While grazing as a selective factor towards hypsodont dentition on mammals has gained a lot of attention, the importance of fruits and seeds as fallback resources for many browsing ungulates has caught much less attention. Controlled-food experiments, by reducing the dietary range, allow for a direct quantification of the effect of each type of items separately on enamel abrasion. We present th...

In this paper we introduce Virgilio, a system which supports the construction of nonimmersive VR-based visualizations of complex data objects representing the result of a query performed on a multimedia database. Virgilio takes as input the dataset resulting from a query on a generic database, displays attribute values of the dataset on virtual world objects according to the capability of these...

We use logfiles from two web servers (public and internal), two corresponding search engines, and two user populations (public and staff) to examine differences in behaviour across users and sites. We observe similar overall characteristics to other browsing and searching logs, but differences in behaviour between staff and the public and between external and internal sites. Staff familiarity w...

The history of user interface management tools is discussed and the dominance of input event handling is pointed out. An alternative UIMS model based on browsing and editing is presented. A possible architecture for such a UIMS is presented and the implications of such a design are discussed. User interfaces are specified in this model by a selecting from a library of generic browse / edit faci...

There is little understanding of how large mammalian herbivores in Asia partition habitat and forage resources, and vary their diet and habitat selection seasonally in order to coexist. We studied an assemblage of four large herbivores, chital (Axis axis), sambar (Cervus unicolor), gaur (Bos gaurus) and Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), in the seasonal tropical forests of Bandipur and Mudumalai...

The two paradigms of searching and browsing are currently almost always used separately. One can either look at the library card catalog, or browse the shelves; one can either search large WWW sites (or the whole web), or browse page by page. In this paper we describe a software tool we developed, called WebGlimpse, that combines the two paradigms. It allows the search to be limited to a neighb...

—Continuing difficulty in the successful natural regeneration of economically important oak species (Quercus spp.) on highly productive sites has led to considerable research regarding the use of artificial oak regeneration to ensure recruitment of oak as an important component of future stands. Two obstacles to the success of some oak plantings in Tennessee are herbivory by white-tailed deer (...

This paper describes a browse assistant focusing on hyperlinks. It discusses the concept and an accompanying prototype implementation of the assistant. The aim of the assistant is to increase the usability of navigation through the World Wide Web (WWW) by the provision of more detailed hyperlink information for each browsed HTML-document. Extracted from a personal link database it offers helpfu...

Recognizing the need to support both goal-directed and experiential behaviour in online shopping environments as a means of facilitating flow, this paper reports results from an exploratory study that investigates consumer preferences for Web-based product information display across browsing and searching tasks. Thirty-one participants performed two online shopping tasks (one searching and one ...