To facilitate the intuitional analysis of protein sequences, a novel graphical representation of protein sequences called ADLD (Alignment Diagonal Line Diagram) is introduced in this paper first, and then a new ADLD based method is proposed and utilized to analyze the similarity/dissimilarity of protein sequences. Comparing with existing methods, our ADLD based method is proved to be effective ...

Interlanguage pragmatics, as an inseparable part of communicative competence, has been emphasized as an ultimate objective in language learning. This study explored the perceptions of Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) students regarding interlanguage pragmatics and the impact of textbooks tasks on shaping their pragmatic competence. To accomplish this objective, 137 senior EFL student...

Abstract This paper argues that Kant endorses a distinction between rational and natural sympathy, it presents an interpretation of sympathy as power voluntary posteriori productive imagination. In we draw on the imagination’s powers (a) to subjectively unify contents intuition, in order imaginatively put ourselves others’ places, (b) associate imagined intuitional with concepts others use conv...

Recently, the term knowledge graph has been used frequently in research and business, usually in close association with Semantic Web technologies, linked data, large-scale data analytics and cloud computing. Its popularity is clearly influenced by the introduction of Google’s Knowledge Graph in 2012, and since then the term has been widely used without a definition. A large variety of interpret...

The Quranic concept of lapidating devils with meteors has received a variety of interpretations throughout Islamic history. In the past, it was interpreted to mean heavenly meteors thrown at devils in order to prevent them from giving ear to heavenly tidings. However, in the fourteenth century AH and as a result of modern scientific achievements, different non-literal interpretations were sugge...

This thesis is concerned with the subject of “high-level scene interpretation”, which can be roughly defined as understanding images or video streams at abstraction levels above single objects. A generic framework for knowledge-based scene interpretation is presented, realised with an interpretation system called SCENIOR (SCENe Interpretation with Ontology-based Rules). Activity models are defi...

A coordinationstyle programminglanguage, Multran, and its temporal logic semantics are proposed. Multran uses Linda-like tuple space to coordinate concurrent transactions, which could be written in any language as long as they satisfy their preconditions and post-conditions. It has an intuitional presentation and enjoys a temporal logic semantics for program veriication. A Multran program can b...

Unlike filters in image / signal processing tools, current animation packages do not provide feasible controls for the creation and variation of the character motions. In this paper, we design a character animation prototyping framework with a level of rhythmic animation control scheme. Controls from lower level to higher level are achieved by action commands with the motion and timing paramete...