The primary objective of this project is to create a projected image 3D printer with the ability to produce a three-dimensional part. The system utilizes an ordinary overhead projector to project black and white images onto a film of UV curable photopolymer in order to selectively cure/harden the polymer. This project is focused around meeting the following objectives, (a) design a movable plat...

This paper provides a comprehensive review of literature related to the assessment of climate change impacts on crop productivity using climate, water and crop yield models. The existing studies present that climate change models with higher spatial resolution can be a way forward for future climate projections. Meanwhile, stochastic projections of more than one climate model are necessary for ...

When full depth cues are available, size judgements are dominated by physical size. However, with reduced depth cues, size judgements are less influenced by physical size and more influenced by projected size. This study reduces depth cues further than previous size judgement studies, by manipulating monocularly presented pictorial depth cues only. Participants were monocularly presented with t...

“older people are an enormous asset to our societies, not only because a large majority of them continue to work in old age, but also because they convey social values to younger generations” dr. wesum asia/pacific regional conference on ageing 2012 the population ages 65 and over is expected to grow very rapidly in all parts of the world. over the next decades, the elderly population is projec...

The Italian Locust, Calliptamus italicus (Linnaeus) (Orthoptera: Acrididae) , is one of the most harmful species to the grasslands in Xinjiang province, China. It attacks a variety of plants in Compositae, Chenopodiaceae and Gramineae. We used CLIMEX and ArcGIS to determine the potential geographical distribution of C. italicus in China under current and future climatic scenarios. Our analysis ...

The Italian Locust, Calliptamus italicus (Linnaeus) (Orthoptera: Acrididae) , is one of the most harmful species to the grasslands in Xinjiang province, China. It attacks a variety of plants in Compositae, Chenopodiaceae and Gramineae. We used CLIMEX and ArcGIS to determine the potential geographical distribution of C. italicus in China under current and future climatic scenarios. Our analysis ...

two statistical downscaling models, the non-homogeneous hidden markov model (nhmm) and the statistical down–scaling model (sdsm) were used to generate future scenarios of both mean and extremes in the tarim river basin,which were based on nine combined scenarios including three general circulation models (gcms) (csiro30, echam5,and gfdl21) predictor sets and three special report on emission sce...

Knowledge of physical characteristics of Malaysian variety pomelo fruits are necessary for the design of some post harvesting, processing systems such as cleaning, handling, grading and packaging system. For proper development of pomelo grading systems, important relationships between the mass and some physical characteristics of pomelo fruits such as length, width, thickness, surface area, pro...

Hand tracking has great potential as a tool for better human-computer interaction. Areas of application include navigation in virtual environments, gesture recognition and motion capture for film animation. This report presents a new method for 3D hand tracking. It uses a 3D model built from truncated quadrics which approximates the anatomy of a real human hand. This approach allows for the use...