Male grooming has its roots in antiquity. Control and styling of facial hair has invariably required the development and use of metal instrumentation. Once crude and unreliable, it has latterly become sophisticated and subject to intense research and development at the highest scientific level. This paper describes how male grooming is being impacted by improvements in fundamental understanding...

The “Document Web'' has established itself through the creation of an impressive family of XML and related languages. In addition to this, the “Semantic Web'' is developing its own family of languages based primarily on RDF. Although these families were both developed specifically for “the Web'', each language family has been developed from different premises with specific goals in mind. The re...

This paper presents a dynamic voltage and frequency scaling methodology for long-term operation, using fault-tolerance to prevent failures. The DVFS methodology allows a dual-mode operation, targeting high performance or low-power operation modes, and using an on-line circuit monitoring with aging-aware fault-tolerance to prevent errors during a long-term operation. Fail-safe operation is achie...

In this paper, we investigate the application of supervised machine learning techniques to predict the price of used cars in Mauritius. The predictions are based on historical data collected from daily newspapers. Different techniques like multiple linear regression analysis, k-nearest neighbours, naïve bayes and decision trees have been used to make the predictions. The predictions are then ev...

As protein engineering becomes more sophisticated, practitioners increasingly need to share diagrams for communicating protein designs. To this end, we present a draft visual language, Protein Language, that describes the high-level architecture of an engineered protein with easy-to-draw glyphs, intended to be compatible with other biological diagram languages such as SBOL Visual and SBGN. Prot...

In this paper a new method for determining the component values and transistor dimensions for CMOS operational amplifiers (Op-Amps) is presented. As a wide variety of design objectives and constraints are Posynomial function of the design variables, the Optimization is done by Geometric Programming. As a consequence we can efficiently determine globally optimal trade-offs among competing perfor...

This paper aims to present a solution for a scenario wherein a vast amount of less experienced users (e.g., heads of sections) are to be provided with Web reports that are personalized in the sense that each user automatically obtains data for those business units lying within his or her responsibility. The layout of these reports, on the other hand, should be common to all users and fully alig...

The 3D evaluation of design shapes is an essential step in product styling. Thus, physical models of final-stage design alternatives have been made in tradition, and recently the effort to substitute them with CAD models has been tried. Whereas, designers in the early phase of the design-development stage where almost design concepts are determined, still use raster-type 2D graphics S/Ws. It ca...

Costuming within the BBC television drama series Killing Eve (2018–) functions as a spectacular dressing-up box to support representation of Villanelle (Jodie Comer) glamorous globe-trotting assassin. This article will argue that Villanelle’s fashion-forward wardrobe offers multifarious contemporary queer styling. Her costuming is characterized by gender fluidity and play with dominant codes si...