Representation Of Characteristics Research Articles

P D N: A Priori Dictionary Network for Fashion Parsing

The task of fashion parsing aims to assign pixel-level labels to clothing targets; thereby, parsing models are required to have good contextual recognition ability. However, the shapes of clothing components are complex, and the types are difficult to distinguish. Recent solutions focus on improving datasets and supplying abundant priori information, but the utilization of features by more efficient methods is rarely explored. In this paper, we propose a multi-scale fashion parsing model called the Priori Dictionary Network (PDN), which includes a priori attention module and a multi-scale backbone. The priori attention module extracts high dimensional features from our designed clothing average template as a priori information dictionary (priori dictionary, PD), and the PD is utilized to activate the feature maps of a CNN from a multi-scale attention mechanism. The backbone is derived from classical models, and five side paths are designed to leverage the richer features of local and global contextual representations. To measure the performance of our method, we evaluated the model on four public datasets, the CFPD, UTFR-SBD3, ModaNet and LIP, and the experimental results show that our model stands out from other State of the Art in all four datasets. This method can assist with the labeling problem of clothing datasets.

Automatic tooth arrangement with joint features of point and mesh representations via diffusion probabilistic models

Tooth arrangement is a crucial step in orthodontics treatment, in which aligning teeth could improve overall well-being, enhance facial aesthetics, and boost self-confidence. To improve the efficiency of tooth arrangement and minimize errors associated with unreasonable designs by inexperienced practitioners, some deep learning-based tooth arrangement methods have been proposed. Currently, most existing approaches employ MLPs to model the nonlinear relationship between tooth features and transformation matrices to achieve tooth arrangement automatically. However, the limited datasets (which to our knowledge, have not been made public) collected from clinical practice constrain the applicability of existing methods, making them inadequate for addressing diverse malocclusion issues. To address this challenge, we propose a general tooth arrangement neural network based on the diffusion probabilistic model. Conditioned on the features extracted from the dental model, the diffusion probabilistic model can learn the distribution of teeth transformation matrices from malocclusion to normal occlusion by gradually denoising from a random variable, thus more adeptly managing real orthodontic data. To take full advantage of effective features, we exploit both mesh and point cloud representations by designing different encoding networks to extract the tooth (local) and jaw (global) features, respectively. In addition to traditional metrics ADD, PA-ADD, CSA, and MErot, we propose a new evaluation metric based on dental arch curves to judge whether the generated teeth meet the individual normal occlusion. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method achieves state-of-the-art tooth alignment results and satisfactory occlusal relationships between dental arches. We will publish the code and dataset.

Is Quality Warranty a Type of Representations and Warranties?

The paper identifies and compares the key features of representations and warranties and quality warranties. Based on the results of the study, the author concludes that quality warranty is a type of representations and warranties. This is evidenced by the key element of their similarity — the reflection of the qualitative characteristics of the subject of the transaction. After all, both representations and warranties and quality warranty are inextricably linked with the contract, in the absence of which their existence does not matter. The differences between the studied categories reflect the specific features of quality warranty as representations and warranties. However, this does not exclude the possibility that certain properties of representations and warranties can be extended to a quality guarantee, and this will not contradict the essence of the latter, which will better ensure the rights and interests of parties to transactions. For example: 1) extend the rule on the autonomous and independent nature of representations to the effect of quality warranty; 2) allow for the provision of quality warranties by a third party in non-consumer legal relations, as exists in the case of the use of representations and warranties. It is also proposed to introduce a legal presumption of the commencement of validity of representations and warranties, which is based on the principle of exercising the right in one’s own interest (Clause 2 of Article 1 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation).

AMCFCN: attentive multi-view contrastive fusion clustering net

Advances in deep learning have propelled the evolution of multi-view clustering techniques, which strive to obtain a view-common representation from multi-view datasets. However, the contemporary multi-view clustering community confronts two prominent challenges. One is that view-specific representations lack guarantees to reduce noise introduction, and another is that the fusion process compromises view-specific representations, resulting in the inability to capture efficient information from multi-view data. This may negatively affect the accuracy of the clustering results. In this article, we introduce a novel technique named the “contrastive attentive strategy” to address the above problems. Our approach effectively extracts robust view-specific representations from multi-view data with reduced noise while preserving view completeness. This results in the extraction of consistent representations from multi-view data while preserving the features of view-specific representations. We integrate view-specific encoders, a hybrid attentive module, a fusion module, and deep clustering into a unified framework called AMCFCN. Experimental results on four multi-view datasets demonstrate that our method, AMCFCN, outperforms seven competitive multi-view clustering methods. Our source code is available at https://github.com/xiaohuarun/AMCFCN.

