Changes in the style of professional artists as an immediate consequence of cerebrovascular disease are an intriguing phenomenon for the neuroscientist. While left-hemisphere damage is commonly provoking alterations in verbal production and comprehension, right-hemisphere stroke often leads to left-sided visuospatial neglect. We present a case series of 13 professional artists with right-hemisp...

American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) transmission patterns have been increasingly associated with domestic and peridomestic environments. Here, we present results from an epidemiological survey of 94 people from 24 households in Trinidad de Las Minas, western Panama. We studied the role of sand fly abundance, housing quality, peridomicile landscape matrix, and vegetation structure on shaping ...

The effect of brain injury on the creative output of artists is a well-documented but intriguing topic. Less common is the development, after a brain injury, of an artistic output in individuals who previously did not have such capability. Painting, drawing, composing songs or classical music, poetry, craftwork is a non-exhaustive list of reported activities. They have been reported in cases of...

Claudia Mattos In 1807 the German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt published a small book entitled Ansichten der Natur (Aspects of Nature), which resulted from his more than five-year trip through the American continent. On the contrary to the thirty volumes of his Voyage de Humboldt et Bompland, published between 1805 and 1836 in Paris this small work from 1807 offered the reader what Humbold...

Current work in author identification is primarily directed towards music classification. Identification of artists by analyzing features of their work has recently gained interest. As a multiclass classification problem, potentially applicable machine learning approaches to the problem are numerous. We propose to extend present work in this area, which uses Naïve Bayes classifiers and multi-cl...

revolution related art, the holy defense and related concepts have dedicated an important part of the iranian contemporary art to themselves during the past three decades. iraj eskandari, painter and academic member of the tehran university of arts, is one of the prolific contemporary artists in iran; his works are blended with the experience of life during wartime and reflects a set of realist...