We present a novel aging technique that simulates the deformation of an object caused by repetitive impacts over long periods of time. Our semi-automatic system deteriorates the surface of an object by hitting it with another object. An empirical simulation modifies the object surface to represent the small depressions caused by each impact. This is done by updating the vertices of an adaptivel...

a Department o Medicine, Univers b Department of Alberta, Canada. Sources of supp of this manuscript Submit requests Department of P Medicine, 3-75 C AB, Canada T6G Paper submitted 0161-4754/$32. Copyright D 20 doi:10.1016/j.jm Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the effect of a standard 3-point lap-and-shoulder seat belt and car seat on the electromyogram (EMG) response of ...

Although cluster-ion interactions may superficially appear to resemble those in nuclear physics, there are important differences. First, at the energies of interest the deBroglie wavelength of an atom in the cluster is so short compared to atomic dimensions that the atom's trajectory in a solid is classical. Thus, one may use the Born-Oppenheimer approximation in which the particles all obey Ne...

We investigated the effects of familiarity on person perception. We predicted that familiarity would increase non-analytic processing, reducing attention to and the impact of individuating information, and increasing the impact of category labels on judgments about a target person. In two studies participants read either incriminating or exculpatory individuating information about a defendant i...

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The aim of this communication is to provide some evidence linking the overweight/obesity and their impacts on different dimensions of health. We reviewed the related studies published from 1990 up till now through PubMed Central/Medline, which provide evidence linking obesity with health related issues. It is a risk factor for metabolic disorders and leads to serious health consequences for ind...

University House 1, PO Box 1700, STN CSC, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 2Y2 Phone: 250-721-6236 | Fax: 250-721-7217 | pacificclimate.org 1. To speak of air “holding” water vapour is to speak loosely. The partial pressure of water vapour in equilibrium with a solid or liquid body of water is described by the Clausius-Clapeyron equation and is independent of the ...

Analysis of demographic catastrophes shows that, with the exception of perhaps only two critical events, they were too weak to influence the growth of human population. These results reinforce the conclusion that the concept of the Epoch of Malthusian Stagnation, the alleged first stage of growth claimed by the Demographic Transition Theory, is not supported by empirical evidence. They show tha...