L. Kohlberg (1969) argued that his moral stages captured a developmental sequence specific to the moral domain. To explore that contention, the author compared stage assignments obtained with the Standard Issue Scoring System (A. Colby & L. Kohlberg, 1987a, 1987b) and those obtained with a generalized content-independent stage-scoring system called the Hierarchical Complexity Scoring System (T....

The paper addresses combinatorial approach to design of modular wireless sensor as composition of the sensor element from its component alternatives and aggregation of the obtained solutions into a resultant aggregated solution. A hierarchical model is used for the wireless sensor element. The solving process consists of three stages: (i) multicriteria ranking of design alternatives for system ...

A proteomic analysis system (PAS) for prostate Mass Spectrometry (MS) spectra is proposed for differentiating normal from abnormal and benign from malignant cases and for identifying biomarkers related to prostate cancer. PAS comprised two stages, 1/a pre-processing stage, consisting of MS-spectrum smoothing, normalization, iterative peak selection, and peak alignment, and 2/a classification st...

Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6) was designed to support IP micro-mobility management in the next generation Internet Protocol (IPv6) and the Next Generation Networks (NGN) framework. The general idea behind this protocol is the usage of Mobility Anchor Point (MAP) located at any level router of network to support hierarchical mobility management and seamless handover. Further, the distance MA...

Cognitive Radio (CR), a hierarchical Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) model, has been considered as a strong candidate for future communication systems improving spectrum efficiency utilizing unused spectrum of opportunity. However, to ensure the effectiveness of dynamic spectrum access, accurate signal classification in fading channels at low signal to noise ratio is essential. In this paper, a h...

For model-based 3D human pose estimation, even simple models of the human body lead to high-dimensional state spaces. Where the class of activity is known a priori, lowdimensional activity models learned from training data make possible a thorough and efficient search for the best pose. Conversely, searching for solutions in the full state space places no restriction on the class of motion to b...

Timetabling problems are well known NP-hard constraint satisfaction, and real-world cases often have complicated and challenging structures. For such problems, we present a new hybrid method, “Interleaved Constructive Memetic Algorithm” (ICMA) that interleaves memetic algorithms with constructive methods. ICMA works using an active subset of all the events. Starting with a few events, in multip...

Two-stage network data envelopment analysis (DEA) is widely used to evaluate efficiency of different organizations with multiple operations processes or hierarchical structures. Although existing two-stage DEA assumes systems resolve the inherent conflicts between two stages, coordination effect stages usually ignored. Recently, relation traditional “black box” has been studied from perspective...

In the early 1960s, Hubel and Wiesel reported the first physiological description of cells in cat primary visual cortex. They distinguished two main cell types: simple cells and complex cells. Based on their distinct response properties, they suggested that the two cell types could represent two consecutive stages in receptive-field construction. Since the 1960s, new experimental and computatio...

The work presented in this thesis belongs to the computer music field as well as to the virtual reality field. First, we describe the advantages of immersive virtual environments and of 3D graphical interaction for multiprocess instruments and particularly for the hierarchical live-looping, a new instrument model that we define. We then suggest solutions to visualize and manipulate sound proces...