Individuals with 'time-space' synaesthesia have conscious awareness of mappings between time and space (e.g., they may see months arranged in an ellipse, or years as columns or spirals). These mappings exist in the 3D space around the body or in a virtual space within the mind's eye. Our study shows that these extra-ordinary mappings derive from, or give rise to, superior abilities in the two d...

High efficiency white light-emitting diodes with superior color-mixing have been investigated. It is suggested that the patterned remote phosphor structure could improve the uniformity of angular-dependent correlated color temperature (CCT) and achieve high chromatic stability in wider operating current range, as compared to the conventional remote phosphor coating structure. In this experiment...

Information measures with respect to spatial locations and scales of objects in an image are important to image processing and interpretation. It allows us to focus attention on relevant data, saving eeort and reducing false positives. In particular, the information content of a man-made scene is typically conned to a small set of scales. We devise a scale space based measure of image informati...

Objective: Extraforaminal juxtafacet cyst is rare and present a surgical challenge due to its anatomical location. This study aimed introduce the technique of interlaminar contralateral endoscopic lumbar foraminotomy (ICELF) for extraforaminal removal reveal approach-related benefits.Method: The endoscope was docked on ipsilateral spinolaminar junction access foraminal area through sublaminar s...

In order to execute analytical queries in data warehouses, many researchers proposed various system architectures. We also develop spatial information systems for real time location services using PHS and GPS, we need OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing) technologies in our traffic data warehouse. In order to deal with huge amount of data, many kinds of attributes, and a lot of dynamic queries,...

Solid-state drives (SSDs) are a potentially revolutionary new storage technology, but it is not clear that current generation drives are inherently superior to hard disks. In order to understand the performance of these new technologies, we measure two commercial SSDs, one from Intel, the other from Kingston, on a workload of 4K writes to randomized addresses across the entire address space of ...

There is clear scientific interest in using the photometry from a star tracker to observe variable stars. Despite the small aperture, the advantages of space (long observing periods and no atmospheric scintillation) make such a camera superior to ground-based telescopes for some applications. The only example so far has been the work by Buzasi et al. (2000 and these Proceedings), who are making...

knowledge society as a space originated from promotion of the (explicit/implicit) social knowledge, and information society as a space to have access to information are two societies complete each other. libraries (in a vast meaning), because of their efforts to collect and store the produced knowledge, contribute in promoting the knowledge society; and as spaces make the information access abl...

Using theoretical and numerical results, we document the accuracy of commonly applied variational Bayes methods across a range state space models. The results demonstrate that, in terms on fixed parameters, there is clear hierarchy methods, with approaches that adequately approximate states yielding superior over do not. We also numerically small out-of-sample evaluation periods inferential dis...

Superior mesenteric artery (SMA) syndrome is a rare cause of obstruction of 3rd part of duodenum between abdominal aorta and the overlying superior mesenteric artery caused by decrease in the angle between the two vessels as a result of rapid loss of retroperitoneal fat. It is seen in conditions causing severe weight loss and catabolic states. We report a case of pulmonary tuberculosis leading ...