A Process for Creating Celtic Knot Work. (May 2003) Hunter Guymin Parks, B.F.A., Stephen F. Austin State University Chair of Advisory Committee: Prof. Karen Hillier Celtic art contains mysterious and fascinating aesthetic elements including complex knot work motifs. The problem is that creating and exploring these motifs require substantial human effort. One solution to this problem is to creat...

Reliable age models are fundamental for any palaeoclimate reconstruction. Available interpolation procedures between age control points are often inadequately reported, and very few translate age uncertainties to proxy uncertainties. Most available modeling algorithms do not allow incorporation of layer counted intervals to improve the confidence limits of the age model in question. We present ...

Can interventions meaningfully increase intelligence? If so, how? The Database of Raising Intelligence is a continuously updated compendium of randomized controlled trials that were designed to increase intelligence. In this article, the authors examine nearly every available intervention involving children from birth to kindergarten, using meta-analytic procedures when more than 3 studies test...

3D microscopy visualization has the potential of playing a significant role in the study of 3D cellular structures in biomedical research. Such potential, however, has not been fully realized due to the difficulties of current visualization methods in coping with the unique nature of microscopy image volumes, such as low image contrast, noise and unknown transfer functions. In this paper, we pr...

RIDES is an application for authoring and delivering interactive graphical simulations and tutorials in the context of those simulations. Some types of instruction can be generated automatically by exploiting structured simulation data. RIDES technology plays an important part in a number of related research and development projects. RIDES introduces innovations in the human-computer interface ...

Childhood obesity is a worldwide pandemic that increases the risk of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and multiple cancers and reduces quality of life and functional ability. Fruit, 100% juice, and vegetable (FJV) intake and physical activity (PA) are behaviors related to childhood obesity prevention. While promising, behavioral research on dietary intake and physical activity is still...

Interactive Theorem Provers (ITPs) are tools meant to assist the user during the formal development of mathematics. Automatic proof searching procedures are a desirable aid, and most ITPs supply the user with an extensive set of facilities to improve automation. However, the black-box nature of most automatic procedure conflicts with the interactive nature of these tools: a newcomer running an ...

Highly dynamic adaptation of interactive work procedures not only requires structuring mechanisms, but also engaging stakeholders. As it touches business operation, not only user interface designs are challenged, but rather underlying business logic and data management issues. An inclusive perspective and interactive development support can be provided by Subject-oriented Βusiness Process Manag...

This article reports on a bidirectional link between a Geographic Information System (GIS), ArcView 2.1, and an interactive dynamic graphics program, XGobi. ArcView 2.1 allows calls to external procedures via Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) and it also enables external programs to invoke ArcView 2.1 functions using RPCs. These features enable us to provide a bidirectional link between ArcView 2.1...

Onion routing protocols achieve low-latency anonymous communication on public networks. Up to date, many onion routing protocols have been proposed, such as Tor network, in order to implement the anonymous network connection in the public networks. Although the previous schemes’ multi-pass cryptographic circuit construction appears satisfactory, their circuit construction protocols have some dr...