In recent years, a number of authors have started studying Aristotelian diagrams containing metalogical notions, such as tautology, contradiction, satisfiability, contingency, strong and weak interpretations of (sub)contrariety, etc. The present paper is a contribution to this line of research, and its main aims are both to extend and to deepen our understanding of metalogical diagrams. As for ...

the caucasus art research group consists of four researchers who attempt to make use of discovery method in order to identify and introduce some aspects of caucasian civilization viaan 18-day trip to this region. this paper is an analytical statement extracted from art research group in this trip. the overall strategy of the group is postulated in a way that prevents from addressing the many ar...

10. Honours and Rewards.? It lias sometimes been alleged that the number of Honours and Decorations bestowed upon officers of the I. M. S. is small. The following table shows that members of the service, on the active list or retired, have been the recipients of close upon 200 decorations. The larger share, nearly two-thirds of the whole, have gone to Bengal ; but that service has always been s...

PURPOSE To assess the conservation status of, to gain information on the creation of, and to provide surface reformations of the core and the surface of the bust of the pharaoh-queen Nefertiti, considered to be one of the greatest treasures of ancient Egyptian art, with computed tomography (CT). MATERIALS AND METHODS Multisection CT was performed with 0.6-mm section thickness. Two- and three-...

Monoclonal antibodies were obtained against Tomato mosaic tobamovirus (ToMV) isolated in Brazil. One antibody (8G7G2) isotyped as IgG2b (κ light chain) showed strong specificity and very low cross reaction with the Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV). It can be used in identification of tomato mosaic virus (ToMV).

Phaseolus vulgaris is a promiscuous host plant that can be nodulated by many different rhizobia representing a wide spectrum of Nod factors. In this study, we introduced the Rhizobium tropici CFN299 Nod factor sulfation genes nodHPQ into Azorhizobium caulinodans. The A. caulinodans transconjugants produce Nod factors that are mostly if not all sulfated and often with an arabinosyl residue as th...

In this paper a document analysis tool for historical manuscripts is proposed. The goal is to automatically segment layout components of the page, that is text, pictures and decorations. We specifically focused on the pictures, proposing a set of visual features able to identify significant pictures and separating them from all the floral and abstract decorations. The analysis is performed by b...