This article examines the Shuhanron emaki (The illustrated scroll of the wine and rice debate) as not only a reflection of late Muromachi-period cultural trends, but also a reworking of its sixteenth-century historical setting. The work ostensibly features three men who each argue their various positions: one extolling wine, the other rice, and the third a balance of both. Yet its references to...

While Artificial Intelligence has successfully outperformed humans in complex combinatorial games (such as chess and checkers), humans have retained their supremacy in social interactions that require intuition and adaptation, such as cooperation and coordination games. Despite significant advances in learning algorithms, most algorithms adapt at times scales which are not relevant for interact...

An Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC) is a typical Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) device playing a vital role as a stability aid for large transient disturbances in an interconnected power system.This paper deals with the design of Feedback Linearising Controller (FBLC) for UPFC.The disturbances are created in the SMIB system and the results are simulated.The results proved the supre...

While crowdsourcing has been a cost and time efficient method to label massive samples, one critical issue is quality control, for which the key challenge is to infer the ground truth from noisy or even adversarial data by various users. A large class of crowdsourcing problems, such as those involving age, grade, level, or stage, have an ordinal structure in their labels. Based on a technique o...

This paper focuses on one of the most prominent manifestations of humorous communication in the present era – Internet-based humor. It explores both the content and the various forms of comic-texts in ‘humor hubs’ – large, dynamic, Websites containing verbal and visual humor. A content analysis of 400 humorous texts from eight salient Websites shows that the Internet functions both as a ‘carrie...

Colorization is an automatic technique to enhance greyscale images by introducing chromatic information. In this research we investigate to produce colorized medical images, potentially supporting in better understanding of anatomy, anomalies and infections. Begins with proposed mandatory preprocessing steps for medical images noise removal and edge improvement, followed by colorization process...

This article reviews three recent books on the EU: T.R. Reid’s The United States of Europe:The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy (Penguin, New York, 2004); Mark Leonard’s Why Europe will Run the 21st Century (Fourth Estate, London, 2005); and Jeremy Rifkin’s The European Dream: How Europe’s Vision of the Future is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream (Tarcher/Penguin, New York, 2...

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t The lightning current derivative data recorded at the CN Tower during the past 18 years contain different kinds of noise and needs to be denoised for accurately determining the lightning current waveform parameters. It is usually a challenging task to denoise transient signals having large bandwidth without altering their waveshapes or shrinking their ampli...