Machinima is digital visuals created with game engines that build real-time 3D CG (computer graphic) environment. Composition of scene and facial animation play important role in composition of Machinima’s videos. Character facial animation is frequently used in scene composition that mainly displays face and upper body of the character. Expressing character’s emotion is an important factor in ...

Introduction ,Soil moisture in Cinchona growing regions may fluctuate greatly with seasonal changes in rainfall; prolonged droughts are experienced almost annually. On the other hand, during the peak of the rainy season the same soils may remain at or near saturation for extended periods. For example, at the Toro Negro National Forest in Puerto Rico, where Cinchona is being grown experimentally...

The majority of pollinating insects are generalists whose lifetimes overlap flowering periods of many potentially suitable plant species. Such generality is instrumental in allowing exotic plant species to invade pollination networks. The particulars of how existing networks change in response to an invasive plant over the course of its phenology are not well characterized, but may shed light o...

PURPOSE To examine variations in neuromuscular and hormonal status and their relationship to performance throughout a season of elite Australian Rules Football (ARF). METHODS Fifteen elite ARF players performed a single jump (CMJ1) and 5 repeated countermovement jumps (CMJ5), and provided saliva samples for the analysis of cortisol (C) and testosterone (T) before the season commenced (Pre) an...

Environmental conditions experienced during foetal and neonatal life influence early development with potential long-term consequences for later life events. In many parts of the world, the external environment varies with the season. This includes factors such as photoperiod, climatic factors, nutrition or prevalence of infectious agents. Birth season is one surrogate for the environmental con...

Successive daily peak flows from hydropower plants can disrupt aquatic ecosystems and alter the composition and structure of macroinvertebrates downstream. We evaluated the influence of peak flow changes on macroinvertebrate drift downstream of a hydroelectric plant as a basis for determining ecological flows that might reduce the disturbance of aquatic biota. The aim of this study was to asses...

The Pantanal is a South American biome characterized by extensive plains and stark environmental seasonality. Several habitats are subject to annual flooding, forcing small mammal species to aggregate in dry forest patches, which most likely influences their population dynamics and life history strategies. In order to investigate the seasonal influence on the life history traits of these small ...

El-Niño and La-Niña are believed to change the intensity frequencies of extreme weather events globally. The present study aims analyse impact on lightning activities cloud systems their associated precipitation thermodynamic indices over Eastern India regions (Odisha, Jharkhand, West Bengal) during pre-monsoon season (March–May). receives catastrophic thunderstorm season. results suggest that ...

The Amazon Basin is an important region for global CH4 emissions. It hosts the largest area of humid tropical forests, and around 20% of this area is seasonally flooded. In a warming climate it is possible that CH4 emissions from the Amazon will increase both as a result of increased temperatures and precipitation. To examine if there are indications of first signs of such changes we present he...