The bifacially-flaked stemmed obsidian artifacts from Easter Island -known as mata’a -vary greatly in terms of the shape and form of their stems. The stem variability appears to be largely stylistic in nature as its variation does not affect the function of the tool and thus is free to change. Since performance is not a factor in structuring variation , patterns of similarity across stylistic c...

This paper is concerned with a morphological-stylistic and archaeometric study of two small pottery statues, confiscated by the Cosenza Carabinieri Unit for Protection Cultural Heritage Anti-Counterfeiting (Calabria, Italy). The research aimed to establish authenticity artworks verify possible origin from same workshop manufacturing, providing indications about textural features raw materials u...

each country faces a continuing challenge to collect enough blood to meet the national needs. according to who, there should be at least 20 blood donations per 1,000 population for developing countries, in kazakhstan this indicator was only 16.8 in 2011. thus, we conducted an epidemiological assessment and drew a map of the regional distribution of blood and plasma donations in kazakhstan durin...

productive and reproductive traits have great importance in international dairy cattle breeding objectives. production, reproduction (days open and calving interval) and pedigree data of iranian holstein dairy cattles were collected between 2002 and 2012 from 47 herds in isfahan province. the data set consisted of 30179 records from 18837 registered iranianholstein dairy cattles. single trait r...

In this contribution, we present a computational stylistic study of the French classic literature texts based on a data-driven approach where discovering interesting linguistic patterns is done without any prior knowledge. We propose an objective interestingness measure to extract meaningful stylistic syntactic patterns from a given author’s work. Our hypothesis is based on the fact that the mo...

This paper presents a computational model of stylistic similarity between human motions that is statistically derived from a comprehensive collection of captured, stylistically similar motion pairs. In this model, a set of hypersurfaces learned by single-class SVM and kernel PCA characterize the region occupied by stylistically similar motion pairs in the space of all possible pairs. The propos...

The present monograph studies the asymptotic behaviour of eigenvalues, products and functions of block Toeplitz matrices generated by the Fourier coefficients of a continuous matrix-valued function. This study is based on the concept of asymptotically equivalent sequences of non-square matrices. The asymptotic results on block Toeplitz matrices obtained are applied to vector asymptotically wide...

The goal of this paper is to compare a set of distance/similarity measures, regarding theirs ability to reflect stylistic similarity between authors and texts. To assess the ability of these distance/similarity functions to capture stylistic similarity between texts, we tested them in one of the most frequently employed multivariate statistical analysis settings: cluster analysis. The experimen...