Guiding Eye Movements For Feature Based Shape Matching

We introduce a novel method for shape-based image database search that uses saccadic targeting for local feature choice. A simulated multiresolution sensor is directed toward salient regions of an image in a series of saccadic movements. At each fixation point 1 a region of the retinal image is stored for later matching by correlation. The utility of this approach is demonstrated on an 86 image database

Priming of Pop-Out Does not Affect the Shooting Line Illusion

We combined a shooting-line illusion with a visual search pop-out task in an effort to determine whether priming of pop-out was due to acceleratcd processing of visual information in the primed dimension. While the priming effect and the line-motion percept were replicated, the visual search task showed no influence on the perceived direction of line motion. These results indicate that the priming effect does not accelerate early visual processing.National Institutes of Health-National Eye Institute (EY05087, 49620-93-1-0407

Petrogenesis of lunar rocks: Rb-Sr constraints and lack of H2O

Rb and Sr isotopic data and other chemical data indicate major lunar differentiation at about 4.6 AE and very limited subsequent differentiation. The constraints of limited differentiation post 4.6 AE and the apparent lack of H2O on the moon, when applied to the derivation and petrogenesis of lunar samples, suggest the following: (1) soil samples, breccias, metaclastic rocks, and feldspathic basalts represent mixtures of repeatedly-modified clastic material, which was ultimately derived from materials formed during the about 4.6 AE differentiation; and (2) mare basalts crystallized from melts which formed by partial melting and, which developed without equilibration between the melt and crystalline residuum

Petrogenesis of lunar rocks: Rb-Sr constraints and lack of H2O

Rb and Sr isotopic data and other chemical data indicate major lunar differentiation at about 4.6 AE (AE = 10 to the 9th power years) and very limited subsequent differentiation. The constraints of limited differentiation after 4.6 AE and the apparent lack of H2O on the moon, when applied to the derivation and petrogenesis of lunar samples, suggest the following: (1) soil samples, breccias, metaclastic rocks, and feldspathic basalts represent mixtures of repeatedly modified clastic material, which was utimately derived from materials formed during the 4.6 AE differentiation; and (2) mare basalts crystallized from melts which formed by partial melting, and which developed without equilibrium between the melt and crystalline residuum

General motivating factors in public school instrumental music.

Thesis (M.M.)--Boston UniversityThe success of the instrumental music program, and the success of the instrumental music supervisor, can be said to be measured by the achievements of the groups within the program and the musical proficiency attained by individual students. Since school orchestras and bands perform no better than the individuals who comprise their membership, it becomes important that each student acquires a reasonable degree of musical proficiency. How to motivate students toward acquiring the necessary musical skills, so that each may make his valuable contribution toward the success of the program, is of vital importance to the instrumental music supervisor. Students' interest will increase when they are given the opportunity to participate in the administration of the program. This is best delegated through a system of student officers. Officers may be elected and appointed. It is wise for the director to plan so that all students may have an opportunity of assisting him at one time or another. [TRUNCATED

Using the Pert Exponential Growth Model: Predicting Past and Future Chinese Populations Involving their Famous Population Control Policies

This project serves to examine the hypothetical effects of the implementation and repeal of China’s famous One Child Policy on the rate of population growth in that country through the use and applications of the basic exponential growth model. Calculates growth in three different scenarios and estmates the population for China in the year 2045

The Efficacy of Extreme Spectrum Drug Policies and their Applications to Modern Nations

This paper examines the efficacy of extremely stringent and extremely relaxed drug enforcement policies by comparing various countries where each are practiced around the world. Most of the examples used to set the stage and tell of various political climates and major events are sourced directly from major media outlets and news agencies, while statistical information is largely taken from websites which source the information from official databases. The conclusions drawn from this paper regard drug usage and crime as being unusually disparate. In first world nations, crime usually increases drug prevalence rather than the other way around. Therefore, it would seem hardcore drug enforcement would not be entirely profitable unless crime overall is included in such harsh crackdowns. The research also indicated that such drastic measures would likely do little good in first world nations where crime and corruption are already low

