This paper presents an automatic image synthesis method to transfer the style of an example image to a content image. When standard neural style transfer approaches are used, the textures and colours in different semantic regions of the style image are often applied inappropriately to the content image, ignoring its semantic layout, and ruining the transfer result. In order to reduce or avoid s...

rounded leaf tip. The leaf collar marks the junction of the leaf blade and sheath and appears when the leaf is fully developed. Each leaf sheath originates at its own node on the plant stalk. The sheath surrounds and strengthens the stalk (culm). The flag leaf is the last to emerge on the plant and is considerably smaller than the other leaves. The panicle (head) emerges from the flag leaf shea...

The parsing problem is ubiquitous in Computer Science. Perhaps that is part of the reason it has been used so frequently to illustrate the power of continuations and monads. It is often the case, though, that the parser examples of continuation passing style and monads are top-down parsers. I intend to show that the continuation passing style of programming naturally leads to bottom-up or recur...

The use of subtyping is explored in the context of a style of constructive specification. The intention is to enhance expressiveness and strengthen syntactic controls. The resulting specification style is part of a wide spectrum language, ABEL, developed at the Oslo University. A concept of signature completeness is presented, as well as a completion algorithm. Some results relating to weak, st...

the aim of the present study is to investigate the relationship between greek banks’ leadership style and their employee’s satisfaction with their job. leadership is considered to be an integral part of an organization’s structure, policies and strategies, and overall function. therefore, it affects employees’ everyday life, interpersonal relationships, problem-solving strategies and internal f...

Sport fandom has received considerable attention from social scientists, yet few have considered it from an evolutionary perspective. To redress this gap, we develop the hypothesis that team sports exhibit characteristics that activate mechanisms which evolved to facilitate the development of coalitions in the context of small-scale warfare. Based on this by-product hypothesis, we predicted a c...

Following are excerpts from an amicus curiae prepared by Edward Still and Pamela Karlan for The Center for Voting and Democracy in Cane v. Worcester County, a voting rights case concerning county commission elections in Maryland described in Deborah Jeon's article. It is important to stress that the Center's position is that cumulative voting's advantages are even more valid for choice voting (...

The claim has often been made that it is through writing, in particular, that we exploit the full potential of literacy, using it, as Bruner put it, as a technology for the empowerment of mind. Because of the need to make the meaning of our text clear and explicit for an audience who will have no other access to our thinking, we have a strong incentive to try to become clear for ourselves about...