outh America’s most famous forms of martial arts are, arguably, Brazilian jiujitsu (adapted from traditional Japanese Judo by a Brazilian family in the 1920s), and capoeira, an African descendant form that encompasses dance, music, and (mostly) non-contact athletic acrobatics. Both forms can be natively referred to as jogo—game—with the participants being players (jogadores). Capoeira jogadores...

Ki (in Japanese) or Qi (in Chinese) is the key concept in Eastern medicine, Eastern philosophy, as well as in martial arts. We explain the philosophical and psychological background of Ki. We emphasize that the unique aspects of Eastern philosophy are 'non-linearity' and 'holistic' approach. We then present physics aspect of Ki. Our experiments demonstrated that a 'Ki-beam' carries 'entropy' (o...

Computing in the arts, humanities and heritage sectors is becoming more pervasive, and increasingly sophisticated technologies are being developed to capture, explore, and disseminate information regarding artefacts, historical knowledge, and cultural inheritance. Conferences and symposia are central to the complex industry which has built up around using computational techniques to facilitate ...

We describe a novel system for interaction with large font databases. The system is an efficient tool for browsing in large font databases and as such it can be used by people in the Graphic Arts industry. The proposed approach is based on shape descriptors developed for visual characterization of character images rendered from different fonts. Here the descriptors are used in a visualization o...

This report describes the outcomes of a so-called Public-Private-Project (PPP) of the Royal Netherlands Academies of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) that makes part of a joint venture of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), Vrije University Amsterdam (VU) and the KNAW to support research in the digital humanities that focuses on collaboration between research institutions, non-profit organizations (e.g....

Silver Medals of the Department of Commerce, the William A. Jump Award for Exceptional Achievement in Public Administration, the Federal Government Meritorious Executive Award, and the Roger W. Jones Award for Executive Leadership. Kammer received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Maryland in 1969. An agency of the Commerce Department's Technology Administration, NIST promotes ...

The design for the environment (DfE) tools are used to include the environmental objectives into all of the company’s processes, and their suppliers and customers if possible. This paper investigates the benefits of applying DFE tools in the graphic arts industry, specifically the book production process. A present book production process in a print shop was redesigned taking into account the q...

ARTS (Sept4_i2) is a mitochondrial pro-apoptotic protein that functions as a tumor suppressor. Its expression is significantly reduced in leukemia and lymphoma patients. ARTS binds and inhibits XIAP (X-linked Inhibitor of Apoptosis protein) by interacting with its Bir3 domain. ARTS promotes degradation of XIAP through the proteasome pathway. By doing so, ARTS removes XIAP inhibition of caspases...