While current virtual characters may look photorealistic they often lack behavioral complexity. Emotion may be the key ingredient to create behavioral variety, social adaptivity and thus believability. While various models of emotion have been suggested, the concrete parametrization must often be designed by the implementer. We propose to enhance an implemented affect simulator called ALMA (A L...

Recalled childhood gender nonconformity (CGN) and adult traits—e.g., masculinity–femininity of occupational preferences (MF-Occ), self-ascribed masculinity– femininity (Self-MF), self-reported anxiety—were assessed in an ethnically diverse US convenience sample of California college students and gay pride attendees, including 238 heterosexual men, 127 gay men, 343 heterosexual women, and 197 le...

The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a signaling framework that allows two or more parties to establish, alter, and terminate various types of media sessions. The mechanism employed by the standard SIP is not e ective in handling overload situations that occur when the incoming ow of requests overcomes the processing resources of the server. In this paper we present a local overload control...

Packing several characters into one computer word is a simple and natural way to compress the representation of a string and to speed up its processing. Exploiting this idea, we propose an index for a packed string, based on a sparse suffix tree [8] with appropriately defined suffix links. Assuming, under the standard unit-cost RAM model, that a word can store up to logσ n characters (σ the alp...

A sustained dipolar magnetic field between the current sheet outer edge and magnetopause, known as a cushion region, has yet to be observed at Saturn. Whilst some signatures of reconnection occ...

To store and search genomic databases efficiently, researchers have recently started building compressed self-indexes based on grammars. In this paper we show how, given a straight-line program with r rules for a string S[1..n] whose LZ77 parse consists of z phrases, we can store a self-index for S in O(r + z log log n) space such that, given a pattern P [1..m], we can list the occ occurrences ...

Many Gram-negative bacteria, including human pathogens such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, do not have large-channel porins. This results in an outer membrane (OM) that is highly impermeable to small polar molecules, making the bacteria intrinsically resistant towards many antibiotics. In such microorganisms, the majority of small molecules are taken up by members of the OprD outer membrane protein...

The aim of this study was to determine a suitable amount of grinding of a flexural test specimen for clinical evaluation of dental ceramics. Three dental ceramics (Crys-Cera, OCC and IPS Empress Cosmo) were selected. Five types of bar-shaped patterns were prepared for a three-point bending test, and four types of disk-shaped patterns for a biaxial flexural test. Ceramic specimens were fabricate...