Concepts are interrelated to the extent that the characterization of one concept is influenced by another concept, and isolated to the extent that the characterization of one concept is independent of other concepts. The relative categorization accuracy of the prototype and caricature of a concept can be used as a measure of concept interrelatedness. The prototype is the central tendency of a c...

Removal of noise from image is often the first step in image processing and remains a challenging problem inspite of the sophistication of recent research. Among all noise, speckle noise existing in Satellite images, Medical images and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images is definitely to be removed since the details of the image are corrupted. The analysis of despeckling SAR image based on Ba...

This article will review the development of infant cognitive assessment and will describe selected tests. Considerations in choosing, administering, and interpreting the results of infant intelligence/cognitive assessment instruments will be outlined. Finally, the usefulness of cognitive assessment will be discussed along with new approaches to assessment. Article: The cognitive assessment of i...

What are the issues stratigraphic computing has to deal with? This is a personal view presenting the features of my program Stratify and highlighting trends and aspects that have been discussed in recent publications. Each Harris diagram program has to store its data, either in a data base, or in dynamic structures like linked lists or resizeable arrays. Data storage is the basis of all stratig...

This research examined the relationship between Linguistic Style Matching—the degree to which negotiators coordinate their word use—and negotiation outcome. Nine hostage negotiations were divided into 6 time stages and the dialogue of police negotiators and hostage takers analyzed across 18 linguistic categories. Correlational analyses showed that successful negotiations were associated with hi...