This paper to study the potential of expressing ink-and-wash painting through interaction, and present a direction that can coincide with modern paintings by developing ink-and-wash painting from a traditional aspect through analyzing the theories and tech-niques instilled in my works.This work is an interactive visualization of an oriental cymbidium using modern technology which our oriental a...

The prospect of a superbug that could wipe out much of the human race sounds like the stuff of science-fiction novels, Hollywood movies or doomsday prophets. However, such a global pandemic might not be as unlikely as it seems—some would even go so far as to say that it is a certainty, with the only uncertainties being what pathogen will cause it, when it will happen and how well the world will...

Clustering techniques have been widely used in automatic videosummarization applications to group shots with comparable content. We enhance the popular k-means clustering algorithm to integrate user-supplied domain-knowledge into the cluster generation step. This provides a convenient way to exclude scenes from the summary which are a-priori known to be irrelevant. Furthermore, we added an addi...

Swipe assays are routinely performed in laboratories and other facilities that use or handle radioactive materials. These assays, often referred to as smear or wipe tests, are performed to comply with radioactive material license requirements, assure laboratory safety, and provide information that proper handling procedures are being followed. Typically, swipes are performed to monitor for the ...

This paper proposes time-frequency analysis of EEG spectrum and wavelet analysis in EEG de-noising. In this paper, the basic idea is to use the characteristics of multi-scale multi-resolution, using four different thresholds to wipe off interference and noise after decomposition of the EEG signals. By analyzing the results, understanding the effects of four different methods, it comes to a conc...

Economic efficiency is a major argument for international emissions trading under the Kyoto Protocol. We show that permit trading can be welfare decreasing for countries, even though private trading parties benefit. The result is a case of "immiserizing" growth in the sense of Bhagwati where the negative terms of trade and tax interaction effects wipe out the gains from trading. Simulation and ...

We investigate the end of the inflationary period in the recently proposed scenario of locked inflation, and consider various constraints arising from density perturbations, loop corrections, parametric resonance and defect formation. We show that in a scenario where there is one long period of locked inflation, it is not possible to satisfy all of these constraints without having a period of s...