We show that Ambro–Kawamata’s non-vanishing conjecture holds true for a quasi-smooth WCI X which is Fano or Calabi-Yau, i.e. we prove that, if H is an ample Cartier divisor on X , then |H | is not empty. If X is smooth, we further show that the general element of |H | is smooth. We then verify Ambro–Kawamata’s conjecture for any quasi-smooth weighted hypersurface. We also verify Fujita’s freene...

The deluge of web pages has generated dystopian commentaries on the tragedy of the flood as well as utopian visions of harnessing the same flood for constructive purposes. Within this ocean of information there are also lifeboat web pages with design principles, but often the style parallels the early user interface writings in the 1970s. The well-intentioned Noahs who write from personal exper...

This paper is about the economic theory of biodiversity preservation. A cost-effectiveness methodology is constructed, which results in a particular formula that can be used as a criterion to rank projects. The ranking criterion is sufficiently operational to be useful in suggesting what to look at when determining actual conservation priorities among endangered species. At the same time, the f...

simulations. ARK is built upon a physical-world metaphor: all objects have an image, a position, a velocity, and can experience forces. Users manipulate objects with a mouse-operated "hand" which enables them to carry and throw objects, to press buttons, and to operate sliders. The interface features are discussed in light of a general user interface tension between literalism and magic. Litera...

In recent years it has become increasingly year that vitamin A deficiency is very common ,n India. The most important result of vitamin A deficiency is blindness produced by xerophthalmia. Ophthalmologists state that there are at least two million blind persons in this country, and a large proportion of this blindness could have been prevented by the timely administration of products rich in vi...

Cloud services that provide a complete environment for the animators to render their files using the resources in the cloud are called Cloud Renderfarm Services. The objective of this work is to rank and compare the performance of these services using two popular Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) Algorithms namely the Analytical Hierarchical Processing (AHP) and SAW (Simple Additive Weighti...