The goal of this research is to develop a head-tracked, stereo virtual reality system utilizing plasma or LCD panels. This paper describes a head-tracked barrier auto-stereographic method that is optimized for real-time interactive virtual reality systems. In this method, a virtual barrier screen is created simulating the physical barrier screen, and placed in the virtual world in front of the ...

background: autoimmune type 1 diabetes mellitus is caused by t-cell mediated immune destruction of the insulin-producing β-cell in pancreatic islets of langerhans. specificity of the auto-antibodies and of the auto-reactive t-cells has been investigated, in which several auto-antigens were proposed. objective: to determine whether glutamic acid decarboxylase (gad) feeding would induce oral tole...

This paper is the first attempt to implement a knowledge-based diagnostic approach for the auto-body assembly process launch. This approach enables quick detection and localization of assembly process faults based on in-line dimensional measurements. The proposed approach includes an auto-body assembly knowledge representation and a diagnostic reasoning mechanism. The knowledge representation i...

Most panel method implementations use both low order basis function representations of the solution and flat panel representations of the body surface. Although several implementations of higher order panel methods exist, difficulties in robustly computing the self term integrals remain. In this paper, methods for integrating the single and double layer self term integrals are presented. The ap...

Using unique and unpublished panel data from selected US cities, the paper investigates the consequences of ignoring unobserved heterogeneity in the unit of observationwhenestimating the economicmodel of crime. Results con® rmthat neglecting to control for unobserved heterogeneity overstates the ability of sanctions to deter criminal activity. Further, thisupwardbias is found tovary signi® cant...

A library of pyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidines was designed as inhibitors of FGFR3 tyrosine kinase allowing possible interactions with an unexploited region of the ATP binding-site. This library was built-up with an efficient step of click-chemistry giving easy access to triazole-based compounds bearing a large panel of substituents. Among the 27 analogues synthesized, more than half exhibited 55-89% in...