Using a diagrammatic approach to reveal variations in students’ instructional representations about the five kingdoms in biology between two cultural groups

ABSTRACT This study based on cognitive and social semiotic theories investigates whether the influence of specific features of instructional representation from adolescent textbook images could last until adulthood in certain cultures. Two cultural groups, Indonesian (n = 61) and Taiwanese (n = 60) college students, were recruited from a public Taiwanese university. Reading an essay about how the biological five kingdoms were classified served as the foundation for student-generated drawings. Semi-structured interviews and verbal data were used to track the origin of influences in their drawings. The initial result of coding drawings revealed that most of the drawing structures were shared between groups while only the design of Evolution, revealing sequential taxa in the evolution history, was Taiwanese-specific. Further statistic testing indicated that only participants’ nationality was a significant factor in determining the drawing structure while pedagogical content knowledge is not. A comparison of these results indicated that most Taiwanese representations agreed with that of the non-hierarchical design used in their prior textbook while the Indonesian representations agreed with the hierarchical design of their textbook. The results suggest that there are several competing factors interfering with the decision about image design. Suggestions for teacher education and further study are addressed.

Motor strength as a feature of concepts and visual representations.

In this article, we define motor strength as the extent to which a concept is associated with body movements and the motor system that guides body movements. We extend this notion to one of the features of visual representations of some concepts and discuss the role of the motor system in understanding concepts and visual representations that have a significant degree of motor strength. It is suggested that when a concept is understood in its literal sense, the employment of the motor system and gestures in processing that concept depends on its degree of motor strength. If a concept is understood in its metaphorical sense, the employment of the motor system and gestures is dependent on the degree of motor strength of the base of the metaphor through which that concept is understood. The degree of motor strength of a concept relies on its motor affordances and its associations with people's past experiences. Because the motor system plays an essential role in the grounding of many abstract concepts in the physical environment, the notion of motor strength can help psychologists acquire a clearer understanding of how concepts with varying degrees of motor strength are grounded in the physical environment.

CellT-Net: A Composite Transformer Method for 2-D Cell Instance Segmentation.

Cell instance segmentation (CIS) via light microscopy and artificial intelligence (AI) is essential to cell and gene therapy-based health care management, which offers the hope of revolutionary health care. An effective CIS method can help clinicians to diagnose neurological disorders and quantify how well these deadly disorders respond to treatment. To address the CIS task challenged by dataset characteristics such as irregular morphology, variation in sizes, cell adhesion, and obscure contours, we propose a novel deep learning model named CellT-Net to actualize effective cell instance segmentation. In particular, the Swin transformer (Swin-T) is used as the basic model to construct the CellT-Net backbone, as the self-attention mechanism can adaptively focus on useful image regions while suppressing irrelevant background information. Moreover, CellT-Net incorporating Swin-T constructs a hierarchical representation and generates multi-scale feature maps that are suitable for detecting and segmenting cells at different scales. A novel composite style named cross-level composition (CLC) is proposed to build composite connections between identical Swin-T models in the CellT-Net backbone and generate more representational features. The earth mover's distance (EMD) loss and binary cross entropy loss are used to train CellT-Net and actualize the precise segmentation of overlapped cells. The LiveCELL and Sartorius datasets are utilized to validate the model effectiveness, and the results demonstrate that CellT-Net can achieve better model performance for dealing with the challenges arising from the characteristics of cell datasets than state-of-the-art models.

War in the Works of the National Literary Award “Big Book”: Historical Facts and Fiction

The article deals with the main aspects, ways of understanding and features of the artistic representation of war as a socio-historical phenomenon in contemporary Russian literature. As an example some books received the National Literary Award “Big Book” were chosen. Each work is analyzed as one of the options existing in Russian literature for revealing the war theme. The combination of these options clearly shows the variety of possible approaches of the writers to this topic.

