While the dissociation between invariant aspects of a face and emotional expressions has been studied extensively, the role of non-emotional changeable aspects in face recognition has been considered in the literature rarely. The purpose of the present study was to understand whether information on changeable aspects (with and without emotional content) can help those individuals with poor face...

A Brazilian orthopaedic company designed a stainless steel plate called Synthesis Pengo System (S.P.S.), which has one fixed and one changeable extremity. According to the assembly of the changeable extremity, it is possible to obtain dynamization or neutralization of the fracture site. Since the S.P.S. plate was developed for use in human patients, the aim of this study was to evaluate this sy...

four kinds of refrigerant mixtures R22/Rl34a, R22/Rl52a, R22/Rl42b and R22/Rl23, which contain some new halocarbons which are considered to be the alternatives for CFCs, were evaluated in order to realize higher condensing temperature than that using R22 at high temperature operation, and larger heating capacity than that using R22/Rll4 at normal temperature operation. These mixtures were appli...

Traditional oil painting works enable the spectators to feel the various impressions because it can be shown differently by the changes of light effect. The reason of oil painting’s distinguishing feature is that it contains the texture and volume of color expressed by thickness of used pigments and brushing. In this paper, we present a novel method that reproduces oil painting-like image from ...

Food neophobia is a reaction to novel food observed in many animal species, particularly omnivores, including Rattus norvegicus. A neophobic reaction is typically characterised by avoidance of novel food and the necessity to assess both its potential value and toxicity by the animal. It has been hypothesised that this reaction is not observed in rats inhabiting a changeable environment with a h...

A traditional ultrafast fibre laser has a constant cavity length that is independent of the pulse wavelength. The investigation of distributed ultrafast (DUF) lasers is conceptually and technically challenging and of great interest because the laser cavity length and fundamental cavity frequency are changeable based on the wavelength. Here, we propose and demonstrate a DUF fibre laser based on ...

QR code(Quick Response Code) is a popular two-dimensional matrix that randomly consists of black and white square modules. While the appearance of QR codes are often visually unpleasant, it leads to the increasing demand for the aesthetic QR codes. However, it may turn out to be unreadable if changes to the modules of the QR code are inadequate. Therefore, to resolve this conflict, we propose a...