This paper elucidates the emergence and evolution of arabesque with specific reference to the case of arabesque in Turkish art and architecture. It is argued here that arabesque is a fusion of styles rather than a pure and homogenous style. Furthermore, the paper aims to show that although the arabesque style appears to be a fanciful and freely organized manner of artistic treatment it is based...

INTRODUCTION Variation in motion between groups of dancers using a commonly performed movement (arabesque) involving coordination of postural control with upper and lower extremity multi-joint movement is presented. Quantitative measurements of “smoothness” and variability were employed in order to evaluate how the control of the arabesque movement varied with increasing skill levels and learni...

In this paper we consider a family of dynamical systems (“arabesques”) defined as closed chains of 2-element negative circuits. An n-dimensional arabesque system has n 2-element circuits, but in addition, it displays by construction, two n-element circuits which are both positive vs one positive, one negative, depending on the parity (even vs odd) of the dimensionality n. In view of the absence...

Distributed data processing platforms such as MapReduce and Pregel have substantially simplified the design and deployment of certain classes of distributed graph analytics algorithms. However, these platforms do not represent a good match for distributed graph mining problems, as for example finding frequent subgraphs in a graph. Given an input graph, these problems require exploring a very la...

Filamentous growth and the capacity at producing conidia are two critical aspects of most fungal life cycles, including that of many plant or animal pathogens. Here, we report on the identification of a homeobox transcription factor encoding gene that plays a role in these two particular aspects of the development of the phytopathogenic fungus Botrytis cinerea. Deletion of the BcHOX8 gene in bo...

Japanese silver grass (Miscanthus sinensis) and 14 cultivars were transplanted in northern and southern Florida and evaluated for landscape performance, fl owering, growth, and seed viability. All plants survived the 84-week study at both locations with the exception of ‘Morning Light’, where 22% to 33% of the plants died. In northern and southern Florida, ‘Arabesque’, ‘Adagio’, ‘Cosmopolitan’,...

Membranous lipodystrophy is characterized by the presence of microcysts lined by amorphous, eosinophilic material with an arabesque appearance. We experienced a case of a 72-year-old man who had dark brownish, pruritic papules on the arms, legs, and back. Histopathologic examination of a biopsied lesion showed homogeneous, eosinophilic material in the papillary dermis, as well as membranous lip...

Many traditional designs consist of some geometrical properties of symmetry, periodicity/repetition, recursion or cycle with an endless stroke, especially in Tamil Kolam, Celtic knots, African Sona, Vanuatu Nitus, Arabesque or Asian knot etc. People like to feel infinity, recurrency and dynamism especially of trace animation in these cycle patterns, and are attracted by such a fact that the pat...