for some 3 million years, the archaeological record is characterized by stone tools undergoing incremental changes. then around 40,000 years ago, the monotony of lithics is terminated by a profusion of visual representations, generally considered to be the world’s first objets d’art. this collection include a series of portable objects, especially figurines and, later on, the famous cave painti...

representational theory of the philosophy of art. Though Plato builds the foundation of the mimetic theory of art, he does not finish the structure of his theory. His student Aristotle was one of the first to expand on Plato's foundation and refining his initial theory. While Plato largely dismisses artistic mimesis and the imitative arts, Aristotle is more supportive of them. This is because w...

Background: Infertility is an important and common problem in couples that needs to assisted reproductive technology (ART) or the other drug therapies. Infertility has been known as a risk factor for ovarian cancer, breast cancer and endometrial cancer but there is a question about the relationship of these cancers to infertility itself or drugs and methods of infertility treatment. Materials a...

If you have written any papers lately, you know that a paper begins with something called an abstract. The purpose of an abstract is to condense the article into a brief summary so that readers can easily retrieve the essence of your article without having to wade through all of it. A common mistake in the formation of manuscripts is to treat the abstract as a subset of the paper, most notably ...

For efficient e-comics creation, automatic extracting technique for comic components such as panel layout, speech balloon, and characters is necessary. In the conventional methods, comic components are extracted using geometrical characteristics such as line drawings or connected pixels. However, it is difficult to extract all comic components by focusing on a particular geometric feature, sinc...