set-theoretic foundation for mathematics can be encoded in the new system Scunak. We then discuss an encoding of the construction of functions as functional relations in untyped set theory. Using the dependent type theory of Scunak, we can define object level application and lambda abstraction operators (in the spirit of higher-order abstract syntax) mediating between function...

For reuse in concurrent object-oriented languages we present a set of reuse constructs. We give criteria for relations between classes that can be implemented by those reuse constructs, characterize the properties inherited via the constructs and explore that we have not only constructs but concepts for reuse. We demonstrate the concepts and constructs with the object-oriented concurrent langua...

The chapter discusses the theoretical assumptions that responses to the Rorschach inkblots (a) reflect how people deal with decision-making and problem-solving tasks and (b) reveal underlying thoughts and feelings that are projected onto the external stimulus (the inkblot). In this regard regard, the chapter discusses four psychodynamic perspectives for interpreting Rorschach responses of adole...

There is a variety of inferred program behavior models. They might miss some features because they are approximating not the program specification but the implementation. In this paper, we present a discrete model to avoid this problem by generating data for approximating object relations arising from the program execution. The data is a collection of object relations which can be used for debu...