Against the background of the changing relationships between trade unions and political parties in Western Europe, this paper examines the nature and outcomes of union–party alliances in East Central Europe. The paper advances two interrelated arguments. First, the nature of union–party ties in postcommunism is significantly different and can be best described as an inverse dependency relations...

We present a new segment-based method for saliency detection based on multi-size superpixels that combines local and global saliency cues. We extract superpixels at several scales and represent each superpixel with a normal distribution in CIE-Lab space estimated from its associated pixels. Global saliency is computed by grouping similar superpixels to estimate the spatial distribution of color...

A b s t r a c t In this paper we discuss the results of experiments which use a context, essentially an ordered set of lexical items, as the seed from which to build a network representing statistically important relationships among lexical items in some corpus. A metric is then applied to the nodes in the network in order to discover those pairs of items related by high indices of similarity. ...

We have developed highly efficient white top-emitting organic light-emitting devices (TOLEDs) with broad emission by modifying both anode and cathode. To alleviate the undesirable microcavity effect and obtain “broad” white emission, CFxcoated Ag anode with modified reflectivity and an index-matching layer (SnO2) capped on thin Ca/Ag cathode with a maximal transparency of 80% were employed. A t...

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The research presented in this paper reports an analysis of daylight in three offices with different exposures and characteristics located in Naples (Italy). The goal was to fully investigate daylight characteristics, also considering the circadian impact of daylight entering these offices, with the hope to develop guidelines to better assess daylight quality in built environments. One of the m...

In this paper, the performance of chromatic adaptation transforms based on stable color ratios is investigated. It was found that for three different sets of reflectance data, their performance was not statistically different from CMCCAT2000, when applying the chromatic adaptation transforms to Lam’s corresponding color data set and using a perceptual error metric of CIE ∆E94. The sensors with ...

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