The field of upper extremity prosthetics is a constantly changing arena as researchers and prosthetists strive to bridge the gap between prosthetic reality and upper limb physiology. With the further development of implantable neurologic sensing devices and targeted muscle innervation (discussed elsewhere in this issue), the challenge of limited input to control vast outputs promises to become ...

If SNOMED CT is to serve as a biomedical reference terminology, then steps must be taken to ensure comparability of information formulated using successive versions. New releases are therefore shipped with a history mechanism. We assessed the adequacy of this mechanism for its treatment of the distinction between changes occurring on the side of entities in reality and changes in our understand...

The advent of the Internet has been instrumental in producing new Game Based Learning (GBL) tools where education and games converge. Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) are one such GBL tool. Interactive narrative games that use the Internet as a central communications platform, ARGs challenge players to collaboratively collate a fragmented story. When used for educational purposes, Serious ARGs pr...

This study proposes to investigate augmented reality for historical tourism on mobile devices. The core of our proposition concerns a markerless outdoor augmented reality solution. Our approach for augmented reality is technically based on SIFT (Scale Invariant Feature Transform) features for localisation and integration of 3D models into video. These SIFT features are projected on a digital mo...

The MediaEvo Project aims to develop a multi-channel and multi-sensory platform for edutainment in cultural heritage for the realization of a digital didactic game oriented towards the knowledge of medieval history and society by means of the integration of human sciences and data processing technologies. It deals with historical findings, geo-morphological inquiries, data management systems an...

this paper, through analyzing various scenes from randomly selected films, and of belief that the film subjects, if not complete reflections of social relations of humans, surely demonstrate sections of social reality, attempts to explicate the thoughts of scientists in sociolinguistics and sociology of language like labove, hymes, fishman,… , especially related to the features of social acts o...

Title of Thesis: ART FOR THE MARKET: COMMERCIALISM IN REN YI’S (1840-1895) FIGURE PAINTING Degree Candidate: Tang Li Degree and Year: Master of Arts, 2003 Thesis directed by: Professor Jason Kuo Department of Art History and Archaeology Ren Yi (1840-1895) was one of the most accomplished and influential Shanghai painters of the late nineteenth century. He produced a great deal of artwork, much ...