This paper proposes Hybrid SFL-Bees Algorithm that combines strengths of Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm (SFLA) and Bees Algorithms (BA). While SFLA can find optimal solutions quickly because of directive searching and exchange of information, BA has higher random that make it easily escape local optima to find global solutions. Thus Hybrid SFL-Bees Algorithm is able to find optimal solutions q...

We have implemented a Japanese text processing system, combining the existing parser and dictionary with the linguistic resources that we developed based on systemic functional linguistics. In this paper, we explain the text understanding algorithm of our system that utilizes the various linguistic resources in the Semiotic Base suggested by Halliday. First, we describe the structure of the SB ...

Slicing-Fitting-Linking (SFL) is a fast triangulation technique that guarantees building a closed mesh with consistent normals. The proposed technique can be used with diierent surface reconstruction cues such as laser scanner, stereo, SFS, and CT/MRI. The output of SFL can be in the form of STL les that are suitable for most rapid prototyping machines. The technique has three tasks. The rst ta...

This paper reports on a case study from the Solomon Islands where national testing indicates poor performance in English literacy, particularly ability to write continuous text. Analysis of sample scripts was undertaken using Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) reveal weakness elaborate events within writing. Teaching and learning materials were subsequently developed results analysis, drawin...

Forward-looking automotive radars can sense long-distant targets to enable early warning, but the lateral resolution is limited. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) techniques achieve very high azimuth cannot resolve in forward direction. As a trade-off, squint-forward-looking SAR (SFL-SAR) perform 2D imaging on distant area squint moving direction, providing both and warning. In this paper, we anal...

This  case  study  analyzes  how  a  Taiwanese  EFL  teacher  participating  in  a  U.S.  based MATESOL program made sense of systemic functional linguistics (SFL) and genre based pedagogy  in  designing  and  reflecting  on  literacy  instruction  for  EFL  learners  in  Taiwan. Using  longitudinal  ethnographic  methods,  the  findings  indicate  that  this  teacher’s conceptualization  of  g...

The purpose of this retrospective study was to review cases of spinal fractures or luxations (SFL) treated with various modalities in order to describe fracture location, neurological status, treatment, outcome and complications in a patient population at a single centre. The medical records of dogs and cats that had been diagnosed with a SFL between C1 and L7 between January 1995 and June 2005...