Drawing from ideas in both traditional animation and modern philosophy, we present a methodology for designing synthetic characters. The goal of our approach is to construct intentional characters that are both compelling, in the sense that people can empathize with them, and understandable, in that their actions can be seen as attempts to satisfy their desires given their beliefs. We also pres...

Various forms of art and entertainment involve many different characters, and advances in human interfaces have necessitated physical interactions in order to develop an improved sense of reality. In this paper we propose a method for generating the motions of characters using multidimensional keyframe animation in parallel with real-time physical simulation. The method generates characters cap...

Bahaodoleh Razi Tarashti was born in taTarasht village of Rey (in northwest of present Tehran). He ended up the medical education in Rey and trend to practicing and learning medicine contemporary as spiritual guide of Noorbakhshi group. Although the birthday of Bahaodoleh is not clear exactly, bases on evidences, he probably has been killed in fractional struggle by agents of king Esmaeel Safav...

the purpose of the present paper is to investigate semantic deviation of the holy quran in amal donqol's poetry. deviation is one of the techniques of defamiliarization, and was first introduced by the russian formalists in 1917. constructivist attitude toward literary texts and emphasis on the aesthetic aspects of the literary works led formalists to consider literary language as the main...

A new method is described for preparing slide mounts of whole bodies of microlepidoptera to facilitate comparative morphological studies. This me­ thod conserves traditional characters of wing pattern while revealing wing venation and other morpholo­ gical structures of the denuded body. Examples of new characters revealed on slide mounts of whole bodies and photographed with a Confocal Laser S...

the turbulent social, political and cultural situation in europe (and especially germany) in the early twentieth century led young heidegger to the question “what is the role and responsibility of the intellectual in society?” he maintained, in this regard, an important role on his own personal religious education, convictions and interests, because he believed that by creating interaction betw...

hen John Heuser finished medical school at the height of the Vietnam War he was immediately eligible for the draft. Luckily for him, and for cell biology, he fulfilled his military service at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States Public Health Service. It was there that he brought the concept of " membrane recycling " to light. He brought to Thomas Reese's lab at the NIH ...

The Church is synodal, which implies, from a participatory ecclesiology, the co-re- sponsibility of all faithful. In this perspective, qualification bodies proposed by Code Canon Law as «only consultative» problem- atic for modern democratic sensibility. After evoking anchoring synodality in mystery Church, author recalls that concept alludes both to style, habitus, and processes institutions i...

Product recall data and information on stock price reactions to recalls are used estimate the value of reputation in a model which product quality is not contractible. A result defect that signals low effort. The triggers reduction firm’s value, then both rise steadily until its next occurs. We accounts for 8.3 percent firm welfare 26 first best level. policy intervention attains tax accompanie...