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Yale Univ.: Mural Inspired by Frida Kahlo Di
From the smears and blobs, leaking and bleeding through pages, she harvests images, ripe from the imagination. Simple printmaking techniques are included for students, to add richness and texture as well as stimulate the mind. Monotype, for exa...
Power and Deregulation
talks about setting price limits on wholesale electricity. (6/18/01) <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1"><img src="images/green_arrow.jpg" width="19" height="12"><a href="http://www.pbs.org/n...
PC World: Can Your Computer Read Lips?
recognition. AVSR is part of Intel's OpenCV computer vision library, a toolbox of imaging functions for developing computer vision applications, which contains a number of face detection algorithms. Speedier ApplicationsWith the speed of...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: cognition, animal
from the human species to other species. Nevertheless, in another sense the analogical argument for animal minds is weaker, since the strength of the argument is a function of the degree of similarity between the reference class and the target...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Chinese and Western
interconnection that leads us to the belief that there is some definite ‘I’ that underlies and is independent of the ever-shifting series. But there is only the interacting and interconnected series. This metaphysical concern, of course, had deep practical imp...
Unmasking the Face on Mars
Middle Butte in Idaho. An apron of boulders around the base would make the climb difficult [for a robot], but a human could do it well." The latest MGS images of the Face are so detailed that Garvin already knows what route he would take -...
Mathematical Variation in Art
Proportion" for its esthetically pleasing nature. As a student of anatomy, Leonardo was fascinated with the mathematical relationships found in the human structure. His drawing, Vitruvian Man, was a study of the proportions of the hum...
Passive Solar Design Guidelines
For example, a basic passive cooling strategy is to permit cooler night air to ventilate a house and cool down the thermal mass (this can be brick, stone, or concrete walls or floors, or large water containers) inside the house. The thermal mass will absorb...
Word-form recognition accuracy, Rock, Paper, Scissors
8 minutes Materials: A deck of cards that contains each word recognition word learned so far for each pair of players. Ideally each deck should contain about 20 cards total. Goal: Given a written regular word, the student can say the word with automaticity (...
The Romantic Education of W. J. T. Mitchell
symbols or mathematical "sentences" like y=1/x, and the diagrams in Cartesian coordinates that transform these statements into visual images, in this case, a curve descending from an infinite height along the vertical y-axis, turning right and skat...
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