the purpose of this study was to investigate the brain activation patterns in response to thehuman color preference by using a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri). a total of 31 healthyhumans without color blindness were participated in this study. the brain activation was induced by viewingof eight different colors: black, gray, blue, green, earthy yellow, red, yellow and white. the q...

In this paper, we study the decomposition of semirings with a semilattice additive reduct. For, we introduce the notion of principal left $k$-radicals $Lambda(a)={x in S | a stackrel{l}{longrightarrow^{infty}} x}$ induced by the transitive closure $stackrel{l}{longrightarrow^{infty}}$ of the relation $stackrel{l}{longrightarrow}$ which induce the equivalence relation $lambda$. Again non-transit...

It is very important to match images and music according to their impression. Our research focuses on automatic arrangement of music according to impressions of images. As the first result of our research, this paper reports a technique to automatically arrange music by inferring the impression of input images according to their color distribution and objects, and selecting a rhythm pattern acc...

Aviary experiments demonstrated that three North American fmgivorous migrant bird species often exhibit color preferences, when factors such as taste, nutrition, and accessibility to food sources are equal. Individual birds differed in initial color preferences, transitivity, and temporal stability of color preferences. There was little tendency of these birds to favor red and black, which are ...

In this paper we consider the minimum weight multicolored subgraph problem (MWMCSP), which is a common generalization of minimum cost multiplex PCR primer set selection and maximum likelihood population haplotyping. In this problem one is given an undirected graph G with non-negative vertex weights and a color function that assigns to each edge one or more of n given colors, and the goal is to ...

We present a new genetic algorithm for playing the game of Mastermind. The algorithm requires low running times and results in a low expected number of guesses. Its performance is comparable to that of other meta-heuristics for the standard setting with four positions and six colors, while it outperforms the existing algorithms when more colors and positions are examined. The central idea under...

I have always been fascinated with quilts. The geometric patterns and vibrant colors of quilt tops remind me of the view through a kaleidoscope (Figure 1). As a quilter, I now realize that visually appealing optical illusions result from the balance of the colors, tones, and designs of fabrics within the quilt, and selecting and combining fabrics for a quilt is an art form itself. I find the bo...

It is very important to match images and music according to their impression. Our research focuses on automatic arrangement of music according to impressions of images. As the first result of our research, this paper reports a technique to automatically arrange music by inferring the impression of input images according to their color distribution and objects, and selecting a rhythm pattern acc...