The medial axis transform is valuable for shape representation as it is complete and captures part structure. However, its exact computation for arbitrary 3D models is not feasible. We introduce a novel algorithm to approximate the medial axis of a polyhedron with a dense set of medial points, with a guarantee that each medial point is within a specified tolerance from the medial axis. Given th...

Proof systems for hybrid logic typically use @-operators to access information hidden behind modalities; this labeling approach lies at the heart of most resolution, natural deduction, and tableau systems for hybrid logic. But there is another, less well-known approach, which we have come to believe is conceptually clearer. We call this Seligman-style inference, as it was first introduced and e...

this essay is a narrative study of the novel “beggar” (al shahaz) by naguib mahfouz (the renowned egyptian writer). a noticeable part of this research has been allocated to the narrative style of the novel in which discussions such as point of view, focalization, speech-expression method and thoughts have been examined. in this article, in addition to narration, discussions like title, opening,...

User cooperation for spectrum sensing in cognitive radios has been proposed in order to improve the overall performance by mitigating multi-path fading and shadowing experienced by the users. However, user cooperation results in high energy consumption, extra time for results exchange, as well as delay and security risks. In this paper, we investigate the effects of cooperative spectrum sensing...

athir al-din al-abhari has a treatise bibliographies have called “thamani ‘ashra mas’ala fi al-kalam” (i.e., 18 problems in theology) or “al-mas’il” (i.e. the problems), but our findings show that its real name is “tahrir al-dalail fi taqrir al-masa’il” (i.e. the introduction of arguments for the establishment of the problems). the treatise, which is presumably his only writing in kalam, contai...

objectives: the aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of verbal self-instruction on pessimistic attribution style about negative events in children with dyslexia. methods: the study was experimental with pre-test-post-test and control group. the statistical population consists of all dyslexic students of maktab ali school in tehran city. forty students were selected by convenie...

This paper investigates the use of the Bayesian inference for devising an example-based rendering procedure. As prior model of this Bayesian inference, we exploit the multiscale non-parametric model recently proposed by Wei et al. for texture synthesis. This model appears to be interesting to also capture some characteristics of a rendering style from an artistic illustration example. Obtained ...

For language modeling of spontaneous speech recognition, we propose a style transformation approach, which transforms written texts to a spoken-style language model. Since these two styles are largely different and thus direct transformation is difficult, we cascade two transformation methods; rule-based transformation to rewrite written-style texts to intermediate “verbatim” texts, and statist...

In this paper, we present a method which combines the flexibility of the neural algorithm of artistic style with the speed of fast style transfer networks to allow real-time stylization using any content/style image pair. We build upon recent work leveraging conditional instance normalization for multi-style transfer networks by learning to predict the conditional instance normalization paramet...