[1] An understanding of climate history prior to industrialization is crucial to understanding the nature of the 20th century warming and to predicting the climate change in the near future. This study integrates the complementary information preserved in the global database of borehole temperatures [Huang et al., 2000], the 20th century meteorological record [Jones et al., 1999], and an annual...

Nickel is ubiquitous in our daily environment and remains the most common cause of contact allergy worldwide. Regulation nickel release exists Europe but unfortunately continues to be absent United States. often associated with earrings other jewelry; however, novel exposures through diet electronic devices materials also occur. Once diagnosed, allergen avoidance key for improvement symptoms.

We analyze the evolution of economic institutions during the process of industrialization. In particular, we focus on the institution of contract enforcement. Empirically, we show that, during the process of industrialization, countries tend to shift their manufacturing production towards industries that require more relationship-specific investment. Theoretically, we build a dynamic model with...

In the wake of the commodity boom, “new development strategies” in Latin America are centering on the industrialization of natural resources, thereby questioning the “resource curse” thesis and linking the economic performance of this activity with the institutional framework. In this context, the aim of this paper focusing on the Brazilian oil sector is to analyze the implementation of a resou...

Procedural animation [1][3] has the advantage of being able to generate flexible animations according to high-level parameters while motion capture-based (MoCap-based) methods [2] have the advantage of creating realistic animations. In this paper, we attempt to use the data from motion capture to automatically find an optimal set of parameters that can be used to produce realistic animations fo...

This paper summarizes a function-based approach to create 2D flow animations. We use periodic functions to create cyclical animations that represent 2D flow. These periodic functions are constructed with an extremely simple algorithm from a set of oriented lines. The speed and orientation of the flow are described directly by the orientation and the lengths of these oriented lines. The resultin...

We present an interface design for creating informal animations from sketches. Current tools for creating animation are extremely complex. This makes it difficult for designers to prototype animations and nearly impossible for novices to create them at all. Simple animation systems exist but severely restrict the types of motion that can be represented. To guide our design of an animation sketc...