Tearing is not a benign secretory correlate of sadness or other emotional state, but a potent visual cue that adds meaning to human facial expression, the tear effect. Although tearing (lacrimation) provides ocular lubrication and is a response to irritation in many animals, emotional tearing may be unique to humans and does not develop until several months after birth. This study provides the ...

Suppose V is a finite set and C a collection of subsets of V that contains ∅ and V and is closed under taking intersections. Then C is called a convexity and the ordered pair (V, C) is called an aligned space and the elements of C are referred to as convex sets. For a set S ⊆ V , the convex hull of S relative to C, denoted by CHC(S), is the smallest convex set containing S. A set S of vertices ...

The design and manufacturing steps of a chip typically involve several parties. For example, may comprise third-party intellectual property (IP) cores the integrated circuit (IC) fabrication be outsourced to foundry. IP ICs are shared with potentially untrusted third parties and, as result, subject piracy attacks. Even more, any legally purchased reverse engineered retrieve down transistor leve...

— This paper reviews an experimental opera production, where digitally augmented content was used interactively during the performance. Projected graphics and spatialized sounds were designed to support the story. The animated 3D graphics acted as virtual stage, narrative element, or reflection of thoughts of a character. The special effects were partly un...

Digitally enhanced heterodyne interferometry is a laser metrology technique employing pseudo-random codes phase modulated onto an optical carrier. We present the first characterization of the technique's displacement sensitivity. The displacement of an optical cavity was measured using digitally enhanced heterodyne interferometry and compared to a simultaneous readout based on conventional Poun...

Based on the charge independence hypothesis the properties of V particles are theoretically investigated. It is found that the curious behaviours of these unstable particles are most simply interpreted in terms of the 1}-charge conservation law which directly results from the C. I. hypothesis and suitable isotopic spin assignments to these particles. The topics which are discussed in this paper...

There is a large gap between Zhang’s theoretical bound for the length n of a binary extremal self-dual doublyeven code and what we can construct. The largest n is 136. In order to find examples for larger n a non-trivial automorphism group might be helpful. In the list of known examples extended quadratic residue codes and quadratic double circulant codes have large automorphism groups. But in ...

Dynamic optimization of computer programs can dramatically improve their performance on a variety of applications. This paper presents an efficient infrastructure for dynamic recompilation that can support a wide range of dynamic optimizations including profile-driven optimizations. The infrastructure allows any section of code to be optimized and regenerated on-the-fly, even code for currently...