... to jump on the designer bandwagon, and fast fashion from H&M, Uniqlo, and Forever 21—is claiming chunks of the fashion- forward market The press and buyers send mixed messages and put extraordinary ... crowd rooting for the next generation of designers These pages will demystify the world of young designers and reveal the tough parts while providing the knowledge and tools to carry on It is ... The FashionDesigner Survival Guide Revised and Expanded Edition Start and Run Your Own fashion Business Mary Gehlhar Contents Foreword Preface One Piece...
... be handmade and most elements are designed on the fly She doesn't work with a toile and although she can sketch, she prefers to dive in and design without one Her mother is fantastic knitter and ... has a new theme so you design a mini collection for the band With bands you can always go over the edge and use your imagination." Which bands would she ideally like to work with? "Ms Dynamite, ... with designer Francesca Marotta This is couture heaven, W11 style Francesca says she always knew she wanted to be a fashiondesigner "When I was I said to my Mum, 'I am going to work in fashion' ."...
... 5: Expand the Traced Image • Once the image is traced an option to Expand the image will appear in the tool bar Expand • • Click onto this option and the image will become a vector image If this ... photographer and Christina Cauch – fashion model, who so generously allowed us to use their images Mark Williams – fashion model andfashion design student, for his enthusiasm for the project and his ... understanding Adobe Illustrator (AI) Vector images: Bitmap images: Vector images are made of lines and curves defined by mathematical objects called vectors A vector image is created with strokes and...
... jumper, pullover or jersey is a knit garment intended to cover the torso and arms, popular with men, women and children of all ages It is often worn over a shirt, blouse, T-shirt, or other top, but ... synthetic fibers, or any combination thereof Sweaters are maintained by washing or dry cleaning, and the use of a lint roller or pill razor CABLE IN SWEATER JACQUARD SWEATER LACE SWEATER INTERSIA...
... Stith and Goldsmith (1989) studied gender and ethnic differences in fashion innovativeness, fashion opinion leadership, and spending on fashions The sample included an even number of both genders, ... similarities and differences between African Americans’ and Caucasian Americans’ levels of general leadership andfashion personality characteristics such as fashion involvement, fashion consciousness, and ... Moment Correlations for Fashion Leadership and General Leadership, Fashion Involvement, Shopping Enjoyment, Fashion Consciousness, Academic Classification Level, and Age 60 11 Pearson...
... terms of fashion, fashion sources andfashion cycle Ø In fashion cycle point of view, it deals the principles of fashion, peak, decline, length of fashion cycle Ø Fashion show and its type, fashion ... concept of fashion, fashion terms andfashion forecasting In this lesion we will go through another important function of fashion cycle, classification of fashionandfashion shows 1.2 FASHIONFashion ... fashionand this media which spread fashionand gets the fame and name to the designers is Fashion Forecasting Fashion Forecasting is done through many communicating media, such as, cinema, fashion...
... effects on both product and brand preferences To sum up, through the study of purchasing acts and brand preference, general and consumer neuroscience have gained significant knowledge about the reward ... economists, biologists and psychologists There are also neurologists and psychiatrists involved in neuromarketing and consumer neuroscience, although the general medical neuroscientific community ... brand and the link to brand loyalty J MarkFocus Manag 1999, 4:341–70 124 Chaudhuri A, Holbrook MB: The chain of effects from brand trust and brand affect to brand performance: the role of brand...
... synthesized in neurones should help to understand their role in neurotransmision Thus, we investigated the processing of proNPFFA in SH-SY5Y human neuroblastoma cells and COS-7 (nonneuronal) cells ... similar in neuronal cell line and nervous tissue The SHSY5Y human neuroblastoma cell line, used in this study as an in vitro model for human neurones, expressed and processed the hproNPFFA to generate ... Zajac, J.M (1998) Neuropeptide FF, pain and analgesia Eur J Pharmacol 345, 1–11 Panula, P., Kalso, E., Nieminen, M., Kontinen, V.K., Brandt, A & Pertovaara, A (1999) Neuropeptide FF and modulation...
... Extraction Process Edge tracking: All local maxima in the gradient image marked as edges, then using double threshold to determine strong edges and weak edges Remove all edges that are not connected ... and Z Chi, “Genetic Evolution Processing of Data Structure for Image Classification”, IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2005, Vol.17, No 2, pp 216-231 S T Li and A K Zan, Hand ... eye, left and right eyebrows and mouth) Each of those regions’ features is presented by PCA So that image representation space is reduced Instead of using ANN based on the large image representation...
