When we see Dr. Sidis heralded by his publisher as the discoverer of "the fundamental cause of psychopathic maladies," we infer that Dr. Sigmund Freud has a rival. Freud in his day was hailed as a discoverer, and he too put forward one cause, albeit a different one, to which he would reduce all cases of functional mental disorder. Dr. Sidis is unkind enough to allude to psycho-analysis as "Freu...

this article strive to examine and explaine national sources of the foreign policy of the islamic republic of iran. cultural, historical, geographic, ideological, social, and economic variables, as societal sources, will lead to the continuation of some behaviours in iran’s foreign policy. the author argues that to better understand iran’s foreign policy, one must pay attention to the above var...

abstract niklas luhmann was one of the prominent thinkers in the realm of sociology and the philosophy of social sciences. his approach was a systems approach. he classified the realm of reality and its entities into four groups that consisted of: machines, organisms, psychic systems, social systems. he belonged to the second wave of systemic thought and focused on the complexity and emergence ...

In this paper, we propose a trainable selective attention model that can inhibit an unwanted salient area and only focus on an interesting area in a static natural scene. The proposed model was implemented by the bottom-up saliency map model in conjunction with the modified adaptive resonance theory (ART) network model. The bottom-up saliency map model generates a salient area based on intensit...