Generating and manipulating human facial images using high-level attributal controls are important and interesting problems. The models proposed in previous work can solve one of these two problems (generation or manipulation), but not both coherently. This paper proposes a novel model that learns how to both generate and modify the facial image from high-level semantic attributes. Our key idea...

The level{1 irreducible highest weight modules of the quantum a ne algebra U q ( b sl n ) are decomposed into irreducible components with respect to the level{0 U 0 q ( b sl n ){action previously de ned in [13]. The components of the decomposition are found to be the so{called tame representations of U 0 q ( b sl n ) parameterized by the skew Young diagrams of the border strip type. This result...

This paper reports on an experimental research study that aimed at investigating the effectiveness of employing a virtual task-based situated language learning (TBSLL) environment mediated by Second Life (SL) in developing EFL student teachers’ pragmatic writing skills and their technological self-efficacy. To reach this goal, a control-only experimental research design was employed to compare ...

Let ̃ SL(2, F) be the metaplectic two-fold cover of SL(2, F), the special linear group in two variables over a local field F of characteristic 0. The inverse image T̃ of a maximal torus T in ̃ SL(2, F) is an abelian extension of T by ±1. We consider the question of whether this extension is trivial. More generally we find the minimal subgroup A of the circle for which the extension is split when c...

This study evaluated the efficacy of organic acids applied singly or in combination as postlethality dips to sliced uncured turkey deli loaves to inhibit the growth of Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) Scott A. Treatments consisted of sodium lactate (SL; 3.6%), potassium lactate (PL; 3.6%), sodium citrate (SC; 0.75%), a combination of SL and sodium diacetate (SDA; 0.25%), and a combination of SL/PL/S...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To assess the effectiveness of a telephone reminder in increasing responses to postal surveys and to calculate the differential costs per completed questionnaire. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial. SETTING Australian university and rehabilitation medicine practice. PARTICIPANTS The trial was conducted in 1999 among the 143 non-respondents to a questionnaire about work rel...

We reduce the dual version of D = 10, N = 1 supergravity coupled to n vector fields to four dimensions, and derive the SL(2, R) × O(6, 6 + n) transformations which leave the equations of motion invariant. For n = 0 SL(2, R) is also a symmetry of the action, but for n > 0 only those SL(2, R) transformations which act linearly on all fields leave the action invariant. The resulting four-dimension...

This investigation aimed to assess genetics of body conformation and feed efficiency traits in a control line of Rhode Island Red (RIR) chicken taking single hatched out pedigreed 100 chicks at Central Avian Research Institute, Izatnagar, India. Data was analyzed by least squares analysis of variance. Least squares means of chick weight (CW), body weight (BW), shank length (SL), keel length (KL...

In this paper we will give the character table of the irreducible rational representations of G=SL (2, q) where q= , p prime, n>O, by using the character table and the Schur indices of SL(2,q).