In this short essay, I re-emphasize the inter-relationship between mentoring doctoral students or postdocs and never ending problem of assessing quality scientific outputs. It includes plea to mentees mentors not employ an overblown language in papers, posters lectures, which constitute a gross exaggeration true state affairs. Doubt is also cast on present use Hirsch-factors other bibliometric ...

The upper airway is a vital part of the respiratory tract. Although the upper airway serves several functions, protection of the airway and preservation of airway patency are the most essential functions subserved by upper airway reflexes. Various types of nerve endings have been identified in and under the epithelium of the upper airway, and afferent nerve endings are the natural starting of a...

Dark-grown dicotyledonous seedlings form a hook-like structure at the top of the hypocotyl, which is controlled by the hormones auxin and ethylene. Hook formation is dependent on an auxin signal gradient, whereas hook exaggeration is part of the triple response provoked by ethylene in dark-grown Arabidopsis seedlings. Several other hormones and light are also known to be involved in hook develo...

Sexual selection drives elaboration in animal displays used for competition and courtship, but this process is opposed by morphological constraints on signal design. How do interactions between selection and constraint shape display evolution? One possibility is that sexual selection continues exaggeration under constraint by operating differentially on each signal component in complex, modular...

In this paper, we propose a new automatically generation system of caricature which emphasizes the unique characteristics of the input images. This system can create the cartoon character similar to user’s features by using set rules adopted a particular artist's technique. Input image is transformed by using MLS(Moving Least Squares) approximation[1] based on a predefined cartoon character’s i...

In this paper the author discusses histrionic or hyperbolic behaviour, which she regards as specific to a certain type of hysterical character. Histrionic hysteria she sees as a pathological organisation. With the use of two clinical examples she examines the phenomenon of hyperbole or exaggeration and suggests that they convey a picture of the patient's internal objects and his relationship to...

BACKGROUND Impaired exercise tolerance with dyspnea is common in hypertensive patients and this may be due to the exaggeration of nonuniform ventricular activation during exercise. So we want to evaluate the effect of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) on systolic intraventricular dyssynchrony during exercise. METHODS A total of 85 patients with hypertension who having exertional dyspnea and ...

Video games can empower their players beyond reality, giving them extraordinary abilities. We investigate a novel class of games that provide empowerment in both the real and the virtual world, in this case using a trampoline as part of the human-computer interface. We studied whether novice trampoline jumpers can learn trampolining skills while playing a platform jumping game implemented using...

The question whether a caricature of a 2D sketch, or an object in 3D can be generated automatically is probably as old as the attempt to answer the question of what defines art. In an attempt to provide a partial answer, we propose a computational approach for automatic caricaturization. The idea is to rely on intrinsic geometric properties of a given model that are invariant to poses, articula...