To detail the structure and format of memory for texts, researchers have examined whether readers monitor separate text dimensions for space, time, and characters. The authors proposed that the interactivity between these individual dimensions may be as critical to the construction of complex mental models as the discrete dimensions themselves. In the present experiments, participants read stor...

Morphometrics of Brazilian strains (BH, SJ and CMO) of Schistosoma mansoni cercariae were obtained with a computerized image analyzer (IMAGE PRO PLUS, MEDIA CYBERNETICS), considering the following characters: body area, tail, furcae, oral and ventral suckers and distance between them. For statistical analysis, the variance test (one-way Anova) was applied and significant differences of p< 0.05 ...

This paper presents an example of how Machine Learning tools can effectively contribute to Guided Discovery Tutoring Environments. MEMOCAR is that kind of environment, developed to evaluate the validity of a cognitive hypothesis concerning the teaching of Chinese characters to non native speakers. This hypothesis states that an early familiarization with Chinese character features is a pre-requ...

This paper specifies an OCR system for printed Malayalam characters. Malayalam is the principal language of the South Indian state Kerala. It belongs to the family of Dravidian Language. The input to the system would be the scanned image of a page of text and the output is a machine editable file. Malayalam Character recognition is a complex task because of the presence of two scripts; old scri...

The popular Disney Princess line includes nine films (e.g., Snow White, Beauty and the Beast) and over 25,000 marketable products. Gender role depictions of the prince and princess characters were examined with a focus on their behavioral characteristics and climactic outcomes in the films. Results suggest that the prince and princess characters differ in their portrayal of traditionally mascul...

In 3D interactive ction systems, a virtual camera must \ lm" the behaviors of multiple autonomous characters as they unpredictably interact with one another, are modi ed by the viewer, and manipulate artifacts in 3D worlds with complex scene geometries. It must continuously plan camera movements to clearly shoot the salient visual features of each relevant character. To address these issues, we...

Two patterns are matched by putting one on top of the other and iteratively moving their individual parts until most of their corresponding parts are aligned. An energy function and a neighborhood of influence are defined for each iteration. Initially, a large neighborhood is used such that the movements result in global features being coarsely aligned. The neighborhood size is gradually reduce...

Iwahori-Hecke algebras for the innnite series of complex reeection groups G(r; p; n) were constructed recently in the work of Ariki and Koike, Brou e and Malle, and Ariki. In this paper we give Murnaghan-Nakayama type formulas for computing the irreducible characters of these algebras. Our method is a generalization of that in our earlier paper in which we derived Murnaghan-Nakayama rules for t...

This paper concerns character sheaves of connected reductive algebraic groups defined over non-Archimedean local fields and their relation with characters of smooth representations. Although character sheaves were devised with characters of representations of finite groups of Lie type in mind, character sheaves are perfectly well defined for reductive algebraic groups over any algebraically clo...

People can create impressive new objects: an architect designs new houses, a cook designs new recipes, and an entrepreneur designs new companies. On the other hand, computers are better known for consistency than creativity, and thus the computational basis of creativity remains mysterious. Recent work suggests that probabilistic generative models can capture how people generate simple types of...