Independent art spaces not only play an important role in exploring frontiers the visual arts but are often also pioneers discovering new artistic territories within cities. Due to their subordinate position field of art, they occupy marginal terms location urban structure and/or physical visibility built environment. Their outside established cores reflects, at same time, weaker economic stand...

VOLUMINOUS DATABASES CONTAIN HIDDEN KNowLmm-i.e., literatures that are logically but not bibliographically linked. Unlinked literatures containing academically interesting commonalities cannot be retrieved via normal searching methods. Extracting hidden knowledge from humanities databases is especially problematic because the literature, written in “everyday” rather than technical language, lac...

The goal of this project is to identify and localize objects in videos. Given a video V , consisting of a set of N frames f1, .., fN where each frame contains one or more unknown object, the objective is to identify and localize primary objects in each i-th frame fi in V that exhibit coherence in both appearance and motion. Figure 1 shows a brief illustration of discovering objects in videos pr...

Environmental scientists are continually discovering new and emerging environmental problems. There have been many studies of how a particular environmental problem has occurred, its costs to society, and its (potential) resolution. However, to date there have been few studies of the rate at which new environmental problems are generated by human technological innovations. In this note, I prese...