Five upland cotton cultivars were crossed in a complete diallel crossing system to investigate inheritance pattern and combining ability of parents for different fiber quality traits like staple length, fiber strength, fineness and uniformity. The study was carried out in the Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad during the years 2005-07. Highly signif...

A set of eight parental diallel involving seven commercial wheat cultivars and one breeding line was made to investigate the nature of gene action determining inheritance pattern of grain quality characters. Highly significant differences were observed among the genotypes for 1000 grain weight, protein content, wet gluten and lysine content. Adequacy tests were employed to estimate the fitness ...

Interactive Narrative often involves dialogue with virtual dramatic characters. In this paper we compare two kinds of models of character style: one based on models derived from the Big Five theory personality, and the other derived from a corpus-based method applied to characters and films from the IMSDb archive. We apply these models to character utterances for a pilot narrative-based outdoor...

Braille is the most effective means of written communication between visually-impaired and sighted people. This paper describes a new system that recognizes Braille characters in scanned Braille document pages. Unlike most other approaches, an inexpensive flatbed scanner is used and the system requires minimal interaction with the user. A unique feature of this system is the use of context at d...

Software metrics can provide an automated way for software practitioners to assess the quality of their software. The earlier in the software development lifecycle this information is available, the more valuable it is, since changes are much more expensive to make later in the lifecycle. As far as the ComponentBased Software Engineering is concerned, the metrics can help estimate, plan and ide...

In this paper, we make a comparison of haptic control schemes (position-position and position-force control schemes) for two haptic teleoperation systems by QoE (quality of experience) assessment. One is a remote control system with haptic media and video. In the system, we can write characters by controlling a haptic interface device at a remote place with another haptic interface device while...

We’ve been developing a Chinese OCR engine for machine printed documents. Currently, our OCR engine can support a vocabulary of 6921 characters which include 6707 simplified Chinese characters in GB2312-80, 12 frequently used GBK Chinese characters, 62 alphanumeric characters, 140 punctuation marks and symbols. The supported font styles include Song, Fang Song, Kai, He, Yuan, LiShu, WeiBei, Xin...

This paper presents a method for evaluating the relative empathic ability of different characters. The method is based on the premise that human actors are able to give more compelling performances when acting opposite a more empathic acting partner. The method involves causing one or more human actors to engage in a short interaction with each character, videotaping these performances, showing...