If you are lurking on popular photo forums, you have probably noticed that some people say Nikon/Sony/Pentax/others have more dynamic range than Canon cameras [1, 2, 3]. The difference is visible in extreme lighting conditions when you try to bring shadow detail, the image from Canon dSLRs tends to get a bit noisier (Figure 1). Can we do something about it? YES. It’s all about how you are scann...

Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) is a computational theory of meaning. Meanings of words are extracted from a large corpus of texts by a statistical method and represented as vectors in a semantic space. It is known that similarities of word-pairs computed by LSA can explain various language processing of human(e.g., Landauer and Dumais, 1997). To know features of LSA, we created four semantic sp...

The accuracy of object reconstruction was tested for six high quality digital cameras. Nikon D80, D200, D2X and D3 with the same 24 mm Nikon lens, a Canon EOS 5D with a normal as well as a stabilized 35 mm Canon lens and an Alpa 12 WA with special fixation of a digital camera back and lens were evaluated. All cameras were investigated on a test cube that was designed according to VDI/VDE 2634, ...

Canon Solovyev is a small genus belonging to the Parasa-complex of Limacacodidae. It is distributed from northern India to the Malayan Peninsula. The genus previously included two species: C. punica (Herrich-Schäffer) from the Indian region and C. eos Solovyev from Nepal. Canon punica is recorded from China (Yunnan), northern Thailand and Malaysia, but specimens from northern Thailand and proba...

Purpose The aim of this paper is to demonstrate fundamental photographic techniques and standardized views in oculoplastic disease and surgery outside of a photographic studio. Methods A Canon EOS 60D digital single lens reflex (DSLR) camera, which was fitted with a Canon EF-S 60 mm USM macro lens, was used to photograph the subject. A Canon MR-14EX Macro Ringlite was used to illuminate the sub...

We study the distribution dynamics of the demand for books in Italy. We find that for each of three broad sub-markets in which the book publishing industry can be classified − Italian novels, foreign novels and essays − sales over a three-year sample can be adequately fitted by a power law distribution. Our results can be plausibly interpreted in terms of a model of interactions among buyers ex...

Avicenna (980-1037 AD), also known as Sheikh or-Raeis, was an Muslim philosopher, physician, surgeon, astronomer, politician, encyclopedist, and mathematician. Avicenna's writings comprise of five books, know as the Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb (The Canon of Medicine) and the canon covers a wide variety of medical issues. This canon of medicine was the main reference for medical education in Western cou...

this research deals with the differences in the writings of male and female authors in the contemporary persian novels, and employs lakoff's (1975) linguistic approach to reach this objective. the main aim of this work is to make sure if the factor of gender may lead to differences in methods of writings between men and women in terms of vocabulary choices and syntactic variations. in this...