In the past decades, different approaches have been developed in order to link the physical properties of galaxies to the dark matter haloes in which they reside. In this review, I give a brief overview of methods, aims, and limits of these techniques, with particular emphasis on semi-analytic models of galaxy formation. For these models, I also provide a brief summary of recent successes and o...

In our response, we clarify important theoretical differences between basic emotion and psychological construction approaches. We evaluate the empirical status of the basic emotion approach, addressing whether it requires brain localization, whether localization can be observed with better analytic tools, and whether evidence for basic emotions exists in other types of measures. We then revisit...

Face recognition is a biometric tool for verification and authentication a facial recognition based verification system can further be deemed a computer application for automatically verifying or identifying a person in a digital image. Analytic (local features based) and holistic (global features based) are the two common approaches employed for face recognition approaches with acceptable succ...

We look at a contrasting picture where some piece of functional/semantic information, namely tense, may be deened morphologically by tense innection, or else compositionally in syntax (in conjunction with innection on syntactic items). The question that is at issue is how to represent analytic tense formation to obtain a uniform functional structure for analytic and synthetic tense formation. S...

the work of architecture is believed to depend on the governing thought in the process of architectural designing. this thought can be analyzed, developed, experienced, and interpreted. creativity is the only domineering force in the idea of designing which is in quest for freeing architecture from the routine methods, and also finding the novel systems to answer the questions in architecture. ...

The use of different multivariate meta-analytic approaches to quantitatively combine and aggregate effect sizes from different primary studies can have different important implications for the cumulative research findings and research-based conclusions. Multivariate fixed and mixed effects (multivariate random-effects regression) models are examples for such approaches. Gaining knowledge of the...

BACKGROUND Policy decisions regarding climate change mitigation are increasingly incorporating the beneficial and adverse health impacts of greenhouse gas emission reduction strategies. Studies of such co-benefits and co-harms involve modeling approaches requiring a range of analytic decisions that affect the model output. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to assess analytic decisions regarding mod...

In this study, an outsourcer evaluation and management system is developed for a manufacturing company by use of Fuzzy goal programming (FGP). A first phase of the methodology evaluation criteria for outsources and the objectives of the company are determined. Considering the fuzziness in the decision data, linguistic variables that can be expressed in generalized fuzzy number are used. The pro...

We review the work on data-driven grasp synthesis and the methodologies for sampling and ranking candidate grasps. We divide the approaches into three groups based on whether they synthesize grasps for known, familiar or unknown objects. This structure allows us to identify common object representations and perceptual processes that facilitate the employed data-driven grasp synthesis technique....