∗ Professor and author of correspondence, Phone: (765) 427-7945, Email: [email protected]. ABSTRACT The potential advantages of freehand sketches have been widely recognized and exploited in many fields especially in engineering design and analysis. This is mainly because the freehand sketches are an efficient and natural way for users to visually communicate ideas. However, due to a lack of fu...

Post-war property reforms in transitional Cambodia plunged the country into new conflict: a war of land. Under guise ‘beautification’, 11% capital’s residents have been displaced under two decades wave violent gentrification, enacted through forced eviction and dispossession. Mounting resistance shows signs taking effect, however, evincing turning point state–society relations. Here, government...

Ai Weiwei positions himself first and foremost as a thinker, driven by curiosity even selfishness, not shying away from ridicule. Through immersion direct response to different, unfamiliar conditions, he aims defamiliarize pre-set thinking, letting be trapped rationality led simplified, predetermined conclusions about the world. Despite self-proclaimed selfishness at their core, Ai’s artistic a...

Facial beauty analysis is an important topic in human society. It may be used as a guidance for face beautification applications such cosmetic surgery. Deep neural networks (DNNs) have recently been adopted facial and achieved remarkable performance. However, most existing DNN-based models regard normal classification task. They ignore prior knowledge traditional machine learning which illustra...

Heavy metal toxicity in the soil causes harmful effects on plants as well human health. They are introduced into by different means like smelting, burning of coal, and excess use fertilizers, sewage sludge, pesticides. Among heavy metals Copper arsenic very important but their higher concentrations cause several morphological biochemical plants. become part food chain when fruits vegetables gro...

Background: Among men, interest in undergoing aesthetic procedures has grown over the years. In particular, men are increasingly seeking lip procedures. However, there still very few scientific reports involving treatments for men. Objective: The aim of this article is to describe a novel lip-filling technique performed on 23 male patients according their needs. Methods: described treatment dev...

Forests across the world are considered to be a huge socio-economic and environmental benefit host adjacent communities. This study focuses on assessing impacts of fuelwood timber consumption livelihood households in Baltistan region Pakistan. Primary secondary sources data were employed for study. The primary involved use questionnaire survey interview while documented information textbooks in...