Implicit surfaces have received increased attention in the design and animation of 3D objects, since they posses some useful advantages over the traditional parametric surfaces. However, interactive design of such surfaces generally suffers from the relatively slow display speed and lack of efficient control facilities. This paper experiments the combination of the implicit surface technique an...

An interesting wood-inhabiting pyrenomycete was discovered while collecting for the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory currently being conducted in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This species is unique in possessing superficial ascomata with reddish tubercles and ascospores that develop an apical swollen brown cell and a long, basal hyaline cell. Because these ascospore characters fit th...

USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, Los Angeles, California, USA USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, Los Angeles, California, USA Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA Duke University Fuqua School of Business, Health Sector Management Area, Durham, North Carolina, USA USC School of Pharmacy, Los Angeles,...

Murraya koenigii is a valuable medicinal plant which has been used in traditional system of medicine since long time. The extraction of active ingredients such as alkaloids, flavonoids, triterpenes, steroids etc. from the plant facilitates pharmacological studies. The present investigation is to evaluate the proper taxomic status and preliminary phyto-chemical characters as well as physicochemi...

Five characters separate man from other hominoids-a large neocortex, bipedality, reduced anterior dentition with molar dominance, material culture, and unique sexual and reproductive behavior. Evidence provided by the fossil record, primate behavior, and demographic analysis shows that the traditional view that early human evolution was a direct consequence of brain expansion and material cultu...

Logical hidden Markov models (LOHMMs) upgrade traditional hidden Markov models to deal with sequences of structured symbols in the form of logical atoms, rather than flat characters. This note formally introduces LOHMMs and presents solutions to the three central inference problems for LOHMMs: evaluation, most likely hidden state sequence and parameter estimation. The resulting representation a...

The topology and the capacity of a traditional multilayer neural system, as measured by the number of connections in the network, has suprisingly little impact on its generalization ability. This paper presents a new adaptive modular network that offers superior generalization capability. The new network provides significant fault tolerance, quick adaption to novel inputs, and high recognition ...

The character sets used in China and Taiwan are both Chinese, but they are divided into simplified and traditional Chinese characters. There are large amount of 朝陽科技大學資訊工程系, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Chaoyang University of Technology E-mail: {s9827608, shwu, s9927605}@cyut.edu.tw The author for corrrespondence is Shih-Hung Wu. 資訊工業策進會, Institute for Information...