It has been suggested that the method of constructing an urban spatial structure typically follows a forward process from planning and design up to expression, as reflected in both graphic and text descriptions of urban planning. Although unorthodox, the original status structures can be extracted and constructed from an existing urban land-use map. This approach not only provides the methodolo...

The goal of this work is to delimit the field of Positive Technology--the scientific and applied approach to the use of technology for improving the quality of our personal experience. This new field combines the objectives of Positive Psychology with enhancements of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) by focusing on three key variables--emotional quality, engagement/actualization...

The software development process is described in terms of cost or effort via cost drivers. Some scenarios are inadequately addressed because the available elements to describe them become inappropriate. Those scenarios comprise a great amount of effort at the conception stage and at managing perspectives and relationships. This work explores several aspects not considered as cost drivers that c...

Case attraction has stood as a puzzling, and elusive, oddity of older Indo-European languages. This paper focuses on attraction in Ancient Greek, establishing both the regularity of the operation and its underlying motivation. A novel method is proposed for grounding case in terms of a feature-based representation of agentivity properties, loosely based on Dowty’s proto-role theory, but reformu...

The mountain cloud forest of Taiwan can be delimited from other forest types using a map of the ground fog frequency. In order to create such a frequency map from remotely sensed data, an algorithm able to detect ground fog is necessary. Common techniques for ground fog detection based on weather satellite data cannot be applied to fog occurrences in Taiwan as they rely on several assumptions r...

A number of ancient shorelines formed by late-Pleistocene proglacial lakes have been found in eastern upper Michigan. These shorelines delimit several water planes, the uppermost of which is correlated with the Main Lake Algonquin stage. This correlation is based on the continuity of the highest water plane with Main Algonquin shorelines in Wisconsin and Ontario, the strength of the shoreline f...

Current state-of-the-art AI algorithms outperform humans on several well delimited tasks but have difficulty emulating general human behavior. One of the reasons for this is that human behavior, even in short scenarios, requires the integration of multiple cognitive mechanisms which are deployed simultaneously and are interacting with each other in complex and subtle ways. In this paper we show...

Recently, many works focus on the implementation of collective communication operations adapted to wide area computational systems, like computational Grids or global-computing. Due to the inherently heterogeneity of such environments, most works separate"clusters"in different hierarchy levels. to better model the communication. However, in our opinion, such works do not give enough attention t...

The information extraction is to delimit in advance, as part of the specification of the task, the semantic range of the output and to filter information from large volumes of texts. The most representative word of the document is composed of named entities and pronouns. Therefore, it is important to resolve coreference in order to extract the meaningful information in information extraction. C...

In this paper, I present a unified treatment of the three different types of Japanese causatives, the -ni causative, the -o causative and the lexical causative, which relies on a notion of “Late Insertion” of lexical items, as proposed in Halle and Marantz (1993). Crucially, all three are claimed to contain a “CAUSE” morpheme which is spelled out as saseat PF. This morpheme is the reflex of a l...