I n this paper, we present a human-like nonphotorealistic rendering approach. A typical pi-ocess of’ how human engineers learn to paint technical illirsfration is as follows: At first 1he.v are trained on how to paint separate primitives such as cubes and spheres, and accordingly acciimirlate the empirical drawing principles arid skills during their continuous practices, and finally they can fi...

IT outsourcing has three broad forms: (i) Single-Sourcing, where the client outsources to one primary vendor, (ii) Single-Sourcing with subcontracting , where the primary vendor involves other/secondary vendors in the project, and (iii) Multi-Sourcing, where the client outsources to multiple primary vendors. Using a dataset of large IT outsourcing contracts from the SCD database with 22,031 lar...

Uncertainty of late has become an increasingly important and controversial topic in water resource management, and natural resources management in general. Diverse managing goals, changing environmental conditions, conflicting interests, and lack of predictability are some of the characteristics that decision makers have to face. This has resulted in the application and development of strategie...

Tarihsel süreçte sanata yön veren önemli kavramların, farklı gerekçelere bağlı olarak dönüşüm yaşadığı bilinmektedir. Modernizmin yenilikçi, yıkıcı ve biçimci anlayışı kapsamında gündeme gelen problem alanlarından biri kavramsal biçimsel süreci ile nesne olmuştur. Nesnenin resimlerde temsili başlayan sanatsal pratikler, değişen çağın getirdiği koşullar sanatçı ihtiyaçları paralelinde biçim, içe...

In this paper we discuss expressive visualization techniques that smartly uncover the most important information in order to maximize the visual information in the resulting images. This is achieved through dynamic changes in visual representations, through deformations, or through spatial modifications of parts of the data. Such techniques originate from technical illustration and are called c...

One of the drawbacks of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is the problem of lack of discrimination among efficient Decision Making Units (DMUs). A method for removing this difficulty is called changing reference set proposed by Jahanshahloo and et.al (2007). The method has some drawbacks. In this paper a modified method and new method to overcome this problems are suggested. The main advantage of...

this research titeled (semantic change in the quranic words: praise prophet reverence) this study is about how to transform from the meaning to another. in this article we looked lexical and semantic meaning of three words of quran in pre-islamic era until the end of sending quran. we studied the influence of islam in changing word semantically. islam does not bring new words but added them new...