1574-7891/$ – see fron doi:10.1016/j.molonc.2 Professor Marja Makarow – who took up her post as CEO at the European Science Foundation (ESF) in January – aims to facilitate greater collaboration between the national funding organisations of the different European organisations and the European Commission. For such a mediating role Makarow, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at th...

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Cons ide ra t i on of the s i m i l a r i t y between d i rec t and ind i rec t speech act unders tand ing g ive r i s e to the notion that taxonomies of speech acts may not be he lp fu l in modell ing language understanding. A computer model which t reats represent a t i o n s o f d i r e c t and i n d i r e c t speech acts s i m i l a r l y and succesful ly has been implemented without any su...

This paper describes an intuitive and efficient way to desig n no t o nl y 3 -D shapes but al so their g eo m etric co nstraints within an im m ersive m o del er. The fundam ental co ncept o f the pro po sed m etho d is based o n o ur im m ersive m o del er V L E G O I I , which al l o ws m ul tipl e users to create 3 -D virtual o bj ects o nl y by assem bl ing sim pl e 3 -D g eo m etric shapes...