forge a destructible and interactive virtual world

... present a layered approach to generate and coordinate the agent’s nonverbal behaviors, so as to establish social interactions within a virtual world Using the above approach, we developed an ECA called ... developed a speech act classifier based on a data modal called state transition graphs (STGs) as shown in Figure An STG encapsulates the acceptable and rejected patterns for a speech act A path from ... topic can be dynamically generated Each schema is related to a discourse type and a topic For example, the schema named ELABORATE_BIODATA_OF_ ARTIST1 indicates that the topic on BIODATA_OF_ARTIST1...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2015, 18:59

... compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley, for example, are likely to use a different framework and standards than those managing health and safety compliance And in risk management, teams looking after ... facilitated discussions with managers in the business “Rather than having a one-size-fits-all, paper-based approach where managers filled in forms against a standard matrix, we have moved to a system ... also hamper the quantification and analysis process “The question of appropriate data and the analysis of that data is probably the biggest issue that companies face,” says Mr Apostolik “Putting...

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:14

... intratumoral injection of "Star-99" in treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma of nude mice World J Gastroenterol 2003, 9: 701-5 Nandakumar KS, Lakshmi Rao K, Pardhasaradhi BV, Khar A Upregulation of antitumor ... biological parameters in tumorigenesis including cell proliferation and apoptosis [7], and also angiogenesis [8] were assessed in gastric tumors after drug treatment Materials and methods Chemicals and ... and 28 days Tumor areas were measured every days using a caliper, and the tumor area was calculated according to the formula: tumor volume (mm3) = d2 x D/2, where d and D were the shortest and the...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 09:54

... than 30 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe and Central Asia, and East Asia and the Pacific Before joining the Bank, Mr Pino was an audit partner with a major international auditing ... to have the required financial statements for each year audited in accordance with standards on auditing that are acceptable to the Bank An audit of such financial statements includes (a) an assessment ... Corruption may be grand, involving large transactions and high-level politicians and bureaucrats It may also be petty, involving small payments and favors extracted by low-level officials as a part of...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 10:20

... your plasma TV PLASMA WINDOWS As noted above, if a gas is heated to a high enough temperature, thereby creating a plasma, it can be molded and shaped by magnetic and electrical fields It can, for ... whatsoever, Maxwell, a contemporary of Faraday, was a master of advanced mathematics He excelled as a student of mathematical physics at Cambridge, where Isaac Newton had done his work two centuries earlier ... UCLA Stan Lee, creator of Marvel Comics and Spiderman Brian Greene, Columbia University, author of The Elegant Universe Lisa Randall, Harvard University, author of Warped Passages Lawrence Krauss,...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 16:15

... ttitudes and Social Adaptation, Social Values and Social Change, Marketing Management, Cross-National Consumer Psychographics, and Values, Lifestyles, and Psychographics He has served as President ... well as managerial, marketing, medical, and risk-taking decisions); judgment analysis and training; and applications of cognitive psychology His research has appeared in many books and journals, ... the participants and the putative relationships among them to shared artifacts (i.e., rituals) and the way these artifacts are typically interpreted and used Rituals as Adaptive Phenomena Over...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 04:20

... headlines weekly and nearly daily, as personally sensitive data collections stored in corporate and government databases and on digital media are lost or stolen on a regular basis A famous example: ... of mountains in Afghanistan and the behavior of entrepreneurs in Africa.” Adrian Schofield, head of research for ForgeAhead, an information and communications consulting firm, and a leader with ... more prevalent as American culture and technology flow out across the world, but critical mass will also be achieved for global communications in Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese and Arabic as new internet...

