Based on twelve in-depth interviews at a battered women’s support center in Colima, Mexico in 1996, the following paper is an analysis of the figurative language used by battered women at different points of group therapy. This research compares the type of metaphors and similes used by participants at the beginning of the therapeutic process with those used by participants at the end of the sa...

This paper develops a theoretical and technological foundation for a new kind of interactive map, the augmented scene, that overlays acquired imagery of the environment on a perspective model of the surface in real time. The ground position and viewing direction of users are computed automatically, freeing them from the map orientation process. We define augmented scenes, propose some applicati...

Visual servoing is a process to enable a robot to position a camera with respect to known landmarks using the visual data obtained by the camera itself to guide camera motion. A solution is described which requires very little a priori information freeing it from being speciic to a particular connguration of robot and camera. The solution is based on closed loop control together with deliberate...

In their thoughtful and carefully argued target article, Kruglanski and Thompson challenge the central assumption of dual-process theories “that a qualitative difference in the persuasion process hinges on whether persuasion is accomplished by the processing of message arguments versus the processing of information exogenous to the message; that is, by cues or heuristics.” I found their argumen...

Owing to the endoscopic approach to brow lifting, the renovated awareness of the frontalis-galea-occipitalis (FGO) muscle unit concept has modified the understanding of eyebrow positioning and elevation. It is now felt that this muscle unit elevates the brow and that its surgical freeing from the inferior-anterior insertion, associated with freeing of the FGO unit from its skull attachments, re...

Abstract Process-based restoration of fluvial systems removes human constraints on nature to promote ecological recovery. By freeing natural processes, a resilient ecosystem may be restored with minimal corrective intervention. However, there is lack meaningful design criteria allow designers evaluate whether project likely achieve process-based objectives. We describe four project's potential:...