The increasing use of three-dimensional modeling and digitization techniques in archaeology has raised questions about the digital rights management of the resulting 3D models. Curators of valuable artifacts and creators of 3D models may be reluctant to openly share the digital 3D representations due to fear of misuse or theft of their data and intellectual property. In order to address these c...

This paper reviews major studies in three traditional lines of research in residential energy consumption in the UK, i.e., economic/infrastructure, behaviour, and load profiling. Based on the review the paper proposes a three-dimensional model for archetyping residential energy consumers in the UK by considering property energy efficiency levels, the greenness of household behaviour of using en...

A knitted animal is made of a closed surface consisting of several knitted patches knitted out of yarn and stuffed with cotton (Fig. 1). We introduce a system to create a knitting pattern from a given 3D surface model (mainly designed for rotund animal models). A knitting pattern is an instructional diagram describing how to knit yarn to obtain a desired shape. Since the creation of knitting pa...

A positive relationship between employee engagement and affective commitment is already documented in the literature. However, we do not adequately know how engagement is associated with continuance and normative commitment. Using survey methodology we find that while engagement has a non-significant positive association with continuance commitment, it has a positive association with normative ...

The convergence of telecommunications, IT, media, and entertainment (TIME) industries in the last decade has led to the simultaneous existence of multiple competing and substituting technologies addressing similar customer needs. The resulting complexity is increased by additional complementary technologies and services. In three case studies, we show the associated problems and ambiguities fro...

We present preliminary results of our modelling of the J,K,L and M band emission detected by the DIRBE instrument on the COBE satellite. Our model includes the contribution of Zodiacal light and a three-dimensional model for the distribution of dust based upon DIRBE observations of dust emission at 240 microns. Our approach enables us to construct dust removed maps of our Galaxy that we will us...

At present, most of small grain crops such as millet and forage seeds are sown by external force feed in mainland China, which has some problems of wasting seeds, uneven seed distribution and so on. Therefore, it is needed to design a precise feed device for small grain corps. The author’s of this paper established a three-dimensional model to design the spiral groove precision seed-metering de...

Magnetic slot wedges are often used to improve starting performance of large induction motors. In this paper we have investigated – through simulation – the effects of the wedges on the performance characteristics of the motor and core losses under no load condition. Both analytical and hybrid two-dimensional field-circuit models have been used. In order to reliably establish the parameters of ...

This paper describes a part of the Yacht Captain Training system, particularly the part that includes ships and scenes modelling. It is divided into two parts. The first deals with problems of practical usage of VRML standard for basic 3D modelling, while the second inquires the possibilities to make virtual sailing more realistic.