We present two behavioral patterns that we found by analyzing virtual environment element constellations. These behavioral patterns describe two situations: when a behavioral dependency occur between two any elements (compound pattern); and in a set of element when one of them collects the others (collector pattern).

Detecting people carrying objects is a commonly formulated problem which results can be used as a first step in order to monitor interactions between people and objects in computer vision applications. In this paper we propose a novel method for this task. By using gray-value information instead of the contours obtained by a segmentation process we build up a system that is robust against segme...

Estimating and minimizing the maximum power dissipation during testing is an important task in VLSI circuit realization since the power value affects the reliability of the circuits. Therefore during testing a methodology should be adopted to minimize power consumption. Test patterns generated with –D 1 option of ATALANTA contains don’t care bits (x bits). By suitable filling of don’t cares can...

this study develops a long run optimal pattern for nomadic ranchers of fars province under climate uncertainty by simulating dynamic process of livestock and forage productivity as well as employing dynamic stochastic programming. results indicate that the nomadic representatives do not perform, optimally. despite their attachments to livestock as an asset, and their life dependency on livestoc...

In this study, constant-ductility optimization algorithm under a family of earthquake ground motions is utilized to achieve uniform damage distribution over the height of steel moment resisting frames (SMRFs). SMRF structures with stiffness-degrading hysteric behavior are modeled as single-bay generic frame in which the plastic hinge is confined only at the beam ends and the bottom of the first...

This study examined to study how respondents rely on the Internet to fulfill the various life goals dimensioned into understanding, orientation and playing goals, and how this dependency relates to the generation of social capital. Further, it examined the resources of social capital in terms of bonding social capita and bridging social capital. In this study quantitative research approach was ...

class implemented_by Image Display (applying the Bridge pattern) displayed_on Display ImageImpl1 Figure 1. An example of pattern-based model refactoring. ConcreteImpB ConcreteImpA Implementor RefinedAbstraction Abstraction implemented_by Figure 2. A diagram of the Bridge pattern. tion of the UML designs representing solutions of the pattern Transformation specification: a specification of probl...

In an antenna array the element pattern correlation and the array matching depend on each other. For lossless two-element arrays the general formulation of the dependency of array matching on pattern correlation is given and solved numerically for some basic cases. Array matching is given as a characteristic mismatch coefficient and as the mean relative reflected power.

Graded muscles produce small twitches in response to individual motor neuron spikes. During the early part of their contractions, contraction amplitude in many such muscles depends primarily on the number of spikes the muscle has received, not the frequency or pattern with which they were delivered. Stick insect (Carausius morosus) extensor muscles are graded and thus would likely show spike-nu...

This year, we made changes to the passage/sentence retrieval component of ILQUA in handling factoid and list questions. All the other components remain same. ILQUA is an IE-driven QA system. To answer “Factoid” and “List” questions, we apply our answer extraction methods on NE-tagged passages or sentences. The answer extraction methods adopted here are surface text pattern matching, n-gram prox...