Philosophical questions concerning parts and wholes have received a tremendous amount of the attention of contemporary analytic metaphysicians. In what follows, I discuss some of the central questions. The questions to be discussed are: how general is parthood? Are there different kinds of parthood or ways to be a part? Can two things be composed of the same parts? When does composition occur? ...

Audio visualizers are programs that take in music and produce images that correspond to the music in some pleasing way. In most songs there are several different parts: the verse, chorus, a solo, and so on. Ideally, a music visualizer would change its output to match the different parts of the song. While it is quite easy for humans to detect the difference between different parts of songs the ...

This paper proposes a new part-based approach for skew estimation of document images. The proposed method first estimates skew angles on rather small areas, which are the local parts of characters, and subsequently determines the global skew angle by aggregating those local estimations. A local skew estimation on a part of a skewed character is performed by finding an identical part from prepar...

Parts manufactured to tolerances have variations in shape. Most previous work in robotic manipulation assumes that parts do not have shape variations. Orienting devices such as bowl feeders often fail due to variations in part shape. We study the effects of uncertainty in part shape on orienting to develop systems that can orient toleranced polygonal parts. We present a tolerance model in which...

Let R be a real closed field. An integer part I for R is a discretely ordered subring such that for every r ∈ R, there exists an i ∈ I so that i ≤ r < i+ 1. Mourgues and Ressayre [11] showed that every real closed field has an integer part. In [6], it is shown that for a countable real closed field R, the integer part obtained by the procedure of Mourgues and Ressayre is ∆ωω (R). We would like ...

Documents in a wide range of genres often contain references to their own sections, pictures etc. We call such referring expressions instances of Document Deixis. The present work focuses on the generation of Document Deixis in the context of a particular kind of natural language generation system in which these descriptions are not specified as part of the input, i.e., when it is up to the sys...

The behavior of reciprocals with singular antecedents in Irish is examined. It is argued that they provide important new support for the treatment of the semantics of reciprocals found in Heim et al. (1991)

It is shown that generic N-party pure quantum states (with equidimensional subsystems) are uniquely determined by their reduced states of just over half the parties; in other words, all the information in almost all N-party pure states is in the set of reduced states of just over half the parties. For N even, the reduced states in fewer than N/2 parties are shown to be an insufficient descripti...

We have created the Knowledgebase of Standard Biological Parts (SBPkb) as a publically accessible Semantic Web resource for synthetic biology (sbolstandard.org). The SBPkb allows researchers to query and retrieve standard biological parts for research and use in synthetic biology. Its initial version includes all of the information about parts stored in the Registry of Standard Biological Parts...

This article is an attempt to make a philosophical foundation for my viXra articles, through the statements of other viXra authors from the section "History and Philosophy of Physics".