Harmonics from a magic carpet

Persian Carpet: A New Look From a Different Angle

The Textile Museum & The International Hajji Baba Club Washington D.C. June 19, 2004 Introduction Handmade carpet production in Iran goes back to the history, of which is not the subject of this short paper and presentation. Carpet production and in general carpet culture especially in rural areas is combined and mixed with every-day life of many people. In rural places, almost all the women...

In Search of the 'Magic Carpet': Design and Experimentation of a Bimanual 3D Navigation Interface

Hardware and software advances are making real time 3D graphics part of all mainstream computers. World-Wide Web sites encoded in Virtual Reality Modeling Language or other formats allow users across the Internet to share virtual 3D “worlds”. As the supporting software and hardware become increasingly powerful, the usability of the current 3D navigation interfaces becomes the limiting factor to...

Influence of moisture on chemical transferability from a nylon carpet.

Cognitive Impairment Assessment through Visuospatial Memory Can Be Performed with a Modified Walking Corsi Test Using the ‘Magic Carpet’

BACKGROUND Subjects with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) have disturbances in their spatial navigation abilities and exhibit early deficits in visuospatial short-term memory. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether a quantitative (span score) and qualitative (evaluating navigation strategies used) analysis of the Corsi test (usual condition and complex navigation task) would b...

A new light boson from MAGIC observations?

Recent detection of blazar 3C279 by MAGIC has confirmed previous indications by H.E.S.S. that the Universe is more transparent to very-high-energy gamma rays than currently thought. This circumstance can be reconciled with observations of nearby blazars provided that photon oscillations into a very light Axion-Like Particle occur in extragalactic magnetic fields. The emerging “DARMA scenario” c...