While at first unintentional, the author’s path to becoming a sport historian has incorporated her academic trajectory of sport and German/European history along with working in the sport industry. These experiences have ...
This book describes the architecture and methodology of building animated human-like interface agents that act as and interact with human users to accomplish tasks in dynamic, inhabited virtual worlds. By animated human-like ...
Artists are engaging in a wide variety of activities that support the idea of place-making. Artists-led and commissioning strategies are animating public spaces as never before and a new phenomenon is emerging for festivals ...
This chapter examines the potential to access and augment scholarly archives through a combination of intelligent semantic tagging and mobile phone technologies. It draws on the experience gained in developing a number of ...
Objective: To verify the anisotropic nature of the vocal folds by
reproducing an experiment led by Rholfs that measured vocal fold
elasticity in the transverse and longitudinal directions. To present
a physiological ...
The purpose of this study was to measure the relationship between the shear elastic properties of vocal fold with respect to the direction of applied stress. There is extensive published material that quantifies the shear ...
The main aim of this paper is to demonstrate the application of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) in small absorption chillers modelling and their control optimisation. The Genetic Algorithms (GA) optimisation method was ...