General Scene Research Articles

Picture segmentation using a recursive region splitting method

This paper presents a description of a general segmentation method which can be applied to many different types of scenes. We describe the segmentation method in detail and discuss the potential performance of other segmentation techniques on general scenes. We also present a subset of the images which have been analyzed using this technique and a summary of the computational effort required. Details of some of the major programs are given in the appendix.

OLD PEOPLE IN CONTEMPORARY NOVELS: A STUDY OF STYLE AND CONTENT

The relation of fiction to society may be interpreted from several points of view. As any other medium of mass communication, fiction is a source of information and attitudes, and an indicator of popular perspectives. In addition, fiction responds to its own rules. Necessities and conventions of representation in a particular form lead to certain combinations that are attributable neither to reflections of the situation nor to the intention to influence. This paper examines the place of the aged in novels published in the United States during the years 1931‐1970. Because of the different ingredients that go into the creation of characters in novels, no simple relationship of contact with social conditions or attempted influence by an author can be discerned. A realistic picture of the presentation cannot concentrate on the status of old heroes and heroines, but on the manner in which old people become part of the general scene or setting within a whole presentation of a novel. One can contrast this approa...

"The changing scene in general practice".

Medical Journal of AustraliaVolume 1, Issue 1 p. 30-31 Special Review “THE CHANGING SCENE IN GENERAL PRACTICE” Lionel L. Wilson, Lionel L. WilsonSearch for more papers by this author Lionel L. Wilson, Lionel L. WilsonSearch for more papers by this author First published: 01 January 1972 https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1972.tb46681.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume1, Issue1January 1972Pages 30-31 RelatedInformation

The Industrial Analytical Chemist

Activities of the industrial analytical chemist are many and varied. The picture of a man performing routine assays in a control lab is but one part of a general scene and one which overlooks the over-all responsibilities of the industrial analytical chemist. The industrial analytical chemist will spend most of his time in analyzing materials to set and maintain product superiority. But this is not all routine. He can improve standard methods and make them more accurate, rapid, and simple. Also, the chemical industry changes constantly, new products come out, and new products mean new analytical methods. Among specific problems the analyst is called-in on include those on stability or deterioration, structures of unknown compounds, and devising process control. He may also be asked to assist the sales force for a company customer—devise a method or otherwise perform a service for a customer with a small lab. Container corrosion or reaction between container and contents ...

Pietist And Puritan Sources of Early Protestant World Missions (Cotton Mather and A. H. Francke)

It is one of the peculiarities of the writing of Protestant church history that the history of Christian missions since the Reformation plays a very unimportant part within the general historical scene. The religious and theological conflicts on the European continent and the beginnings of churches in North America have claimed all the interest of the historians so that the history of missions has appeared to be a kind of subordinate subject. The reason for this underemphasizing of the history of Protestant missions is first of all the fact that there existed, as a kind of insuperable prejudice, the opinion that the Reformers—Luther, Melanchthon, Calvin, and Zwingli—were not interested at all in Christian missions. Only the latest turn of clesiastical historiography has included Christian missions again in general church history and put them in the place which they deserve.