We consider the problem of ray shooting in a 3-dimensional scene consisting of m (possibly intersecting) convex polyhedra or polyhedral terrains with a total of n faces, i.e., we want to preprocess them into a data structure, so that the rst intersection point of a query ray and the given polyhedra can be determined quickly. We present a technique that requires O((mn) 2+") preprocessing time an...

In this paper, we investigate the application of machine learning techniques and word embeddings to the task of Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) in Social Media. We look at a manually labeled dataset (Lendvai et al., 2016) consisting of user generated short texts posted on Twitter (tweets) and related to four recent media events (the Charlie Hebdo shooting, the Ottawa shooting, the Sydney S...

Global illumination research aiming at the photo-realistic image synthesis pushes forward research in computer graphics as a whole. The computation of visually plausible images is time-consuming and far from being realtime at present. A significant part of computation in global illumination algorithms involves repetitive computing of visibility queries. In the thesis, we describe our results in...

We consider the problem of ray shooting in a three-dimensional scene consisting of m (possibly intersecting) convex polyhedra or polyhedral terrains with a total of n faces, i.e., we want to preprocess them into a data structure, so that the first intersection point of a query ray and the given polyhedra can be determined quickly. We present a technique that requires O ((mn):+) preprocessing ti...

The aim of this study was to examine the relationships among physical fitness of professional Bosnian basketball players (n = 38) and shooting accuracy during one basketball season. A related, secondary aim was to examine relationships between basketball shooting assessments and competitive shooting accuracy during game play. Physical fitness components included: muscular endurance and aerobic ...

The present study investigated the neural responses to errors in a shooting game - and how these neural responses may relate to behavioral performance - by examining the ERP components related to error detection (error-related negativity; ERN) and error awareness (error-related positivity; Pe). The participants completed a Shooter go/no-go task, which required them to shoot at armed targets usi...

In the present study, field goal shooting skills of female basketball players were assessed in the background to their reasoning ability. The sample consists of 100 female intercollegiate basketball players (age = 21.05±1.67 yrs.). Shooting skills reasoning ability were assessed by Johnson’s “Basketball Field Goal Speed Shooting Test” and Mixed Type Group Test of Intelligence prepared by Mehr...

Title of Document: DETECTING AND CORRECTING ERRORS IN GENOME ASSEMBLIES Poorani Subramanian, Ph.D. 2010 Directed by: Professor James A. Yorke, Department of Mathematics Genome assemblies have various types of deficiencies or misassemblies. This work is aimed at detecting and correcting a type of misassembly that we call Compression/Expansion or CE misassemblies whereby a section of sequence has...

The main purpose of this paper is to introduce a boundary layer analysis for the fluid flow andheat transfer characteristics of an incompressible nanofluid flowing over a permeable isothermalsurface moving continuously. The resulting system of non-linear ordinary differential equations issolved numerically using the fifth–order Runge–Kutta method with shooting techniques usingMatlab and Maple s...