A theory of a saliency map in primary visual cortex (V1) tested by psychophysics of color-orientation interference in texture segmentation

It has been proposed that V1 creates a bottom-up saliency map, where saliency of any location increases with the firing rate of the most active V1 output cell responding to it, regardless the feature selectivity of the cell. Thus, a red vertical bar may have its saliency signalled by a cell tuned to red colour, or one tuned to vertical orientation, whichever cell is the most active. This theory predicts interference between colour and orientation features in texture segmentation tasks where bottom-up processes are significant. The theory not only explains existing data, but also provides a prediction. A subsequent psychophysical test confirmed the prediction by showing that segmentation of textures of oriented bars became more difficult as the colours of the bars were randomly drawn from more colour categories

Philip the trapped swan in of human bondage

Maugham’s Of Human Bondage devotes to the quest of Philip for the freedom from the bondage of physical deformity and spiritual isolation. He is a swan trapped in his inner world and nature

Research on control strategies of economic risks in China\u27s Inter-regional transfer of industries

In the process of China\u27s inter-regional transfer of industries, there is a large number of economic risks. This article tries to develop a set of scientific and practical control strategies of the economic risks, to achieve the desired goal of stable and sustainable economic growth and continued improvement in local social welfare

Game Analysis on Economic Risks of Lack of Innovation in Industrial Transferring Regions

By using the model of game analysis, we find it is necessary for government to inject certain subsidies in the enterprise technology innovation in the industrial transferring regions. However, because of the information asymmetry, it is difficult to find the right subsidy strength for the governments in practice. After further analysis of subsidies incentive efficiency, the paper tries to put forward some policy recommendations to promote enterprise innovation and to reduce the economic risk

Studies on Economic-risk Assessment in China\u27s Regional Industrial Transferring：Based on Improved TOPSIS Model

Focusing on regional industrial transferring, this paper introduces the “economic risk”concept to characterize the uncertainty of welfare effets which China’s regional industrial transferring can take. After establishment an unified framework of analysising risk,which includes eonomic welfare risk and social welfare risk, this paper tries to assess the eonomic risk in China’s regional industrial transferring by making use of improved TOPSIS model and 2010 China’s provincial-leved data.We find that the level of China’s overall regional economic risk is at a high level, reflecting that central and western areas are particularly acute, and that economic well-being risk is notable in developed areas, while economic well-being risk and environmental polllution of social well-being risk are very prominent in developing areas