Witnesses and victims of serious crime are often required to construct a facial composite, a visual likeness of a suspect’s face. The traditional method is for them to select individual facial features to build a face, but often these images are of poor quality. We have developed a new method whereby witnesses repeatedly select instances from an array of complete faces and a composite is evolve...

The effect of perspective transformation on transfer of face training was investigated in a yes/no recognition task using face stimuli with 42 degrees, 10 degrees, or no perspective convergence. A strong dependence of recognition performance on the magnitude of perspective transformation was found, with large perspective changes such as from 42 degrees at learning to orthogonal at test producin...

USING CENTRAL COMPOSITE EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN TO OPTIMIZE THE DEGRADATION OF REAL DYE WASTEWATER BY FENTON AND PHOTO-FENTON REACTIONS Francesc Torrades* and Julia García-Montaño (1) Departament d’Enginyeria Química, ETSEIA de Terrassa, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, C/Colom 11, E-08222, Terrassa (Barcelona) Spain. (2) LEITAT Technological Center, Environment R&D Department, C/Innovació, 2,...

abstract: aqueous enzymatic extraction of oil from pistacia khinjuk was performed using cellulase. the central composite design was used to optimize the parameters that are significant to the process. the influence of three regressors on the percentage of oil recovery from seed was evaluated using second-order polynomial multiple regression model. analysis of variance showed a high coefficient ...

BACKGROUND In order for aesthetic surgery to participate in the movement toward evidence-based medicine, a system that quantifies aesthetic outcomes must be developed based on reliable and reproducible data. Previous studies have investigated the attractiveness of averaged (or composite) faces. Data has shown that these faces are deemed more attractive than their constituent faces. OBJECTIVES...

High-level neurons processing complex, behaviorally relevant signals are sensitive to conjunctions of features. Characterizing the receptive fields of such neurons is difficult with standard statistical tools, however, and the principles governing their organization remain poorly understood. Here, we demonstrate multiple distinct receptive-field features in individual high-level auditory neuron...

The perception and recognition of familiar faces depends critically on an analysis of the internal features of the face (eyes, nose, mouth). We therefore contrasted how information about the internal and external (hair, chin, face outline) features of familiar and unfamiliar faces is represented in face-selective regions. There was a significant response to both the internal and external featur...