a virtual world programming environment

... non-expressive avatars, that social conventions may carry over - people can become embarrassed or angry while embodied in very basic avatars, and treat each other’ avatars with care s This is a necessary ... argues that the avatar behaviour should be encapsulated into layers, and that at the bottom layer there are what might be described as fundamental or autonomic behaviours that are always happening ... use athletic equipment, and configured as an on-line community There is a virtual body controlled by a user, and also an artificial agent also embodied as an avatar Generally agents (the humans,...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 23:20

... with Java How Java Applications Work 9.1.1 Java Compiler 9.1.2 Java Virtual Machine 9.2 Kaffe 9.3 The Jboss Java Development System 9.4 Java SDK 9.4.1 Java SDK Standard Edition 9.4.2 Getting and ... — Japan Pearson Education Malaysia, Pte Ltd To Asia, Afnan, and Faris for their love and support —Rafeeq Ur Rehman To Cheryl, Rachel, and Sarah for the moral support and unending encouragement ... Education Australia PTY, Limited Pearson Education Singapore, Pte Ltd Pearson Education North Asia Ltd Pearson Education Canada, Ltd Pearson Educación de Mexico, S .A de C.V Pearson Education — Japan...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 23:20

... comprises two major parts: whereas its avatar is the physical appearance of the NPC in the virtual world, the “conversational agent” provides the actual control logic which controls the avatar autonomously ... dialog systems that bears great future potential Natural language dialog with NPCs is an important factor in making virtual worlds more interesting, interactive and immersive Virtual worlds with conversing ... characters will also find many additional applications in education, marketing, and entertainment KomParse is an ambitious and nevertheless pragmatic attempt to bring NLP into the world of virtual...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 00:20

... frames and HTML with some JavaScript files All animations are made with Flash 5, which means that users need a Flash Plug-In, which can be downloaded from Macromedia’s website (Macromedia – Flash ... the animations, a standard sound card and loudspeakers are needed For communication purpose, the user needs an email client and additionally also an IRC-client (or any other real time communication ... information content Nonrepudiation means that the authenticated information exchange can afterwards be unambiguously proved to have happened Nonrepudiation is achieved by attaching to information...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 15:21

... Ships MEA Multilateral Environmental Agreement MFN Most favored nation MIGA Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency MMPA Marine Mammal Protection Act (U.S.) NAAEC North American Agreement on Environmental ... Environmental Cooperation NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NGO Nongovernmental organization NIEO New International Economic Order xx Acronyms ... drawing primarily on radical social and economic theories, see social and environmental problems as inseparable Inequality and domination, exacerbated by economic globalization, are seen as leading...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 10:55

... are just like they are in math When you associate a value with a variable, you’re making an assertion a statement of fact This variable has that value And that’s that However, if you try to assign ... a time a programmer came across a book describing a funny programming language It had an unfamiliar syntax, equal didn’t mean equals, and variables weren’t allowed to vary Worse, it wasn’t even ... book, and The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC was aware of a trademark claim, the designations have been printed in initial capital letters or in all capitals The Pragmatic Starter Kit, The Pragmatic...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 12:32

... Ships MEA Multilateral Environmental Agreement MFN Most favored nation MIGA Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency MMPA Marine Mammal Protection Act (U.S.) NAAEC North American Agreement on Environmental ... Environmental Cooperation NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NGO Nongovernmental organization NIEO New International Economic Order xx Acronyms ... drawing primarily on radical social and economic theories, see social and environmental problems as inseparable Inequality and domination, exacerbated by economic globalization, are seen as leading...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:44

... same tasks - cash withdrawals and money transfers - with the VR-ATM or the real ATM in a rehabilitation hospital For the real ATM practice, the therapist issued the participant an ATM card, a ... collected and analyzed data for Part II KNKF, CKKY and WAKY drafted the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements Presented in part at the Hospital Authority ... a/ (a+ c), where a was the true positive and c was the false negative This value is the portion of participants who failed both when using the VR-ATM and the real ATM Another value, a/ a+b, was calculated...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... obtain a hand path ratio (HPR) Thus, a hand trajectory that followed a straight line pathway to the target would have an HPR equal to 1, whereas a hand trajectory that travelled twice as far as ... collaboration We also thank Hans Aniansson for carrying out the neuropsychological examinations, Sara and Lisa Broeren for drawing velocity and acceleration profiles and Ragnar Pascher for programming ... therapy for rehabilitation practice is important both for rehabilitation personal and patients Characterizing the features of reaching and quantifying specific variables allows therapists to treat...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... of Manitoba, Canada Buresova et al., Alterra Wageningen, Netherlands Zafar et al., Wageningen University, Netherlands Attenuation and dynamics of pharmaceuticals in a German stream Chemo- and ... contaminated land relamation and restoration: impacts on metal mobility and availability Thüns et al., University of Bayreuth, Germany Comparison of the characteristic travel distance of PAHs calculated ... possible contamination pathways at farm level Messing et al., University of Manitoba, Canada Air concentrations and bulk atmospheric deposits of pesticides in relation to wetland water quality Session...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 01:20

