Few methods for demonstrating the effects of species interactions rival that of the manipulative experiment (Kareiva and Levin 2002). !e now commonly performed removal or addition of predators, competitors, or mutualists to experimentally replicated populations of recipient species has irrefutably shown that species can have important effects on each other’s populations, and that the strengths ...

every discourse, written or oral, is the conveyer of some hidden agenda of the producer, most importantly in such genres of speech as journalism, politics, propaganda, and advertisements. given the role of translation in discourse, a difference exists between when the translator carries the ideological values of the elite in contrast with one with patriotic preferences. in this study a comparis...

Object manipulation techniques in robotics can be categorized in two major groups including manipulation with and without grasp. The aim of this paper is to develop an object manipulation method where in addition to being grasp-less, the manipulation task is done in a passive approach. In this method, linear and angular positions of the object are changed and its manipulation path is controlled...

Controversy surrounding dissociative identity disorder (DID) has focused on conflicting findings regarding the validity and nature of interidentity amnesia, illustrating the need for objective methods of examining amnesia that can discriminate between explicit and implicit memory transfer. In the present study, the authors used a cross-modal manipulation designed to mitigate implicit memory eff...

Abstract Biometric technologies, in particular facerecognition, are employed many personal, commercial, and governmental identity management systems around the world. The processing of digitally manipulated face images within a recognition system may lead to false decisions thus decrease reliability decision system. This necessitates development manipulation detection modules which can be seaml...

In two experiments we tested the hypothesis that repeated exposure to out-group-relevant attitude objects would lead to less liking following a threat to identity. In Experiment 1 exposure to abstract artwork ostensibly created by a member of an out-group university led to more liking under baseline conditions, but not following a manipulation of threat. In Experiment 2 we observed a negative r...

Morphable models are essential for the statistical modeling of 3D faces. Previous works on morphable mostly focus large-scale facial geometry but ignore details. This paper augments in representing details by learning a Structure-aware Editable Model (SEMM). SEMM introduces detail structure representation based distance field wrinkle lines, jointly modeled with displacements to establish better...