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Ngày tải lên: 13/05/2014, 09:28

... of an Adaptive Mixed Reality Rehabilitation (AMRR) system for a reach and grasp action Preliminary data from a study employing the AMRR system has demonstrated the system’s ability to facilitate ... University, Atlanta, USA Authors’ contributions NL, TR, and SW contributed to the concepts and of the paper NL and SA prepared the manuscript TR and SW provided editing and consultation All authors read ... form the basis for quantifiable, adaptive, manageable re-learning of the relationships among action goal, activity and body functions within interactive stroke rehabilitation For this abstraction...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... other platforms in a number of ways that have great relevance for its use as a tool for rehabilitation evaluation and intervention Some of these characteristics appear to be advantageous whereas others ... balance of a patient who had a stroke, sitting balance of an individual with an incomplete quadriplegic spinal cord injury, and balance during treadmill locomotion of an individual with a paraplegic ... within the virtual environment Feedback A limitation of currently available video capture platforms is the reliance on visual and auditory feedback and the absence of a haptic interface that would...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... provisos, and packed modified nouns Unpacking nouns, and constantly reshaping the mental image as qualifying details and provisos are added, makes reading slow and difficult The Example A word or phrase ... or partial) of data to build the prognostic model Text restructuring [Final] When complete historical data from a maintenance and diagnostic system are available for all failure types of a particular ... Writing: A Reader and Writer’s Guide communities where large numbers of humans and mosquitoes cohabitate, the dengue virus spreads rapidly This spread is aggravated by human travel (particularly air...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:21

... parts of a hastily assembled paper often reveals major cracks and faults: the shapeless structure is like a pair of baggy jeans that fit just about any frame, while the graphics and other visuals ... visuals have a mouse- and mass-produced look and feel To construct a satisfactory set of parts, one must understand the role played by each for the reader and the writer; and to assess their quality, ... justification after a statement Commas help to disambiguate meaning, pause for effect, or mark the start and end of clauses But, for all their qualities, there is one that commas cannot claim: semantic...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:21

... methodology have been lost (“chemical and morphological modifications”) A good title attracts the reader and enhances your chances of being cited It is fair to say that readers familiar with a research ... summarises Qualities of an abstract An abstract is COMPLETE It has four parts (what, how, results, impact) An abstract is TIED TO TITLE All title words are found in the abstract An abstract is ... contribution, a result of the myopia caused by the atomisation of research tasks among many researchers? Whatever the reason, having less than four parts reduces the informative value of the abstract and, ...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:21

... references as is expected by the reviewer and to introduce the contribution, and a final paragraph to formally introduce the main headings that follow Alas, the brevity and lack of detail are only appreciated ... part In contrast, headings and are more meaningful: they contain nearly half the title words Headings and cover the background They have no subheadings Headings and present the results and conclusion ... lab.“I am coming with one cake, two plates, and assorted cutlery”, she announced He answered, “What? Wait! First, what is the occasion? And why now? Can’t it wait until tonight? And by the way,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:21

... the ability to integrate authentication data with host image rather than as separate data; and Transparency: the embedded authentication data are invisible under normal viewing conditions FA January ... considered: citations and precision The Introduction Is Active and Personal The analysis of Mary and Kumar’s views revealed that the way an introduction is written is just as important as what is in ... writing: the tantalising hypothesis, the supportive preliminary data, and the fruitful methods A slow introduction start, particularly the “vacuous” and the “considerable” starts, will delay and bore...

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Ngày tải lên: 10/03/2016, 11:14

... took a more direct approach to verbal mourning, one that drew on Elizabethan patriotism and patronage and, later, Jacobean melancholy and popular devotional traditions This type of poem, usually ... “Lycidas” and New England’s elegies As Draper points out, that factor was social: the rise of a largely Puritan merchant class to wealth, power, and artistic patronage (Funeral Elegy ) In contrast ... cultural and historical implications of what I was trying to do; Sheila Sullivan helped me clarify my methods and theoretical positions; and Michael S Glaser gave a poet’s critique, at once sharp and...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 11:00

... pragmatics and conversation analysis This is the first study of a speech act conducted on the basis of pragmatics and CA in English and Vietnamese The combination of pragmatics and CA takes advantage ... analyzed as part and parcel As Cameron (2002: 53) puts it: Any given instance of language use is analysed as part of a whole social situation; more generally, ways of using and understanding language ... essential and valuable in the teaching and learning of English by Vietnamese learners and Vietnamese by native speakers of English 1.1.2 Society, culture and language Social acts or ‘speech acts’ (Austin,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:26