Following the “spatial turn” of the last 3 decades in humanities and social sciences and the structure of semiotic object, this research studies space as the main semiotic object of Calvino’s (1972) Invisible Cities. Significance of this application resides in examining the possibility of providing a more concrete methodology based on the integration of Zoran’s (1984) 3 vertical levels of const...

This study attempted to investigate the impact of teacher’s code-switching on the acquisition of a problematic grammatical structure, namely, object relative clauses, by intermediate EFL learners. Moreover, a secondary objective of the study was to determine the EFL learners’ attitudes and opinions regarding the effectiveness of teacher’s code-switching in their learning of a specific aspect of...

Undergraduated students in computer science at the University of Brest are learning bases of digital circuits by developing their own functional and structural models. The approach is object oriented to aggregate diierent abstraction levels in one single structure. This paper presents how simple combinatorial and sequential circuit can be functionally modelized and how complex circuits can hier...

In this paper an integrated modelling approach for object-oriented systems is proposed. The integrated language consists of three layers. On the first layer UML class diagrams are used to define the structure of the modelled systems and OCL expressions specify queries, which do not modify the object configuration. On the second layer transformation rules model local state modifications of the s...

Surprising as it may seem, many of the early adopters of the object-oriented paradigm already face a number of problems typically encountered in large-scale legacy systems. Consequently, reverse engineering techniques are relevant in an object-oriented context as well. This paper investigates a hybrid approach, combining the immediate appeal of visualisations with the scalability of metrics. We...

Fireball (Faint Intergalactic Redshifted Emission Balloon) is a NASA/CNES balloon-borne experiment to study the faint diffuse circumgalactic medium from the line emissions in the ultraviolet (200 nm) above 37 km flight altitude. Fireball relies on a Multi Object Spectrograph (MOS) that takes full advantage of the new high QE, low noise 13 μm pixels UV EMCCD. The MOS is fed by a 1 meter diameter...

Author Leena Matikainen Name of the doctoral dissertation Object-based interpretation methods for mapping built-up areas Unit Department of Real Estate, Planning and Geoinformatics Publisher Finnish Geodetic Institute Series Publications of the Finnish Geodetic Institute Field of research Remote Sensing Manuscript submitted 5 April 2012 Date of the defence 28 September 2012 Permission to publis...

This paper proposes a real-time scheme for object segmentation in video. In the first stage a segmentation based on pairwise region comparison is utilized to oversegment image through extracting superpixels. Next, the algorithm applies the graph cut built on such superpixels, instead of the image pixels. Owing to the optimization is performed on a simpler graph and in consequence the object seg...

The intelligence of a mobile robot is highly dependent on its vision. The main objective of an intelligent mobile robot is in its ability to the online image processing, object detection, and especially visual tracking which is a complex task in stochastic environments. Tracking algorithms suffer from sequence challenges such as illumination variation, occlusion, and background clutter, so an a...