the RWTH Aachen University for reviewing this thesis and giving me the opportunity to write it in the field of Computer Graphics, which fascinates me since my first steps on the Commodore 128D. A special thanks goes to my advisor Volker Schönefeld, who got me interested in Megatexturing and Virtual Texturing. He always took some of his spare time to read my long emails and had enough patience t...

1 The availability of technological means to enhance and repair human cognitive function raises 2 questions about the perceived morality of their use. In this study, we administered a survey 3 to the public in which subjects were asked to report how willing they would be to enhance 4 and/or repair specific cognitive abilities. We found that subjects were more willing to use tech5 nologies to en...

Culture and Explosion de Juri Lotman / LOTMAN, Explosion, édité par Marina Grishakova et traduit du russe Wilma Clark, Berlin ; New York, Mouton Gruyter, 2009, 296 p.. Un article la revue Cygne noir (Cygne noir) diffusée plateforme Érudit.

Resveratrol is positively correlated with grapevine disease resistance and its consumption is also highly beneficial to human health. HPLC analyses showed that resveratrol content was significantly higher in most wild Chinese grapevines than in most European Vitis vinifera grapevine cvs. Fruit of the wild Chinese genotype Vitis quinquangularis Danfeng-2 contains much higher levels of resveratro...

By the 1950s, World War II had been over for several years, but its effects lingered on for families in the United States and elsewhere. For example, Japanese Americans were sometimes only allowed to purchase homes in certain areas, and, as a result, Jim Kadonaga grew up in a segregated neighborhood in East San Jose, California. Fortunately , says Kadonaga, his high school was a good one, staff...

The organization and quantity of myosin irrigation into myosin-free “ghost” fibers were compared between normal and PSE myosin. Considerable amounts of myosin were incorporated into the “ghost” fibers for both normal and PSE myosin. Elec t ron microscopic s tudy showed tha t the myosin f i laments were formed a l l over the thin filaments after the irrigation. However, there was almost no diffe...

nowadays, countries realize that without having knowledge and technology, they may not export advantaged goods to the global market. generally, technology and knowledge accumulation play vital role for reaching high economic growth rate and economic development. the statistical reports show that iran has not been successful in the high-tech export area; base on those reports, iran’s high-tech e...