MOTIVATION TOPS cartoons are a schematic ion of protein three-dimensional structures in two dimensions, and are used for understanding and manual comparison of protein folds. Recently, an algorithm that produces the cartoons automatically from protein structures has been devised and cartoons have been generated to represent all the structures in the structural databank. There is now a need to b...

We have traditionally used maps to provide information about space. We have fashioned a design, development, fabrication and consumption process (and associated procedures) that have enabled essential artifacts to be made available and for them to be used effectively and efficiently. However, with the use of non-traditional representational artefacts , whereby for example users can disassociate...

A ‘‘sense of humor’’ can be fractionated into appreciation (enjoying jokes), production fluency (making jokes), and production success (making funny jokes). There is scant research on how appreciation and production relate, and their relation to individual differences. Participants (N = 159) rated the humor of captioned cartoons and created captions for different cartoons. People who wrote funn...

Rolf Landauer has done more than anyone else to establish the physics of information processing as a serious subject of scientific inquiry. Here I will take a less serious approach, highlighting his contributions to this field with the help of cartoons and diagrams drawn by himself and others. Landauer has always believed that physics and mathematics are profoundly interdependent (Fig. 1): on t...

We introduce a novel example-based framework for reusing traditional cartoon drawings and animations. In contrast to previous approaches our aim is to design new characters and poses by combining fragments of the original artwork. Using standard image manipulation tool this task is tedious and time consuming. To reduce the amount of manual intervention we combine unsupervised image segmentation...

Our work focuses on the encoding of two–dimensional (2-D) graphics animated cartoons with MPEG-4. This stems from a need to stop encoding cartoons as videos and to start using methods more adapted to animated 2-D vector graphics sequences. We expected this could be an efficient coding with good versatility for various types of terminals. First, we present some technical specification for such c...

In this study, one of deep learning methods, which has been very popular in recent years, is employed for the detection and classification circuit components hand-drawn images. Each component located different positions on scanned images circuits, are frequently used electrical electronics engineering, considered as a separate object. order to detect image, Faster Region Based Convolutional Neu...

introduction: the utility and discriminatory pattern of the clock face drawing test in adhd is unclear. this study therefore compared clock face drawing test performance in children with adhd and controls. methods: 95 school children with adhd and 191 other children were matched for gender ratio and age. adhd symptoms severities were assessed using dsm-iv adhd checklist and their intellectual f...