Abstract Several different types of surface-related ornamentation that are capable distorting the perception space have been developed and used since ancient times. Some examples these di sotto in sù, quadratura , trompe l’oeil foreshortening. These techniques throw into question limits architecture our understanding thereof. However, until now, there has no clear classification or designation ...

This paper argues that degree modifiers such as flat-out, downright, positively, and straight-up constitute a distinct natural class specialized for modifying extreme adjectives (such as gigantic, fantastic, or gorgeous), and that extreme adjectives themselves come in two varieties: ones that encode extremeness as part of their lexical semantics and ones that can acquire it on the basis of cont...

‎In this paper we study Finsler metrics with orthogonal invariance‎. ‎We‎ ‎find a partial differential equation equivalent to these metrics being locally projectively flat‎. ‎Some applications are given‎. ‎In particular‎, ‎we give an explicit construction of a new locally projectively flat Finsler metric of vanishing flag curvature which differs from the Finsler metric given by Berwald in 1929.

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Nowadays, the approaches that combine semantic web ontologies and web 2.0 technologies constitute a significant search field that attracted the interest of a best part of searchers. We will present in this paper an original approach concerning a technology that has recognized a great popularity in these recent years, we talk about folksonomies. Our aim in this contribution is to give birth to a...

This paper is associated with an invited presentation at the Mini-Symposium entitled Novel Technology Platforms for Improved Surgical Intervention & Guidance at the 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. The presentation provides an overview of recent advances in the theory and application of concentric tube robots with emphasis on their us...

Ethnic and gender discrimination in a variety of markets has been documented in several populations. We conducted an online field experiment to examine ethnic and gender discrimination in the private rental housing market in Finland. We sent 1459 inquiries regarding 800 apartments. We compared responses to standardized apartment inquiries including fictive Arabic-sounding, Finnish-sounding or S...

Finding frequent patterns from databases has been the most time consuming process in data mining tasks, like association rule mining. Frequent pattern mining in real-time is of increasing thrust in many business applications such as e-commerce, recommender systems, and supply-chain management and group decision support systems, to name a few. A plethora of efficient algorithms have been propose...