We want to understand he concentration of damage in microfractured elastic media. Due to the different scallings of the volume and area (or area and length in two dimensions) the traditional method of homogenization using periodic arrays of cells seems to fail when applied to the Mumford-Shah functional and to periodically fractured domains. In the present paper we are departing from traditiona...

Saleh Kambo, a court historian of Shah Jahan (1628-58), while discussing the buildings, frequently used the phrases such as “makan dilnasheen hai az nasheman hai nuzhat aafreen” which means “heart pleasing buildings and praiseworthy mansions”. Every Mughal building designed surpassed its predecessor in terms of its design quality and decorative details. From the selection of the site to final d...

We propose and analyze extensions of the Mumford-Shah functional for the color images. Our main motivation is the concept of images as surfaces. We also review most of the relevant theoretical background and computer vision literature.

We introduce several color image restoration algorithms based on the Mumford-Shah model and nonlocal image information. The standard Ambrosio-Tortorelli and Shah models are defined to work in a small local neighborhood, which are sufficient to denoise smooth regions with sharp boundaries. However, textures are not local in nature and require semi-local/non-local information to be denoised effic...

the sherley brothers' mission in iran dealt with some aspects. they carried a message from england and the christian world to shah abbas. in addition, they trained iranian army and taught them how to make artillery, they fought with the iranians against the ottoman empire shoulder to shoulder and both of them were sent to europe for political and commercial purposes by shah abbas. shah abb...

A climate dependent model is proposed to simulate the population of Aedes aegypti mosquito. In developing the model, average temperature of Shah Alam, Malaysia was used to determine the development rate of each stage of the life cycle of mosquito. Rainfall dependent function was proposed to simulate the hatching rate of the eggs under several assumptions. The proposed transition matrix was obta...

創造性を考えたときに新奇性 (novelty) と適切性 (appropriateness)は異なる文化におい ても同じように働くのだろうか implicit theory approach を用いて 400 名以上の学生の比較文化的な研究を行った 対象国は日本,中国,アメリカ.「料理」と「教科書」を評定 新奇性が創造性の評定に強く影響していることがわかった アメリカ人よりも中国人のほうが新奇性の操作により大きく左右されていた アメリカ人と日本人にとって適切性は,創造性とそのものの価値の判断に重要であった 新奇性も適切性も共に大きな影響があった. 比較文化的な研究は国家間の違いを同定するというよりむしろ,創造性そのものの理解に 役立つと考えられる Introduction Creativity まず最初に文化の中での創造性がどんなものかを理解しなければならない 一般の人も創造性の研究...