Features of spatial representations and orientation of yachtsmen during sailing races

Features of spatial representations and orientation of yachtsmen during sailing races

Features of the discursive representation of the image of the Chinese in the play «Zoyka’s Apartment» by M. A. Bulgakov

The object of the study is Bulgakov’s play “Zoyka’s Apartment”, and the subject was the images of the Chinese, created by the author. The discursive representation of foreign cultural elements in Russian literature of the 1920s, the role of Chinese images in the plot, their place in the structure of characters are studied. “Chinese” theme is examined, an analysis of characters belonging to a different culture is provided, their ideological and artistic essence and the author’s manner of creating ethnic flavor are revealed. The author of the article connects the images of the Chinese created by the writer with his understanding of the historical and cultural events in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, with stereotypical and historically based ideas about the Chinese. The research is conducted on the general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis, as well as comparative, contextual, and interpretive methods. The main approach has become a comprehensive one, which allows us to consider images of the Chinese as components of the discursive structure of the work. The scientific novelty of the study is the identification of the special discursive representation that foreign cultural specifics received in Bulgakov’s play. In the depiction of Chinese heroes the author uses the techniques of grotesqueness, parody, sarcasm, and irony. Such qualities of the Chinese as love for the Motherland, the desire to demonstrate strength and defend their own honor, readiness to sacrifice, adventurous thinking, activity, being in constant motion, are depicted in close connection with the Soviet historical and cultural context of the 1920s. It is concluded that the images of the Chinese are paradoxical, ambiguous, contradictory: they participate in the author’s creation of illusory, borderline space and at the same time help to depict it accurately, taking into account historical, cultural, and temporal realities.

Глаголы, репрезентирующие концепт «радость» в якутском языке (на материале текстов олонхо)

The paper examines Yakut verbs in the verbalization of the concept “joy” in order to identify features of the use of these verbs in the actualization of the concept and to identify characteristic ways of perception of the language picture of the world of Yakut speakers, as linguistic representations of the concept “joy” in the Yakut language have not been studied enough. There are used the method of component analysis to study dictionary definitions of the lexeme; the method of continuous sampling to collect examples from the epic texts; the method of contextual analysis, which provides an opportunity to identify different meanings of the features of representation of the studied concept in the context of epic texts. As a result, based on the considered olonkho texts, we can say that in the Yakut language the concept “joy” is represented by the verbs üör “to rejoice”, uör-köt “to rejoice, to exult”, kül “to laugh, to rejoice”, kül-оonnyоo “to rejoice, to have fun, to joke”, körülee “to have fun, to play, to frolic for fun and for your pleasure”, oonnyoo-körulee “to make merry, to amuse oneself”, kötüölee-körülee “to make merry, to frolic”, körülee-narylaa “to have fun, to make merry with the heart”, michiy “to shine, to shine with a silent smile”, michiliy “to shine with a smile, to radiate joy”, ymay “to smile, grin, to spread in a smile”, which are included in one lexical-semantic field “joy”. The emotion of joy appears in the texts of the olonkho in actions when the heroes learn long-awaited news, in descriptions of happy moments in the life of the heroes, from the seen or heard deeds of the heroes. In addition, when a feeling of joy appears, it is accompanied by such phenomena as laughter, smile, pleasure, light, fun, good humour, play, flight, amusement. The use of these verbs adds figurativeness, expressiveness and colourfulness in the epic texts, the application of verbs, depending on the circumstances and in relation to certain characters, in our opinion, shows the national particularity of perception of the Yakut language world picture.

Language representation of the concept of entropy – energy in the journalism of E. Zamyatin

The article is devoted to identifying the features of the linguistic representation of the idea of revolutionary renewal of the world, which is the most important for the worldview system of E. Zamyatin. The study was carried out in line with the anthropological trend that is relevant in modern linguistics. The focus is on vocabulary related to the reflection of the concept of entropy - energy transferred by E. Zamyatin from the field of physical and mathematical knowledge to the field of the humanities. Much attention is paid to the analysis of the functional features of words combined into a lexical-semantic group with a common meaning of the subjects of the revolutionary process, as well as the representation of the concept of revolution in the writer’s journalism. The main objectives of the study are to determine the individual author’s component in the meanings of keywords and describe their systemic relationships. The main research method is contextual analysis. In the process of identifying actualized semes in the structure of lexical meaning, the method of component analysis is used; when determining the subtlest semantic nuances associated with the peculiarities of the writer’s individual worldview, the semantic-stylistic method is used. Historical and literary articles and essays by E. Zamyatin became the source of factual material. The result of the analysis was a description of a significant fragment of his individual picture of the world. The study of the writer’s journalism in the proposed perspective was undertaken for the first time. As a result, a conclusion was made about the principles of constructing a lexical microsystem that reflects the dialectical views of E. Zamyatin, the contextual meanings of keywords were identified, and methods for updating these meanings were described. The principle of binary oppositions, which underlies the writer’s comprehension of reality, determined the specifics of his idiostyle: the use of language game techniques based on the opposition of the meanings of a polysemic word, the active use of contextual antonyms and occasional words.

