We present a new approach to realistic hand modeling and deformation with real-time performance. We model the underlying shape of a human hand by means of sweeps which follow a simplified skeleton. The resulting swept surfaces are blended, and an auxiliary surface is then bound to the swept representation in the palm region. In the areas of this palm-control surface where bulges occur in certai...

The workload of a network is usually a heterogeneous aggregate of services and applications, driven by a large number of users. This complexity makes it challenging to evaluate the performance of network mechanisms and configurations under realistic conditions. We propose a new methodology for transforming anonymized traces of packet headers into application-neutral models of network traffic. T...

DURING THE LAST FEW YEARS considerable interest has developed in the possibility that some of the myocardial damage consequent to coronary occlusion may be averted.' To explore this possibility there is a critical need for techniques capable of testing the hypothesis that a given intervention is capable of protecting ischemic myocardium. Since it has long been appreciated that myocardial ischem...

The first step in planning orthodontic therapy is to establish treatment objectives. It is impossible to achieve the correct end result if the appropriate goals or objectives have not been identified before treatment. In adolescent patients with complete dentitions, orthodontic treatment objectives tend to be idealistic. After all, if a young patient has an intact dentition without restorations...

Scenarios of supersymmetry breaking at various scales from TeV to GUT to the string are generated. A previous analysis generated the value of the experimentally measured cosmological constant from supersymmetry breaking at the TeV scale. Via a reorganization of the perturbative series, values of the cosmological constant are generically reconcilable with supersymmetry breaking scenarios having ...

In this article, the impact of input pump profile on the gain spectrum as well as the saturation behavior of one-pump fiber optical parametric amplifiers (FOPAs) is investigated. Since in practical circumstances, pump sources used for FOPAs have Lorentz-Gaussian profile instead of Gaussian, a more realistic case is considered for simulating FOPAs in this article. The results of simulations for ...

ahmad moharram is one of the contemporary poets who felt poverty and deprivation along his life. since his view toward life is a realistic one, so his literature is a realistic one that can be a whole mirror of his contemporary society. since nationalism and patriotism is one of the prominent indices of realistic literature, so this essay tries to analyze national morale of this poet. poem and ...

Thank you very much for inviting me to speak at the Inaugural Conference of the Danish Evaluation Society. I hope that your Society thrives and that you spend some time working out ways in which evaluation can best serve the needs of your communities. There is a risk that Societies become self serving promoters of activity rather than forums for critical discussion about what can best meet comm...

Synthetic modeling of human bodies and the simulation of motion is a longstanding problem in animation and much work is involved before a near-realistic performance can be achieved. At present, it takes an experienced designer a very long time to build a complete and realistic model that closely resembles a speci c person. Our ultimate goal is to automate the process: Eventually the whole task ...