Notwithstanding several authors have recognised the conceptual key of “politics” as an important component in any Requirements Engineering (RE) process, practitioners still lack a pragmatic answer on how to deal with the political dimension: such an ability has become a mostly desirable but totally undetailed part of what we usually and vaguely refer to as "professional experience". Nor were pr...

Since participants at both end of the communication channel must share common pictogram interpretation to communicate, the pictogram selection task must consider both participants’ pictogram interpretations. Pictogram interpretation, however, can be ambiguous. To assist the selection of pictograms more likely to be interpreted as intended, we propose a categorical semantic relevance measure whi...

An algorithm for traffic sign recognition and tracking is proposed in this paper. Image segmentation based on color space conversion and shape classification based on signature feature are used to detect traffic signs in complex urban scenes. To improve recognition accuracy, a two-modal representation method is presented to classify the detected candidate regions for traffic sign. One modal uti...

BACKGROUND The coexistance among fungal pathogens and tuberculosis pulmonary is a clinical condition that generally occurs in immunosuppressive patients, however, immunocompetent patients may have this condition less frequently. OBJECTIVE We report the case of an immunocompetent patient diagnosed with coinfection Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Candida albicans. CASE DESCRIPTION A female pat...

Menstrual bleeding patterns are considered relevant indicators of reproductive health, though few studies have evaluated patterns among regularly menstruating premenopausal women. The authors evaluated self-reported bleeding patterns, incidence of spotting, and associations with reproductive hormones among 201 women in the BioCycle Study (2005-2007) with 2 consecutive cycles. Bleeding patterns ...

In many low and middle income countries (LMIC), workers' and consumers' only access to risk and hazard information in relation to the chemicals they use or work with is on the chemical label and safety data sheet. Recall of chemical hazard information is vital in order for label warnings and precautionary information to promote effective safety behaviors. A literature review, therefore, was con...

This paper contributes to the viewpoint and illumination independent recognition of planar color patterns such as labels, logos, signs, pictograms, etc. by means of moment invariants. It introduces the idea of using powers of the intensities in the different color bands of a color image and combinations thereof for the construction of the moments. First, a complete classification is made of all...

A recent profusion of microarray analysis of gene expression during the cell division cycle raises questions as to whether statistical problems with the data analysis have been considered. Two non-scientific examples – ESP and the Bible Code – illustrate the problem. Individuals with extrasensory perception (ESP) were identified by their ability to guess pictograms in a deck of 25 cards. There ...

New invariant features are presented that can be used for the recognition of planar color patterns such as labels , logos, signs, pictograms, etc., irrespective of the viewpoint or the illumination conditions, and without the need for error prone contour extraction. The new features are based on moments of powers of the intensities in the individual color bands and combinations thereof. These m...

The article considers dialogues containing emoticons, which have become case materials of various lawsuits. key problems for legal linguistics related to the functioning texts emoticons in modern electronic communication are considered: verbalization including online with help specialized emoji-translators, and their interpretation lexicography. Basing on considered court cases, problem similar...