Computer Assistive Palm Reader

Palmistry, also known as palm reading or hand prediction, is the study of a person's personality, fortune, and future by examining his or her hands. Chiromancy is another name for it. Palmistry encompasses not just the reading of one's hand or palm, but also the reading of one's arm, finger, and fingernail. This system shows a digital image processing application that can be used in palmistry to predict people's personalities or future lives. Based on edge detection and recognition, a palmistry prediction system has been created. This developed system uses morphological operations as well. The system uses a decision tree classifier algorithm to identify specific features in the input images and extract principal lines from a human palm image. The most important line patterns in palmistry are summarised and used as models for fortune-telling palm reading. The model predicts a person's personality and displays the predictions based on palmistry knowledge and date of birth.

Domestic Factors of the Biden Administration’s Strategy in the Middle East

In the early months of Joe Biden’s administration in the White House, Middle East issues were not identified as a priority of its foreign policy. Individual steps in this direction, however, suggest that the administration will adhere to the principal lines of conduct for the United States towards American partners and allies (Israel, the Arab monarchies of the Gulf and others), as well as towards the main conflict nodes in the region (Syria, Libya, Yemen). At the same time, it is also obvious that its tactical emphasis has shifted in its approach to a number of the most important problems of the region – in particular, the Palestinian-Israeli standoff (namely, restoration of relations with the government of Mahmoud Abbas) and the situation around Iran (return to the renewed nuclear deal – JCPOA) and Turkey (overcoming the cooling of relations with Ankara). Apparently, we can talk about Biden’s revival of the Middle East policy pursued under Barack Obama’s administration. This process is largely due to the domestic political calculations of the Biden team and the Democratic Party as a whole. The author of the article tries to assess the influence of American immigrant’s communities from the Arab countries and Turkey on Joe Biden’s Middle East policy.

A method of finding stress solutions for a general plastic material under plane strain and plane stress conditions

A general plastic material under plane strain and plane stress is classified by a yield criterion that depends on both the first and second invariants of the stress tensor. The yield criterion together with the stress equilibrium equations forms a statically determinate system. This system is investigated in the principal lines coordinate system (i.e. the coordinate curves of this coordinate system coincide with trajectories of the principal stress directions). It is shown that the scale factors of the principal lines coordinate system satisfy a simple equation. Using this equation, a method for constructing the principal stress trajectories is developed. Therefore, the boundary value problem of plasticity theory reduces to a purely geometric problem. It is believed that the method developed is useful for solving a wide class of boundary value problems in plasticity.

Palmprint for Individual’s Personality Behavior Analysis

Palmprint is an important key player in biometric family and also informs some extra basic personality details of an individual. In this paper, we utilize these extra information and designed an automated mobile vision (MV) system to extract principal lines from human palm and analyze them for behavioral significances. Hence, the main concern of this paper is to come up with a simple yet powerful low-level MV solution to extract the complex challenging features from palmprint. In the proposed system, the computational tasks are offloaded to a dedicated palmistry server and efficiently minimizes the energy consumption of mobile device after performing some preliminary computational low-level tasks. The implementation is divided into four major phases: (i) hand-image acquisition and pre-processing, (ii) region-of-interest extraction from the palm images, (iii) post-processing to extract principal lines and (iv) features computation for behavior analysis. The basic palmistry uses line lengths, angles, curves and branches to identify a person’s behavior. The exhaustive experiments show that the proposed system achieves an average accuracy of 96%, 92% and 84% for heart, life and head line detection and personality prediction, respectively. Finally, mapping the extracted results with the original palmprint is augmented back to the use for better visualization.

Using the Theme of the Penetration of Fire into Iron for Description of Uniting with God in Eastern Christian Theology: the Path from Origen to Gregory Palamas. Part 1