... obtain a hand path ratio (HPR) Thus, a hand trajectory that followed a straight line pathway to the target would have an HPR equal to 1, whereas a hand trajectory that travelled twice as far as ... collaboration We also thank Hans Aniansson for carrying out the neuropsychological examinations, Sara and Lisa Broeren for drawing velocity and acceleration profiles and Ragnar Pascher for programming ... therapy for rehabilitation practice is important both for rehabilitation personal and patients Characterizing the features of reaching and quantifying specific variables allows therapists to treat...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:20

... for me and you And I think to myself… what a wonderful world I see skies of blue and clouds of white The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night And I think to myself… What a wonderful world ... the rainbow, so pretty in the sky Are also on the faces of people going by I see friends shakin' hands, sayin' "How you do?" They're really saying "I love you” I hear babies cryin', I watch them ... cryin', I watch them grow They'll learn much more than I'll ever know And I think to myself… what a wonderful world Yes, I think to myself what a wonderful world t@o ...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2013, 01:25

... group Summary As popular open-source applications, MySQL, Apache, and PHP are available for a wide variety of platforms and architectures, in both binary and source form This chapter demonstrated ... stop And here’s an example of how to use the Apache control script: [root@host]# /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start [root@host]# /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl stop To have MySQL and Apache ... installed by Apache on the Start menu to control the Apache server To start MySQL and Apache automatically on Windows, simply add a link to the mysqld.exe and apache.exe server binaries to your Startup...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 23:20

... at Acorn Publishing for his support Jackie Gross, Gayle Voycey, Alexia Penny, Anik Robitaille, Craig Siddall, Darlene Morrow, Iolanda Miller, Jane Mackay, and Marie Skelly at Jackie Gross & Associates ... Windows Update feature and automatic updates, and you’ll also learn about software restriction policies and how to apply them Exam Day Experience Taking the exam is a relatively straightforward process ... Objective Chapter Number Managing and Maintaining Physical and Logical Devices Manage basic disks and dynamic disks Monitor server hardware Tools might include Device Manager, the Hardware Troubleshooting...

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 17:15

... of a catalyst, and at lower temperatures (usually around 315-37O0C [600-70O0F]) than SNCR systems Catalysts are typically titanium- and/or vanadiumbased, and are installed in the flue gas streams ... including cyanuric acid, ammonium sulfate, ammonium carbamate, and hydrazine hydrate A number of proprietary reagents are also offered by several vendors, but all rely on similar chemical reaction ... soil stabilization and road base, aggregate products, or in agricultural applications Spray dryer byproducts have a higher free lime content, making them less acceptable as a building material The...

Ngày tải lên: 17/12/2013, 14:15

... likable by including “individual information and personal interests.” E-Trade’s advertising makes it seem like a fun company, but the E-Trade “About Us” page displays none of that human personality ... facts about the Raven Tool’s team How you choose the voice of your “about us” page? Here are some more ideas: What is the overall emotional stance that your company has towards its industry/market? ... FaceBook takes you to this cold profile page (they had a real hard time here – notice the copy under “About” and “Mission” are the same Twitter at least does a good job explaining what they are...

Ngày tải lên: 07/01/2014, 16:52

... phones made by a Swedish company, Synergenix Mophun uses C/C++/Assembly as programming language Code is compiled to a special byte code that runs on a special virtual machine that is adapted to all ... software that runs on only one phone because they will then target a much smaller audience It is also not that easy for people to share games with each other because chances are that people who want ... modify the binary code of a game so that it will give you advantages over other players But it is maybe even easier on a mobile phone because most games are written in Java and can therefore be...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 16:33

... the American (AAA) and European (EAA) Accounting Associations, including as President of the AAA Management Section; the AAA Finance Committee; the EAA Doctoral Colloquium; and the EAA Publications ... Wim has published extensively in both practitioner and academic journals and has won several awards, including the AAA Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature and IFAC’s Article ... areas that are critically important during a crisis – particularly, financial planning and analysis, financial risk management, strategic planning, and credit decisions.’ More than half the respondents...

Ngày tải lên: 27/01/2014, 10:50

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 07:20

... preserve in a State or National Park, a complete replica on a small scale of the flora and fauna of a much larger area.” You cannot make a Xerox reduction of nature and stash it away in some remote ... relatively small areas in which they actually work As an example of how things have already changed, consider the idea called the Buƒalo Commons In late 1987, two academic land-use planners at ... Services Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Adams, Jonathan S The future of the wild : radical conservation for a crowded world / Jonathan S Adams p cm Includes bibliographical references...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 17:20