На примере реальной ситуации, однажды разыгравшейся между известным художником и теоретиком искусства Иоханессом Иттеном его учениками на одном из уроков учебного курса (форкурса) в Баухаусе, Высшей школе строительства художественного конструирования, существовавшей Германии период с 1919 по 1933 год, выявляется оптическая двойственность визуального поля натюрморта. Задача исследования заключае...

With the emergence of Web 2.0, people are able to share their thoughts and photos with their friends and strangers. Yet, they also risk invasion of their privacy. Information privacy has therefore become an important issue in the information age. In this research, we focus on the influence of anger on immoral judgment of privacy invasion in cyberspace. Specifically, two scenarios, nonviolent an...

arsacid monarchy as the third iranian dynasty played an important role in the ancient era for five centuries. however, due to the inadequacy of written documents from that era, coins are considered precious sources for us to identify the political, historical, cultural, artistic, and religious views and ideas of that time, i.e. arsacid kings. concerning the similarities between the employed sym...

It has become a commonplace for reviews of books on consciousness to ask: Do we really need another book on consciousness? But in reviewing Igor Aleksander's latest book, I can brush this question aside, as there are relatively few books on its particular sub-topic: machine consciousness (other notable exceptions include, e.g. [1,2]). 'Machine consciousness' is perhaps a misleading term – it co...

We are interested in matching objects in photographs, paintings, sketches and so on; after all, humans have a remarkable ability to recognise objects in images, no matter how they are depicted. We conduct experiments in matching, and conclude that the key to robustness lies in object description. The existing literature consists of numerous feature descriptors that rely heavily on photometric p...

This article studies the depiction of Chinese miners in the Ghanaian news website entitled Modern Ghana. A total of 87 articles comprising 43752 words were retrieved. Van Leeuwen’s (2008) theory of the representation of the social actors was utilised to examine the depiction of Chinese miners in the Ghanaian press. In this regard, six applicable tools were used and these include exclusion, role...