We propose a physically based method to automatize the synthesis process of talking heads able to perform animation encoded in a MPEG-4 FBA stream. Starting from an input triangle mesh, we build the corresponding anatomical face model using techniques already known in literature. The novelty of our method is in using these techniques with the MPEG-4 FBA specification. The components of the anat...

A teacher requested behavioral consultation services to address a first-grade student’s disruptive behavior. Functional behavior assessment (FBA) suggested the behavior was being reinforced by “negative” teacher attention (e.g., reprimands, redirections, response cost). Based on this analysis, the teacher and consultant posited that this student had a learning history such that presentation of ...

Mitochondrial metabolism is a critical component in the functioning and maintenance of cellular organs. The stoichiometry of biochemical reaction networks imposes constraints on mitochondrial function. A modeling framework, flux-balance analysis (FBA), was used to characterize the optimal flux distributions for maximal ATP production in the mitochondrion. The model predicted the expected ATP yi...

This paper proposes a novel flow-batch analyzer (FBA), which employs a compact, low-cost aquarium air pump as an alternative to a peristaltic pump. The feasibility of using this simple propulsion device is demonstrated in a case study involving the classification of citrus juice samples with respect to brand. For this purpose, UV-vis spectra and SIMCA (soft independent modelling of class analog...

Abstract Decorated Italo-Mycenaean (IM) pottery, a high-status class found and made over three centuries from the Italian Late Middle Bronze Age onwards, was subject of large archaeological archaeometric enquiry published by present authors in 2014. The paper focuses on identifying IM’s centres production. results chemical analysis IM using mainly ICP-ES make strong case for regional production...

Over the past decade, genome-scale metabolic models have gained widespread acceptance in biology and bioengineering as a means of quantitatively predicting organism behavior based on the stoichiometry of the biochemical reactions constituting the organism metabolism. The list of applications for these models is rapidly growing; they have been used to identify essential genes, determine growth c...

MOTIVATION Genome-scale metabolic networks can be modeled in a constraint-based fashion. Reaction stoichiometry combined with flux capacity constraints determine the space of allowable reaction rates. This space is often large and a central challenge in metabolic modeling is finding the biologically most relevant flux distributions. A widely used method is flux balance analysis (FBA), which opt...