In primary visual cortex of higher mammals neurons are grouped according to their orientation preference, forming "pinwheels" around "orientation centers." Although the general structure of orientation maps is largely resolved, the microscopic arrangement of neuronal response properties in the orientation centers has remained elusive. The tetrode technique, enabling multiple single-unit recordi...

Referring to the history, Islam has various religious organizations, where each organization its own orientation. And then difference in philosophical background will influence differences educational objectives. This study was designed using qualitative methods and a case approach. The results of this can be summarized as follows, (1). Religious orientations provide clear contribution teaching...

Abstract Objective: This study was carried out for investigating the religion orientation relationship with coping with diabetes in type 2 diabetic patients in Yazd, Iran. The present study is a kind of scientific-comparative description. The research subjects comprised of all type 2 diabetic patients admitted to the hospitals in Yazd. Materials and Methods: The study sample was consisted of ...

admittedly, one of the problems facing the high school education system in iran is that students do not show interest in arabic and obtain very low marks. this is specially important because arabic is the key to understanding religious texts and our literary and scientific heritage. a study of 400 high school students from various education districts in the city of mashhad, using a cluster samp...

This chapter explores cultural and individual religious roots of adolescents' family orientation on the basis of multilevel analyses with data from 17 cul­ tural groups. Religion and the family are seen as intertwined social insti­ tutions. The family as a source of social support has been identified as an important mediator of the effects of religiosity on adolescent developmental outcomes. Th...

This paper presents a new camera intrinsic parameters self-calibration technique for ordinary active vision system. By controlling a pan-tilt-translation camera platform to do a sequence of specially designed motions (called a camera motion configuration here), we rigorously proved that the camera intrinsic parameters can be determined linearly under such two configurations: (1)regulating the c...

A novel algorithm for 2D object orientation and scaling factor estimation, is proposed in this paper. The proposed method is accurate, effective, computationally efficient and fullyautomated. The object orientation is calculated by using object principal axes estimation. The main contribution of the proposed approach is the utilization of a 2D empirical mode like decomposition (EMD-like) as a n...

Estimating the orientation of the observed person is a crucial task for home entertainment, man-machine interaction, intelligent vehicles, etc. This is possible but complex with a single camera because it only provides one side view. To decrease the sensitivity to color and texture, we use the silhouette to infer the orientation. Under these conditions, we show that the only intrinsic limitatio...