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People buy products to express their desired identity and therefore prefer products that fit their own personality. The personality of products is created by implicit and explicit design features. However the translation of implicit and explicit design characteristics into new designs is difficult for designers. Especially for beginning design students, giving meaning to products by thinking ab...

We present a software tool for the analysis of 3D-line shaped objects in a 3D grey valued image. We discuss the extraction of the object from the image, the measurement of its shape features and its display.

The replication of archaic documents on paper using modern typographic tools is a quite challenging task. This task is usually broken in two sub-tasks: the design of a font that fully respects all aspects of the handwritten document and the design of software tools (macros for the digital typesetter and/or external routines) that are used to set the archaic document. Here we report on the creat...

This paper presents work on programming methodologies for the programming tool GCLA. Three methods are discussed which show how to construct the control part of a GCLA program, where the definition of a specific problem and the set of intended queries are given beforehand. The methods are described by a series of examples, but we also try to give a more explicit description of each method. We a...

background and purpose: medical professional behavior includes the characteristics of devotion, integrity, compassion, good communication skills, respect, responsibility, excellence and leadership. evaluation plays an important role in identifying the professionalism of people and training. thus, this study was conducted to evaluate the professional behavior of clinical residents. methods: in t...

This paper presents and discusses an approach to modelling the situation at the Abermule Train Station immediately leading up to the train disaster of 1921. The incident itself is summarised and a modelling approach introduced and presented that is based on the principles behind Empirical Modelling (EM) and yet also around the notion of tasks. A corresponding model, built with EM software tools...