Three experiments examined anisotropies of tolerance of perceptual completion at the blind spot when a pair of line segments was presented on opposite sides of the blind spot. The tolerance of perceptual completion is defined as the maximum difference in a stimulus attribute between the line segments on opposite sides of the blind spot when perceptual completion of a line has occurred. The misa...

Software constitutes a major cost factor when developing technical systems. To reduce this cost, systematic reuse of assets is necessary from early on when developing similar products—an approach that has become known as software product line engineering. The automation of product derivation, that is, the automated product creation from core assets, is one of the success factors of product line...

under the smart grid environments, demand response resources (drrs) as power system resources can effectively participate in and improve performance of electric systems. congestion management is one of the technical challenges in which drrs can play a significant role. previously, congestion management is applied without considering the power system uncertainties. therefore, a stochastic conges...

A Software Product Line (SPL) reuses software assets to implement products that share a significant set of their features. When developer needs generate new product, the selection features determines which components and source code are assembled together as product. In recent years, Database Laboratory has been working with SPL tech- nologies in field Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Our ...

typically, two configurations are used for energy harvesting, with different advantages: piezoelastic and piezomagnetoelastic. best performance of piezoelastic configuration is limited to its narrow bandwidth around the resonance frequency. if the excitation frequency slightly deviates from the resonance frequency, the power-out is severely reduced. to overcome this, the piezomagnetoelastic has...

A construction based on the Biggs-Smith graph is shown to produce an edge-disjoint union of 102 copies of K4 forming a {K4, L(Q3)}K3 -ultrahomogeneous graph dressed as the non-line-graphical Menger graph of a self-dual (1024)-configuration. This stands in contrast to the selfdual (424)-configuration of [8], whose Menger graph is a non-line-graphical {K4, K2,2,2}K2 -ultrahomogeneous graph.

2. A configuration of 4027 points in the plane is called Colombian if it consists of 2013 red points and 2014 blue points, and no three of the points of the configuration are collinear. By drawing some lines, the plane is divided into several regions. An arrangement of lines is good for a Colombian configuration if the following two conditions are satisfied: • no line passes through any point o...