Instant radiosity methods rely on using a large number of virtual point lights (VPLs) to approximate global illumination. Efficiency considerations require grouping the VPLs into a small number of clusters that are treated as individual lights with respect to each point to be shaded. Two examples of clustering algorithms are Lightcuts [WFA∗05] and LightSlice [OP11]. In this work we use the noti...

ABSTRACT In this article, we investigate the presence and absence of commas in a longitudinal sample texts genre report written by 11 to 15 years-old students from school countryside São Paulo State. Our hypothesis is that comma used when syntactic boundaries match prosodic ones. The constituents are formed phonological information, according principles defined Prosodic Phonology theoretical ap...

The research has the following aims: 1: to verify the applicability of capillaroscopic investigation to oral mucosa; 2: to propose oral mucosa as an alternative to the fingernail fold for capillaroscopic investigation; 3: to describe the characteristics of the microcirculation of oral mucosa in healthy subjects. 100 healthy patients were examined. The characteristics of the micro-circulation in...

We describe a technique for using the Brill Tagger to learn to identify grammar errors. We have applied this technique to two types of Danish grammar errors: incorrect commas, and incorrect article-noun agreement. The system identi es comma errors with a precision of 91%, while agreement errors are identi ed with 95% precision, with many of the system errors resulting from de ciencies in the ta...

Although punctuation is pervasive in written text, their treatment in parsers and corpora is often second-class. We examine the treatment of commas in CCGbank, a wide-coverage corpus for Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG), reanalysing its comma structures in order to eliminate a class of redundant rules, obtaining a more consistent treebank. We then eliminate these rules from C&C, a wide-cove...

This iconic speech stands not only as a masterpiece of oratory, but also as a masterpiece of parallel construction. The paragraph itself is a parallel construction, with its four sentences each leading off with the invocation ‘Now is the time.’ And within each of the two middle sentences, evocative contrasts are presented in parallel form. Using parallel structure effectively is not the sole pu...