In Civil Infrastructure System (CIS) applications, the requirement of blending synthetic and physical objects distinguishes Augmented Reality (AR) from other visualization technologies in three aspects: (1) it reinforces the connections between people and objects, and promotes engineers’ appreciation about their working context; (2) it allows engineers to perform field tasks with the awareness ...

Homo erectus was the first human lineage to disperse widely throughout the Old World, the only hominin in Asia through much of the Pleistocene, and was likely ancestral to H. sapiens. The demise of this taxon remains obscure because of uncertainties regarding the geological age of its youngest populations. In 1996, some of us co-published electron spin resonance (ESR) and uranium series (U-seri...

Introduction Grading of chronic aortic (AR) and mitral regurgitation (MR) severity can be obtained by echocardiography and cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR). The aims of the four studies were: (1) to establish echocardiographic thresholds for left ventricular (LV) dimensions indicating severe chronic AR or MR, using CMR as reference, (2) to elucidate the main cause of echocardiographic un...

Edita Stokić1*, Reza Hakkak2,3, Andrea Romani4, Aleksandar Kupusinac5, Esma Isenović6, Dragana Tomić-Naglić1, Biljana Srdić-Galić7, Slađana Pejaković1 and Dragana Radošević7 1Medical Faculty in Novi Sad, University of Novi Sad, Clinical Center of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia 2Department of Dietetics and Nutrition, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA 3Arkansas ...

This paper describes an Augmented Reality (AR) system for the treatment of acrophobia. First, the technical characteristics of the first prototype are described. Second, the capacity of the immersive photography used in the AR system to provoke sense of presence in users is tested. Forty-one participants without fear of heights, walked around a staircase in both a real environment and an immers...

It has been challenging for the technical and regulatory communities to formulate requirements for trustworthiness of the cyber-physical systems (CPS) due to the complexity of the issues associated with their design, deployment, and operations. The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), through a public working group, has released a CPS Framework that adopts a broad and integ...

We study in this article the bifurcation and stability of the solutions of the Boussinesq equations, and the onset of the Rayleigh-Bénard convection. A nonlinear theory for this problem is established in this article using a new notion of bifurcation called attractor bifurcation and its corresponding theorem developed recently by the authors in [6]. This theory includes the following three aspe...

Research on mobile augmented reality (AR) so far concentrated on building and deploying prototypes and investigating technical and user interface aspects. To create plausible application scenarios other concerns also need to be addressed. In particular, the size of the physical world made accessible by mobile AR raises new challenges in terms of scalability: the system will among others need a ...