Immersive media environments assist in solving the realworld issues of presenting multimodal information and of responding to user reactions, such as with patients during stroke rehabilitation therapy. Embedding media in the experience creates a new perspective for both the therapist and the patient. It is in this perspective that creative implementation of the arts within technology flourishes...

Nowadays, organizations have to compete with different competitors in regional, national and international levels, so they have to improve their competition capabilities to survive against competitors. Undertaking activities on a global scale requires a proper distribution system which could take advantages of different transportation modes. Accordingly, the present paper addresses a location-r...

Since Lakoff and Johnson proposed their far-reaching theory of conceptual metaphor, people's interpretation metaphor has changed from a rhetorical approach to way thinking. In recent years, multimodal metaphors have gradually received attention scholars at home abroad, been applied different forms media research such as advertisements, comics, gestures, films, thus greatly contributing the adva...

This work presents an approach to automatically create 3D thermal models using multi-perspective measurements with a multimodal camera system consisting of a thermal camera and a depth camera. Additional attributes such as color can also be added to the model. The paper centers its attention on the geometrical calibration of the cameras and the validation of the results. The design of an adequa...

A nonlinear energy sink (NES) is characterized by its ability to passively realize targeted energy transfer as well as multimodal damping. This latter feature seems to make this device very well suited for reducing the vibration level of MDOF linear structures. The perspective of dealing with MDOF linear primary structures requires the development of an efficient NES design procedure. This pape...

Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanocrystals enable anti-Stokes emission with pump intensities several orders of magnitude lower than required by conventional nonlinear optical techniques. Their exceptional properties, namely large anti-Stokes shifts, sharp emission spectra and long excited-state lifetimes, have led to a diversity of applications. Here, we review upconversion nanocrystals from th...

“in Just-” is one of the best-written poems by American modernism poet e. e. cummings. “in Just-” helps the reader visually see the transformation from reality to illusion and aurally hear the conversion of time and space, and it illustrates its unique visual and aural effects to further the theme of spring. This paper attempts to analyze the linguistic and typographical aspects of this visual ...

1. Abstract 2. Introduction 3. Morphological basis for postsynaptic calcium microdomains: dendritic spines 4. Organization of calcium signaling complexes in dendritic spines 4.1. Mechanisms of calcium influx in spines 4.1.1. Neurotransmitter-gated ion channels: NMDA receptors 4.1.2. Voltage-dependent calcium channel complexes 4.1.3. IP3 receptor complexes 4.2. Mechanisms of calcium removal from...

The paper presents a project aiming at collecting, annotating and exploiting a dialogue corpus from a multimodal perspective. The goal of the project is the description of the different parameters involved in a natural interaction process. Describing such complex mechanism requires corpora annotated in different domains. This paper first presents the corpus and the scheme used in order to annot...