MAINTENANCE SUPPRESSION REDUCES THE ACCESSIBILITY OF VISUAL INFORMATION IN WORKING MEMORY REGARDLESS OF ITS NORMATIVE VALENCE

Maintenance suppression reduces the accessibility of visual information in working memory regardless of its normative valence

Intentional removal of unwanted information allows us to focus on our current goals.Previous research has shown that suppressing the maintenance of neutral images in working memory can impair access to that information in immediate and delayed memory tests.However, it remains unclear whether maintenance suppression has the same impact on emotionall

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Inpainting large missing regions based on Seam Carving

Inpainting techniques are developed to recover missing image information.Existing inpainting approaches are: Partial Differential Equations Based Inpainting (PDE-BI) and Exemplar-Based Inpainting (EBI).PDE-BI methods used to fill in the missing information via information propagation from neighbouring areas.However, it can only reconstruct successf

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Day-of-the-week effect: Petroleum and petroleum products

AbstractThis study tests for calendar anomalies in returns for petroleum and petroleum products via the futures market, specifically, the day-of-the-week (DOW) effect.The energy future contracts in this study Canine - Toys - Holiday - Christmas are the WTI (West Texas Intermediate), Brent, RBOB (Reformulated Blendstock for Oxygenate Blending) Gasol

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Nummular keratopathy in a patient with Hyper-IgD Syndrome

Abstract Purpose To report a case of recurrent nummular keratitis in a pediatric patient with Hyperimmunoglobulinemia D syndrome.Methods A retrospective chart review.Results A LAVENDER BODY OIL 14-year-old boy with Hyperimmunoglobulinemia D syndrome (HIDS) presented with photophobia and ocular irritation concomitant with disease exacerbation.He was

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