Review: Chinese Acrobatic Swan Lake

Real-Time Acrobatic Gesture Analysis

Gesture and motion analysis is a highly needed process in the athletics field. This is especially true for sports dealing with acrobatics, because acrobatics mix complex spatial rotations over multiple axes and may be combined with various postures. This paper presents a new vision-based system focused on the analysis of acrobatic gestures of several sports. Instead of classical systems requiri...

Swan Unilateral Spatial Neglect

Swan song for schizophrenia?

A bad wound will heal but a bad name will kill. —Scottish proverb Schizophrenia is a word that frightens people, is replete with stigma, is used pejoratively in daily speech and is ety-mologically absurd. There is now widespread international interest in In this Editorial, we examine the justification for giving up the term and consider strategies for finding an alternative. In a recent article...

A Swan-like theorem

For purposes of implementing field arithmetic in F2n efficiently, it is desirable to have an irreducible polynomial f(x) ∈ F2[x] of degree n with as few terms as possible. The number of terms must be odd, as otherwise x+1 would be a factor. Often a trinomial x+x+1 can be found, or at least a pentanomial, x+x1 +x2 +x3 +1, where n > m1 > m2 > m3 > 0. If α is a root of f , then {1, α, α, . . . , α...

Urmia Lake (Northwest Iran): a brief review

Lake Urmia (or Ormiyeh) is one of the largest hypersaline lakes in the world and the habitat of a unique bisexual Artemia species (A. urmiana). Despite this, and several other values of the lake, little literature on it has been published. The present paper is an attempt to provide a brief review on various aspects of the lake. Urmia Lake, located in northwestern Iran, is an oligotrophic lake o...