... research in neurosensory systems (such as neurovision systems) and neurocontrol systems will be the key to the development of truly intelligent control systems and, in general, intelligent systems ... science and technology Our own studies have been in the fields of neurocontrol systems, neurovision systems, robotic systems, neural chaotic systems, pattern recognition, and signal and image processing ... FOUNDATIONS OF NEURAL NETWORKS Neural Systems: An Introduction 1.1 Basics of Neuronal Morphology 1.2 The Neuron 1.3 Neurocomputational Systems: Some Perspectives 1.4 Neuronal Learning 1.5 Theory of Neuronal...
... brain infarct size and improved neurological function in rats after acute IS through enhancement of angiogenesis/vasculogenesis and neurogenesis as well as its anti-inflammatory and anti-apoptotic ... 0.0001 ent study suggest that ADMSC therapy enhances both neurogenesis and vasculogenesis These findings could be another explanation for the reduction in BIA and improvement in neurological function ... infarct size and promoted neurological recovery in a rat model of acute IS, produces several important findings First, ADMSC therapy enhanced angiogenesis/vasculogenesis and neurogenesis Second,...
... demyelinating polyneuropathy or sensory/motor neuropathy (n = 7) Axonal sensory/motor polyneuropathy (n = 1) Sensory peripheral polyneuropathy (n = 1) Motor neuropathy (n = 3) Motor neuron disease ... diagnostic groups (not matched for age, gender and weight) necessitated the use of predicted muscle strengths To incorporate the confounding influence of gender, age, height and weight on muscle strength ... competing interests Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2006, 3:26 Authors' contributions RVD and CMW conceived of the study, and participated...
... data analysis and manuscript preparation TJM Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Neuroinflammation 2007, 4:2 and JZ conceived the study and its design and helped to ... prostaglandin E2 in microglia J Neurochem 2004, 88(4):939-947 Mrak RE, Griffin WS: Glia and their cytokines in progression of neurodegeneration Neurobiol Aging 2005, 26(3):349-354 Eskes C, Honegger ... Oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction in neurodegeneration Curr Opin Neurol 1996, 9(4):260-264 Layfield R, Lowe J, Bedford L: The ubiquitin-proteasome system and neurodegenerative disorders...
... D-F and J-L; scale bar: 50 μm in G-I and M-O Representative microglia in different stages (stage1-4) of CD11b immunostaining are shown in yellow circles (stage1: P1; stage2: P2; stage3: P3; stage4: ... CD200/CD200R signalling and PD, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and prion diseases Protein and mRNA levels of CD200 and CD200R are decreased in hippocampus and inferior Zhang et al Journal of Neuroinflammation ... of Zhang et al Journal of Neuroinflammation 2011, 8:154 http://www.jneuroinflammation.com/content/8/1/154 microglia and damage to dopaminergic neurons Histological and immunological examinations...
... cancer at an early stage The method is based on image processing, pattern recognition and artificial intelligence techniques The different stages of the method are as follows: image enhancement based ... http://asp.eurasipjournals.com/content/2011/1/91 Page 10 of 11 (a) (b) (c) Figure a Original ROI images MCs detection using: b image segmentation by k-means and the classifier with structure1, c image subsegmentation by PFCM and the classifier ... based on artificial neural networks, such as MLP, and a radial basis function (RBF) neural network Fu et al [6] proposed a method based on two stages The purpose of the first stage is to locate the...
... 2.35 2.1 42 43 22 23 Number of neurons: 0.14 0.12 2.03 1.86 35 49 19 19 Number of neurons: Number of neurons: Number of neurons: Number of neurons: Number of neurons: Neuron b+ b− δ+ δ− R+ R− Spikes+ ... assumed to be a positive bandlimited function with bandwidth Ω = 2π · 30 rads/s The neuron is modeled as a LIF neuron with random threshold After each spike, the value of the neuron threshold was ... (44) and Algorithm The minimizer u ∈ S1 is given by (44) and (i) the coefficients d and c are given by (23) with the elements of the matrices G and F specified in Theorem and, (i) the coefficients d and...
... , f 1/3 , and f 2/3 The three output neurons g , g , and g are connected to these networks with weights equal to (+1, +1), (−1, +1), and (−1,−1), respectively In general, a pairwise neural-network ... both pairwise and standard multiclass neural networks were implemented in Matlab, using neural networks Toolbox The pairwise classifiers and the multiclass networks include hidden and output layers ... were 40 and 10, 38 and 60, and 150 and 20, respectively 4.3 Impact of data density in case of synthetic data These experiments aim to compare the robustness of the proposed and multiclass neural...