ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I wish to sincerely thank my research advisor, Dr. Daniel A. Reed, for his kind guidance and support along the development of this thesis. Thank him for providing me with this opportunity to benefit from his knowledge. I would like to thank the members of the Pablo group who have helped and encouraged me in my work. I would like to thank Eric Shaffer, Don Schmidt and Jim Oly fo...

Jin Liu 1,2, Wenxiang Zhao 1,2,*, Jinghua Ji 1,2, Guohai Liu 1,2 and Tao Tao 1,2 1 School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China; [email protected] (J.L.); [email protected] (J.J.); [email protected] (G.L.); [email protected] (T.T.) 2 Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Drive and Intelligent Control for Electric Vehicle, Zhenjiang 212013, China * Corresponde...

With the support of the comprehensive review in Liu et al. [14], we consider dependency distance minimization to be firmly established as a quantitative property of syntactic trees. In this comment, we consider future empirical and theoretical directions for this concept, including a recent information-theoretic reinterpretation of dependency locality effects as proposed by Futrell and Levy [4].

Typographic characters implicitly incorporate structure elements such as stems, bars, round parts, arches and serifs, which are repeated throughout the characters of a font. Although this structure information is important when typographers design typefaces, it is however not explicitly described in today’s outline font technology. As a consequence, coherently varying the style of an outline fo...

the light of the Genius Loci theory. The theory has been verified in many studies by the traditional-Islamic philosophers. Proving the closeness of these two viewpoints in extent and type of the environmental influences on disposition can open a venue for applying the theory of Genius Loci to establish a basis for environmental design in regions with Islamic and traditional cultures. This re...

Bruce Thacker never took an art class. He never even took a computer class. His degree is in geology, and he fi rst bought a computer in 1990 to track stock investments. Somewhere in the convoluted melange of his linear history, he owned a contemporary art gallery, invested in stocks and real estate, owned a custom photo lab, and was a professional photographer. “Other things that I’ve never ha...

although coronary artery disease (cad) is not common among individuals younger than 40-45 years of age, a small percentage of this age group needs to undergo surgical revascularization because of cad. why some people are at higher risk of developing premature cad is not clearly known. increased number of traditional risk factors or genetic predisposition may play significant roles in this regar...

youssef ismael – iraqi great artist – is one of the nobles in playwriting either in writing or in criticism. al – aani has enjoyed beresht’s theories and ideas while his idea were based on political requirements which was dominant in that era; he wanted to choose a frame for playwriting which considered all types of people of the society. the present article which is analytical – descriptive, s...

Information technology and medical technology have developed rapidly, making evidence based medicine has become an inevitable trend of electronic medical record. However, as non-standard of the medical concept of the lack of unified nomenclature system norms, leading to a concept can be expressed by a variety of names. And traditional searching methods can not be semantic query expansion, recal...

The Silence of the Lambs, released in 1991 United States, is one first Hollywood films to feature women as subjects. film has a certain historical background that makes it good material for studying development women’s movement and response traditional patriarchal society improvement status. This paper analyzes feminist content from perspective power, combining history with growth characters, r...