Manipulating Attributes of Natural Scenes via Hallucination

In this study, we explore building a two-stage framework for enabling users to directly manipulate high-level attributes of a natural scene. The key to our approach is a deep generative network which can hallucinate images of a scene as if they were taken at a different season (e.g. during winter), weather condition (e.g. in a cloudy day) or time of the day (e.g. at sunset). Once the scene is hallucinated with the given attributes, the corresponding look is then transferred to the input image while preserving the semantic details intact, giving a photo-realistic manipulation result. As the proposed framework hallucinates what the scene will look like, it does not require any reference style image as commonly utilized in most of the appearance or style transfer approaches. Moreover, it allows to simultaneously manipulate a given scene according to a diverse set of transient attributes within a single model, eliminating the need of training multiple networks per each translation task. Our comprehensive set of qualitative and quantitative results demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach against the competing methods.Comment: Accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Graphic

An Integrated Solution Approach for Flow Shop Scheduling

This study seeks to integrate Random Key Genetic Algorithm (RKGA) and Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) to compute makespan and solve the Flow Shop Scheduling Problem (FSSP). FSSP is considered as a Multi Criteria Decision Making Problem (MCDM) by setting machines as criteria and jobs as alternatives. RKGA is employed to determine the best weights for the criteria that directly affect the robustness of the solution. The proposed methodology is presented with illustrative example and applied to benchmark problems. The solutions are compared to well-known construction heuristics. The proposed methodology provides the best or reasonable solutions in acceptable computational times

Exploring Cross-Border Labor Commuting as a Practice of Tactical Mobility

Within the last few years there has been an increased interest in the interplay of structure and agency in border studies. Following the strategic-relational approach, these studies generally focus on territorial actors, particularly subnational institutions and how they use their capacities, to establish transnational cooperation and networks, to overcome the obstacles resulting from national and / or multi-governmental policies. Like subnational organizations and institutions on border regions, cross-border commuters develop and use tactics to overcome the socio-economic and legal risks and crises. Based on the thematic analysis of the semi-structured interviews with commuters from Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Poland, it is demonstrated that by being mobile across the borders, commuters aim at gaining flexibility and a relatively advantageous position in housing and labor markets of different countries. This paper, by referring to the strategic-relational approach, argues that cross-border mobility is practiced as a form of tactical mobility in which commuters constantly revise their mobility practices, depending on new, emerging socio-economic conditions. Moreover, by referring to the concept of de Certeau’s (1984) tactic, three main typologies of cross-border mobility are conceptualized

Devletlerin Düzenleme Getirirken Neden Uluslararası Ticaret Hukuku Ve Uluslararası Yatırım Hukuku Dengesini Bilmesi Gerekir?

DergiPark: 371241trakyasobedFarklı hukuk alanlarının örtüştüğü konularolabilmektedir.  Örneğin uluslararasıticaret hukuku ve uluslararası yatırım hukuku farklı gelişmiş ve farklıamaçlara sahip olsa da birbirinden kopuk değildir ve aralarında etkileşimbulunmaktadır. Ulusal bir düzenlemenin iki hukuk alanında da sonuçlarıolabilecektir.  Bu sebeple devletlerinulusal düzenleme yaparken iki hukuk alanına da dikkate alması sorumluluklarınıazaltması açısından çok önemlidir.  Buçalışma uluslararası ticaret hukuku ve uluslararası yatırım hukuku arasındakietkileşime dikkat çekmeyi ve devlet açısından bu etkileşimin bilinmesininönemini vurgulamayı amaçlamaktadır. Çalışmada devletin sağlık sebebiyle düzenleme getirme hakki örnek olarakincelenecektir. Different areas of law can have overlappingtopics.  International trade law andinternational investment law with different historical development and differentgoals are not detached from each other. There is an interaction between the two areas of law. Nationallegislation might have consequences in both areas of law.  Thus it is vital for the states whenregulating to take the two legal areas of law into consideration in order tominimize their liability.  This studyaims to emphasize the interaction between international trade law andinternational investment law and show why it is important for the state to beaware of this interaction with state’s right to regulate on health reasonsexample

On some curves with the modified orthogonal frame in Euclidean 3-space

In this paper, we study helices and the Bertrand curves. We obtain some of the classification results of these curves with respect to the modified orthogonal frame in Euclidean 3-spaces