A new method is described for determining how the visual system resolves ambiguities in the compositional structure of multi-surface objects; i.e., how the surfaces of objects are grouped together to form a hierarchical structure. The method entails dynamic grouping motion, a high level process in which changes in a surface (e.g., increases or decreases in its luminance, hue or texture) transie...

Similarity-based grouping of data entries in one or more data sources is a task underlying many different data management tasks, such as, structuring search results, removal of redundancy in databases and data integration. Similarity-based grouping of data entries is not a trivial task in the context of life science data sources as the stored data is complex, highly correlated and represented a...

A fundamental task of vision is to group the image elements that belong to one object and to segregate them from other objects and the background. This review provides a conceptual framework of how perceptual grouping may be implemented in the visual cortex. According to this framework, two mechanisms are responsible for perceptual grouping: base-grouping and incremental grouping. Base-grouping...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate grouping schemes for exposure to total dust in cement industry workers using non-repeated measurement data. METHODS In total, 2370 total dust measurements taken from nine Portland cement factories in 1995-2009 were analyzed. Various grouping schemes were generated based on work process, job, factory, or average exposure. To characterize vari...

The importance of Ludwik Hirszfeld's contributions to our knowledge of the ABO blood group system has been affirmed in various ways: by Karl Landsteiner (1931) in his Nobel Address, by Hirszfeld's election to the Presidency of the Blood Group Section of the Second International Congress of Blood Transfusion (Paris, 1937), and by the naming in his memory of the Hirszfeld Microbiological Institut...

The incidence of maternal Rh immunization in Rh-negative women following a single ABO compatible Rh-positive pregnancy is about 17%. This incidence was determined by following Rh-negative women through two Rh-incompatible pregnancies and analysing their sera for anti-Rh at the time of delivery of their second observed pregnancy. Maternal Rh immunization occurs almost exclusively after delivery;...

This paper examines and proposes a list of attributes of Total Quality Management (TQM) in an educational institute, and develops a model for the benefit of researchers and academicians. Even though there have been a large number of papers published related to TQM, none of the papers focused on documenting the attributes of TQM in educational institutes using statistical methods. The paper inve...

The study discusses the role of prosodic grouping in the Mandarin Relative Clause attachment disambiguation. The grouping effect is explored under the Implicit Prosody Hypothesis (IPH) from four aspects of sentence processing experiments: default production, contrast production, online processing, as well as offline processing. It is found that (1) the length of RC greatly impacts ambiguity res...