This article focuses on the phenomenon of global rivalry between China and United States in terms power transition theory, which is scientifically new relevant due to increased attention so-called Thucydides trap, which, as some experts claim, both states have fallen. paper presents a different vision for leadership shaping world order, has already taken form overt non-violent confrontation man...

A novel image-based approach for detecting pedestrian crossings to enhance the safety and mobility of blind people while crossing a road is described. This is achieved through bipolarity-based segmentation and projective invariantbased recognition. A thorough evaluation of the proposed approach was conducted using 100 real images with and without crossings. It was found that the proposed techni...

We present a set of problem frames specialized to the area of geographic applications. Problem frames describe the elements of common problems, and help a specifier understand and decompose a complex problem into simpler subproblems for which a solution is often known. We provide an overview of the main issues in geographic applications, and present twelve frames that address many of the proble...

The specifier of a user-interface describes userperceivuble functions and information organisation in an implementation independent way. The designer is concerned with both the presentation and software structure of the user-interface. The path from specification to software design can be assisted by design patterns. In this paper we examine techniquesfor specification and the design of both th...

Two general paradigms have influenced the study of nominals since the middle eighties. According to the syntactic DP hypothesis of Abney (1987), the syntactic unit that had formerly been known as noun phrase should in fact be analyzed as a phrase headed by a determiner, hence the label DP. Figure 1 gives a simple version of the DP hypothesis, without deciding here about the category of the spec...

We try to provide a tentative assessment of the role of fuzzy sets in decision analysis. We discuss membership functions, aggregation operations, linguistic variables, fuzzy intervals and the valued preference relations they induce. The importance of the notion of bipolarity and the potential of qualitative evaluation methods are also pointed out. We take a critical standpoint on where we stand...

Icelandic NP-movement is Case-driven A-movement dislocating any NP with structural Case to the middle field. We argue that all NP-movement targets a Multiple Specifier Construction of TP. The hypothesis explains why the landing site does not correlate with the Case of the NP, why sentential adverbs show that all NP-movement targets the same phrasal category, and why the c-command relations unde...