*Correspondence: Miroslav Slouf , Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Heyrovsky Sq. 2, 162 06 Prague 6, Czech Republic e-mail: [email protected] We introduce a dynamic sandwich method, which can be used for in situ observation and quantification of polymer crystallization nucleated by micro/nanoparticles. The method was applied on polyoxymethylene (P...

auctions have been as a competitive method of buying and selling valuable or rare items for a long time. single-sided auctions in which participants negotiate on a single attribute (e.g. price) are very popular. double auctions and negotiation on multiple attributes create more advantages compared to single-sided and single-attribute auctions. nonetheless, this adds the complexity of the auctio...

4 This resolves itself, of course, into the relative stimulation of different parts of the retina (Sumner, Biol. Bull., 65, 266-282 (1933)). 6 The Ives tint-photometer and Weston foot-candle meter were used for these determinations, which cannot be regarded as more than rather rough approximations. 6 We owe to Professor Eric Ogden, of the University of California, the suggestion which led us to...

Thermochromic windows have been widely studied as a technology that can potentially offer increases in energy conservation and provide desirable luminous environment inside buildings. However, there has little attention placed on how the tinted states of thermochromic glazing influence occupant behaviour visual perception. An experiment under controlled conditions was designed to test different...

This paper describes an ongoing web-based approach to collecting color names or color categories. Previous studies have tended to require a large number of observations from a small number of observers. These studies have also tended to limit responses to one-word or monolexical replies. Many studies have also focused on response time or levels of intra-observer agreement in order to identify f...

The wearing of tinted spectacle lenses is considered by some health care workers to be a marker of psychopathology or a hypochondriacal personality type. The purpose of this study was to determine whether there is a relationship between the wearing of tinted spectacle lenses and personality type in physically healthy subjects. The Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire 5th Edition, a multidim...

In this paper, we examine Decision Graphs, a generalization of decision trees. We present an inference scheme to construct decision graphs using the Minimum Message Length Principle. Empirical tests demonstrate that this scheme compares favourably with other decision tree inference schemes. This work provides a metric for comparing the relative merit of the decision tree and decision graph form...