Sitting is the most frequently performed posture of everyday life. Biomechanical interactions with office chairs have therefore a long-term effect on our musculoskeletal system and ultimately on our health and wellbeing. This paper highlights the kinematic effect of office chairs on the spinal column and its single segments. Novel chair concepts with multiple degrees of freedom provide enhanced...

The ability to acquire, communicate and transfer complex knowledge is one of the fundamental characteristics that make us human. It should be no surprise that knowledge representation and management is seen as a fundamental problem in Artificial Intelligence research. There is certainly no requirement that a machine encode this knowledge the same way humans do. However, any decisions in represe...

In allegories polysemy relates not only to the context and the audience’s understanding but also to the structural characters of these texts. This paper investigates the function of structural and narrative properties in the creation of multiple interpretations of an allegory. Focusing on the events and following a unique story-line is the most important trait in helping to read the alleg...

â  â  â  â  narration elements in the story of mousa and khezr â  (based on character and time) â  â  sayyed reza solayman zadeh najafi * â  azim tahmasbi ** â  â  abstract â  â  the story consists of elements such as character and time and the story features. characters make story’s structure and there is not story without character . time element is also necessary for the story . each story...

Entrainment of underlying debris by geophysical flows can significantly increase the flow deposit extent. To study this phenomenon, analog laboratory experiments have been conducted on granular column collapse over an inclined channel with and without an erodible bed made of similar granular material. Results show that for slope angles below a critical value θc, between 10◦ and 16◦, the run out...

News portals, such as Yahoo News or Google News, collect large amounts of documents from a variety of sources on a daily basis. Only a small portion of these documents can be selected and displayed on the homepage. Thus, there is a strong preference for major, recent events. In this work, we propose a scalable and accurate First Story Detection (FSD) pipeline that identifies fresh news. In comp...