As emergency domestic violence (DV) shelters have proliferated, there has been an increase in rules that shelter residents must follow. This qualitative descriptive study explores intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors' experiences living with DV shelter rules. Five thematic clusters emerged from interviews with 11 survivors: (1) shelter environment/staff approach, (2) making sense of the ru...

1. We explore the boundaries of human social abilities by studying human-robot interaction. Social robots operate at the boundary of cognitive categories; they are animate but are not alive, are responsive but are not creative or flexible in their responses, and respond to social cues but cannot maintain a deep social dialog. By systematically varying the behavior of the robot, we can chart the...

The urinary bladder can be visualized from different views by imaging facilities such as computerized tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. Multi-view imaging can present more details of this pelvic organ and contribute to a more reliable reconstruction. Based on the information from multi-view planes, a level set based algorithm is proposed to reconstruct the 3D shape of the bladder using...

This work presents an extension of shell rendering that is more flexible and yields higher quality volume renderings. Shell rendering consists of efficient data-structures and methods to manipulate and render structures with non-precise boundaries in volume data. We have updated these algorithms by creating an implementation that makes effective use of ubiquitously available commercial graphics...

MyGrid is a complete grid solution for running Bag-of-Tasks applications (i.e. parallel applications whose tasks are independent) over whatever resources are available to the user. MyGrid middleware empowers users to interoperate with heterogeneous computational resources across geographic and administrative boundaries. Due to MyGrid’s flexible architecture, it is easy to add a new kind of mach...

We present a flexible light-weight document-centered workflow system, called XFolders, that breaks physical and organisational boundaries allowing users across distributed virtual organizations to flexibly collaborate and share documents. The paradigm underlying XFolders is the well known, and widely adopted, internal office circulation envelope. We show how XFolders combines the simplicity of ...

This work presents an extension of shell rendering that is more flexible and yields higher quality volume renderings. Shell rendering consists of efficient data-structures and methods to manipulate and render structures with non-precise boundaries in volume data. We have updated these algorithms by creating an implementation that makes effective use of ubiquitously available commercial graphics...

An accurate and flexible three-dimensional Volterra Time Domain Integral Equation (TDIE) algorithm is presented and implemented here to model the time-dependent electromagnetic field of arbitrarily shaped dielectric bodies. This development is motivated by the need for a modern high-resolution numerical tool that is capable of providing a full and comprehensive investigation of devices containi...

Parachute aerodynamics involves an interaction between the flexible, elastic, porous parachute canopy and the high speed airflow (relative to the parachute) through which the parachute falls. Computer simulation of parachute dynamics typically simplify the problem in various ways, e.g. by considering the parachute as a rigid bluff body. Here, we avoid such simplification by using the immersed b...

Recently, Collaborative Business Process modeling (cBPM) has become very popular due to modern Business Process Management trend. It expands to cover business processes across the organizational boundaries and, thus, emerges the need of collaborative business process modeling. Business process modeling (BPM) requires many complex iterations and communications between the domain specialists and ...