Clear differences in perceptual and neural processing of faces of different species have been reported, implying the contribution of visual experience to face perception. Can these differences be revealed by our eye scanning patterns while we extract salient facial information? Here, we systematically compared non-pet-owners' gaze patterns while exploring human, monkey, dog, and cat faces in a ...

Besides eradication of chronic middle ear disease, the reconstruction of the sound conduction apparatus is a major goal of modern ear microsurgery. The material of choice in cases of partial ossicular replacement prosthesis is the autogenous ossicle. In the event of more extensive destruction of the ossicular chain diverse alloplastic materials, e. g. metals, ceramics, plastics or composits are...

Some aspects of attentional processing are known to decline with normal aging. To understand how age affects the attentional control of perceptual stability, we investigated age-related changes in voluntarily controlled perceptual rivalry. Durations of the dominant percept, produced by an ambiguous Rubin vase-faces figure, were measured in conditions that required passive viewing and attentiona...

BACKGROUND Individuals with dementia often experience poor quality of life (QOL) due to behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD). Music therapy can reduce BPSD, but most studies have focused on patients with mild to moderate dementia. We hypothesized that music intervention would have beneficial effects compared with a no-music control condition, and that interactive music inter...

In elliptic curve cryptography, the problem of computing an integer k from two points on the ellipse namely kp, p the computation of ap+bq+cr+ds, is performed from Shamir’s method. In this paper an algorithm is proposed for computing the minimum joint weight for the integers a, b, c, d, examining them from left to right. Keywords—ECC protocol, JSF algorithm, joint weight, optimality, ISB repres...

called a Parallel Force/Velocity Actuator (PFVA), that combines two fundamentally distinct actuators (one using low gear reduction or even direct drive, which we will call a Force Actuator (FA) and the other with a high reduction gear train that we will refer to as a Velocity Actuator (VA)). The objective of this work is to evaluate the effect of the relative scale factor, RSF, (ratio of gear r...

The Resources and Shaping Forces (RSF) model is developed from a case study in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia, using modified grounded theory. It provides a conceptual framework for identifying, describing and analysing livelihood and natural systems at the community level, and helps link the principles of sustainable livelihoods to those of community development. The shaping forces set of instituti...

In the analysis below, we consider introducing a second contractor early in the JSF program. Our focus is on what makes sense at the beginning of EMD, which should occur approximately a year after this study. For this study, we have cost data regarding the baseline winnertake-all program from both of the JSF contractors plus the JSF Program Office. The alternative is to introduce competition, f...

Face frontalization is a rising technique for view-invariant face analysis. It enables a non-frontal facial image to recover its general facial appearances to frontal view. A few pioneering works have been proposed very recently. However, face frontalization with detailed facial expression recovering is still very challenging due to the non-linear relationships between head-pose and expression ...