This investigation focuses on the moral status of the human embryo from a Christian ethical perspective. The central theoretical argument is that the embryo has a particular standing before God and should therefore have a special standing in the eyes of human beings. The article examines three biblical concepts from the perspective of a biblical-theological hermeneutical model in order to unfol...

Finding a match between partially available deformable shapes is a challenging problem with numerous applications. The problem is usually approached by computing local descriptors on a pair of shapes and then establishing a point-wise correspondence between the two. In this paper, we introduce an alternative correspondence-less approach to matching fragments to an entire shape undergoing a non-...

A standard way of dealing with matrix polynomial eigenvalue problems is to use linearizations. Byers, Mehrmann and Xu have recently defined and studied linearizations of dimensions smaller than the classical ones. In this paper, lower bounds are provided for the dimensions of linearizations and strong linearizations of a given m×n matrix polynomial, and particular linearizations are constructed...

The nite-element, semi-implicit, and semi-Lagrangian methods are combined together to solve the shallow-water equations using unstructured triangular meshes. Triangular nite elements are attractive for ocean modeling because of their exibility for representing irregular boundaries and for local mesh re nement. A \kriging" interpolator is used for the semi-Lagrangian advection, leading to an acc...

Standard spatial convolutions assume input data with a regular neighborhood structure. Existing methods typically generalize convolution to the irregular point cloud domain by fixing “view” through e.g. fixed size, where kernel size remains same for each point. However, since clouds are not as structured images, neighbor number gives an unfortunate inductive bias. We present novel graph named D...

We present a volumetric method that can e ciently create triangular meshes from D geometric data This data can be presented in the form of im ages pro les or unordered points The mesh model can be created at di erent resolutions and can also be closed to make a true volumetric model

This paper describes the use of a previously developed surface model for representing 3D geometric information that is subject to uncertainty. The proposed model is based on a geometric data fusion technique that allows the efficient approximation of arbitrary triangular meshes in space with smooth surfaces. This paper shows how the shape modifiers defined in that model can be used to represent...

330 Abstract-This paper reviews the previously available methods to estimate the curvatures, both discrete and continuous for triangulated surface. Many applications such as surface segmentation, surface smoothing, surface reconstruction, and registration require the accurate estimation of curvature at the vertices of the triangulated surface. For the estimation of the curvature, several differ...

This paper presents a novel approach for detecting ridge-ravine lines on dense triangular meshes. We first retile the original mesh into to a simplified domain mesh. An arbitrary smooth parametric surface is constructed defined on the domain mesh. Ridges and ravines are then accurately and efficiently computed and detected using the smooth parameteric function. Our approach treats shape noise b...