the aim of this study was to design interpretative structural model (ism) of the components of sport diplomacy. the present study was applied in terms of aims and descriptive with regard to data collection. with review of related literature and qualitative interviews (content analysis) with 13 iranian and foreign experts of sport diplomacy, components and items of sport diplomacy were identifie...

Perhaps the most critical structural system aboard the Space Station is the Solar Alpha Rotary Joint which helps align the power generation system with the sun (Figure 1). The joint must provide structural support and controlled rotation to the outboard transverse booms as well as power and data transfer across the joint. The Solar Alpha Rotary Joint is composed of two transition sections and a...

Diener (1984) introduced the concept of "subjective well-being" (SWB) as comprising three primary components: life satisfaction (LS), positive affect (PA), and negative affect (NA). Busseri and Sadava (2011) identified multiple competing conceptualizations of the tripartite structure of SWB and delineated problems with this ambiguity with respect to defining, operationalizing, analyzing, and sy...

We describe a new structural learning approach to semantic analysis of utterances from conversational dialogs of low-resource domains. Typically an utterance is represented with a multi-layered semantic tag schema: a higher level global context (tag) defines the user’s intent, and associated arguments or slot tags define the local context. To deal with the low resource domains, the existing mod...

The use of glass beams in transparent roofs and glass fins as part of the facade is already state-of-the-art construction to achieve a transparent and lightweight appearance. Until now, mechanical fasteners made from stainless steel are used to join these structural components. Those fasteners visually interfere, require holes in the glass and cause unfavorable stress peaks in the glass. In con...

In previous work we have demonstrated how the functional language SAFL can be used as a behavioural hardware description language. Other work (such as μFP and Lava) has demonstrated that functional languages are apposite for structural hardware description. One of the strengths of systems such as VHDL and Verilog is their ability to mix structuraland behavioural-level primitives in a single spe...

We address the problem of describing recognizing and learning generic free form objects in real world scenes The appearance based system rep resents objects in a graph form and uses weak structure and evidence accu mulation to implicitly encode object models in a learned decision tree after the method developed by Bischof and Caelli Pattern Recognition pp The decision tree is used to classify s...