Previous laboratory research has demonstrated that symbolic highway signs which have undergone the Recursive Blur Technique of visual enhancement exhibit significantly increased legibility distances over standard symbolic highway signs when using a critical detail identification task. This study sought to extend those findings to a new stimulus subset, and develop an identification task that is...

intellectual property law is premised traditionally on the protection of inventions (patent), literary and artistic property (copyright), and signs (trade mark); and sui generis rights, such as design law, stand outside this framework and are constantly questioned and re-shaped the fashion industry is an intellectual property (ip) intensive industry, continually generating and commercially expl...

Early developmental psychologists viewed iconic representation as cognitively less complex than other forms of symbolic thought. It is therefore surprising that iconic signs are not acquired more easily than arbitrary signs by young language learners. One explanation is that children younger than 3 years have difficulty interpreting iconicity. The current study assessed hearing children's abili...

This paper presents a new, compact, canonical representation for arithmetic expressions, called Taylor Expansion Diagram. It can be used to facilitate the verification of RTL specifications and hardware implementations of arithmetic designs, and specifically the equivalence checking of complex algebraic and arithmetic expressions that arise in symbolic verification. This new representation is b...

This study investigates a language phenomenon known as Linguistic Landscape, which consists of linguistic signs that are widely used in public spaces, one is exposed pesantren. Pesantren has unique Islamic environment combines with religious atmosphere and education convey information to the public. The aims this investigate patterns use Landscape identify function pesantren environment. presen...

background: trichomonas vaginalis , the causative agent of trichomoniasis, is responsible for more than half of all sexually transmitted infections (stis). the present study aimed to deter­mine the frequency of t. vaginalis infection and its clinical manifestations in sympto­matic pregnant women in the area based on four different diagnostic methods. methods: a total of 162 pregnant women with ...

background: exposure to respirable particulate matter containing silica in the working environment can lead to respiratory diseases and other health hazards. the current study was designed to estimate the prevalence of lung diseases and their determining factors in the stone carvers of kerman, iran.   materials and methods: this was a cross-sectional study in which 67 male workers exposed to st...

Much work is focused upon music genre recognition (MGR) from audio recordings, symbolic data, and other modalities. While reviews have been written of some of this work before, no survey has been made of the approaches to evaluating approaches to MGR. This paper compiles a bibliography of work in MGR, and analyzes three aspects of evaluation: experimental designs, datasets, and figures of merit.