As to the relationship between extraverted disposition and preference for social communication on Internet community, there have been two hypotheses: “Social Enhancement” (“Rich Get Richer”) and “Social Compensation” (“Poor Get Richer”). In this paper, we examined the role of using real-life portrait as facial picture in determining whether an extraverted user would be sociable on Internet comm...

In spite of its almost photographic realism, the Arnolfi ni Portrait by naturalistic painter Jan van Eyck exhibits faulty linear perspective. This paper describes the creation of a three-dimensional virtual reconstruction of the painting’s interior scene using commercial modelling and image processing software. The result presented here is a rendering of the reconstructed scene closely resembli...

Natural languages are ill-suited to express mathematical reasoning. The purpose of an artificial language-predicate logic-with a deduction system is to enable us to express reasoning clearly and concisely. In this article we give two examples illustrating how Gentzen's system of 'natural de-duction' [2] fails to meet the case. In [1], the following problem is stated and solved: Given two casket...

Whereas the rabbinic tradition attacks King Asa of Judah for trusting in himself rather than in G-d and, in particular, for drafting the sages, Josephus, the apologist, omits such details and, indeed, whitewashes Asa completely. He is praised particularly, in language reminiscent of Josephus' portraits of Saul and David, as well as of Thucydides' Pericles, for putting his nation in order. In pa...

The profession of occupational therapy promotes individuals to achieve health and wellness through engagement in meaningful occupations of daily living. This occupation-focused profession plays a critical role in health care in a multitude of settings with a wide range of clients. The paper highlights a global overview of the philosophies of occupational therapy, the current international pract...

Compared to the general semantic segmentation problem, portrait segmentation has higher precision requirement on boundary area. However, this problem has not been well studied in previous works. In this paper, we propose a boundary-sensitive deep neural network (BSN) for portrait segmentation. BSN introduces three novel techniques. First, an individual boundary-sensitive kernel is proposed by d...

We compared the Portrait Toxigenic C. difficile Assay, a new semiautomated sample-to-result molecular test, to a toxigenic bacterial culture/cell cytotoxin neutralization assay (TBC/CCNA) for the detection of toxigenic Clostridium difficile in 549 stool specimens. Stool specimens were also tested by one of three alternative FDA-cleared molecular tests for toxigenic C. difficile (Xpert C. diffic...

The phase–portrait of the second order differential equation: ẍ + n