Scholarship on the origins of modern territoriality and modernist conception territory has largely been confined to Europe its colonial histories. Few attempts have made understand from an alternative epistemic starting point. This article moves beyond critiques Eurocentrism by examining territorial metamorphosis Qing Empire China. Like United States Russia, China retained early continental pos...

The challenge of making a virtual world believable includes a requirement for AI entities which autonomously react to a dynamic environment. After the breakthroughs in believability introduced by modern lightning and physics techniques, the focus is shifting to better AI behavior sophistication. Avatars and agents in a realistic virtual environment must exhibit a certain degree of presence and ...

An experiment was performed on Britomart Reef (central region, Great Barrier Reef) to determine the effects of fish grazing and territoriality by the damselfish Hemiglyphidodon plagiometopon on benthic algal community structure. This pomacentrid excludes herbivorous fish from its territory, creating undergrazed patches with characteristic 'algal lawns' within coral reef lagoons. Pieces of natur...