Bingham and Souza have presented an evolutionary theory that specifies a causal relationship between the advent of powerful projectile weapons such as the bow and radical rearrangements in social relations and histories. They propose that the acquisition of weapons that permitted humans to kill at ever-increasing distances provided the coercive means to suppress conflicts of interest among nonk...

OBJECTIVES Headgears are among the effective orthodontic appliances to achieve treatment goals. Unilateral molar distal movement is sometimes needed during an orthodontic treatment, which can be achieved by an asymmetric headgear. Different unilateral headgears have been introduced. The main goal of this study was to analyze the force system of unilateral expanded outer bow asymmetric headgears...

In this paper we propose the use of several feature extraction methods, which have been shown before to perform well for object recognition, for recognizing handwritten characters, These methods are the histogram of oriented gradients (HOG), a bag of visual words using pixel intensity information (BOW), and a bag of visual words using extracted HOG features (HOG-BOW). These feature extraction a...

In this paper the near-field distributions of bow-tie apertures in visible range are characterized by the method of 3D finite-difference time-domain (FDTD). The numerical simulation results reveal theoretically the relation of field enhancement effect of bow-tie aperture and its several parameters including tip angle, aperture size and film thickness. For the bow-tie aperture with a certain tip...

The aim of this short term mission is to work at the Medialogy Department of the Aalborg University in Copenhagen to a project with Prof. Stefania Serafin. The work that we would like to do together is related to an ongoing project about a well known HCI predictive model in an audio perspective: the Fitts’ model has been analyzed providing different audio interactive displays and interfaces in ...

(The image quality has been reduced to submit this paper to astro-ph. To get a full resolution version, please visit A new point of view on the dynamics of the circumstellar nebula M1-67 around the runaway Wolf-Rayet (WR) star WR 124 is presented. We simulated the outbursts of nebulae with different morphologies, to compare the results to the observed dynamical spectra of M1-67. We found that i...

Understanding tie strength in social networks, and the factors that influence it, have received much attention in a myriad of disciplines for decades. Several models incorporating indicators of tie strength have been proposed and used to quantify relationships in social networks, and a standard set of structural network metrics have been applied to predominantly online social media sites to pre...

We present a new system to measure the position and force parameters most relevant to violin bowing technique. It is stable and reliable, and as it allows players to perform without impediment and consists of minimal equipment, it is also suitable for use in professional performance settings. This measurement system, implemented on a carbon fiber bow, relies on an electromagnetic field sensing ...