Although little is known about how preferences develop in childhood, work in adults suggests that evaluative responses to stimuli can be acquired through classical conditioning. In two experiments children were exposed to novel cartoon characters, that were either consistently paired with a picture of a disliked food (Brussels sprouts) or a liked food (ice cream). Relative preferences for these...

License Plate Recognition (LPR) system for vehicles is an innovative and a very challenging area for research due to the innumerous plate formats and the nonuniform outdoor illumination conditions during which images are acquired. Thus, most approaches developed, work under certain restrictions such as fixed illumination, stationary background and limited speed. Algorithms developed for LPR sys...

The processes of adaptation in natural organisms consist of two complementary phases: learning, occurring within each individual's lifetime, and evolution, occurring over successive generations of the population. In this article, we study the relationship between learning and evolution in a simple abstract model, where neural networks capable of learning are evolved using genetic algorithms (GA...

When reading from left to right, useful information acquired during each fixational pause is widely assumed to extend 14 to 15 characters to the right of fixation but just 3 to 4 characters to the left, and certainly no further than the beginning of the fixated word. However, this leftward extent is strikingly small and seems inconsistent with other aspects of reading performance and with the g...

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the genus trachylepis fitzinger, 1843 encompasses two-three species in iran: trachylepis vittata (olivier, 1804) distributed in western iran, west of the zagros mountains; t.septemtaeniata (reuss, 1834) in southern regions of the zagros mountains and t. aurata transcaucasica chernov, 1926 from northern to central parts of the zagros mountains. for study of geographic variation in the latter two...

Handwritten recognition systems enable automatic of human handwritings, thereby increasing human-computer interaction. Despite enormous efforts in handwritten recognition, little progress has been made due to the variability handwriting, which presents numerous difficulties for machines recognize. It was discovered that while tremendous English and Arabic languages, very work done on Yorùbá cha...

Otto Cruz Sui1*, Dervel Felipe Díaz Herrera2, Lucy Montano Tamayo3, Kenia Romero Martínez2, María Teresa Pérez Guevara4 and Eladio Silva Cabrera5 1Biologist, MSc degree in Biochemistry, Health Sciences PhD, Senior Researcher, AIDS Research Laboratory, Cuba 2Biochemistry, MSc degree in Biochemistry, Adjunct Researcher, AIDS Research Laboratory, Cuba 3Chemical Analysis Technician, AIDS Research L...