L-band brightness predicted by the land surface process/radiobrightness (LSP/R) model for prairie grassland appears to be somewhat lower than expected [1]. A crucial reason for the underestimate of the L-band brightness is that the soil surface was treated as smooth. In this paper, surface scattering of the soil determined by the IEM model is incorporated into the LSP/R model to examine its imp...

INTRODUCTION Many tracts of native vegetation still remain in the western portion of that vast North American grassland known as True Prairie. Some are mowed annually for the crop of excellent forage, but far greater areas are now in native pasture (Weaver & Fitzpatrick 1932, 1934). One result of the long years of study of the grazed portion of this grassland was the recognition of the manner i...

Any movie production needs a whole group of contributing authors and creative artists from various fields. The same should obviously be true for the making of a compelling VR scenario. Hence artists need to have direct access to the VR production process itself. In the VR domain however artistic and computational challenges are usually still severely interwoven. Thus nearly all of the (art) wor...

This paper proposes a novel “What You See Is What You Get” filmmaking system, called as ARFMS. It provides users with a low cost and easy to use system to make movies. Users cannot only realtime visualize the performance with computer-generated objects, but also visual effects films will be finished without post-production. After finished the screenplay, the performance will be shot on-site usi...

Our challenge is focused on making two predictions that revolve around the outcome of movies for the current year 2014. The first challenge is to predict the nominees and award winners for the 72nd Golden Globe Awards taking place on January 11th, 2015. We will focus our efforts to predict the winners of the following four categories: Best Director, Best Actor Motion Picture Drama, Best Actress...

The article discusses the process of constructing a frame, in which its perspective organization turns out to be sense-forming technique. As scientific theoretical basis, works D. S. Likhachev "Poetics Old Russian Literature", B. A. Uspensky composition", P. Florensky "Reverse perspective". object study is screenplay philosopher and writer Alexander ...

The judging procedure for Athenian dramatic contests is not well understood. In this paper, we present a new model that we believe takes account of all the relevant data, which possesses the additional virtue of clarity of execution, so that a large festival audience can easily follow the proceedings as the winner is determined publicly. It differs in certain important respects from other inter...

The current EPI (Expanded Programme on Immunization) vaccines do not specifically target the organisms that lead to the two main causes of death in children - pneumonia and diarrhoea. This implies that the EPI vaccines will have only a modest effect on total child mortality. However, recent evidence suggests that measles and BCG vaccines dramatically reduce child mortality through nonspecific e...

Act: A major division in a play. An act can be sub-divided into scenes. (See scene). Greek plays were not divided into acts. The five act structure was originally introduced in Roman times and became the convention in Shakespeare’s period. In the 19th century this was reduced to four acts and 20th century drama tends to favor three acts. Antagonist: A character or force against which another ch...