In this paper a particular case of z-ideals, called strongly z-ideal, is defined by introducing zero sets in pointfree topology. We study strongly z-ideals, their relation with z-ideals and the role of spatiality in this relation. For strongly z-ideals, we analyze prime ideals using the concept of zero sets. Moreover, it is proven that the intersection of all zero sets of a prime ideal of C(L),...

The effective cost management during the conceptual design phase of a product is essential to develop a product with minimum cost and desired quality. The integration of the methodologies of quality function deployment (QFD), value engineering (VE) and target costing (TC) could be applied to the continuous improvement of any product during product development. To optimize customer satisfaction ...

We present a set of functions in L2([0,∞)) and show it to be a (tight) generalized frame (as presented by G. Kaiser (1994)). The analysis side of the frame operation is called the continuous unified transform. We show that some of the well-known transforms (such as Laplace, Laguerre, Kautz, and Hambo) result by creating different sampling patterns in the transform domain (or, equivalently, choo...

A new method to recognize continuous sign language based on Hidden Markov Model(HMM) is proposed in this paper. According to the dependence of linguistic context, connections between elementary subwords are classified as strong connection and weak connection. The recognition of strong connection is accomplished with the aid of subword trees, which describe the connection of subwords in each sig...

1 This paper is funded by Strategic Research Grant 7000895 of City University of Hong Kong Abstract In this paper, we introduce a frame metadata model to facilitate the continuous association rules of web transactions. A new set of association rules can be derived with the update of the web log file by the web transactions in the frame metadata model. The frame metadata model consists of two ty...

We describe the design and implementation of a high dynamic range (HDR) imaging system capable of capturing RGB color images with a dynamic range of 10,000,000 : 1 at 25 frames per second. We use a highly programmable camera unit with high throughput A/D conversion, data processing and data output. HDR acquisition is performed by multiple exposures in a continuous rolling shutter progression ov...

The problem of labelling speaker turns by automatically segmenting and clustering a continuous audio stream is addressed. A new clustering scheme is presented and evaluated using a clustering e ciency score which treats both agglomerative and divisive clustering strategies equally. Results show an e ciency of 70% can be obtained on both manually and automatically derived segments on the 1996 Hu...

in this paper we introduce continuous $g$-bessel multipliers in hilbert spaces and investigate some of their properties. we provide some conditions under which a continuous $g$-bessel multiplier is a compact operator. also, we show the continuous dependency of continuous $g$-bessel multipliers on their parameters.

Emotion modulates our time perception. So far, the relationship between emotion and time perception has been examined with visible emotional stimuli. The present study investigated whether invisible emotional stimuli affected time perception. Using continuous flash suppression, which is a kind of dynamic interocular masking, supra-threshold emotional pictures were masked or unmasked depending o...

In this paper, we present a method to simulate large-scale traffic networks, at real-time frame-rates. Our novel contributions include a method to automatically generate a road graph from real-life data, and our extension to a discrete traffic model, which we use to simulate traffic, demonstrating continuous vehicle motion between discrete locations. Given Ordnance Survey data, we automatically...