The process of convening arbitrary real numbers bito a floating poini format is formalized as a mapping of the reals into a specified subset of real numbers. The structure of this subset, the set of n significant digit base ß floating point numbers, is analyzed and properties of conversion mapp.ngs are determined. For a restricted conversion mapping of the n significant digit base ^numbers to t...

Based on the unique traits of biological motion perception, the existence of a “life detector”, a special sensitivity to perceiving motion patterns typical for animals, seems to be plausible (Johnson, 2006). Showing motion displays upsidedown or with changes in global structure is known to disturb processing in different ways, but not much is known yet about how inversion affects attention and ...

Many animation systems rely on key-frames or poses to produce animated sequences of figures we interpret as articulated, e. g. the skeleton of a character. The production of poses is a difficult problem which can be solved by using techniques such as forward and inverse kinematics. However, animators often find these techniques difficult to work with. The work, presented in this thesis, propose...

Sequence, expression and complementation studies of dSno Ex17B , dSno Ex4B and dSno 174 Since our initial paper on dSno [1], we sequenced the breakpoints associated with our excision alleles (Figure S1). Sequencing revealed that dSno Ex17B is a deletion of 5023bp when compared to the parental dSno sh1402 allele or 11940bp when compared to the D. melanogaster chromosome arm 2L reference sequence...

Supplemental Figures: Figure S1. Optimization of fixation and coating conditions for metal imaging. Figure S2. Standard curves for matrix-matched standards for copper LA-ICP-MS and nanoSIMS. Figure S3. Zinc analysis of Calgw71 and WT embryos by LA-ICP-MS. Figure S4. Standard curves for matrix-matched standards for zinc LA-ICP-MS and quantification of zinc images. Figure S5. Selection of regions...