By presenting oriented Gabor patches either monocularly or binocularly, we dissociated retinal orientation from perceived tilt and perceived slant. After adapting to binocular patches, with zero apparent tilt and non-zero slant, small tilt after-effects (TAEs) and large slant after-effects (SAE) were measured. Adapting to monocular patches with non-zero tilt and zero slant produced large TAEs a...

P. H. Engebretson and J. Huttenlocher (1996) commented on an article by the authors (B. Tversky & D. Schiano, 1989) in which the authors reported that the same lines or curves were distorted in memory differently when interpreted as graph elements than as map elements. In subsequent work (D. Schiano & B. Tversky, 1992), the authors found a different pattern of error for meaningless lines, a pat...

Atomic structures, energies, and stress distributions of symmetrical ^011& tilt grain boundaries ~GB’s! and selected GB triple junctions ~TJ’s! in diamond as well as a multiply twinned diamond particle have been calculated using an analytic bond order potential function. In general, energies of ^011& tilt GB’s are about 1 J/m lower than those for ^001& tilt GB’s calculated with the same analyti...

Abstract We study spinless bosons in a decorated square lattice with a near-diagonal tilt. The resonant subspace of the tilted Mott insulator is described by an e↵ective Hamiltonian of frustrated quantum Ising spins on a non-bipartite lattice. This generalizes an earlier proposal for the unfrustrated quantum Ising model in one dimension which was realized in a recent experiment on ultracold 87R...

Although there are intrinsic advantages of using pan-tilt-zoom cameras their application in automatic surveillance systems is still scarce. The difficulty of creating background models for moving cameras and the difficulty of keeping fitted pose and optical geometrical projection models are key reasons for the limited use of pan-tilt-zoom cameras. Geometric calibration is a useful tool to overc...

Low back dysfunction is associated in many cases with lumbar lordosis, and tilting the pelvis posteriorly is often recommended for therapeutic purposes. The influence of pelvic tilt on the spinal curves has not been studied. The purpose of this study was to use an objective noninvasive method to determine the effect of the pelvic tilt on the spinal curves in the sagittal plane. Thirty-two healt...

AIMS To compare the responses between clomipramine, a centrally acting substance, and nitroglycerin, with mainly peripheral action, when each drug is used during tilt test for the induction of vasovagal syncope (VVS). METHODS AND RESULTS Hundred patients with recurrent episodes of classical VVS underwent two tilt tests in a randomized sequence. One test included 20 min of tilt at 60 degrees w...

There exists no clear understanding of the importance of spectral tilt for perception of stop consonants. It is hypothesized that spectral tilt may be particularly salient when formant patterns are ambiguous or degraded. Here, it is demonstrated that relative change in spectral tilt over time, not absolute tilt, significantly influences perception of /b/ vs /d/. Experiments consisted of burstle...

The prevalence of ascariasis is very high in parts of rural areas in southern China. The high prevalence of ascariasis is one of the most neglected public health problems. A longitudinal investigation on the prevalence of ascariasis in a rural community in China was reported previously. In this article, we re-analyze the reported age specific prevalence of ascariasis using a life table method. ...