Portrait Photographs from Isfahan. London, Saqi books, 2004, 263 p.

Learning Artistic Lighting Template from Portrait Photographs

This paper presents a method for learning artistic portrait lighting template from a dataset of artistic and daily portrait photographs. The learned template can be used for (1) classification of artistic and daily portrait photographs, and (2) numerical aesthetic quality assessment of these photographs in lighting usage. For learning the template, we adopt Haar-like local lighting contrast fea...

New Books April 2004

Background: Two distinct classes of regulators have been implicated in regulating neuronal gene expression and mediating neuronal identity: transcription factors such as REST/NRSF (RE1 silencing transcription factor) and CREB (cAMP response element-binding protein), and microRNAs (miRNAs). How these two classes of regulators act together to mediate neuronal gene expression is unclear. Results: ...

Nitrate Intake from Drinking Water in Isfahan in 2004

Image quality index of the monochrome portrait archival photographs’ compression

Abstract. The recent process of digitalizing archives has increased the importance of choosing the best compression method and evaluating the quality of the compressed materials. Our paper focuses on monochrome portrait photographs. We suggest using an image quality index partly based on Human Visual System. We think that, despite its simplicity, it equals with Mean Subjective Rank. In addition...

Book Review | New Books March 2004 Toxicogenomics

The objective of this work is to compare the adherence to therapy of patients receiving etanercept and infliximab during first tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-blocking treatment course in rheumatoid arthritis. Special emphasis is placed on potential predictors for treatment termination and the impact of concomitant methotrexate (MTX) or other disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs). Patient...