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This paper presents an ethnographic analysis of the nature and role of gestural action in the performance of a remote collaborative physical task. The analysis focuses on the use of a low-tech prototype gesturing system, which projects unmediated gestures to create a mixed reality ecology that promotes awareness in cooperative activity. CSCW researchers have drawn attention to the core problem ...

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In many areas of industry, it is desirable to create geometric models of existing objects for which no such model is available. This paper reviews the process of reverse engineering of shapes. After identifying the purpose of reverse engineering and the main application areas, the most important algorithmic steps are outlined and various reconstruction strategies are presented. Pros and cons of...

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Self-reference is used to denote any situation in which someoneor something refers to itself. Self-reference is an important issuein philosophy, mathematics and computer science amongst oth-ers. In the philosophy of language the naive theory of truth hasbeen challenged by the Liar Paradox. The Liar Paradox is thecontradiction that emerges from trying to determine whether...

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A threshold dose of 100 mSv is assumed for radiation-induced teratogenic effectsin publication No. 90 of the ICRP (2003), which is based on the findings in the Japanese A-bomb survivors. A variety of observations about congenital malformations, foetal loss,stillbirths, and infant deaths, as well as Down ́s syndrome after the Chernobyl release makemanifestly clear the incompletene...