Introduction The wide use of computer graphics in games, entertainment, medical, architectural and cultural applications, has led it to becoming a prevalent area of research. At the current stage of technology, users can interactively navigate through complex, polygon-based scenes rendered with sophisticated lighting effects and high quality antialiasing techniques. Animated characters (or agen...

We calculated the median values of the following parameters for 87 groups of galaxies with three to eight components: the mean rms velocity of the galaxies in the group, Sv = 166 km/s; the harmonic mean radius, Rh = 29 kpc; and the mass-to-light ratio, Mvir/L = 33M⊙/L⊙. The Mvir/L ratio depends on the population of the system, while Sv does not depend on Rh. To ascertain the relationship betwee...

The problem of learning maps with mobile robots has received considerable attention over the past years. Most of the approaches, however, assume that the environment is static during the data-acquisition phase. In this paper we consider the problem of creating maps with mobile robots in populated environments. Our approach uses a probabilistic method to track multiple people and to incorporate ...

Bell's introduction of the fibroblast-populated collagen lattice (FPCL) has facilitated the study of collagen-cell interactions. As a result of the numerous modifications of the casting of FPCLs, the in vivo applications of these in vitro findings have been confusing. Here experimental FPCL contraction findings are viewed in regard to three proposed mechanisms responsible for lattice contractio...

The application of neural embedding algorithms (based on architectures like skip-grams) to large knowledge bases like Wikipedia and the Google News Corpus has tremendously benefited multiple communities in applications as diverse as sentiment analysis, named entity recognition and text classification. In this paper, we present a similar resource for geospatial applications. We systematically co...

This article presents a method to uncover universal patterns and similarities in the urban road networks of 80 most populated cities world. To that end, we used degree distribution, link length intersection angle distribution as topological geometric properties networks. Moreover, ISOMAP, nonlinear dimension reduction technique, better express variations across cities, K-means cluster cities. O...

OBJECTIVE Among emerging adults, those who do not attain postsecondary education are at highest risk for experiencing longterm problems related to alcohol use, including alcohol dependence. The purpose of the current study was to identify latent classes of alcohol users among non-college-attending youth and examine correlates of class membership. METHOD Screening criteria were used to select ...

The purpose of this literature review was to identify and describe recent empirical studies of childbirth education outcomes and to identify areas for further study. The search produced 63 studies; only 12 met the inclusion criteria. The literature demonstrated inconclusive evidence regarding the effectiveness of childbirth education. None of the studies used a theoretical framework that propos...

Recommended Citation Malata, A. M. (2004). The development and evaluation of a childbirth education program for Malawian women. Retrieved from