PHOTO: Agents with the FBI and the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations search for evidence during rescue and recovery efforts at the Pentagon in Arlington, VA, 12 September 2001. A. (U.S. Navy) T MUCH OF our strategic guidance understands the daunting task of stabilizing “failing states” and thwarting nonstate violent and criminal networks is heartening. This challenge faces joint i...

Yoo, Innfarn M.S., Purdue University, May 2012. Sketching 3D Animation . Major Professor: Bedřich Beneš. This thesis presents a method for creating natural 3D animation based on sketches. Our method provides novice and professional sketchers an easy, fast, and intuitive way to create three dimensional animations by drawing sketches, enhanced by strokes, and joint trajectory or rotation curves. ...

Total knee replacement (TKR) has been performed for patients with end-stage knee joint arthritis to relieve pain and gain functions. Most knee replacement patients can gain satisfactory knee functions; however, the range of motion of the implanted knee is variable. There are many designs of TKR implants; it has been suggested by some researchers that customized implants could offer a better opt...

Cooperating and sharing resources by creating coalitions of agents are an important way for autonomous agents to execute tasks and to maximize payo . Such coalitions will form only if each member of a coalition gains more if it joins the coalition than it could gain otherwise. There are several ways of creating such coalitions and dividing the joint payo among the members. In this paper we pres...

Key users play an essential role in the implementation of enterprise systems (ES), undertaking a great deal of knowledge management. However, this important phenomenon has been largely overlooked by the extant literature. Drawing upon theories on cross boundary knowledge management, this research addresses why key users can facilitate cross boundary knowledge management, and how they do it. Thi...

Cooperating and sharing resources by creating coalitions of agents are an important way for autonomous agents to execute tasks and to maximize payoo. Such coalitions will form only if each member of a coalition gains more if it joins the coalition than it could gain otherwise. There are several ways of creating such coalitions and dividing the joint payoo among the members. In this paper we pre...

Two of the mechanisms for creating natural transitions between adjacent sentences in a text, resulting in local coherence, involve discourse relations and switches of focus of attention between discourse entities. These two aspects of local coherence have been traditionally discussed and studied separately. But some empirical studies have given strong evidence for the necessity of understanding...

BACKGROUND We describe here a very rare congenital deformity that involves the splitting of the right upper limb with the superior limb articulating with the shoulder joint, and the inferior limb laterally attached to the chest wall. MATERIAL AND METHODS The child with this rare split limb was treated by transferring the inferior limb on an islanded pedicle to the superior one while creating ...

let ‎x be an ‎‎n-‎‎‎‎‎‎square complex matrix with the ‎cartesian decomposition ‎‎x = a + i ‎b‎‎‎‎‎, ‎where ‎‎a ‎and ‎‎b ‎are ‎‎‎n ‎‎times n‎ ‎hermitian ‎matrices. ‎it ‎is ‎known ‎that ‎‎$vert x vert_p^2 ‎leq 2(vert a vert_p^2 + vert b vert_p^2)‎‎‎$, ‎where ‎‎$‎p ‎‎geq 2‎$‎ ‎and ‎‎$‎‎vert . vert_p$ ‎is ‎the ‎schatten ‎‎‎‎p-norm.‎ ‎‎ ‎‎in this paper‎, this inequality and some of its improvements ...

objectives: joint attention is one of the most important prerequisite of language and social development. there are two types of joint attention, initiating joint attention and responding to joint attention. this study examined the development of responding to joint attention in typically developing children in 8-30 month. methods: this study was cross-sectional. 61 children (40 female and 20 m...