c-Alumina-based materials with high porous volume, tunable pore size, were synthesized by the addition of both PEO/PPO/PEO triblock copolymers (Pluronics F127 and P123) and metal nitrates (Al, Mn, Cu) in a boehmite (AlOOH) nanoparticle hydrosol. During the subsequent thermal treatment, the surfactant was removed leaving a highly porous framework. The pore size distribution was strongly dependen...

We would eventually find how to open the radios and will find objects of various shape, color, and size [...]. We would describe and classify them into families according to their appearance. We would describe a family of square metal objects, a family of round brightly colored objects with two legs, round-shaped objects with three legs and so on. Because the objects would vary in color, we wil...

We review the status of the weak cosmic censorship conjecture, which asserts, in essence, that all singularities of gravitational collapse are hidden within black holes. Although little progress has been made toward a general proof (or disproof) of this conjecture, there has been some notable recent progress in the study of some examples and special cases related to the conjecture. These result...

We propose the implementation of a distributed system for DL storage and retrieval which relies on two earlier developed technologies: buckets and document linking based on user retrieval patterns. Buckets are expanded with a mechanism to keep track of weighted bucket relations. Each bucket keeps track of its connections to other related buckets. A mechanism is put in place which allows buckets...

Low–level vision approaches, such as local image features, are an important component of bottom–up machine vision solutions. They are able to effectively identify local visual similarities between fragments of underlying physical objects. Such vision approaches are used to build a learning system capable to form meaningful visual objects out of unlabelled collections of images. By capturing sim...

A large literature shows that language influences cognition. Yet, we know very little about when and how linguistic influences on cognition become important in development. Here we test the proposal that one pathway by which language affects cognition is by activating category information which influences visual processing, and that this influence starts early. Across two experiments, we show t...

This figure provides a hint of the reason for the low performance of computer vision in such a problem. It shows the distribution of visual features for two specific classes. In each case, the distribution of art features is visually distinct from that of photo features. We want to address the problem that : how to capture the wide variation in visual appearance exhibited by visual objects acro...

This paper introduces a novel way to allow non-expert users to create smart surroundings. Non-smart everyday objects such as furniture and appliances found in homes and offices can be converted to smart ones by attaching computers, sensors, and devices. In this way, non-smart components that form non-smart objects are made smart in advance. For our first prototype, we have developed u-Texture, ...

Technological advancements have taken us closer to the “kitchen of the future” where everyday kitchen activities are seamlessly integrated with smart computing services. While there exist smart kitchen approaches, the explorative nature of the field encourages novel designs. This paper follows the trend by describing the design and development of the Kitchen AS-A-PAL, an infrastructure for faci...