We apply Slow Feature Analysis (SFA) to image sequences generated from natural images using a range of spatial transformations. An analysis of the resulting receptive fields shows that they have a rich spectrum of invariances and share many properties with complex and hypercomplex cells of the primary visual cortex. Furthermore, the dependence of the solutions on the statistics of the transform...

Hardware realization of artificial intelligence (AI) requires new design styles and even underlying technologies than those used in traditional digital processors or logic circuits. Therefore, their dependability testability requirements, challenges, solutions are fundamentally different unique. This survey article covers this very important topic provides insight to such issues.—Mehdi Tahoori,...

This paper evaluates a more integrated approach of regulation when doing international comparisons and represents the first cross-country study in the South American region in which quality and weather variables have been included in the analysis. A total of 82 electricity distribution firms operating in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru have been analysed for the period 1998-2008. Stochastic f...

Human Alternative Macrophages Populate Calcified Areas of Atherosclerotic Lesions and Display Impaired RANKL-Induced Osteoclastic Bone Resorption Activity Giulia Chinetti-Gbaguidi, Mehdi Daoudi, Mickael Rosa, Manjula Vinod, Loïc Louvet, Corinne Copin, Mélanie Fanchon, Jonathan Vanhoutte, Bruno Derudas, Loic Belloy, Stephan Haulon, Christophe Zawadzki, Sophie Susen, Ziad A. Massy, Jérôme Eeckho...

Seyed Mehdi Saberi1, Mohammad-Reza Karimi1, Ardeshir Sheikhazadi2, Mazaher Ghorbani2, Ali Pasha Meysamie3, Zeynab Nasri Nasrabadi2 and Sayed Mahdi Marashi2* 1Department of Psychiatry of Legal Medicine Organization, Tehran, Iran 2 epartment of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3Department of Community Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Scie...

Zahra Shahrivar, Maryam Kousha, Shirin Moallemi, Mehdi Tehrani-Doost & Javad Alaghband-Rad Department of Psychiatry, Roozbeh Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. E-mail: [email protected] Psychiatry and Psychology Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada Department of Psychiatry, Gillan University...

This study empirically examines whether managers manipulate reported income through the timing of sales of long-lived assets and investments. Several empirical implications of the income-smoothing and debt-equity hypothesis in the context of asset sales were tested. The findings are consistent with the timing of asset sales by managers so that the recognized accounting income from these sales s...

Maryam Zare1,2, Mehdi Moghanibashi1,3 and Ferdous Rastgar Jazii1,4 1Department of Biochemistry, National Institute of Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology (NIGEB), Tehran, 2Department of Biology, Payam-Noor University, Tehran, 3Islamic Azad University, Kazerun Branch, School of Medicine, Kazerun, Shiraz, 4Department of Molecular Structure and Function, Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Child...