Abstract Gloss is one of the main attributes to describe appearance surfaces and objects, as it contributes general quality perception. a multidimensional quantity which ‘specular gloss’ most commonly applied attribute. Specular gloss meters are standardized widely used in industry. However, their readings correlate only partially visual impression, also comprises distinctness-of-the-reflected-...

The present article is aimed at the investigation of essence metaphor, exploration its conceptual aspect and translation from a source language to target language. specific way metaphor expressed in work verbal art, manner use by author have always attracted attention not only philologists specialized literary studies but also translators. Having multilayered semantic structure being almost ubi...

A particular status of the English language as international communication and connections between nearly related German languages resulted in emergence many interlingual borrowings Modern vocabularies. The paper aims to consider functioning (loanwords) languages. To reach aim research carry out tasks assigned, following methods were used: a descriptive method, method correlation, componential ...

The popularity of on line document databases has led to a new problem nding which text databases out of many candidate choices are the most relevant to a user Identifying the relevant databases for a given query is the text database discovery problem The rst part of this paper presents a practical solution based on estimating the result size of a query and a database The method is termed GlOSS ...

We studied whether vision can teach touch to the same extent as touch seems to teach vision. In a 2 × 2 between-participants learning study, we artificially correlated visual gloss cues with haptic compliance cues. In two "natural" tasks, we tested whether visual gloss estimations have an influence on haptic estimations of softness and vice versa. In two "novel" tasks, in which participants wer...