The independence number of the graph of a fullerene, the size of the largest set of vertices such that no two are adjacent (corresponding to the largest set of atoms of the molecule, no pair of which are bonded), appears to be a useful selector in identifying stable fullerene isomers. The experimentally characterized isomers with 60, 70 and 76 atoms uniquely minimize this number among the class...

Gesture sequences typically have a common set of distinct internal sub-structures which can be shared across the gestures. In this paper, we propose a method using a generative model to learn these common actions which we refer to as sub-gestures, and in-turn perform recognition. Our proposed model learns sub-gestures by sharing parameters between gesture models. We evaluated our method on the ...

The prevailing image of youth gangs— with their symbols, colors, and territorial graffiti—is that they are found in the poorest neighborhoods of America’s large cities. Certainly, they are. In recent years, however, such gangs also have been popping up in outlying rural areas, far away from urban decay. A number of assumptions about these rural gangs are popular in the criminal justice research...

A produção artística é um dos vestígios do patrimônio cultural material e imaterial deixado pelo ser humano ao longo de sua existência. As manifestações artísticas estão também nos muros das cidades, locais que consagram a efemeridade graffiti, com suas superfícies alteradas apagadas diariamente. Diante disso, questiona-se: como possível garantir persistência graffiti recurso informacional e, p...

In a series of three studies (total N = 956), we examined how political graffiti, which serves as representation prevailing social norms, influences the evaluation cohesion and neighborhood inhabitants depending on individuals orientation. line with our hypothesis, results Study 1 ( 199) indicated that tended to express more positive evaluations within when graffiti aligns their own Conversely,...