The southern island of the Philippines is abundant in silicate minerals, including province Lanao del Norte. However, some these resources region are untapped for use as raw materials production various ceramic products industrial, pharmaceutical, and nanotechnology applications. These could include tiles, sanitary ware, dinnerware, insulating bricks, porcelain, membranes coatings. Some explore...

In the very last published article of his long and distinguished career, the eminent historian of computing Michael Mahoney asked a simple but profound question: “What makes the history of soŸware hard?’’ In his characteristically playful style, Mike was engaging both with an issue of central importance to historians – namely, how can we begin to come to grips with the formidable challenges of ...

The scale of late prehistoric sociopolitical complexity on the ColoracWPlateau has been widely debated in the American Southwest. Proponents of an alliance model useJeddito Yellow Ware) manufactured at Hopi Mesa villages) as one offtur index wares. This distributional study ofJeddito Yellow Ware challenges aspects of the alliance model by using a data set that contains over 430 yellow ware site...

This paper describes a series of visual search experiments for targets defined by their hinocular characteristics. In searches for targets defined by binocular rivalry among fused distractors, or vice versa, the rivalrous items do not "pop out" (reaction time [RT] increases with number of distractors). Binocular luster, a variety of rivalry, is an exception. Luster, an important property of vis...

Assessing the quality of pearls involves the use of various tools and methods, which are mainly visual and often quite subjective. Pearls are normally classified by origin and are then graded by luster, nacre thickness, surface quality, size, color and shape. The aim of this study was to investigate the capacity of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) to classify and estimate the quality of 27 dif...