To test quantitatively whether there are systematic chromosome-chromosome associations within human interphase nuclei, interchanges between all possible heterologous pairs of chromosomes were measured with 24-color whole-chromosome painting (multiplex FISH), after damage to interphase lymphocytes by sparsely ionizing radiation in vitro. An excess of interchanges for a specific chromosome pair w...

Abstract—For traditional painting materials, the artisan used to combine the pigments with different binders to create colors. As time goes by, the materials used for painting evolved from natural to chemical materials. The vast variety of ingredients used in chemical materials has complicated restoration work; it makes conservation work more difficult. Conservation work also becomes harder whe...

In this paper we propose a reliable surface imaging method for the non-invasive detection of morphological changes in paintings. Usually, the evaluation and quantification of changes and defects results mostly from an optical and subjective assessment, through the comparison of the previous and subsequent state of conservation and by means of condition reports. Using quantitative Reflectance Tr...

The current pavement sign marking operations are manually carried out, which are labor-intensive. This method requires blocking traffic for a long period of time resulting serious traffic jam. Also, the workers are exposed to possible injury and even death by passing traffic. This paper deals with the development of a robotic system for automating the pavement sign painting operations. The robo...

by shouldering the burden of a big chunk of global production, and giving shelter to half of the world’s population, currently cities play an important role in national economies. benefits of agglomeration in cities have played a major role in the process of economic development of different countries, however, the expansion of urbanization has produced some problems including environmental and...

We introduce roboPix, a robot, which is able to paint action paintings from a user’s thoughts using a Brain-Computer-Interface (BCI). The BCI provides signals, which encompass the user’s recognized thoughts and the user’s level of excitement. These signals command the movement of the robot’s arm, which spreads the paint on the canvas. Our system combines explicit and implicit signals to persona...

persian painting used to be dependent on persian literature for decades. among persian poets nizami is one of the most famous storytellers of 7th (13th a.d) century. containing elaborations and outstanding pictorial power, his valuable works and especially the masterpiece of “leili & majnun” is imitated by poets in various schools and is painted times and times by different miniaturists in diff...

A constellation of synonyms exist for the word “river”: what distinguishes these naturally flowing watercourses from a beck, bourn, brook, burn, creek, rill, rivulet, runnel, or tributary may come down to the size of the stream or may simply be a regional preference. Rivers flow across every continent and on all but the smallest islands, carving, eroding, and reshaping the Earth’s topography; c...