Extension of components should be consistent in the sense that the extending component does not introduce any unexpected behaviour. We formulate requirements which allow consistent extension of components in presence of explicit invariants. We concentrate on the issue of extension consistency with forwarding as the reuse mechanism, and discuss the additional problems which require solution when...

We present an explicit method to produce upper bounds for the dimension of the moduli spaces of complete integral Gorenstein curves with prescribed symmetric Weierstrass semigroups.

Background: Nonmarket stated preferences valuation, especially discrete choice experiments (DCEs), is one of the commonly used techniques in the health sector. The primary purpose of this approach is to help select attributes and attributes-levels that are able to properly describe health care products or services. This study aimed at developing attributes and attributes-levels for basic health...

The face is an important part of the identity of a person. Numerous applications benefit from the recent advances in prediction of face attributes, including biometrics (like age, gender, ethnicity) and accessories (eyeglasses, hat). We study the attributes’ relations to other attributes and to face images and propose prediction models for them. We show that handcrafted features can be as good ...

Many studies have examined the effect of different approaches to teaching grammar including explicit and implicit instruction. However, research in this area is limited in a number of respects. One such limitation pertains to the issue of construct validity of the measures, i.e. the knowledge developed through implicit instruction has been measured through instruments which favor th...

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to discriminate images from unseen classes by exploiting relations seen via their attribute-based descriptions. Since attributes are often related specific parts of objects, many recent works focus on discovering discriminative regions. However, these methods usually require additional complex part detection modules or attention mechanisms. In this paper, 1) we sho...

Anonymization technique has been extensively studied and widely applied for privacy-preserving data publishing. In most previous approaches, a microdata table consists of three categories attribute: explicit-identifier, quasi-identifier (QI), sensitive attribute. Actually, different individuals may have view on the sensitivity attributes. Therefore, there is another type attribute that contains...

some physical attributes of two common types of iranian garlic cloves (white and pink) were identified and compared. a machine vision system was used to determine three di-mensions and both major and minor projected areas of garlic cloves at a moisture content of 42.4% w. b. the geometric mean diameter and sphericity were calculated, as well as the unit mass and volume of cloves were measured. ...