The present study examined whether patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) focus on details at the expense of global aspects. A recent study of our group using Navon letters (e.g., the letter "S" composed out of "A" letters) did not yield differences between OCD patients and controls on local processing. However, the task used may have lacked sensitivity, because it did not involve a ...

This paper describes an unusual clinical report of local argyrosis due to corrosion of endodontic silver point within the buccal root canal of an upper left second premolar. Localized oral pigmentation of the periapical mucosa was observed during routine dental check-up. The X-ray examination revealed endodonticaly treated tooth with overextended silver point and periapical resorption. Removal ...

Models of software projects input project details and output predictions via their internal tunings. The output predictions, therefore, are affected by variance in the project details P and variance in the internal tunings T. Local data is often used to constrain the internal tunings (reducing T). While constraining internal tunings with local data is always the preferred option, there exist so...

A new Einstein–Hilbert type action of superon-graviton model (SGM) for space-time and matter is obtained based upon the geometrical arguments of the higher symmetric (SGM) space-time. SGM action is invariant under [global NL SUSY] ⊗ [local GL(4,R)] ⊗ [local Lorentz]⊗ [global SO(N)]. The explicit form of SGM action is given in terms of the fields of the graviton and superons by using the affine ...

A trademark image retrieval (TIR) system is proposed in this work to deal with the vast number of trademark images in the trademark registration system. The proposed approach commences with the extraction of edges using the Canny edge detector, performs a shape normalization procedure, and then extracts the global and local features. The global features capture the gross essence of the shapes w...