This study aims to investigate the factors (gender, major, a priori knowledge) influencing student perception of a CIS minor and whether they select a CIS minor, in the hope of providing insight to colleges/universities in developing a strategy to successfully manage the recruitment process of students to the CIS minor. It was found that students’ gender, major and a priori knowledge do directl...

Content Based Image Retrieval CBIR has become one of the most active research areas in the past few years Many visual feature representations have been explored and many systems built While these research e orts establish the basis of CBIR the usefulness of the proposed approaches is limited Speci cally these e orts have relatively ignored two distinct characteristics of CBIR systems the gap be...

Image quality assessment has been a topic of recent intense research due to its usefulness in a wide variety of applications. Owing in large part to efforts within the HVEI community, image-quality research has particularly benefited from improved models of visual perception. However, over the last decade, research in image quality has largely shifted from the previous broader objective of gain...

The person perception literature has shown that negative information on warmth influences impression formation more than other kinds of information. In the present paper, we argue for the usefulness of using the knowledge accumulated on the negativity effect on warmth when studying how members of a group who are disconfirming the group stereotype are perceived. We show that negative divergent i...

The Perceptual Organization Test (POT) has been designed for the purpose of measuring impairment in cognitive functioning as reflected in a purely perceptual task. Such a test is badly needed in view of the fact that the most widely used tests of perception are not really pure tests of perception. Bender Gestalt (Bender, 1960), for example, requires a certain measure of motor skill in copying n...

Existing opinion mining studies have focused on and explored only two types of reviews, that is, regular and comparative. There is a visible gap in determining the useful review types from customers and designers perspective. Based on Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and statistical measures we examine users' perception about different review types and its effects in terms of behavioral intent...

Clinical observations have shown that GABA-acting benzodiazepines exert paradoxical excitatory effects in autism, suggesting elevated intracellular chloride (Cl-)i and excitatory action of GABA. In a previous double-blind randomized study, we have shown that the diuretic NKCC1 chloride importer antagonist bumetanide, that decreases (Cl-)i and reinforces GABAergic inhibition, reduces the severit...

We introduce concepts and algorithms for control of visual motor commands and realistic simulation of basic abilities as visual servoing and perception for robotics simulation. The introduced tools can also be used in a straightforward way to build computer animated devices as virtual agents, and avatars. We use the tools to build part of a humanoid (arms and head) robot, effectively named “Câm...

Received On: 02.12.12; Revised On: 3.06.13; Accepted On: 05.09.13 This study aims to obtain perception and feedback of LIS marketing professionals regarding marketing activities, searching and finding internet resources on marketing of library services area through online questionnaire. The results of this study revealed that in "Marketing Library Service", Google and Yahoo emerged as most effe...