Painterly rendering styles have received some attention lately as an interesting alternative to photorealistic image processing and synthesis. State of the art painterly renderings, while producing results that superficially resemble certain artistic styles, such as impressionistic or expressionistic, fail to convey the implicit detail provided by the artist’s choices of brushes

A new species, Asplenium alleniae , is described from high elevation habitats in Sabah (Malaysia) and Papua New Guinea. Previous phylogenetic analyses of chloroplast loci determined that A. was most closely related to pauperequitum Zealand. differs obviously by the acuminate apices its longer pinnae. The combination pinnate fronds with few pairs primary pinnae dark red-brown axes distinguishes ...

Testing is a critical component of modern software development. The problem of designing a suite of test cases is superficially similar to that of designing an experiment to estimate main effects and interactions, but there are crucial differences. Additive models are unhelpful, and classical design criteria are also. We propose a new class of models, and new measures of effectiveness. We compa...

In this paper we present superficially a software tool ---a DVB-MHP compliant Transport Stream Generator--designed for being part of the testbed of a MHP decoder prototype. The tool was implemented partially making use of XML technology and the software reuse philosophy (free-distributed parsers and tools) that in a sense goes with this special syntax.

PRISM and ProbLog are two prominent languages for Probabilistic Logic Programming. While they are superficially very similar, there are subtle differences between them that lead to different formulations of the same probabilistic model. This paper aims to shed more light on the differences by developing two source-to-source transformations, from PRISM to ProbLog and back.

Two large cysts recovered from the abdominal cavity of a domestic chicken superficially resembled hydatid cysts of Echinococcus spp. No protoscolices were present. Microscopic examination of the internal lining of one of the cysts revealed a single cuboidal to columnar, ciliated epithelium, leading to a diagnosis of oviduct cysts. Earlier records of hydatids of fowl are reviewed.

This research addresses empirically the issue of the possibility for making unconscious analogies. It demonstrates unconscious and unintentional analogies between structurally similar but superficially dissimilar word pairs. Experiment 1 demonstrated spontaneous unconscious analogical transfer between analogous word pairs. Experiment 2 ruled out the potential semantic priming explanation for th...