HYPERMASK is a system which projects an animated face onto a physical mask, worn by an actor. As the mask moves within a prescribed area, its position and orientation are detected by a camera, and the projected image changes with respect to the viewpoint of the audience. The lips of the projected face are automatically synthesized in real time with the voice of the actor, who also controls the ...

Most of the land use change modelers have used to model binary land use change rather than multiple land use changes. As a first objective of this study, we compared two well-known LUC models, called classification and regression tree (CART) and artificial neural network (ANN) from two groups of data mining tools, global parametric and local non-parametric models, to model multiple LUCs. The ca...

Cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript (CART) was originally isolated from rat brain, but CART is also synthesized and stored in the anterior pituitary. The localization of pituitary CART and factors regulating its synthesis are largely unknown. The regulation of pituitary CART synthesis and release in response to CRH and glucocorticoids was examined in vitro and in vivo. CART immunoreac...

This paper investigates consumers' response to conditional promotions (CP) offered in an offline retail store. Using qualitative research inquiry, we decipher the consumer decision-making process by finding linkages between 'pre-cart' and 'post-cart' add-on purchases. Thematic analysis of data (focus groups personal interviews) resulted four themes, i.e. 'Criticality Product Utility,' 'Mode Pay...