Despite the apparent enthusiasm for the study of organizational culture, a fundamental dichotomy still remains unresolved between two theoretical orientations: cognitive reductionism and cognitive collectivism. What is needed is an integrated framework in which culture can be conceptualized as at once grounded in and yet transcending individual agents’ mental states. To this end, the notion of ...

Maps of orientation preference and selectivity, inferred from differential images of orientation (Blasdel, 1992), reveal linear organizations in patches, 0.5-1.0 mm across, where orientation selectivities are high, and where preferred orientations rotate linearly along one axis while remaining constant along the other. Most of these linear zones lie between the centers of adjacent ocular domina...

A theory of eecient stereo coding 2] predicts that, in a natural visual environment, where the ocular correlation of the input depends on stimulus orientations, the striate cortical cells are more likely binocular when selective to horizontal rather than vertical orientations. A psychophysical experiment was designed to test this prediction. The interocular transfers of simultaneous orientation...

Orientation signals, which are crucial to many aspects of visual function, are more complex and varied in the natural world than in the stimuli typically used for laboratory investigation. Gratings and lines have a single orientation, but in natural stimuli, local features have multiple orientations, and multiple orientations can occur even at the same location. Moreover, orientation cues can a...

Six Sigma has long been used as an effective way to restructure a company’s management process. While there are abundant case study literatures on Six Sigma, a theoretical framework that can logically advance the previous work into a higher level is lacked. What’s more, there are few empirical studies to verify those results from previous case studies. To fill these two gaps, this study propose...

This study proposes a new object-based watermarking scheme based on efficient self-similarity segmentation in the spatial domain for solving the synchronizing detection problem. The lengths and orientations of two principle axes of image objects were used for image normalization and shape segmentation. Watermarks then can be embedded into object images by adjusting the pixel intensities on each...