a refrigeration cycle is a chain of various pieces of equipment including compressors, condensers, evaporators, and expansion devices each of which takes on a particular thermodynamic process duty in the cycle that eventually results in the production of the required refrigeration. the results of optimized mixed refrigerant cycles (mrcs) in part i show that the configuration of mrc is an effect...

Contours have been established in the biological and computer vision literature as a compact yet descriptive representation of object shape. While individual contours provide structure, they lack the large spatial support of region segments (which lack internal structure). We present a method for further grouping of contours in an image using their relationship to the contours of a second, rela...

Given a configuration C of geometric objects in R2 (called the input configuration), a target configuration T of geometric objects in R1, and a class S of allowable sectioning lines we consider in this paper many variations on the following problem: ‘Is there a line S ∈ S such that the section S ∩ C is equivalent by rigid motion to the target T ?’ Mathematics Subject Classifications (2000): 68Q...

We introduce the Self-Annotated Reddit Corpus (SARC), a large corpus for sarcasm research and for training and evaluating systems for sarcasm detection. The corpus has 1.3 million sarcastic statements — 10 times more than any previous dataset — and many times more instances of non-sarcastic statements, allowing for learning in both balanced and unbalanced label regimes. Each statement is furthe...

Taking up anger emotion expressed by speech, prosodic features were analyzed in order to find out the relationship between the degree of anger and manifestations on the speech signal in terms of individual differences. As a result of analysis, there were some common features among the speakers, although there were some speaker-dependent features. About the baseline frequency and the magnitude o...

This paper presents the view of product configuration taken by Tacton Systems AB. We first define the product configuration task in general. We then distinguish three types of configuration tasks, describe different interactivity requirements, and discuss three common types of configuration engines. Finally, Tacton Configurator is briefly described. Product Configuration In a configurable produ...

This paper focuses on the performance achievable by spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (InSAR) in the estimation of line-of-sight crustal deformations from acquisitions over a distributed scatterer. Our model is suited for exploiting the Hybrid Cramér-Rao Bound (HCRB), where the unknowns are both deterministic parameters and stochastic variables. We take into account both target...

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This paper presents a methodology to find a configuration of an anthropomorphic hand that satisfies some desire contact contact constraints on an object. The proposed approach has an on-line procedure, which iteratively looks for the final hand configuration starting from an initial one using the hand Jacobian, and an off-line procedure, which determines a set of initial configurations for the ...