Wanderlust After 60

正Zhang Guangzhu and his wife Wang Zhongjin have set foot on every continent,even Antarctica.In their global escapades they've filled five passports with travel visas and customs stamps from more than 40 countries.They have logged 50 CDs     

China-Europe Relations Face New Opportunities

正China as the largest developing country in the world has a strong development momentum,while Europe as the world’s largest community of developed countries is committed to reform and integration process.At present,China-Europe relations,with unprecedented width and depth,cast increasing global influences.Looking into the2014,China-Europe relations are expected to     

CAFIU Signs MOU with Sri Lanka-China Friendship Association

<正>At the invitation of the Sri Lanka-China Friendship Association (SLCFA), a 5-member CAFIU delegation headed by Secretary-General Ni Jian visited Sri Lanka from March 31 to April 2.In the evening of March 31, the delegation arrived at Colombo Airport. SLCFA PresidentAnanda Goonatilleke and his wife,     

Some Thoughts after Watching Hiroshima Kagura Performance

The Japanese Kagura is an ancient artistic form with a written history of more than 1000 years, from which the Kabuki and some other artistic forms evolved. Since the beginning of the year, Ihave participated in part of the preliminary preparation work for Hiroshima Kagura public     

A Numbers Game

Sudoku enthusiasts gathered in Beijing for a championship of intelligence and speed The Second Beijing International Sudoku Tournament (BIST 2012) crowned a new champion in Fengtai District of Beijing on May 20.Kota Morinishi,a 23-year-old Japanese university student,beat defending champ Jakub Ondrousek from the Czech Republic by one puzzle in the head-to-head fina     

马克思主义中国化的民族性内涵新论

民族性是马克思主义中国化的基本特征,是推进马克思主义中国化的重要条件。然而,民族性的基本内涵不能单纯理解为民族形式,应该包括民族主体、民族形式、民族精神等基本要素,这些要素之间的相互作用有助于形成扎根于中国文化土壤的中国化了的再生形态的马克思主义。     

The Street Singer

正Some youngsters are pursuing a dream of stardom on the street of Beijing Carrying a guitar and a hefty loudspeaker,Mumu(whose real name is Li Zhengwen) can be seen walking on the streets and through the alleyways of Beijing,an unfamiliar city to this     

论侵权责任法对调整医患关系的价值

为了改善长久以来医患之间不和谐的关系,侵权责任法确认了医患双方平等的法律地位,确立了过错责任原则为主,过错推定原则为补充的归责原则,明确规定医疗损害赔偿采用普通民事赔偿制度,客观地规定了医疗机构不承担民事赔偿责任的免责事由,充分维护了医患双方的权益,对解决医患纠纷必将起到积极的促进作用。同时也应注意侵权责任法也有不足之处,须有一些配套措施来保证其贯彻与实施。     

A novel skull registration based on global and local deformations for craniofacial reconstruction

Craniofacial reconstruction is important in forensic identification. It aims to estimate a facial appearance for human skeletal remains using the relationship between the soft tissue and the underlying bone structure. Various computerized methods have been developed in recent decades. An effective way is to deform a reference skull to the discovered skull, and then apply the same deformation to the skin associated with the reference skull to provide an approximate face for the discovered skull. For this method, the better the two skulls match each other, the more face-like the reconstructed skin surface will be. In this paper, we present a novel skull registration method that can match the two skulls closely, so as to improve the accuracy of the reconstruction. It combines both global and local deformations. A generic thin-plate spline (TPS)-based deformation, which is global, is applied first to roughly align the two skulls based on two groups of manually defined landmarks. Afterwards, the two skulls are largely matched, except some regions, on which some new landmarks are automatically marked. A compact support radial basis functions (CSRBF)-based deformation, which is local, will then be performed on these regions to adjust the initial alignment of the two skulls. Such adjustment can be repeatedly implemented until the two skulls have optimal alignment. In addition, all the skulls and face involved in the registration are represented by their single outer surfaces to facilitate the reconstruction procedure. The experiments demonstrate that our method can create a plausible face even when the reference skull is very different from the discovered skull. As a result, we can make full use of our database to provide multiple estimates for a principle components analysis (PCA) for the final reconstruction.