Recently, graphics hardware has increased in capability, and is, moreover, now available even on standard PCs. These advances have encouraged researchers to develop hardware-accelerated methods for rendering realistic images. One of the important elements in enhancing reality is the effect of atmospheric scattering. The scattering of light due to atmospheric particles has to be taken into accou...

The spreading dynamic of the 2004 dengue fever outbreak that occurred in Tartagal, Northwestern Argentina, was investigated. A total of 487 suspected dengue cases were recorded and geo-referenced. Maps of daily cases were generated for the 109 days of the outbreak. The epidemic affected the majority of the city within 11 days. The age-distribution of the cases was different from the population ...

The controversy over abusive interrogations of prisoners during the war against terrorism spotlights the need for clear ethics norms requiring physicians and other clinicians to prevent the mistreatment of prisoners. Although policies and general descriptions pertaining to clinical oversight of interrogations in United States' war on terror prisons have come to light, there are few public recor...

In this paper the future of the Dutch soical rented sector is discussed. There are several reasons why the position of this sector is under severe debate in the Netherlands. There was little atttention on them at the beginning of this century. A growing housing shortage, stagnation in the restructurering of older urban areas brought this sector again in the spotlights of the politicians. Also t...

Now a day’s Brushless DC motor drives are becoming more popular in industrial applications. The major problem in BLDC drive system is that some disturbances are originated in the drive which will results in errors and reduces the stability of the system. The state variables and control variables of the BLDC drive system are synthesized in this paper. The main objective of this paper is to formu...

This paper presents a process for capturing spatially and directionally varying illumination from a real-world scene and using this lighting to illuminate computer-generated objects. We use two devices for capturing such illumination. In the first we photograph an array of mirrored spheres in high dynamic range to capture the spatially varying illumination. In the second, we obtain higher resol...

Abstract What has Brexit meant for migration and migrants? How the geopolitical repositioning of UK in consequence UK’s exit from European Union (EU) impacted on experiences long-established migrant communities newly arrived In what ways are impacts differentially experienced across according to, inter alia, class, gender, age, country origin, disability, race? scholarship addressed its impact ...

The potential to reverse aging has long been a tantalizing thought, but has equally been considered mere utopia. Recently, the spotlights have turned to senescent cells as being a culprit for aging. Can these cells be therapeutically eliminated? When so? And is this even safe? Recent developments in the tool box to study senescence have made it possible to begin addressing these questions. It w...