While generative accounts of language processing assume that children break down into smaller components on which they apply computational operations, usage-based acquire frequently co-occurring words as large chunks, decompose only later in development. We investigated the evidence for multi-word representation idioms like to let cat out bag 9- 10-year-olds using eye-tracking and Event-Related...

The linear economic model behind contemporary product lifecycle representations contradicts planetary boundaries and the idea of sustainability. At same time, Circular Economy (CE) driven models lack consideration profound technological insights. Based on observations in research application projects different industries, a quantitative qualitative literature analysis is applied to identify bot...

Abstract Recent Italian Guidelines provide a possible solution for mitigating the structural risk of existing bridges. The procedure, which entails multi‐level approach, from census structures to resilience assessment road network, is being applied in several portions territory with reference bridges managed by different administrative bodies and private companies. In this paper, application st...

This chapter provides an introduction to the advent of Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO) and its impact on portfolio management in modern day decision-making. Specifically, it outlines the use of the Application Portfolio Matrix (APM) by companies in formulating their strategic IT direction and why such techniques may be unsuitable for outsourcing decisions, which are inherently complex ...

Object tracking is a challenging task in many computer vision applications due to occlusion, scale variation and background clutter, etc. In this paper, we propose a tracking algorithm by combining discriminative global and generative multi-scale local models. In the global model, we teach a classifier with sparse discriminative features to separate the target object from the background based o...