Public Monuments (photographic portfolio)

Photographic Documentation of Monuments with Epi-Olmec Script/Imagery

Can relative skill be determined from a photographic portfolio?

In this study, our primary aim is to determine empirically the role that skill plays in determining image aesthetics, and whether it can be deciphered from the ratings given by a diverse group of judges. To this end, we have collected and analyzed data from a large number of subjects (total 168) on a set of 221 of images taken by 33 photographers having different photographic skill and experien...

Monuments to Academic Carelessness

In 1942, Katherine Frost Bruner published an article titled ‘‘Of psychological writing: Being some valedictory remarks on style.’’ It was published in Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, the journal for which she served as editorial assistant between 1937 and 1941. Her collection of advice to writing scholars has been widely quoted, including by several editions of The Publication Manual...

Other monuments to inhalation anesthesia.

THE history of anesthesiology is one commemorated by several monuments. The most recognized memorial is the Ether Monument, erected in the Boston Public Garden in 1868. While many anesthesiologists are familiar with this sculpture, there are other less-known memorials related to the introduction of surgical inhalation anesthesia and to the claimants to its discovery. This article discusses some...

Architecture Classification for Indian Monuments

In this project, the task of architecture classification for monuments and buildings from the Indian subcontinent was explored. Five major classes of architecture were taken and various supervised learning methods, both probabilistic and nonprobabilistic, were experimented with in order to classify the monuments into one of the five categories. The categories were: ’Ancient’, ’British’, ’IndoIs...