Despite efforts to dispel discrimination, workplace discrimination still occurs. We introduce two classes of identity management strategies individuals use to mitigate the negative consequences of discrimination: identity switching (i.e., deemphasizing target identities and recategorizing to a more positively valued identity) and identity redefinition (i.e., stereotype reassociation and regener...

We consider a recent proposal [1] to redefine the kilogram in terms of natural constants. In our opinion, the main objective of the redefinition should be to build such a version of the SI system in which the electric measurements are possible with the highest accuracy in SI units, and not in practical units as now. We emphasize that this objective can be achieved only with a simultaneous redef...

A new causal dynamic end-effector inversion method for a single flexible link manipulator is introduced. Contrary to the available non-causal inversion technique, this method does not lead to pre-actuation and works even in the presence of the purely imaginary zeros for the transfer function. Based on this approach, the desired end-effector trajectory is divided into a finite number of segments...

The code comparison technology plays an important role in the fields of software security protection and plagiarism detection. Nowadays, there are mainly FIVE approaches of plagiarism detection, file-attribute-based, text-based, token-based, syntax-based and semantic-based. The prior three approaches have their own limitations, while the technique based on syntax has its shortage of detection a...

This paper describes the architecture, operation and results obtained with the Question Answering prototype developed in the Department of Language Processing and Information Systems at the University of Alicante. Our system is based on our TREC-9 approach where different improvements have been introduced. Essentially these modifications are twofold: the introduction of a passage retrieval modu...

Although the inheritance mechanism is one of the key points for the extendibility and reusability aspects of object-oriented (OO) systems, its current use has illustrated that the introduction of conceptual inconsistencies is possible in a class hierarchy. This paper discusses the issues involved in measuring aspects of redefinition of methods in an OO model. The work is intended to raise the p...

This work proposes a new approach to dealing with symmetries in Distributed Constraint Optimisation Problems by adapting the DPOP algorithm [1]. In contrast to an already proposed distributed preprocessing method leading to a problem redefinition [2], we present here a method that exploits the structure of DFS trees, with no explicit redefinition of the problem. We exhibit the flexibility in th...