Modeling arbitrary real objects is difficult and rendering textured models typically does not result in realistic images. We describe a new method for displaying scanned real objects, called view-based rendering. The method takes as input a collection of colored range images covering the object and creates a collection of partial object models. These partial models are rendered separately using...

A way to create effective stylized line drawings is to draw strokes that start and stop at visible portions along the silhouette of an object to be portrayed. In computer graphics to date, algorithms to extract silhouette edges are many, although putting these edges into a form such that stylized strokes may be applied to them has not been greatly covered, so that existing methods are either ti...

PURPOSE The purpose of this preliminary study was to examine the relationship of caries risk, salivary buffering capacity, salivary pH, salivary quality (flow, consistency) and levels of Streptococcus mutans in relation to cigarette smoking. METHODS This clinical trial consisted of 53 volunteer patients receiving care in a university based dental hygiene clinic. Participants completed a ques...

Os gestores organizacionais adotam ações que bloqueiam a aproximação com os atores político-sociais (postura buffering) e as criam pontes estratégicas bridging). No entanto, literatura sobre stakeholders fornece informações escassas o envolvimento entre micro pequenas empresas seus públicos. A pesquisa investigou fatores determinantes das atividades buffering bridging em empresas. Utilizando um...

Radio frequency-based communication has been the dominant way of wireless networking throughout the last two decades. Although new medium access control (MAC) technologies have been adapted to provide better per-node throughput, we have arrived to a point where the frequency spectrum saturates because of the overwhelmingly high data load caused by ever-increasing usage of multimedia content. To...

Abstract. MPJ Express is our implementation of MPI-like bindings for Java. In this paper we discuss our intermediate buffering layer that makes use of the so-called direct byte buffers introduced in the Java New I/O package. The purpose of this layer is to support the implementation of derived datatypes. MPJ Express is the first Java messaging library that implements this feature using pure Jav...

We propose and evaluate two complementary techniques to protect and virtualize a tightly-coupled network interface in a multicomputer. The techniques allow efficient, direct application access to network hardware in a multiprogrammed environment while gaining most of the benefits of a memory-basednetwork interface. First, two-case delivery allows an application to receive a message directly fro...

The intracellular non-bicarbonate buffering capacity of vertebrate muscle is mainly supported by the imidazole groups of histidine residues in proteins, free L-histidine in some fish species, and histidine-containing dipeptides such as carnosine, anserine, and balenine (ophidine). The proton buffering capacity markedly differs between muscle types and animal species depending on the ability for...

a study of substantial anthropogenic related pollution in the coastal samut prakarn province (thailand) was carried out focusing on the bang pu nature reserve (remnant mangrove wetland) using a remote sensing (geospatial) technique. statistical regression models were developed between biochemical parameters of sample point and related reflectance data obtained from satellite imagery (landsat tm...