We have developed a technique for authoring a nonlinear plot and for managing a story according to the plot in an interactive story-based virtual reality application. The technique exploits Petri Nets that alter reactive plans controlling individual actors. Its main advantage is that it allows for iterative design and copes with large virtual worlds inhabited with tens of actors. In this paper,...

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A strip plot graphs one dimensional data by displaying each sample point as a point on a one dimensional axis. The main difficulties with this technique is (i) when several samples have identical values they will be printed on top of each other, and (ii) in the case of a large sample the graph will become overly crowded and less informative. The two ways to alleviate these difficulties are: (a)...

Stroke is a leading cause of death worldwide and a common cause of disability in adults in developed countries. Most strokes are not fatal and, in contrast to coronary artery disease and cancer, the major burden of stroke is chronic disability rather than death. It is unsurprising, therefore, that characters with stroke appear frequently in literature, although sometimes the diagnosis is wrong....

This study was conducted to compare the methods of seed bedpreparation in rangelands of Khash region in Sistan and Baluchestan province inIran. A split plot design was conducted based on Randomized complete blockdesign with three replications in 1999. Five seed bed preparation methods wereused as main plot as: 1) Seed sown by passing livestock. 2) Seed sown machinery.3) Seeds sown as drilled in...

Background & Aim:Nowadays, the use of chemical preservatives has been limited due to the controversial adverse effects. In this study, we evaluated the preservative potency of product with active herbal ingredients (Barij Baby cream) in contrast with the same products with two different chemical preservatives including methylparaben plus propylparaben and potassium sorbate plus...

Airborne particulate samples were collected from various reference sites in Hong Kong and the energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) intensities for 19 chemical elements were recorded. Principal component analysis (PCA) was employed so that the variances of these 19 original variables were captured by a few new indices called principal components or PCs. Data points for similar sources we...

in order to evaluate the effect of some qualitative traits of sugar beet (beta vulgaris l.) under irrigation water quality and different types of fertilizers, a field experiment arranged as split plot in rcbd design with three replications at research station of shahrekord university in 2013. the main factor include irrigation with urban wastewater at 2-4 leaf stage, 8-12 leaf stage and irrigat...