We accept this thesis as conforming to the required standard Abstract Recent years have seen an increased interest in cloth simulation. There has been little analysis, however, of the parameters controlling simulation behaviour. In this thesis, we present two primary contributions. First, we discuss a series of experiments investigating the influence of the parameters of a popular cloth simulat...

Since its conception, holography has been put to a variety of uses including data storage, security, and interferometry. However, perhaps the most popular application of holography is using the technique to make three-dimensional images [1]. This paper describes an algorithm for computationally generating holograms along with methods to fabricate the hologram. Holography has since made a jump f...

E-learning initiative has become very popular. Many universities either local or international have established E-learning, whether as a teaching medium or as one of the courses. To support these initiatives and to fulfill E-learning agenda, E-learning required support from other “E” domains, including E-publishing. E-Publishing can fulfill wholly or partly, E-learning knowledge requirement. Th...

This paper describes the character recognition process from printed documents containing Hindi and Telugu text. Hindi and Telugu are among the most popular languages in India. The bilingual recognizer is based on Principal Component Analysis followed by support vector classification. This attains an overall accuracy of approximately 96.7%. Extensive experimentation is carried out on an independ...

The subject of homosexuality is very much at the forefront of Christian ethical discussion at the present time. Some of the debate is highly technical, and Mr Wright has entered into it elsewhere (see n. 4) to correct mistaken interpretations. We are gratiful to him for this essay written at a more popular level; it was originally presented as a Seminar at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, and is...

The Dutch physician Cornelis Bontekoe was a well-known and controversial figure,1 best remembered as a propagandist for tea.2 His popular Tractaat van het excellenste kruyd thee (Treatise on Tea, the Most Excellent Herb), commonly known as Theetractaat (The Tea Treatise), was printed in 1678, and two more editions appeared in 1679 and 1685.3 Allegedly, he was remunerated by the Dutch United Eas...

The article analyses the problem of silent/secret reading Orthodox liturgical prayers, especially Anaphora. It points to original practice saying them aloud, origins and possible causes silent reading, its complex consequences. description contemporary history attempts return prayers aloud are linked renewal in 20th century, current state question possibility further development.

Abstract: Printed antennas are becoming one of the most popular designs in personal wireless communications systems. In this paper, the design of a novel tapered meander line antenna is presented. The design analysis and characterization of the antenna is performed using the finite difference time domain technique and experimental verifications are performed to ensure the effectiveness of the n...

Neural networks are often used for pattern recognition. They prove to be a popular choice for OCR (Optical Character Recognition) systems, especially when dealing with the recognition of printed text. In this paper, multilayer perceptrons are used for the recognition of handwritten digits. The accuracy achieved proves that this application is a working prototype that can be further extended int...

The fundamental premise of tagging systems is that regular users can successfully organize large collections for browsing and other tasks through the use of uncontrolled vocabularies. Until now, that premise has remained relatively unexamined. In this work, using library data as a guide, we look at whether tags do a good job of organizing large sets of objects. We find that tags are predominant...