Recently Arnold (2011) asked “Why is binocular rivalry uncommon?”. He answered in an entertainingly written, provocative article, for which I thank and congratulate him. However, I will argue that Arnold’s answer falls short in two respects and his assumption that rivalry is uncommon is correct for two reasons other than the one he discusses. Binocular rivalry is a phenomenon of human visual pe...

The aim of this document is to describe the methods we used in the Patent Image Classification and Image-based Patent Retrieval tasks of the Clef-IP 2011 track. The patent image classification task consisted in categorizing patent images into predefined categories such as abstract drawing, graph, flowchart, table, etc. Our main aim in participating in this sub-task was to test how our image cat...

background: medical image interpolation is recently introduced as a helpful tool to obtain further information via initial available images taken by tomography systems. this information may be useful for better diagnosis of possible lesions or better tumor delineation at radiation treatment. to do this, deformable image registration algorithms are mainly utilized to perform image interpolation ...

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is an emerging non-invasiveimaging technique with great potential for a wide range of biomedicalimaging applications. However, the conventional PAT reconstructionalgorithms often provide distorted images with strong artifacts in caseswhen the signals are collected from few measurements or over an aperturethat does not enclose the object. In thi...

After more than a decade of a virtual standstill, the adoption of temporal data management features has recently picked up speed, driven by customer demand and the inclusion of temporal expressions into SQL:2011. Most of the big commercial DBMS now include support for bitemporal data and operators. In this paper, we perform a thorough analysis of these commercial temporal DBMS: We investigate t...

Ignorance of the culture and traditions of immigrants leads to misunderstanding and is a factor in mental illness among people whose new home seems intimidating as Dr. Farrukh Hashmi, a psychiatrist and a member of the Midlands Race Relations Board, explains. an immigrant was taken to a mental hospital because he was said to have been aggressive, had been shouting at his family, and he had thre...

In this paper we show that in pure exchange economies there exists no Pareto efficient and strategy-proof allocation mechanism which ensures positive consumptions to all agents. We also show that Pareto efficient, strategy-proof, and non-bossy allocation mechanism is dictatorial. We further show that if there exists three agents, then the allocation given by a Pareto efficient, strategy-proof, ...

Amiracarus pliocennatus n. gen., n. sp. is described based on fossils found in Pliocene and Pleistocene clastic sediments in caves of the Slovenian Classical Karst (Kras). Diagnosis and relationships of the new genus are given and relationships within the extant species of the genus are discussed as well as variability and reliability of some characters, used for species differentiation. Amirac...

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