Introduction The physicalistic trap in elementaristic approaches to perception Example I: The problem of colour constancy Example II: Are there perceptual errors and illusions? Example III: The preoccupation with linear perspective in theories of picture perception The physicalistic trap in functionalist and computational approaches to perception Example IV: Bayesian approaches to perception Ex...

Nowadays the prevalence of reflex integration therapy is unquestionable. The methods usually refer only to professional experience, which results in arguments between representatives different disciplines. With this historical overview, readers can get a comprehensive picture disciplines that have developed close connection with each other and, as result, many thousands children could receive t...

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This paper reports on the Joaquim Nabuco Project, a pioneering work in Latin America on document digitalization, enhancement, compression, indexing, retrieval and network transmission of historical document images.

We propose a method to extract special objects in images of medieval books, which generally represent, for example, figures and capital letters. Instead of working on the single pixel level, we consider superpixels as the basic classification units for improved time efficiency. More specifically, we classify superpixels into different categories/objects by using a bag-of-features (BoF) approach...

On behalf of the entire Organization Committee, it is our pleasure to welcome you to the Twelth IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2014), sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) and the Scientific Associations for Infocommunications Hungary (HTE). The Procee...

The National Taiwan University Library has built a digital library of historical documents about Taiwan. The content is unique in that it covers about 80% of all primary Chinese historical materials about Taiwan before 1895, and that they are all available in searchable full text, in addition to metadata. To make these materials more accessible to the research community, we have developed, in a...

Historical linguistics studies the relationships between languages as they change over time. Occasionally, speakers of a language will split into separate groups for any number of reasons and become isolated from each other. When this happens, the language they shared begins to diverge. These divergences are typically phonological, syntactic, and semantic in nature. These changes in each child ...

The San Francisco Bay Area was home to some of the most celebrated valley oak lands in California, their grandeur much chronicled by early visitors and residents. Despite extensive loss, there remains substantial local interest in their preservation and restoration, necessitating an understanding of historical distribution and subsequent change. Assembling and interpreting historical and curren...

The monograph by A. Andreev is devoted to the history of “search for historical Jesus”, that is, attempts reconstruct life Jesus Nazareth, with involvement most important works on this topic from end 18 th cent. and up present day. work correctly presents general picture “search”, but contains numerous inaccuracies errors, especially in presentation methods views modern participants “search”.