Computer generated characters are now commonplace in television and film. In some media productions like the MatrixTM they feature as frequently as the real cast. A visual media that is being explored by the research community is that of real-time improvisational theatre using virtual characters. This is a non-trivial problem with many research challenges; this paper starts to address one, whic...

Tamilnad Kidney Research Foundation (TANKER Foundation) which was established in 1993 to support kidney disease related care underprivileged people. It has now eleven dialysis units the state of Tamilnadu, India. COVID-19 pandemic put enormous challenges for staff. Here we describe how face from March 2020 till without interrupting or closing down units. The no staff who have got infected are 2...

abstract suitable seedling is one of the most important factors of onion growth and yield in transplanting method (tm). in order to investigation effects of different seedling size and age on marketable yield , biological yield, harvest index and some qualitative characters in onion an experiment was couducted at the agricultural research center of east azarbayjan in 2008. the factorial was con...

Abstract Determination of gene effects and combining abilities is a critical stage in maize hybrid breeding. In the present study, 20 S6 lines as female and three S6 inbred lines (K18, K19 and K1264/5-1) as tester were crossed and the resulting  test cross progenies were evaluated in a randomized complete block design with three replications in 2008. During the growing period, several agronomi...

In this paper we describe a spoken explanation generator, PLANET, for Japanese Kanji (ideograms), especially Kanji used in people's names. A number of text-to-speech systems for Kanji texts have been proposed but this is the rst one that can explain Kanji characters so as to disambiguate characters from many homophone Kanji candidates. To accomplish this the generator explains the Kanji by usin...

The authors of this paper present a performative, practice-led interpretation interrupting keynotes. They analyse keynotes in which performance poet interrupts the white, female, professorial, northern scholar, with his own poetry as global south. Using Benjamin’s essay on Brecht’s Epic theatre and interruption critical device, will consider how oral scholarship might offer ways disturbing epis...