One of the more novel approaches to collaboratively creating language resources in recent years is to use online games to collect and validate data. The most significant challenges collaborative systems face are how to train users with the necessary expertise and how to encourage participation on a scale required to produce high quality data comparable with data produced by “traditional” expert...

Dynamic viewpoint tethering is an innovative display technique which has been proposed to support effective navigation in large-scale virtual environments, by integrating information from different frames of reference. In this paper, we explain the modelling of a dynamic tether and report our latest research findings in investigating the optimal parametric values of tether configuration and the...

Today, architectural design process is influenced by emerging generative/parametric design tools and advanced manufacturing technologies. Powerful computational tools can be used to produce variations in design while maintaining the dependencies and relations between iterations. Generative technologies, such as genetic evolution (GE) and performance driven form seeking, are used by architects t...

The stereoscopic three-dimensional (3D) display provides a 3D image by inducing binocular disparity for the observers who wear special glasses. With the rapid progress in flat panel display technologies, the stereoscopic 3D display is becoming a new benefit-model of the current display industry, and several kinds of commercial stereoscopic 3D products have been released and are attracting peopl...

Recent trends in three-dimensional (3D) display technologies are very interesting in that both old-fashioned and up-to-date technologies are being actively investigated together. The release of the first commercially successful 3D display product raised new research topics in stereoscopic display. Autostereoscopic display renders a ray field of a 3D image, whereas holography replicates a wave f...

Over the last 3 decades, monoclonal antibodies have become the most important class of therapeutic biologicals on the market. Development of therapeutic antibodies was accelerated by recombinant DNA technologies, which allowed the humanization of murine monoclonal antibodies to make them more similar to those of the human body and suitable for a broad range of chronic diseases like cancer and a...

Abstract A panoramic display system for low-voltage distribution substation areas is built in this paper to meet the visual monitoring requirements of equipment operation status areas. Aiming at characteristics complicated data structure, decentralized deployment, and isomerization power equipment, a middleware area designed. The residual search method realizes identification give timely warnin...

At higher densities between 0.3 and 0.6 g/cm hydrogen undergoes a transition from a neutral uid to a plasma. Shock wave experiments probe this region along Hugoniot curves. New Z-pinch data [1] are in contradiction to laser induced shock-wave data [2] above 50 GPa. Theoretical descriptions of hydrogen show coincidence with either set of data. Fluid Variational Theory (FVT) describes the neutral...

The FlatWorld project at the University of Southern California’s (USC) Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) is developing a virtual reality environment which allows users to walk and run freely among simulated rooms, buildings, and streets. The system integrates Hollywood set construction techniques with state of the art computer graphics and immersive display technology. FlatWorld provide...