Legal Recognition of Intersex Persons; From Negative Recognition to Positive Recognition

“Appropriation Art” and Recognition of the Legal Status of the Author

It is often thought that appropriation art doesn’t give rise to its traditional concept and place. Because there are secondary works in the world of visual arts that are taken from the original works. From a legal point of view despite their uniqueness, definite and certain material existence of these works, the situa­tion of the author is not very clear. “How can be explained the authorship re...

Salience of positive and negative affect in the recognition of depression among elderly persons

Generally, depression is thought of in terms of negative affect However, in the following paper, the contribution of positive affect (PA), as well as negative affect (NA), is demonstrated in the recognition of clinically significant depression. Affect and depression data were collected from 554 residents of a large, urban geriatric center. Statistical analyses demonstrated that both PA and NA w...

Legal recognition of neocortical death.

Spatial and symbolic recognition of Chinese mosques

The history of Islam in China began when the first ambassador of Islamic caliphate in 654 AD, gained the court of the Chinese emperor. After that Islam has been spread throughout there during a century. In this study, authors try to study about how architectural elements and spatial forms are effected from Islam or Buddhist-Chinese tradition. Then, at the first it must be clear that which symbo...

Iterative Weighted Non-smooth Non-negative Matrix Factorization for Face Recognition

Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is a part-based image representation method. It comes from the intuitive idea that entire face image can be constructed by combining several parts. In this paper, we propose a framework for face recognition by finding localized, part-based representations, denoted “Iterative weighted non-smooth non-negative matrix factorization” (IWNS-NMF). A new cost fun...

Degraded Impairment of Emotion Recognition in Parkinson's Disease Extends from Negative to Positive Emotions

Because of dopaminergic neurodegeneration, patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) show impairment in the recognition of negative facial expressions. In the present study, we aimed to determine whether PD patients with more advanced motor problems would show a much greater deficit in recognition of emotional facial expressions than a control group and whether impairment of emotion recognition wo...