Blending learning becomes popular in Chinese colleges and universities with the rapid using of Internet. Many universities use the BlackBoard Academic Suite( it is abbreviated as BB) to improve the interaction between teachers and students. It is important to evaluate the effect of the blending environment. Thus, the paper made study on assessing blending study based on BB. The paper build a bl...

We discuss new analytical formulations for localized and controllable blending operations in the functionbased solid modeling. The blending set operations are defined using R-functions and displacement functions with the localized area of influence. The shape and location of the blend are controlled by an additional bounding solid thus turning the operation into a ternary one. We also describe ...

The availability of intense microbeam macromolecular crystallography beamlines at third-generation synchrotron sources has enabled data collection and structure solution from microcrystals of <10 µm in size. The increased likelihood of severe radiation damage where microcrystals or particularly sensitive crystals are used forces crystallographers to acquire large numbers of data sets from many ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate the image quality of cerebral dual-energy computed tomography (CT) angiography using a nonlinear image blending technique as compared with the conventional linear blending method in patients with spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). METHODS A retrospective review of 30 consecutive spontaneous SAH patients who underwent a dual-source, du...

Chapter 1. An introduction to the blending process in English word formation 1 1.1 Blending a punderful process 2 1.2 Research on blending 3 1.3 Data gathering the method utilised throughout this research 5 1.4 Background information a brief history of blends 6 1.5 Classifications and definitions of blends 8 1.5.1 Creativity versus productivity 9 1.5.2 Blending and morphology 11 1.5.3 Linguisti...

In Cognitive Science, conceptual blending has been proposed as an important cognitive mechanism that facilitates the creation of new concepts and ideas by constrained combination of available knowledge. It thereby provides a possible theoretical foundation for modeling high-level cognitive faculties such as the ability to understand, learn, and create new concepts and theories. Quite often the ...

Protein consists of a set of atoms. Given a protein, the molecular surface of the protein is defined with respect to a probe approximating a solvent molecule. This paper presents an efficient, as efficient as the realtime, algorithm to triangulate the blending surfaces which is the most critical subset of a molecular surface. For the quick evaluation of points on the surface, the proposed algor...

This paper proposes new field functions that have adjustable inner radius and outer radius of influence. Incorporating the proposed field functions with soft object modeling, soft blending, Ricci’s super-ellipsoid blends, Perlin’s set operations, and R-functions, etc. can have blending range controls by adjusting the inner and the outer radii of influence of given field functions. As a result, ...