BACKGROUND Treatment of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (CL) is being faced with serious difficulties in Fars Province, due to emerging of resistance against meglumine antimonite (Glucantime®). In this context, determining some biomarkers for drug sensitivity monitoring seems to be highly essential. Different studies have been carried out to decipher the genes might be involved in antimony resistant ph...

Extruded shapes and patterns are widely used by graphic designers to increase the visual richness and realism of 3D models and virtual environments in general. However, the traditional approach that uses polygonal mesh is inappropriate for real-time rendering, in which, just a limited number of graphic primitives can be processed. Hence the interest of using per-pixel approaches. In this paper,...

of Dissertation presented to COPPE/UFRJ as a partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science (M.Sc.) PER VERTEX BRDF ACQUISITION Daniel Pinto Coutinho