This paper describes an interdisciplinary experiment in controlling semi-autonomous animated human forms with natural language input. These computer-generated characters resemble traditional stage actors, in that they are more autonomous than traditional hand-guided animated characters, and less autonomous than fully improvisational agents. We introduce the desktop tkeatev metaphor, reserving f...

Chinese has been recognized as one of most major languages in the world, and many people are learning Chinese; thus a method for learning Chinese characters is a significant issue. Many studies have developed various approaches to learning Chinese characters to demonstrate to learners how to read Chinese characters. In Chinese, the character components can offer learners with phonological and m...

We analyze the quality of condensed text on LCD displays, generated with unhinted and hinted bilevel characters, with traditional anti-aliased and with perceptually-tuned grayscale characters. Hinted bi-level characters and perceptually-tuned grayscale characters improve the quality of displayed small size characters (8pt, 6pt) up to a line condensation factor of 80%. At higher condensation fac...

In this paper a modified version NXM of traditional 5X5 playfair cipher is introduced which enable the user to encrypt message of any Natural language by taking appropriate size of the matrix depending upon the size of the natural language. 5X5 matrix has the capability of storing only 26 characters of English language and unable to store characters of any language having more than 26 character...

C. Ichino, N. Soonthornchareonnon, W. Chuakul, H. Kiyohara, A. Ishiyama, H. Sekiguchi, M. Namatame, K. Otoguro, S. Omura and H. Yamada* The Kitasato Institute for Life Sciences, Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan Faculty of Pharmacy, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand Oriental Medicine Research Center, The Kitasato Institute, Tokyo, Japan Research Center for Tropical Diseases, Institute...

This research paper is focused on the qualities of leadership exhibited by public administrators in the field of emergency management in East Asia, particularly in the Chinese and Japanese cultures, and how they navigate the uncharted waters of this new field in a traditional culture. Beginning with a general examination of the cultural and societal influences on the position of leader and the ...

The indoor light environment of the building has an extremely important influence on its own use function, and there are many factors that affect building, such as surrounding interior decoration design window. window is used envelope. An part structure responsible for lighting ventilation meet requirements environment. It exists a device building. performance windows not only meets people?s li...

The event-related brain potentials elicited by rapid visual presentation of Chinese characters and non-characters were studied for two groups of adult native Chinese speakers: one group of Putonghua speakers, who could read Simplified Chinese characters, and one group of Hong Kong Cantonese speakers, who could read Traditional Chinese characters. For Putonghua participants, but not Hong Kong Ca...