Quality and complexity assessment are critical aspects in feature oriented software development. Feature oriented development is part of software product line methodology where software is framed using feature concept. In course of research; object oriented metrics are being used to assess the quality of feature model. But these metrics limit the complexity within the features and complexity ac...

Several researches have been proposed over the past years to specify a selective access control for XML document. However, most of the previous researches only consider read privilege while specifying XML access control when access control policies support update rights is untouched. Therefore, a challenging issue is how to define an XML access control model to handle update operations that inc...

A common way to study protein function is to deplete the protein of interest from cells and observe the response. Traditional methods involve disrupting gene expression but these techniques are only effective against newly synthesized proteins and leave previously existing and stable proteins untouched. Here, we introduce a technique that induces the rapid degradation of specific proteins in ma...

Lambda-calculi with vectorial structures have been studied in various ways, but their semantics remain mostly untouched. The main contribution of this paper is to provide a categorical framework for the semantics of such algebraic lambda-calculi. We first develop a categorical analysis of a general simply-typed lambda-calculus endowed with a structure of module. We study the problems arising fr...

Since the 19th century, opium has been produced and consumed in the areas of Asia, currently referred to as the Golden Crescent and the Golden Triangle (1). The Golden Crescent lies in South and Southwest Asia, including districts in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan, the adjacent Badakhshan area of Afghanistan and the Baluchistan area of Iran. The area has been the scene of tradition...

Few would refute the view that information systems have and will continue to make significant impacts on our societies. There is almost no area of human endeavor that has been untouched by information technology-based information systems. In some areas, IS has had a positive effect (finding survivors after natural disasters such as the Tsunami), while in others, the misuse of IS has aided in aw...

Many image denoising methods can be characterized as minimizing “loss + penalty,” where the “loss” measures the fidelity of the denoised image to the data, and the “penalty” measures the smoothness of the denoising function. In this paper, we propose two models that use the L1-norm of the pixel updates as the penalty. The L1-norm penalty has the advantage of changing only the noisy pixels, whil...

The influence of beam intensity on laser ablation quality and ablation size is experimentally studied on graphene-coated silicon/silicon dioxide substrates. With an amplified femtosecond-pulsed laser system, by systematically decreasing the average power, periodic stripes with decreasing widths are ablated. Histogram analyses of the untouched and ablated regions of scanning electron microscope ...

Eye detection is an integral part of eye-tracking for without it there would be no eye-tracking at all. Most eye-trackers utilize infrared lights and cameras to find the eyes; however, while being quick to find a person’s eyes they can be inaccurate due to false positives caused by light reflection. Interestingly there exist multiple methods of color based eye detection that are able to find a ...

B rownfield sites are a common eyesore on the edges of many cities; the abandoned, decaying hulks of industrial or commercial structures sit rusting and forgotten while they leach harmful chemicals such as asbestos, solvents or heavy metals into the soil. Some brownfields lie virtually untouched for years because it is often cheaper to expand cities into virgin territory than to demolish large ...