This project developed new results in the topology and foundations of quantum algorithms. It made major developments in the program for topological quantum field computation, including the design of substantially simplified lattice models with topological phases, and new insights into the universality classes of such models. Lattice gas simulations of various classical and quantum systems were ...

This paper describes a simple framework for automatically annotating images using non-parametric models of distributions of image features. We show that under this framework quite simple image properties such as global colour and texture distributions provide a strong basis for reliably annotating images. We report results on subsets of two photographic libraries, the Corel Photo Archive and th...

The problem of matching strings allowing errors has recently gained importance, considering the increasing volume of online textual data. In geotechnologies, approximate string matching algorithms find many applications, such as gazetteers, address matching, and geographic information retrieval. This paper presents a novel method for approximate string matching, developed for the recognition of...

human perfectibility may be regarded as a point in which the most dominant religions of the world meet one another. it, therefore, can be chosen as a start point for religions when taking part in dialogue. there can be found different names for human perfection and perfect man in well-known religions of the east and the west. buddha`s name for perfect man is arhat and free man, confucius` is ta...

Tsirlin et al. (2012) refer to perceptual transparency with clarity as glass-transparency, and that with cloudiness as translucency. The present study involving overlapping achromatic figures examined how glass-transparency and translucency are influenced by overlapping and non-overlapping areas on transparent surfaces and the level of luminance of the background. Experiments were conducted wit...