This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 13241 “Virtual Realities”. The main goal of the five day seminar was to bring together leading experts and promising young researchers to discuss current challenges and future directions in the field of virtual and augmented reality. The seminar was organized as series of individual presentations and seven working groups. Ab...

The Myth [1]: Sixty years of research following Shannon’s pioneering paper has led to telecommunications solutions operating arbitrarily close to the channel capacity ’flawless tele-presence’ with zero error is available to anyone, anywhere, anytime across the globe... The Reality [1]: Once we leave home or the office, even top of the range iPhones and tablet-computers fail to maintain ’flawles...

I only me.” These were the tragic words spoken by Charles “Andy” Williams as the San Diego Sheriff’s Department SWAT team closed in on the frail high school sophomore who had just turned 15 years old. Williams had just shot a number of his classmates at Santana High School, killing 2 and wounding 13. This was another in a series of school shootings that shocked the nation; however, the young Mr...

The patient’s serum -1 globulins were reduced at 1.3 g/L (reference interval, 2.1–3.5 g/L). Potential causes include malnutrition, excessive excretion, decreased production, and 1-antitrypsin (A1AT) deficiency. The clinical history was consistent with A1AT deficiency (1–3 ). The diagnosis should be confirmed by direct quantification of circulating A1AT by immunoassay and confirmation of the pre...

T HE effective administration of the various grant-in-aid programs for welfare, health, and employment security has been recognized by the States and by the Congress to depend, in substantial measure, on the quality of personnel administration in these programs. The merit system applying to the programs is designed to promote emciency through a plan for selection and development of the best ava...

The traditional theory of fiscal federalism prescribes a very limited tax base for subnational governments. The only "good" local taxes are said to be those (1) that are easy to administer locally, (2) that are imposed solely (or mainly) on local residents, and (3) that do not raise problems of "harmonization" or "competition" between subnational governments or between subnational and national ...

Without hands and feet He goes fast and grasps; without eyes He sees; without ears He ears. He knows whatever is to be known, yet there is none who knows Him. They say He is the foremost, the great Innnite Being. \S'vetas'vatara Upanishad" The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three-dimensional and not in space or time. The information fed to us we hypostatize into the ph...

this paper summarizes the educational implications of current research on cognitive neuroscience for foreign-language learning to provide an overview of myths and realities in this appealing area of research. although the potential benefits of neuroscientific research into language acquisition are great, there are a number of popular myths that none of which are supported by scientific evidence...