Formulae for the number of branch points of one-dimensional orbifolds defined over a non-archimedean local field and uniformisable by discrete projective linear groups are given. They depend only on the uniformising group. The method of equivariant pasting reveals the possible relative position of the branch points.

The paper develops Editor, a language for manipulating semi-structured documents, such as the ones typically available on the Web. Editor programs are based on two simple ideas, taken from text editors: \search" instructions are used to select regions of interest in a document, and \cut & paste" to restructure them. We study the expressive power and the complexity of these programs. We show tha...

With the advent of modern technology, manufacturing processes became so sophisticated that a single quality characteristic cannot reflect the true product quality. Thus, it is essential to perform the key factor analysis for the manufacturing process with multiple-input (factors) and multiple-output (responses). In this paper, an integrated approach of using the desirability function in conjunc...

We adapt the work of Power [14] to describe general, not-necessarily composable, not-necessarily commutative 2-categorical pasting diagrams and their composable and commutative parts. We provide a deformation theory for pasting diagrams valued in the 2-category of k-linear categories, paralleling that provided for diagrams of algebras by Gerstenhaber and Schack [9], proving the standard results...

Code clone is a code fragment that has identical or similar fragments to it in the source code. Many code clone detection techniques and tools have been proposed. However, source code derived by copy-and-paste may be disguised by obfuscation because these techniques detect code clone using only static information such as source code or binary. Therefore, we propose a new clone detection techniq...