Human interaction depends on several individual factors such as personality, social relations, age or gender. But also the society we live in influences our behaviour. Thus culture affects the way communication is led. As virtual agents interact in a more and more human-like manner, culture-specific behaviour should also be taken into account. In this paper, we investigate communication managem...

The adoption of precision agriculture technologies and site-specific management has been limited in the forest industry. Geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensed imagery have been used in forest management, but at a landscape scale, typically to prescribe and schedule treatments for a diverse collection of relatively large tracts. Individual stands have traditionally been treated ...

Small animal patients that need general anesthesia may have preexisting cardiovascular diseases. To ensure oxygen delivery to the tissue, the cardiac output and oxygen content of the blood should be optimized. Cardiac output is the product of stroke volume and heart rate. Patients with cardiovascular diseases may have reduced cardiac output due to decreased stroke volume. The determinants of st...