sociology of the artists is one of the subfields in the sociology of art which studies artists from at least two points of view. first, it studies individual, social and cultural characteristics of artists and the relationships of these factors to their tendencies towards becoming artist. second, it addresses the styles and contents prevailing in the artists’ work in a certain period of time an...

Contrast Enhancement plays an important role in digital image processing. It enables the human and automated perceiver to find out the less obvious information in the original image. Global Contrast Enhancement techniques are used in a wide range of applications to enhance the quality of an image. Local contrast enhancement also plays an important role for a detailed visibility of an image. In ...

reactive power management plays an essential role in the secure operation of the power system as an ancillary service. although in electricity markets, the particular attention is paid to active power, the reactive power also plays an important on total generation costs of electricity. on the other hand, as it is mainly confined to local consumption, to avoid market power and maintain the secur...

In emerging web service development approaches, the description of interactions both from a global and from a local perspective plays an increasingly important role. In earlier work we presented a visual language (namely Let’s Dance) for modeling service interactions at different levels of abstraction. In this paper we present a modeling tool for Let’s Dance. The tool supports the static analys...

All forms of literature are a reflection of the society of which the writer is a part. They mirror the author's particular culture even though a specific piece of literary work may make only a small portion of society its central focus or audience. This does not exclude "escapist" literature because culture determines the manner in which fantasies are developed and the form and direction which ...