We present a novel surface mesh segmentation algorithm that, when combined with the Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation (CVT) remeshing method, produces surface meshes that more closely approximate the input surface mesh than when using CVT alone, using both topological and geometric measures of closeness. By segmenting the input surface before CVT remeshing, fewer triangles are required for the re...

The world is three-dimensional; hence, even surface-bound animals need to learn vertical spatial information. Separate encoding of vertical and horizontal spatial information seems to be the common strategy regardless of the locomotory style of animals. However, a difference seems to exist in the way freely moving species, such as fish, learn and integrate spatial information as opposed to surf...

We present a novel analytical method for assessing spatial and temporal structure in community samples that is useful for comparing large data-sets that include species abundance data. The model assumes that species numbers in two samples are drawn from a bi-variate Poisson log-normal species abundance distribution and parameters from the fitted distribution are estimated to assess community st...

introduction: complete adhesion of the impression materials to trays is important to prevent impression materials from being pulled away from trays during removed from the mouth and to ensure that the direction of polymerization shrinkage will be towards the tray. the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of two retention features of custom trays (adhesive vs holes) on the dimensional a...

Depending on the nature of a linguistic theory, empirical investigations of its soundness may focus on corpus studies related to lexical, syntactic, semantic or other phenomena. Especially work in research networks usually comprises analyses of different levels of description, where each one must be as reliable as possible when the same sentences and texts are investigated under very different ...

A two-dimensional Simon-type task was devised to investigate the impact of task requirements and explicit instructions on spatial action coding. Subjects performed actions that were defined on two spatial dimensions: horizontal (left±right) or vertical (top±bottom). The relevant stimulus feature was nonspatial but the stimuli varied on the horizontal and the vertical dimension, so that horizont...

Culture as the philosophy of life refers to the values, norms and rules, and actual behaviorwhich is taken over by man from the past generations, and to leave it to next generation in a differentform, separates individuals belonging to the culture from individuals belonging to other cultures.Each of these different attitudes describes the degree to which the culture values the past, the present...