Цель исследования - показать, как стоическая натурфилософская парадигма всецелого смешения, проявляющаяся в примере проникновения огня в железо, была заимствована раннехристианскими и византийскими богословами от Оригена до Григория Паламы для иллюстрации проникновения божественного в тварное и соединения тварного с божественным - такого, что тварное не растворяется в божественном, но остаётся в своей природе, проникаясь свойствами Божества. Для решения этой задачи используются стандартные методы исследования истории философской и теологической мысли. Парадигма проникновения огня в железо появляется у Оригена, который этим примером иллюстрировал соединение души Христа с Богом. Дальнейшее развитие этой темы включало в себя две линии, заложенные в оригеновском использовании этого примера: это христологическая и теозисная линии. В данной статье я прослеживаю развитие теозисной линии, в контексте ещё одной линии, в рамках которой пример с железом и огнём использовался для прояснения отличия в способе бытия тварных и нетварных сущих. Я рассматриваю, как эта линия находит своё проявление у Василия Великого и Кирилла Александрийского и показываю, как она работает у них с различительным потенциалом рассматриваемого примера, тогда как собственно теозисная линия, проявляющаяся в «Макариевском корпусе», задействует его объединяющий потенциал. The publication is the first part of a study on the use in Eastern Christian theological literature of the theme of the penetration of fire into iron to describe uniting with God, from Origen to Gregory Palamas. Through the example of penetration of fire into iron I consider the ways, whereby the Stoic natural philosophical paradigm of total blending was naturalized by the Early Christian and Byzantine theologians who wished to describe the penetration of the divine into the created and the conjunction of the created with the divine, with the condition that the created does not dissolve in the divine but remains within its own nature while being penetrated by the properties of deity. The character of this paradigm carries the presence of distinctive and uniting potentials within itself because it presupposes interaction of two natures remaining different but uniting in a certain respect. This paradigm seems to have first appeared in the writings of Origen, who spoke of the conjunction of Christ’s soul with God through the example of the penetration of fire into iron. The further development of this topic by the Byzantine theologians comprised two principal lines, already adumbrated in Origen: these are the Christological line and the line of theosis. In the present article, I am interested mostly in the latter, in the context of one more line, which uses the example of iron and fire in order to clarify the distinctions in modes of existence for the created and the divine. I examine this line as represented by the Cappadocians and Cyril of Alexandria, and show as this line has made actual the distinctive potential of the fire and iron example. While the line of theosis itself, represented in the Macarian corpus, brought out the uniting potential of the example.

Feature Extraction of Iris and Palmprint Biometric System using Dwt

Much work is done on Iris Recognition, since few years. Many cases discussed about performance in view of image capturing and recognition. Daugman work is the most important related to iris biometric in early research. It is fair to say, it is base model for iris biometric. Almost the available iris systems are based on this work. A palm print is image of the palm area of a hand. It is either an image taken online or offline. It is one of the most familiar and promising biometric model for personal identity verification. It is tough task to differentiate lines and wrinkles without explicit definition. depends on the thickness and position of some key points we can define principal lines. In our work, we are taken the principal line magnitude is less than or equal to 1. we cannot consider broken lines. If it is the case broken point is treat as last point

Professional Reasoning in Occupational Therapy: A Scoping Review

Background/Aim. Professional reasoning in occupational therapy is the process used by practitioners to plan, direct, perform, and reflect on client care. The professional’s ability to manage the process of the intervention is structured around it, thereby influencing the effectiveness of the work carried out. The objectives of this research were to identify and describe (a) the historical development of this area of research from 1982 to 2017 and (b) the nature and volume of the scientific literature on professional reasoning in occupational therapy and the evidence that exists today. Methods. A scoping review method was used to carry out an historical mapping of research on professional reasoning and to summarise the lines of research explored to date. The review was conducted in five stages following the PRISMA guidelines. After applying the selection criteria, the search identified 303 references. Results. The results are presented under three headings: (a) nature and volume of publications on professional reasoning in occupational therapy according to number and year of publications, journal, country, author, and line of research; (b) historical trends in the scientific literature on professional reasoning in occupational therapy since 1982; and (c) methodological aspects of the research. Each of them is discussed through statistical analysis. Conclusions. The research about professional reasoning in occupational therapy is a field of empirical nature, in which qualitative studies predominate. Principal lines of research are focused on specific fields of practice, undergraduates, and theoretical aspects of professional reasoning. There were identified three historical phases with common features in terms of objectives and research methods.

Regional Aspects of the Arctic Ice Silk Road

A recently released white paper on the Arctic policy emphasized the principal lines of China's activities in the Arctic, particularly development of resources, fishing and tourism, Arctic shipping routes, infrastructure, navigation security, scientific research, and environmental protection. Such priorities are in the best interest of China's strategy of the unified regional development and new architectonics of the extensive exploration of the potential of China's Northern provinces. Being the northernmost region of the country, Heilongjiang province has an opportunity to become China's outpost for the implementation of the national Arctic policy. This chapter assesses the challenges and perspectives of turning Heilongjiang province into a transport and logistics hub between Northeast Asia, Europe, and North America by China's participation in the development of the Arctic Blue Economic Corridor. The author elaborates an idea of the establishment of the Arctic Research and Industrial Cluster based on the scientific, technological, and industrial facilities of Heilongjiang province.