Many studies have found cognitive deficits related to alcohol consumption. However, few studies have studied cognitive performance when alcohol was administered after the to-be-remembered information was presented with memory testing occurring when participants are once again sober. The present study examined effects of alcohol on cognitive performance using a prose recall task during acute int...

Reaching high levels of artistic creation in a society requires institutions that facilitate the sorting of the most talented individuals of each generation and the development of their skills across artistic careers. The impact of long copyrights is not straightforward in this respect. This paper takes a professional career approach to analyzing how copyright regulation affects artistic creati...

Computer-assisted animation production tools have an important role in animation production industries. They could reduce the production cost and time. In this paper, a new computer-assisted artistic pattern drawing system is proposed. The system automatically adds artistic patterns to 2D animations. The artistic patters are captured from key frames drawn by an animator and are applied to line ...

Web-based software was used to deliver and record the effects of programmed instruction that progressively added formal prompts until attempts were successful, programmed instruction with one attempt, and prose tutorials. Error-contingent progressive prompting took significantly longer than programmed instruction and prose. Both forms of programmed instruction substantially increased the approp...

As one of the most important literary genres, novel new characteristics first emerged in Kazakh literature at beginning twentieth century. However, early novels have been questioned for their short length and immaturity composition over years. In Soviet period, some scholars even suggested that works before October Revolution, such as Jamal Unfortunate, Kalyn Mal, Girls Let’s Have a Look, Beaut...

The peculiarities of stylistic narration the novels by T. Hardy and Panas Myrnyi are considered in article. We defined that historical typological principles, being theoretically “disclosed”, have already contributed to defining a significant number literary development under any national conditions. All this, on whole, gives possibility all-round studying artistic culture. found out using cult...

Artistic rendering is a subset of non-photorealistic rendering with the intention of using artistic effects in rendered images. This paper looks at texture transfer as a generalized method to render digital images in artistic styles. Texture transfer algorithms transfer the source texture to a target image. Since artistic style is subjective, this algorithm has four adjustable parameters that a...

The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between art experience and artistic inspiration. Focusing on attitudes and behaviors in appreciation and creation as mediating variables, it was hypothesized that (a) the method of appreciation with comparison between one’s creations and others’ creations is the best predictor of artistic inspiration, and (b) art experiences might...

The article presents a comparison of artistic and creative achievements of Slovenian fifth grade primary school students using a sample of 321 fifth graders (11 and 12 year olds) from 12 primary schools (4 urban and 8 suburban schools). The previously verified LV1 test was used as the research instrument that was employed to establish the existing condition of artistic creativity. The test was ...