We present Drive, a system for the conceptual layout of 3D path networks. Our sketch-based interface allows users to efficiently author path layouts with minimal instruction. Our system incorporates some new and noteworthy components. We present the break-out lens, a novel widget for interactive graphics, inspired by break-out views used in engineering visualization. We also make three contribu...

BACKGROUND Ventricular fibrillation (VF) is maintained by 2 mechanisms: first by reentry formation and second by spontaneous wave break or wave splitting. We hypothesized that spontaneous wave break results from a critical shortening of the action potential duration (APD) during VF and that its prevention by procainamide eliminates spontaneous wave break. METHODS AND RESULTS The endocardial s...

The 1-m telescope at Lulin Observatory and the 0.76-m Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope at Lick Observatory were used to observe the optical afterglow of the short-duration (1.2–1.5 s) gamma-ray burst (GRB) 040924. This object has a soft high-energy spectrum, thus making it an exceptional case, perhaps actually belonging to the short-duration tail of the long-duration GRBs. Our data, combined...

In gamma-ray burst research it is quite common to fit the afterglow light curves with a broken power law to interpret the data. We apply this method to a computer simulated population of afterglows and find systematic differences between the known model parameters of the population and the ones derived from the power law fits. In general, the slope of the electron energy distribution is overest...

Whether gamma-ray bursts are highly beamed or not is a very difficult but important problem that we are confronted with. Some theorists suggest that beaming effect usually leads to a sharp break in the afterglow light curve during the ultra-relativistic phase, with the breaking point determined by γ = 1/θ 0 , where γ is the Lorentz factor of the blastwave and θ 0 is the initial half opening ang...

This article examines the relationship between inflation and inflation uncertainty in the Turkish economy in this period 2004:01-2014:12. This relationship is explored in two ways: a) with the effect of structural breaks; b) without the effect of structural breaks. In fact, with regard to the main structural break have occurred over this period, we examine whether structural break has affected ...

Strength-duration curves for space-clamped squid axons, using square wave anode breaks as stimuli, established the existence of four distinct regions. For the average experimental axon the intersection of the first two regions, tau(1), occurs at about 7 msec. This agrees with computations based on the Hodgkin-Huxley (HH) equations and corresponds to the accommodation time constant found previou...

A strategy that integrates an organization's marketing goals into a cohesive whole, ideally drawn from market research, focuses on the ideal product mix in order to achieve maximum profit potential; the marketing strategy is set out as a marketing plan, a good idea, method, information, object, or service that is the end result of a process and serves as a need or want satisfier. It is usually ...

Possibility of the emergence of quantum computers in the near future, pose a serious threat against the security of widely-used public key cryptosystems such as RSA or Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC). Algorithms involving isogeny computations on supersingular elliptic curves have been shown to be difficult to break, even to quantum computers. Thus, isogeny-based protocols represent promising ...

Hybrid soft computing models, based by neural, fuzzy and evolutionary computation technologies, have been applied to a large number of classification, prediction, and control problems. This paper focuses on one of such applications and presents a systematic process for building a predictive model to estimate time-to-breakage and provide a web break tendency indicator in the wet-end part of pape...