The contribution presents an approach for motion capturing (MoCap) of dressed people. A cloth draping method is embedded in a silhouette based MoCap system and an error functional is formalized to minimize image errors with respect to silhouettes, pose and kinematic chain parameters, the cloth draping components and external wind forces. We report on various experiments with two types of clothe...

The rotors at Aratiatia have historically experienced cracking during service. The strains on a cracked rotor have recently been measured using a UHF strain gauge telemetry system to determine the effects of operating conditions upon the stress levels, which are responsible for crack initiation and growth. The strains were monitored on the web and skirt of the rotor, during cold and warm starts...

The tetra (Gymnocorymbus ternetzi) exhibits two phenotypes associated with trunk banding. Fish possess either a smoky-gray coloration with two prominent black vertical bands located directly behind the operculum (black tetra) or a lighter coloration and lack these bands (white skirt tetra). Segregation patterns observed from the progenies of 11 different crosses suggest that the inheritance of ...

The large scale magnetic fields of our Galaxy have been mostly revealed by rotation measures (RM s) of pulsars and extragalactic radio sources. In the disk of our Galaxy, the average field strength over a few kpc scale is about 1.8 µG, while the total field, including the random fields on smaller scales, has a strength of about 5 µG. The local regular field, if it is part of the large scale fie...