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    Aristotle on the naturalness of death from old age
    (Akdeniz Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi, 2018) Kıymaz, Tufan
    In this work, I explore and critically evaluate Aristotle’s views on the naturalness of dying from old age. His views are not straightforward, because Aristotle regards old age as a kind of decay and he talks about decay sometimes as natural and sometimes as unnatural. Nature, according to Aristotle, has two aspects, matter and form. I argue that, in Aristotle’s system, decay is always materially natural but formally unnatural. Likewise, natural death is death caused by old age and although getting old is never formally natural, it is, in a particular sense, materially natural. In Aristotle’s view, getting old does not have the same mechanism as inorganic decay such as wine’s turning into vinegar, but it is a result of the materially natural decay of lungs, which leads to the exhaustion of the vital heat in the heart.
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    (IEEE, 2009-04) Torun, R. Baturalp; Yurdakul, Merve; Duygulu, Pınar
    In this paper, we propose a method to match similar faces despite photos, which are taken from different sources on Internet, could have different scenes, illumination and posing. Interest points are used to recognize faces, and some points are eliminated in order to find best matching points which pair the similar face. Difference between two matching points is used to define similarity of the faces. Inspite of physical changes due to old age, plastic surgery, make-up or clothing, experiments show that given face image can be successfully matched with a similar face within a database composed of celebrity photos. ©2009 IEEE.