SEMANTICS OF PROVERBS ASSOCIATED WITH THE ZOONYM «WOLF» (BASED ON THE KAZAKH AND TURKISH LANGUAGES)

Comparative analysis of zoonyms, primarily the description of the national language picture of the world, is of undoubted scientific interest. After all, the comparison of any languages ​​serves as the basis for identifying three main qualities such as commonness, similarity and difference. The article analyzes one of the most ancient images of the Kazakh and Turkish culture - the zoosymbol "wolf" through proverbs. Proverbs are a kind of oral literature with the accumulated life experience of the people. They help to understand better the national identity, interests, attitudes, lifestyle and traditions of the people who created these proverbs. The study of this type of folklore gives a deeper understanding of the characteristics and relationship of different cultures.Proverbs about animals make up a large layer in the paremiological fund of different peoples and are distinguished by great thematic diversity. The main task of the entire structure of proverbs as a whole is to show the thoughts of the people in a complete, concise and clear form. Proverbs about animals are an example of archaic brevity and figurativeness. On the basis of proverbs about wolves in the Kazakh and Turkish languages, the ethno-cultural content of the zoonym "wolf" is determined, and a comparative analysis characterizes the complete preservation of the common Turkic line in the worldview of the two peoples. The article analyzes the contextual semantics of the Kazakh zoonym "wolf" and its Turkish equivalents in proverbs. The purpose of the study is to determine the features of the linguistic representation of the concept "wolf" in the Kazakh and Turkish languages ​​by means of a comparative analysis. As a result of the analysis, metaphorical meanings with positive and negative connotations were revealed. The semantic similarities and differences of proverbs associated with the zoonym "wolf" in the Kazakh and Turkish languages ​​are considered.

LANGUAGE REPRESENTATIVES OF VALUE ORIENTATIONS OF UKRAINIANS AND IRISH: A TRANSLATION ASPECT (BASED ON THE MATERIALS OF CONTEMPORARY FICTION AND MEDIA TEXTS)

The article defines the leading features of the linguistic representation of the value orientations of Ukrainians and Irish people in the translation studies aspect. It is emphasized that the works of modern Ukrainian and Irish literature combine spatial and temporal definiteness, i.e., closeness to the “real plot”, and the expressiveness of the reflection of a person – an actor, endowed with features and values that attach him to history. The tendency of the development of the value component in modern Ukrainian and Irish literature consists in the strengthening of the psychological load of images, in the desire to outline with the help of linguistic means not only the functional, but also the deep-emotional aspect of the national values of the Ukrainian and Irish people.

Designing Data Visualisations for Self-Compassion in Personal Informatics

Wearable personal trackers offer exciting opportunities to contribute to one's well-being, but they also can foster negative experiences. It remains a challenge to understand how we can design personal informatics experiences that help users frame their data in a positive manner and foster self-compassion. To explore this, we conducted a study where we compared different visualisations for user-generated screen time data. We examined positive, neutral and negative framings of the data and whether or not a point of reference was provided in a visualisation. The results show that framing techniques have a significant effect on reflection, rumination and self-compassion. We contribute insights into what design features of data representations can support positive experiences in personal informatics.

LEXICOGRAPHIC FIXATION OF NATIONALLY MARKED UNITS OF MINORITY LANGUAGES (ON THE EXAMPLE OF ELECTRONIC DICTIONARIES OF SCOTS AND SCOTTISH GAELIC)

This paper considers the peculiarities of the lexicographic fixation of nationally marked units of minority languages in Scotland, in particular Scots and Scottish Gaelic. The aim of this paper is to analyse dictionary entries and to determine the features of lexicographic representation of nationally-marked units at the microstructural level by identifying common and distinctive features. The source base is represented by such online dictionaries as The Dictionaries of Scots Language and Am Faclair Beag. The paper presents a brief overview of the creation of dictionaries, which constitute the source base of the research, and also provides a brief overview of their macrostrcture. The common features include the presence of interpretation (translation), transcription and grammatical commentary, while the differences include different formats of illustrating the usage of a lexical item (territorial – in Scottish Gaelic, situational – in Scots). Methods used in the study: general scientific (analysis and synthesis), critical dictionary research, diachronic and synchronic methods.