Edukacja regionalna w społecznościach wielokulturowych

The article refers to dilemmas connected with international education in multicultural communities. Shaping the sense of esprit de corps, autonomy and rooting in the culture is a difficult task in the times of great migration, when for many people a permanent place of living becomes less and less permanent. The author states that: 1) a person providing regional education does not have to come from a given region, 2) participants of a regional education course may be related to a given region temporarily; 3) the method of providing regional education should be based on intercultural education foundations in order not to shape nationalist and chauvinist attitudes. The author justifies their standpoint refering to the holistic concept of intercultural education by Jerzy Nikitorowicz and their own research, development and autobiographic experience.GANCARZ, A., Zadania szkoły i nauczycieli na terenach występowania dialektu – przykład Górnego Śląska, „Edukacja Międzykulturowa” nr 4/2015.GRZYBOWSKI, P. P., Edukacja międzykulturowa – przewodnik. Pojęcia – literatura – adresy, Impuls, Kraków 2008.GRZYBOWSKI, P. P., Mistrz, błazen i ich międzykulturowa wspólnota. Śmiech na kulturowym pograniczu klasy szkolnej, „Multicultural Studies” nr 1/2016.JASIŃSKI, Z., BRYZEK, M., Rola edukacji regionalnej w podtrzymaniu tożsamości narodowej, [w:] Miejsce kultur etnicznych i regionalnych w jednoczącej się Europie, red.: Z. Jasiński, T. Lewowicki, Instytut Nauk Pedagogicznych UO, Wyższa Szkoła Pedagogiczna ZNP w Warszawie, Opole 2007.KALIN, R., BERRY, J. W., Interethnic Attitudes in Canada: Ethnocentrism, Consensual Hierarchy in Reciprocity, „Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science”, No 28/1996.KRACIK, J., Święty Kościół grzesznych ludzi, Znak, Kraków 1998.KWIATKOWSKA, A., Społeczeństwo wielokulturowe: kontakty międzykulturowe z perspektywy psychologicznej, [w:] (Złudne) obietnice wielokulturowości, red.: J. Królikowska, UW, Warszawa 2012.KWIATKOWSKI, H., Dzieje lokalne i regionalne w szkolnej edukacji historycznej [w:] Dziedzictwo kulturowe – edukacja regionalna (1). Materiały pomocnicze dla nauczycieli, red.: G. Odoj, A. Peć, Wyd. Alex, Dzierżoniów 2000.NIKITOROWICZ, J., Edukacja regionalna i międzykulturowa, WAiP, Warszawa 2009.PETRYKOWSKI, P., Edukacja regionalna. Problemy podstawowe i otwarte, UMK, Toruń 2003.PILCH, T., Środowisko lokalne – struktura, funkcje, przemiany, [w:] Pedagogika społeczna. Człowiek w zmieniającym się świecie, red.: T. Pilch, I. Lepalczyk, Wydawnictwo Akademickie „Żak”, Warszawa 2003.SACHARCZUK, J., Rola edukacji regionalnej w pielęgnowaniu pamięci przeszłości – na przykładzie wielokulturowego Białegostoku, „Edukacja Międzykulturowa” nr 1/2012.SOBECKI, M., Kultura symboliczna a tożsamość. Studium tożsamości kulturowej Polaków na Grodzieńszczyźnie z perspektywy edukacji międzykulturowej, Trans Humana, Białystok 2007.SZCZUREK-BORUTA, A., Doświadczenia społeczne w przygotowaniu przyszłych nauczycieli do pracy w warunkach wielokulturowości, Toruń 2013, WEiNoE UŚ, Adam Marszałek

GMAC: Is Half A Loaf Better Than The Whole?

In November 2006 General Motors sold 51% ownership of its subsidiary, the General Motors Acceptance Corporation to Cerebus Capital Management in a complicated transaction. This paper demonstrates that GMAC produced over 90% of consolidated General Motors profit over the past two decades and tries to determine why the GM team sought to sell its best player and answer the natural follow-up question: why sell 51% of GMAC, instead of all of it? A number of possible explanations are considered, including cleaning up GM’s balance sheet, unlocking the submerged market value of GMAC, and improving GMAC’s credit rating/ access to capital. The paper concludes that the partial divestiture was a sound move that could easily have resulted in better financial performance for GM than the status quo, but that the entire strategy was upset by the subprime loan crisis of 2007-08