This paper extends the stochastic transparency algorithm that models partial coverage to also model wavelength-varying transmission. It then applies this to the problem of casting shadows between any combination of opaque, colored transmissive, and partially covered (i.e., α-matted) surfaces in a manner compatible with existing hardware shadow mapping techniques. Colored Stochastic Shadow Maps ...

Evidence for major histocompatibility complex (MHC) restriction of soluble helper effects was observed in the generation of syngeneic killer T cells to trinitrophenyl-altered self. Ia-bearing T cells obscure the observation of such interactions, thus, must be removed to detect MHC restriction of nonspecific soluble helper factor supernates (HFS). Genetic mapping studies demonstrated that the st...

This paper introduces a novel wrapper-mediator based semantic data grid service mechanism to solve the problem of Semantic heterogeneity and few compatible data sources. It uses ontology based semantic information to wrap the heterogeneous data source, and employs mediator structure to supply accessing interface for the data sources, and it extends semantic query, mapping and fusion languages t...

We introduce a precise notion, in terms of few Schlessinger's type conditions, of extended deformation functors which is compatible with most of recent ideas in the Derived Deformation Theory (DDT) program and with geometric examples. With this notion we develop the (extended) analogue of Schlessinger and obstruction theories. The inverse mapping theorem holds for natural transformations of ext...

*Correspondence: [email protected] Accounting School, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, Hangzhou, 310018, China Abstract By using R-weak commutativity of type (Ag) and non-compatible conditions of self-mapping pairs in generalized metric space, without the conditions for the completeness of space and the continuity of mappings, we establish some new common fixed point theorems for t...

It is shown that every asymptotically regular or λ-firmly nonexpansive mapping T : C → C has a fixed point whenever C is a finite union of nonempty weakly compact convex subsets of a Banach spaceX which is uniformly convex in every direction. Furthermore, if {Ti}i∈I is any compatible family of strongly nonexpansive self-mappings on such a C and the graphs of Ti, i∈ I, have a nonempty intersecti...

SPAGHETTI is a computer program to simulate genetic populations with segregating molecular markers that are influenced by "real-life" complications such as duplicated loci and segregation distortion. It produces output that is readable by popular mapping software, and it can be used to demonstrate or test methods for constructing genetic linkage maps. The source code, sample files, instructions...