Linguistic and extralinguistic features of representation of subtextual information in poetic texts of I. F. Annensky

Linguistic and extralinguistic features of representation of subtextual information in poetic texts of I. F. Annensky

The metaphor of the coronavirus in the Chinese Internet space

The object of the study is headlines about a new coronavirus infection in the Internet space. The subject of the study is the metaphors used in the representation of COVID-19 in the headlines of the Chinese media. As a result of the analysis of more than one hundred and fifty headlines of articles about coronavirus infection in the Internet space of China, published in the period from 2019-2021, the author identified more than fifty metaphors. The aim of the study was to identify metaphorical groups and translate metaphorical representations of coronavirus into Russian, taking into account extralinguistic factors. The relevance of this study is determined by the interest in the coronavirus pandemic and China as the alleged source of the disease. Mass media have a great influence on all spheres of human activity, and in the era of intensification of life and economy of linguistic efforts, a special role in the modern information space is assigned to the title. To identify and analyze the features of the COVID-19 representation, such research methods as the method of linguistic and cultural analysis, contextual analysis, component analysis, classification method, comparison method, generalization method, quantitative calculation and descriptive method are used. As a result of the analysis, seven thematic groups of metaphors were identified, the percentage was distributed as follows: 1.Coronavirus as a war - 37% 2.Coronavirus as a threat uniting people - 17% 3.Coronavirus as a dark entity - 14% 4.Coronavirus as a warning to humanity - 12% 5. New heroes in the conditions of the coronavirus epidemic - 10% 6.Coronavirus as an unpredictable event - 6% 7.New objects and phenomena in the conditions of coronavirus - 4% The studied language material allows us to observe the dynamics of the emergence and development of the coronavirus metaphor as a military action. The author concludes that the use of the metaphorical model "War" is one of the most active ways to conceptualize the spread of Covid. Interlanguage studies are of particular theoretical and practical importance in order to determine the national specifics of metaphors and linguistic universals.

The role of teacher support in students’ engagement with representational construction

In this article, we study the role of teacher support in a collaborative learning setting that involves students’ constructions of visual representations in the environmental education context. Despite the consensus in the field of science education research that engagement with visual representations—such as diagrams, animations, and graphs—can support students’ conceptual understanding, studies reveal that learning from engagement with visual representations can be challenging for students. Adopting a sociocultural approach, this study contributes to extant research by analytically scrutinizing the role of teacher support in learning activities that revolve around students’ construction of visual representations. The empirical basis is a science project in which lower secondary school students drew and refined depictions of the effects of anthropogenic climate change. The analytical focus is on student–teacher interactions during group-based drawing activities in which students created representations of the carbon cycle and interacted with authorized representations. The analyses revealed how students found it challenging to compare, contrast, and integrate authorized representations and, additionally, to constructively use authorized representations in the process of designing their own representations. To support students in their efforts to construct scientific meaning, the teacher oriented the students’ attention towards the salient features of representations, supported students in making sense of ‘semiotic signs’, and enabled them to link scientific concepts with detailed depictions. In addition to the different forms of support provided by the teacher, the analyses of the student–teacher interactions also reveal the teacher’s use of specific ‘talk moves’ of elaboration and eliciting. The key implications include that teachers should select representations that are sufficiently different in terms of how concepts and phenomena are depicted, and that teachers should be prepared to support students in how to compare and contrast multiple representations. Further, strategies for supporting students’ exploration of their own ideas and suggestions are essential in the dynamics between students’ self-made representations and authorized representations.

Sources of hyperintensionality

AbstractA wide variety of concepts are nowadays considered to be hyperintensional, and some of them do not seem to involve our representational attitudes. This led some philosophers to identify and defend a notion of worldly hyperintensionality: the idea that some hyperintensional phenomena derive from features of objective reality, independently of how we represent it. Against this view, Darragh Byrne and Naomi Thompson argue that the correct understanding of such phenomena must be conceptualist in nature, and claim that hyperintensionality always derives from features of representations. In the present work I defend the genuine distinction between worldly and representational hyperintensionality through a new framing of the issue: the comparison with worldly intensionality. I argue that locating the sources of hyperintensionality should not be affected by preferences towards any specific semantic framework, and reject Byrne and Thompson's argument against worldly hyperintensionality.