Lake Minnetonka, located in southeastern Minnesota, U.S.A., is currently experiencing increased eutrophication due to excessive phosphorus (P) loading in runoff from agriculture and urban areas. This phenomenon has been exacerbated by the isolation of wetlands in the surrounding watershed from the surface water drainage network. In order to determine if rerouting surface water through these wet...

Citation for published version (APA): Perez, J., Jin, H., Stochl, J., Painter, M., Shelley, G., Jackson, E., ... Jones, P. B. (2015). Clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of tailored intensive liaison between primary and secondary care to identify individuals at risk of a first psychotic illness (the LEGs study): a cluster-randomised controlled trial. The Lancet Psychiatry. 10.1016/S22...

The application of cytogenetic techniques to studies of radiation effects gives a measure of the physical damage to the chromosomes. Such qualitative and quantitative measures of the chromosomal damage and correlation of these results with genetic tests are necessary for the detection and separation of mutational pattern differences in various types of germ cells or mutational pattern differenc...

the family of najaf ali isfahani were unique in safawid and qajar periods. no family has played a more prominent role in the painting of court life as more as najaf ali’s family. najaf ali in recognition of his work in lacquer painting was foremost among the lacquer painters. under afsharid and  zand  periods, lacquer works further developed and ali ashraf was one of prominent painters in this ...

1 I N T R O D U C T I O N In order to produce Expert System for Chinese flower and bird paintings, one needs a data base of the painting composition techniques of the painters. The authors are currently studying the recognition of painters' composition as the first step to making this data base. At this stage, the authors were able to determine the similar painting elements and the composition ...

Taking 170 works from the Museum of Arts in Budapest, Ara Pacis in Rome has produced a major exhibition on the painter-bohemian Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, of the late nineteenth century. It traces the artist’s life, and his rather premature death at only 36 years of age. The exhibition, organized by Zetema, contains a broad spectrum of this artist’s work: posters, illustrations, sheets, music cove...

Recently, many areas of research on humanoid robots have been studied, such as motion control, man-machine interfaces, artificial intelligence (AI), and so on. Among them many research projects have tried to create artist robots, with the common objective of exploring new sensing, artificial intelligence, and manipulation techniques. The research described in this thesis explores new vision and...