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Lessons Learned: Social Interaction in Virtual Environments
With the goal of studying online community, we created two multi-user virtual environment products [1], Microsoft V-Chat [2] in 1996, and the Virtual Worlds Platform [3] in 1998. We analyzed the social interactio...
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Role of the RB Tumor Suppressor in Cancer
Apart from their coordinated inactivation by DNA tumor viral oncoproteins, the pRB and p53 tumor suppressor pathways were not known to be connected ten years ago. Within the last decade, our appreciation of ho...
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Clustering Hoax Fire Calls Using Evolutionary Computation Technology
Hoax fire calls put an unnecessary burden on service resources and endanger life by making personnel and appliances unavailable for genuine incidents. Identifying the higher risk areas of hoax fire calls will ...
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An Investigation of Morphometric Changes in the Lateral Ventricles of Schizophrenic Subjects
We present results of morphometric analysis of the lateral ventricles of a group of schizophrenic and control subjects to investigate possible shape differences associated with schizophrenia. Our results show ...
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A Numerical Method for Controllability Problems for the Wave Equation
Let T denote a given positive number and let uo(x) and U l(x) denote given functions defined on (0,1). Let Σ = {0, 1} × (0, T), Q = (0, 1) × (0, T) and (u 0, u 1 ∈ L ...
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Question Answering System for Incomplete and Noisy Data
We present a question answering system that can handle noisy and incomplete natural language data, and methods and measures for the evaluation of question answering systems. Our question answering system is ba...
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Characterization of Natural Resin Shellac by Reactive Pyrolysis-Gas Chromatography
Shellac is one of the thermosetting resins of animal origin secreted by the lac insect Kerria lacca which parasitically grows on some types of trees-such as mulberries commonly found in India, Thailand, Myanmar a...
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Distributed Computation for Diffusion Problem in a P2P-Enhanced Computing System
Basic exploration of diffusion equation solvers in distributed computing systems has been a very important issue for computational fluid dynamics (CFD). This paper presents a fundamental study of a distributed...
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Spatial Tangible User Interfaces for Cognitive Assessment and Training
This paper discusses Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) and their potential impact on cognitive assessment and cognitive training. We believe that TUIs, and particularly a subset that we dub spatial TUIs, can ext...
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A Risk-Reward Competitive Analysis of the Bahncard Problem
Competitive analysis for all investors in the Bahncard problem (a railway pass of the Deutsche Bundesbahn company) has received much attention in recent years. In contrast to this common approach, which select...
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The Bahncard Problem with Interest Rate and Risk
This paper investigated a new framework for the competitive analysis of the Bahncard problem. In contrast to the earlier approach we introduce the interest rate i and the risk tolerance t into the model, in which...
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A Fast Fingerprint Matching Approach in Medicare Identity Verification Based on GAs
This paper presents an approach to the problem of the identity verification speed by means of fingerprint pattern recognition in the Medicare real-time settlement system. This study aims to speed up the finger...
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Towards Secure XML Document with Usage Control
XML promoted by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is a de facto standard language for document representation and exchange on the Internet. XML documents may contain private information that cannot be shared...
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Web Service Collaboration Analysis via Automata
It is evidenced that formal analyses are helpful for web services interactions. However, most current web services choreography proposals, such as BPEL4WS or WSCI, only provide notations for describing the mes...
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Design of System Area Network Interface Card Based on Intel IOP310
A design of system area network interface card (NIC) based on the Intel IOP310 I/O processor chipset is proposed in this paper. The chipset makes it powerful for the NIC to offload the processing of communicat...
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Finnish as Source Language in Bilingual Question Answering
This paper presents a bilingual question answering system that has Finnish as its source language and English as its target language. The system was evaluated in the QA@CLEF 2004 evaluation campaign. It is the...
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Media Discourse and the Public Sphere
This piece of research belongs to a tradition in media and cultural studies which treats television as text. The goal is to understand how our experience of the media and particularly of television is produced...
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Differential Flatness of Aircraft Flight Dynamics and Neural Inversion
Differential flatness, a property of some dynamic systems, introduced by Fliess et al., has made possible the development of new tools to control complex nonlinear dynamic systems. Many dynamic non linear syst...
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A Glance at VLSI Optical Interconnects: from the Abstract Modelings of the 1980s to Today’s MEMS Implementations (A Survey Report)
This chapter presents a brief overview of some of the major research contributions in the area of VLSI computing with optical interconnects from the early modelings of the 1980s to today’s MEMS implementations. B...
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GPU-Based Soft Shadow Rendering Using Non-linear Pre-computed Radiance Transfer Approximation
Soft shadow computation plays an important role in generating photo-realistic images. A new method of real-time all-frequency shadow rendering in 3D scenes under dynamic illumination is introduced in this pape...