This paper is an attempt to explore how Lacanian concepts of desire, unconscious, as well as alienation are reflected in the major characters of Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov’s Lolita. Before unleashing the new, inexplicable yet highly fascinating aspects of psychoanalysis by the advent of French poststructuralist and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, Freudian psychoanalysis used to play the pivota...

Each homogeneous space of a quasigroup affords a representation of the BoseMesner algebra of the association scheme given by the action of the multiplication group. The homogeneous space is said to be faithful if the corresponding representation of the Bose-Mesner algebra is faithful. In the group case, this definition agrees with the usual concept of faithfulness for transitive permutation rep...

Original scientific paper Traditional dc electrical exploration method will face great challenge when detecting deep, complex geologic target. With the purpose, forward modelling and inverse modelling method of borehole resistivity has been developed. According to the characters of geology, the geological model has been set up. The numerical simulation shows that borehole resistivity method is ...

The genus Laurencia(Rhodomelaceae), a complex group, has 285 species and infraspecific names. Identification and taxonomy of these taxa, mainly has been based on flexible morphological characters which have led to a complicated taxonomy in this group. Nowadays, taxonomical study of this group has changed a lot by using reproductive characters, anatomical differences and modern...

Statistical consistency in phylogenetics has traditionally referred to the accuracy of estimating phylogenetic parameters for a fixed number of species as we increase the number of characters. However, it is also useful to consider a dual type of statistical consistency where we increase the number of species, rather than characters. This raises some basic questions: what can we learn about the...

There are more than 161 million visually impaired people in the world today, of which 37 million are blind. Camera-based computer vision systems have the potential to assist blind persons to independently access unfamiliar buildings. Signs with text play a very important role in identification of bathrooms, exits, office doors, and elevators. In this paper, we present an effective and robust me...