The full integration and synchronization of 3D sound and image requires a data model and an architecture that allow for homogeneous description of geometrical and sonic components, together with mechanisms for distributed and synchronized rendering. First, several modes of sound and graphic combination are examined, and the resulting constraints for the rendering tools are detailed. Virtual Cho...

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The problem of machine vis ion as evidenced In the various robot projects in existence is attacked by analogy with the supposed nature of human visual processing in that edges are enhanced, texture is examined and various heurist ic approaches are studied. This paper describes a non-anthropomorphically based method of decomposing a scene subjected to a special form of i l luminat ion into eleme...

Sepoy Man Bahadur, No. 726/8, of the Myitkyina Military Police Battalion, has been under in}' observation for nca.ly 18 months, and from the very beginning tubercle of the lung has been suspected. In the early part of 1908 when he first came under observation he had no physical signs of phthisis; lie was, however, losing flesh, had a slight cough and is said to have spat some blood. His sputum ...

The conserved Bora protein is a Plk1 activator, essential for checkpoint recovery after DNA damage in human cells. Here, we show that Bora interacts with Cyclin B and is phosphorylated by Cyclin B/Cdk1 at several sites. The first 225 amino acids of Bora, which contain two Cyclin binding sites and three conserved phosphorylated residues, are sufficient to promote Plk1 phosphorylation by Aurora A...

We previously found that embryonic development of the bivalve species was highly vulnerable to xenobiotic chemicals, damaging the coastal ecosystem integrity To further assess their potential damage to ecosystem, the xenobiotic composition of the sediment elutriates from two representative industrialized Korean coasts, Pohang and Ulsan, were determined with gas chromatography/mass spectrometry ...

In spontaneous speech recognition, there are always inevitable errors in the output due to the difficulties of acoustic recognition or linguistic decoding. In this paper, we present an output verification approach to detect and correct the errors automatically using the abundant Internet resources. The Syllable PAT tree (SPAT tree), a metamorphic data structure derived from the PAT tree concept...

In this paper, we focus on developing driver-in-the loop fuel economic control strategy for multiple connected vehicles. The control strategy is considered to work in a driver assistance framework where the controller gives command to a driver to follow while considering the ability of the driver in following control commands. Our proposed method uses vehicleto-vehicle (V2V) communication, expl...

Reef-building corals begin as non-calcifying larvae that, upon settling, rapidly begin to accrete skeleton and a protein-rich skeletal organic matrix that attach them to the reef. Here, we characterized the temporal and spatial expression pattern of a suite of biomineralization genes during three stages of larval development in the reef-building coral Pocillopora damicornis: stage I, newly rele...

In this paper, sensitivity and parametric analyses of impact intensity in crutch walking are investigated. The selected parameters of the crutch for these analyses are chosen as the mass, the second moment of inertia, and the location of the center of mass. The intensity of impact can be characterized by the pre-impact kinetic energy of the constrained motion space. Consequently, this part of t...