The application of minimalism in product appearance design has gained significant attention recent years due to its focus on simplicity, functionality, and aesthetic appeal. This paper explores the use Associative Data Mining Optimized Feature Selection (ADM-OFS) classifier with deep learning techniques analyze design, using Bang&Olufsen products as a case study. proposed ADM-OFS perform fe...

The Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995, 2000) and Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993, 2004) are not alternative theories logically inconsistent with each other. Optimality Theory is a theory of how universal constraints of grammar interact (Prince and Smolensky 1993, Grimshaw 2005). Minimalism, as Chomsky notes (2000:41), is a research program –not a theory– investigating to what extent...

The TeacherBridge (Basic Resources for Integrated Distributed Group Environments) motivates collaboration and supports online tools for teachers’ professional resource management by providing a socio-technical infrastructure for community networks. While this project focuses initially on local science and mathematics teachers, resources developed are designed to be globally diffused to a wide v...

This paper addresses current problems of democratic instability in continental Latin America, assuming that all its countries have been at least “minimalist” democracies during the years 2000–07. To identify essential factors leading to instability, it focuses on the countries’ most recent and acute political crises. It considers two periods in the post–cold war years: 1992–99 and 2000–07. The ...

Introduction I. Overview of the new Insurance Act 1. Background 2. Basic policy II. Amendments inspired by comparative law studies 1. Successful amendments 2. Unsuccessful attempts III. Amendments arising from Japanese practice 1. Complaints from consumers: Timing of performance 2. Responses to case law 3. Issues left unresolved: Burden of proof IV. Comparison with the draft amendments in Korea...

Vijay-Shanker et al. (1987) note that many interesting linguistic formalisms can be thought of as having essentially context-free structure, but operating over objects richer than simple strings (sequences of strings, trees, or graphs). They introduce linear context-free rewriting systems (LCFRS’s, see also Weir (1988)) as a unifying framework for superficially different such formalisms (like (...

In this paper I want to explore some lines of thought leading people in each of two directions. One is towards ‘inferential role’ semantics, and the other is towards minimalism in the theory of truth. At first sight these may seem to have little to do with each other, and little to do with the overt topic of this seminar, which is the theory of content. But among other things I want to show how...