Rabinow starts his search for new anthropological methods with the question of what the contemporary is. He identifies two meanings. The first is the ordinary English-language meaning: contemporary means that something occurs at the same period of time as something else. The issue is not when something happened, but that it happened at the same period of time. Cicero was the contemporary of Cae...

Several organic solvents (OSs) are potent carcinogens among population at risk. Their genotoxicity have important implications for cancer production. Genotoxicity could be related to lipid peroxidation with decrease of endogenous body antioxidants. This work included 27 car spray painters exposed to a mixture of mainly aromatic OSs and a comparable group of 27 males. For both groups, chromosoma...

Our laboratory is constructing a painter robot. The first step in painting is to extract desirable feature lines such as silhouette and boundary lines, which represent the object to be drawn. For this purpose, this thesis proposes a system that extracts feature lines from a textured 3D polygonal model. First, the system builds a textured 3D model of the target object from multiple cameras using...

Among various traditional art forms, brush stroke drawing is one of the widely used styles in modern computer graphic tools such as GIMP, Photoshop and Painter. In this paper, we develop an AI-aided art authoring (A4) system of nonphotorealistic rendering that allows users to automatically generate brush stroke paintings in a specific artist’s style. Within the reinforcement learning framework ...

Given a graph H and an integer r ≥ 2, let G → (H, r) denote the Ramsey property of a graph G, that is, every r-coloring of the edges of G results in a monochromatic copy of H. Further, let m(G) = maxF⊆G |E(F )|/|V (F )| and define the Ramsey density minf (H, r) as the infimum of m(G) over all graphs G such that G → (H, r). In the first part of this paper we show that when H is a complete graph ...