Scientific psychology and neuroscience are taking increasingly precise and comprehensive pictures of the human mind, both in its physical architecture and its functional processes. Meanwhile, each human mind has an abbreviated view of itself, a self-portrait that captures how it thinks it operates, and that therefore has been remarkably influential. The mind's self-portrait has as a central fea...

This paper proposes an approach to enhance the regional contrasts in snap-shot style portrait photographs by using pre-modern portrait paintings as aesthetic exemplars. The example portrait painting is selected based on a comparison of the existing contrast properties of the painting and the photograph. The contrast organization in the selected example painting is transferred to the photograph ...

It is proved that if an algebra R over a field can be endowed with a pointed and finite-dimensional .nfiltration such that the associated .n-graded algebra T is semi-commutative, then R is left and right finitely partitive. In order to do this, a multi-variable Poincare! series for every finitely generated graded T-module is considered and it is shown that this Poincare! series is a rational fu...

This article reviews the construction and some applications of twisted Poincare-covariant quantum fields on Moyal plane. The Drinfeld twist, which plays a key mathematical role in this construction, is then applied to case discrete groups, with view geons gravity. Poincare-twisted can also be study CMB anisotropies, corrections power spectrum are used put constraints spacetime noncommutativity....

This chapter presents an overview of the latest artistic portrait rendering techniques. Artistic rendering or portraits can be viewed as an image generating process controlled by two factors. The first one is the face fidelity, namely, a rendered portrait image should preserve a certain amount of the original face’s information. The second factor is the artistic style, for example, sketch, pain...

For M and N closed oriented connected smooth manifolds of the same dimension, we consider the mapping space Map(M, N ; f) of continuous maps homotopic to f : M → N . We will show that the evaluation map from the space of maps to the manifold N induces a nontrivial homomorphism on the fundamental group only if the self coincidence number of f , denoted Λf,f , equals zero. Since Λf,f is equal to ...

adaption of metaphor and allusion has been always considered as the most valuable literary representations and seved as an appropriate device for benchmarking versification potential in poets. as one of shiite poets, seyed hemyari who has devoted his verse for defense from al-ul-bayt (pbut) has benefitted successfully from rhetoric images in this field. despite of its simplicity and plainness i...

Polygonal hybrid systems (SPDI) are a subclass of planar hybrid automata which can be represented by piecewise constant differential inclusions. The reachability problem as well as the computation of certain objects of the phase portrait, namely the viability, controllability and invariance kernels, for such systems is decidable. In this paper we show how to compute another object of an SPDI ph...