-Kick-off presentation summaryCore team Merijn Bruijnes (University of Twente) Aduén Darriba Frederiks (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences) Gijs Huisman (University of Twente) Merel Jung (University of Twente) Part-time members Jan Kolkmeier (University of Twente) Yves Rybarczyk (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) Advisors Jan van Erp (TNO) Ronald Poppe (University of Twente) Dennis Reidsma (Un...

X-ray images of pistachio nuts on conveyor trays for product inspection are considered. The rst step in such a processor is to locate each individual item and place it in a separate le for input to a classiier to determine the quality of each nut. This paper considers new techniques to: detect each item (each nut can be in any orientation, we employ new rotation-invariant lters to locate each i...

This study examined the physiological effects of touching wood with various coating with the palm of the hand on brain activity and autonomic nervous activity. Participants were 18 female university students (mean age, 21.7 ± 1.6 years). As an indicator of brain activity, oxyhemoglobin concentrations were measured in the left and right prefrontal cortices using near-infrared time-resolved spect...

Jie Zhou IBM Toronto Laboratory 330 University Avenue, Toronto Canada M5G 1R7 E-mail: jiez a.ibm. om Adam Krzyzak, Ching Y. Suen Centre for Pattern Re ognition and Ma hine Intelligen e Con ordia University, Montreal, Canada H3G 1M8 E-mail: fkrzyzak,sueng enparmi. on ordia. a In the eld of nan ial do ument pro essing, re ognition of tou hing handwritten numerals has been limited by la k of good ...

The snail acetylcholine binding protein (AChBP) is homologous to the extracellular domains of the nicotinic ACh receptors. In this issue of Neuron, Celie et al. show how the crystal structures of AChBP in complexes with carbamylcholine and nicotine reveal the basis for agonist recognition by ACh receptors.

Having evolved over approximately 20 years, Multimedia can now be considered a mature field. The term media traditionally refers to entities such as audio, video, text, images, graphics, sound, and animation. Today, while the range of these media and their applications are vast, all of them correspond in one way or another to only two main human perceptions: hearing and vision. As such, even th...

In this paper, we develop a new method to separate touching handwritten multi-numeral strings using morphological structural features. The touching numeral string is preprocessed with an e$cient algorithm for smoothing, linearization and detection of structural points of image contours. Based on the analysis of morphological structure in a string, the region of the left two numerals is determin...

Automatic image analysis of histopathology specimens would help the early detection of blood cancer. The first step for automatic image analysis is segmentation. However, touching cells bring the difficulty for traditional segmentation algorithms. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm which can reliably handle touching cells segmentation. Robust estimation and color active contour models ...

Fifty-eight 30-month-old children and their mothers were observed during a task in which the child was asked to refrain from touching an attractive toy. Child and maternal regulatory strategies were independently coded in 5-sec intervals. Consistent with past research, the ability to refrain from touching the toy was associated with less time orienting to the forbidden object and more time focu...

a r t i c l e i n f o Peck and Shu (2009) found that touching a product causes greater endowment effect. We seek to replicate and extend this finding to the case that whether touching a product consumers have just bought may increase the willingness to pay (WTP) for warranty. Loss aversion, the tendency to prefer avoiding losses over obtaining equivalent monetary gains, often explains product w...