background : the aim of this study was to design pictorial key and taxonomic literature of culex pipiens complex in iran. methods: larvae were collected using standard dipping methods in 13 randomly selected areas of bushehr, hame­dan, kerman, khorasan-e-razavi, khuzistan, mazandaran, tehran, sistan and baluchistan and yazd provinces from april 2009 to october 2010. the data were analyzed using...

A new species belonging to the new Ototomoensis Group, Orthopodomyia ototomoensis Huang and Rueda, is described from Ototomo, Cameroon. Diagnostic features for separating members of Nkolbissonensis Group and Ototomoensis Group from other Orthopodomyia groups are provided. Two supplemental keys are presented: "A Pictorial Key to the Species of the Genus Orthopodomyia Ototomoensis Group in the Af...

We developed a method of teamwork for a product design in a real manufacturing company, where Pictorial KeyGraph aids in the creative consensus of team mates. In Pictorial KeyGraph, photographs of real entities corresponding to incomprehensible items in given data are embedded to the visual result of KeyGraph applied to their business reports, by users with tacit and explicit expertise in the r...

Six species of the subgenus Zavortinkius of Aedes Meigen in the Afrotropical Region are treated in a pictorial key based on diagnostic morphological features. Images of the diagnostic morphological structures of the adult thorax and leg are included.

Methods for processing of pictorial queries speci ed by pictorial query trees are presented. Leaves of a pictorial query tree correspond to individual pictorial queries while internal nodes correspond to logical operations on them. Algorithms for processing individual pictorial queries and for parsing and computing the overall result of a pictorial query tree are presented. Issues involved in o...

In this paper, we propose design guidelines of comprehensive pictorial symbols for communication support [1]. We conducted the questionnaire survey for evaluating understandability of pictorial symbols reproduced by JIS (Japanese Industrial Standard) committee. Then, we examined features of pictorial symbols whose percentage of questions answered correctly was high. According to these features,...