Abstract: Image pyramids are widely adopted in top-performing methods to obtain multi-scale features for precise visual perception and understanding. However, current image pyramids use the same large ...

When it comes to knitting complex motifs, a pattern is a needleworker’s best friend. But what if you want to customize one yourself? What about text? Fortunately, Zurich-based designer Rüdiger ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover luxury beauty, fashion and innovation from Paris and London. Jonathan Anderson’s Dior womenswear show opened with a short ...

Beverly Moran is a senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, and Paulus Endowment senior tax fellow at Boston College. Not long after U.S. housing prices reached a record high this summer – the median ...

Inverted motorcycle forks, often called upside-down or USD forks, flip the layout of conventional telescopic suspension. Instead of the skinny stanchions clamping into the triple tree, the ...

For a planet already famous for its beauty and mysteries, Saturn just became even more enigmatic. Fresh observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) — the most detailed yet of the planet's ...

Hmmm: Why do some players invert the Y-axis in video games? To many, it seems strange to make down mean up and up mean down. For inverters like me, it feels natural – the default setting is as awkward ...

Nickel prices retreated after a rapid rise this week, forming an inverted V pattern. The most-traded SHFE nickel contract (2510) hit a mid-week high of 122,640 yuan/mt and fell to a low of 120,260 ...

To invert or not to invert? The question of whether to flip the Y-axis in games is often answered with recollections of childhood habits and/or varyingly smug declarations of which joystick setting is ...

While history counts a lengthy and horrific tally of the arbitrary divisions we draw amongst ourselves, there have been and will ever be only two kinds of people: those who invert their camera ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation This paper presents the most comprehensive and up-to-date panel dataset on global trade invoicing currency and examines ...