Water-holding stone vases were sampled in 4 central Florida cemeteries to compare the prevalence of mosquitoes in containers with and without metallic liners. Overall, immature mosquitoes were found in more than 60% of the vases lacking liners and in more than 50% of the vases with aluminum liners. Significantly fewer vases with copper liners were positive for mosquitoes. High mortality and a l...

Large, bold marks are painted or incised on the handles or bases of thirty-seven pictorial vases. These same kinds of marks and same patterns of marking are found on non-pictorial Mycenaean pottery. In general, marks on Mycenaean pottery are rare and the circum­ stances of their use are not yet fully understood. It is clear that they are associated with Cyprus, and it is most likely that they a...

Inspiration is an important aspect of human creativity and one that creative systems are only recently implementing. In this research, we describe and implement a transmedia creative inspiration model for generative art systems. Our implementation of this model is Visual Information Vases (VIV), an artificially intelligent ceramicist that creates 3D-printable vases using inspiration from a user...

Solids of revolution (vases, bottles, bells, . . .), shortly SORs, are very common objects in man-made environments. We present a complete framework for 3D database population from a single image of a scene including a SOR. The system supports human intervention with automated procedures to obtain good estimates of the interest entities needed for 3D reconstruction. The system exploits the spec...

I n the past few years,metallic nanoparticles have emerged as powerful building blocks for photonic devices in which electromagnetic waves can be controlled at the nanometre length scale.Structures such as metal nanoparticle waveguides exploit the unique properties of collective electron oscillations, known as plasmons.At the March 2003 symposium* on Photonics and the Nanoscale at the American ...

The objective of this paper is to automatically annotate images of gods and animals in decorations on classical Greek vases. Such images often require expert knowledge in labelling. We start from a large dataset of images of vases with associated brief text descriptions. We develop a weakly supervised learning approach to solve the correspondence problem between the descriptions and unknown ima...