Bucket rendering is a technique in which the framebuffer is subdivided into coherent regions that are rendered independently. The primary benefits of this technique are the decrease in the size of the working set of framebuffer memory required during rendering and the possibility of processing multiple regions in parallel. The drawbacks of this technique are the cost of computing the regions ov...

Previous studies provided evidence of the claim that the prediction of occluded action involves real-time simulation. We report two experiments that aimed to study how real-time simulation is affected by simultaneous action execution under conditions of full, partial or no overlap between observed and executed actions. This overlap was analysed by comparing the body sides and the movement kinem...

We report an exact analysis of a discrete form of the ChakrabartiStinchcombe model for earthquakes [Physica A 270, 27 (1999)] which considers a pair of dynamically overlapping finite generations of the Cantor set as a prototype of geological faults. In this model the n-th generation of the Cantor set shifts on its replica in discrete steps of the length of a line segment in that generation and ...

We propose an ultrametric breaking of replica symmetry for diluted spin glasses in the framework of RandomMulti-Overlap Structures (RaMOSt). Such proposal is closer to the Parisi theory for non-diluted spin glasses than the current theory based on the iterative approach. Our approach permits to formulate an ansatz according to which the Broken Replica Symmetry trial function depends on a set of...

This article tries to give some guidelines to optimize the 3G-2G and 3G-3G handovers, from the extracted experience of a real network in development. The purpose of the adjustment of the 3G-2G handover parameters is to offer the users with dual terminals a quality, equal or better than those ones with only 2G terminals, where in general, the 3G coverage is minor that the 2G one. On the other ha...

Chapter 2 provides an overview of solar irradiances, the dominant energy input driving Earth’s climate. The uninterrupted 33-year long total solar irradiance (TSI) record from space-borne instruments requires sufficient stability for climate-quality studies, helping determine the global and regional sensitivities of Earth’s climate to solar variability. New instrument calibration capabilities h...

We report an exact analysis of a discrete form of the ChakrabartiStinchcombe model for earthquakes [Physica A 270, 27 (1999)] which considers a pair of dynamically overlapping finite generations of the Cantor set as a prototype of geological faults. In this model the n-th generation of the Cantor set shifts on its replica in discrete steps of the length of a line segment in that generation and ...

Time-compression techniques change the playback rate of speech without introducing pitch artifacts. However, when linear-compression techniques are used, human comprehension of time-compressed speech typically degrades at compression rates above two times real time [1]. These degradations are not due to the speech rate per se: Comprehension of linearly compressed speech often breaks down above ...