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New Face (new + face)
Selected AbstractsJIPB's Editorial Board Meeting 2009: A New Face in 2010JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE PLANT BIOLOGY, Issue 10 2009Chun-Ming Liu Ph.D. Editor-in-Chief [source] New faces at Burlington HouseASTRONOMY & GEOPHYSICS, Issue 4 2010Article first published online: 23 JUL 2010 Fellows may know that two long-serving staff members, Judith Hodges and Ron Wiltshire, retired in May this year; subsequent adjustment of roles has led to two new members of staff taking on key roles at Burlington House: Fern Storey and Lara Maisey. [source] New faces at UK Planetary ForumASTRONOMY & GEOPHYSICS, Issue 3 2009Article first published online: 29 MAY 200 The UK Planetary Forum (UKPF), an organization that represents the UK planetary science community, has a new committee. [source] Latin America's Neocaudillismo: Ex-Presidents and Newcomers Running for President, and WinningLATIN AMERICAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY, Issue 3 2008Javier Corrales ABSTRACT Latin Americans have been voting for a surprisingly large number of ex-presidents and newcomers in presidential elections since the late 1980s. This article looks at both the demand and supply sides of this phenomenon by focusing on economic anxieties and party crises as the key independent variables. Sometimes the relationship between these variables is linear: economic anxieties combined with party crises lead to rising ex-presidents and newcomers. At other times the relationship is symbiotic: the rise of ex-presidents leads to party crises, economic and political anxieties, and thus the rise of newcomers. This article concludes that the abundance of ex-presidents and newcomers in elections,essentially, the new face of Latin America's caudillismo,does not bode well for democracy because it accelerates de-institutionalization and polarizes the electorate. [source] Synthesized views can improve face recognitionAPPLIED COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 7 2009Chang Hong Liu It is well known that a new face studied from one view is often difficult to identify from another. This viewpoint dependence has detrimental implications for forensic practice. To compensate for this problem, we employed synthesized face images in the training session of a standard old/new recognition task. Observers in the experimental conditions learned one or more synthesized face images along with an original photograph of the face in a different view, whereas observers in the control conditions learned only the original photograph of the face. It was found that the experimental conditions consistently produced better recognition accuracy than the control conditions. We conclude that synthesized face views can be used to facilitate person identification in forensic applications. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] The old problem requires a new faceCLINICAL ANATOMY, Issue 8 2006Bernard J. Moxham No abstract is available for this article. [source] Immune subversion by chromatin manipulation: a ,new face' of host,bacterial pathogen interactionCELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY, Issue 8 2008Laurence Arbibe Summary Bacterial pathogens have evolved various strategies to avoid immune surveillance, depending of their in vivo,lifestyle'. The identification of few bacterial effectors capable to enter the nucleus and modifying chromatin structure in host raises the fascinating questions of how pathogens modulate chromatin structure and why. Chromatin is a dynamic structure that maintains the stability and accessibility of the host DNA genome to the transcription machinery. This review describes the various strategies used by pathogens to interface with host chromatin. In some cases, chromatin injury can be a strategy to take control of major cellular functions, such as the cell cycle. In other cases, manipulation of chromatin structure at specific genomic locations by modulating epigenetic information provides a way for the pathogen to impose its own transcriptional signature onto host cells. This emerging field should strongly influence our understanding of chromatin regulation at interphase nucleus and may provide invaluable openings to the control of immune gene expression in inflammatory and infectious diseases. [source] A One-to-One Bias and Fast Mapping Support Preschoolers' Learning About Faces and VoicesCOGNITIVE SCIENCE - A MULTIDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL, Issue 5 2010Mariko Moher Abstract A multimodal person representation contains information about what a person looks like and what a person sounds like. However, little is known about how children form these face-voice mappings. Here, we explored the possibility that two cognitive tools that guide word learning, a one-to-one mapping bias and fast mapping, also guide children's learning about faces and voices. We taught 4- and 5-year-olds mappings between three individual faces and voices, then presented them with new faces and voices. In Experiment 1, we found that children rapidly learned face-voice mappings from just a few exposures, and furthermore spontaneously mapped novel faces to novel voices using a one-to-one mapping bias (that each face can produce only one voice). In Experiment 2, we found that children's face-voice representations are abstract, generalizing to novel tokens of a person. In Experiment 3, we found that children retained in memory the face-voice mappings that they had generated via inference (i.e., they showed evidence of fast mapping), and used these newly formed representations to generate further mappings between new faces and voices. These findings suggest that preschoolers' rapid learning about faces and voices may be aided by biases that are similar to those that support word learning. [source] | |||||||||||||