Shaping realistic hairstyles for digital characters is a difficult, long and tedious task. The lack of appropriate interaction metaphors enabling efficient and simple, yet accurate hair modeling further aggravates the situation. This paper presents 3D interaction metaphors for modeling virtual hair using haptic interfaces. We discuss user tasks, ergonomic aspects, as well as haptics-based styli...

Several formats for embedding metadata into Web pages have been proposed and assisting publishers in semantically enhancing their content. However, little work has been done to explore the potential of those formats to benefit Web page design and styling. On the other hand, due to different employed markup mechanisms, a stylesheet composed with a specific embeddable data format cannot be applie...

1. What is a Hypercar® vehicle? 2. How could Hypercar® vehicles attain such dramatically improved fuel economy? 3. Would there be tradeoffs in performance or styling? 4. Why a hybrid-electric instead of a battery-electric vehicle? 5. What fuels would Hypercar® vehicles use? 6. Are fuel cells being considered in Hypercar® vehicles? 7. Why advanced composites? 8. Would Hypercar® vehicles be safe?...

A Mobile adhoc network (MANETs) is a collection of wireless mobile nodes dynamically forming a network without using any centralized access point, infrastructure or centralized administration multicasting is an useful operation that facilitates group communication efficient and scalable .Multicast routing in MANETs is a difficult issue. In addition to the conventional multicast routing algorith...

Cloud computing represents a major shift in information systems architecture, combining both new deployment models and new business models. Rapid provisioning, elastic scaling, and metered usage are essential characteristics of cloud services, and they require cloud resources with these same characteristics. When cloud services depend on commercial software, the licenses for that software becom...

In the last decade the broad scope of complex networks has led to a rapid progress. In this area a particular interest has the study of community structures. The analysis of this type of structure requires the formalization of the intuitive concept of community and the definition of indices of goodness for the obtained results. A lot of algorithms has been presented to reach this goal. In parti...

Kansei Engineering was founded by M. Nagamachi at Hiroshima University about 30 years ago and it is a powerful ergonomic consumer-oriented technology for a new product development. Kansei is a Japanese of psychological feeling or image which a consumer will have in mind when purchasing some thing. For instance, the customer has such kinds of kansei of “speedy, easy control and good styling” for...

Materials and methods In a crossover randomized controlled trial conducted in 2012, a sample of 351 out of the 408 public health establishments in Metropolitan Lima, Peru were randomly assigned to receive unannounced simulated patients enacting indigenous and mestizo (mixed ethnoracial ancestry) profiles (sequence-1) or mestizo and then indigenous profiles (sequence-2), with a five week wash-ou...

High-quality natural singing is appealing to everyone. However, singing well is not trivial. Professional singers are trained and practised over the years for various singing skills, such as sense of rhythm, precision in pitch, vocal control and personal styling etc. We, Institute for Infocomm Research (IR), in Singapore has developed a personalized, real-time singing synthesis technology for t...

Semantic Web browsers and other tools aimed at displaying RDF data to end users are all concerned with the same problem: presenting content primarily intended for machine consumption in a human-readable way. Their solutions differ but in the end address the same two high-level issues, no matter the underlying representation paradigm: specifying (i) what information contained in RDF models shoul...