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The Quest in a Generated World

As procedural content becomes a more appealing option for game development, procedurally determined context is necessary to structure and make sense of this content. We find that a useful means to structure content in 3D games is the quest. The task of generating necessary context then becomes one of quest generation. This paper describes how we implemented a basic quest generator based on key and lock puzzles into a procedural game world. It uses notion of quest as spatial progression and discusses the design of the game world and how our quest generator connects to it. Its findings are twofold: on the technical level we managed to implement a highly flexible content and context generator into an existing game engine; one the content level we can trace signs for higher player interest in quest-enhanced procedural game worlds in comparison to unstructured spaces. Author Keywords Procedural generation, spatial generation, quests, virtual space, video game PROCEDURAL SPACE AND THE QUEST
Eye Movements in Ephedrone-Induced Parkinsonism

Patients with ephedrone parkinsonism (EP) show a complex, rapidly progressive, irreversible, and levodopa non-responsive parkinsonian and dystonic syndrome due to manganese intoxication. Eye movements may help to differentiate parkinsonian syndromes providing insights into which brain networks are affected in the underlying disease, but they have never been systematically studied in EP. Horizontal and vertical eye movements were recorded in 28 EP and compared to 21 Parkinson's disease (PD) patients, and 27 age- and gender-matched healthy subjects using standardized oculomotor tasks with infrared videooculography. EP patients showed slow and hypometric horizontal saccades, an increased occurrence of square wave jerks, long latencies of vertical antisaccades, a high error rate in the horizontal antisaccade task, and made more errors than controls when pro- and antisaccades were mixed. Based on oculomotor performance, a direct differentiation between EP and PD was possible only by the velocity of horizontal saccades. All remaining metrics were similar between both patient groups. EP patients present extensive oculomotor disturbances probably due to manganese-induced damage to the basal ganglia, reflecting their role in oculomotor system.
Secure and Efficient Data Retrieval Process based on Hilbert Space Filling Curve

Cloud computing economically enables the paradigm of data service outsourcing. However, to protect the secret data, sensitive information in cloud first the data has to be encrypted before outsourced to the commercial public cloud. It is a very challenging task. Although traditional attribute based encryption technique allow users to securely search the data by using keywords, they support only Boolean search and are not yet sufficient to meet the effective data utilization need that is inherently demanded by large number of users and huge amount of data files in cloud. In this paper, the above mentioned problem can be solved by using Octree partition and the Hilbert space-filling curve.In this technique searching the keyword in search index is very simple. This scheme is suited for cloud storage systems with massive amount of data. This system improves the query results and privacy for search the data in cloud.
Cloud Incident Data: An Empirical Analysis

This paper presents an empirical analysis of cloud incidents reported in the Cloutage.org database. The trend, causes, and impact of three types of incidents, namely, Outage, Vulnerability, and, failure during automatic updates (Auto Fail) were examined. Service availability was also analyzed based on the outage duration data. The analysis suggested that: (i) Outages and Vulnerabilities grow exponentially, while Auto Fail incidents show only a linear increase, (ii) Outages are caused by various sources of failures, Vulnerabilities primarily due to the lack of filtering inputs and most Auto Fail incidents are false positives, (iii) Many outages affected multiple, related services, some cascaded into additional ones during resolution, and the impact of some transcended organizational boundaries, and (iv) Availability of cloud services is less than 99%, and for free services such as Email it could be as low as 84%. The paper concludes with a summary of key observations and offers recommendations along three dimensions to avoid and alleviate the impact of cloud incidents.
Development of a navigation system for endoluminal brachytherapy in human lungs

The endoluminal brachytherapy of peripherally located bronchial carcinoma is difficult because of the complexity to position an irradiation catheter led by a bronchoscope to a desired spot inside a human lung. Furthermore the size of the bronchoscope permits only rarely the insertion of a catheter into the fine segment bronchi. We are developing an image-guided navigation system which indicates a path for guidance to the desired bronchus. Thereby a thin catheter with an enclosed navigation probe can be led up directly to the target bronchus, either by the use of the video of the bronchoscope or by the use of virtual bronchoscopy. Because of the thin bronchi and their moving soft tissue, the navigation system has to be very precise. This accuracy is reached by a gradually registering navigation component which improves the accuracy in the course of the intervention through mapping the already covered path to the preoperatively generated graph based bronchial tree description. The system includes components for navigation, segmentation, preoperative planning, and intraoperative guidance. Furthermore the visualization of the path can be adapted to the lung specialist's habits (video of bronchoscope, 2D, 3D, virtual bronchoscopy etc.).
Using Annotations to Make Recursion Equations Behave

The use of annotated recursion equations as a programming technique is investigated by considering the "telegram problem. " The annotations are used to select alternative strategies for evaluating the applicative expressions contained in the recursion equations, while the equations serve as an abstract specification of the desired results. This method has the advantage that the annotations explicitly display certain kinds of decision that would otherwise be implicit.
Functional Neuroimaging Correlates of Autobiographical Memory Deficits in Subjects at Risk for Depression

Overgeneral autobiographical memory (AM) manifests in individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD) tested during depressed (dMDD) or remitted phases (rMDD), and healthy individuals at high-risk (HR) for developing MDD. The current study aimed to elucidate differences in hemodynamic correlates of AM recall between rMDDs, HRs, and controls (HCs) to identify neural changes following previous depressive episodes without the confound of current depressed mood. HCs, HRs, and unmedicated rMDDs (n = 20/group) underwent fMRI while recalling AMs in response to emotionally valenced cue words. HRs and rMDDs recalled fewer specific and more categorical AMs relative to HCs. During specific AM recall, HRs had increased activity relative to rMDDs and HCs in left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC) and lateral orbitofrontal cortex. During positive specific AM recall, HRs and HCs had increased activity relative to rMDDs in bilateral dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (DMPFC) and left precuneus. During negative specific AM recall HRs and HCs had increased activity in left VLPFC and right DMPFC, while rMDDs had increased activity relative to HRs and HCs in right DLPFC and precuneus. Differential recruitment of medial prefrontal regions implicated in emotional control suggests experiencing a depressive episode may consequently reduce one’s ability to regulate emotional responses during AM recall.
Minimizing the Tardiness in a Single Machine Batch Processing

This paper is about minimizing the tardiness of a single machine patch processing. It is a scheduling problem, which consist of minimizing the tardiness of jobs assigned in batches to be processed by machines that have size and time limitations. This problem is common in manufacturing operations such as heat treatment and wafer burn-in operations. It is well studied in the literature and many problems can be created from the basic batch processing machine problem. This research aims to solve the problem by formulating and compare the heuristic simulated annealing and CPLEX in term of accuracy and time.
Reference Genes for qPCR Analysis in Resin-Tapped Adult Slash Pine As a Tool to Address the Molecular Basis of Commercial Resinosis

Pine oleoresin is a major source of terpenes, consisting of turpentine (mono- and sesquiterpenes) and rosin (diterpenes) fractions. Higher oleoresin yields are of economic interest, since oleoresin derivatives make up a valuable source of materials for chemical industries. Oleoresin can be extracted from living trees, often by the bark streak method, in which bark removal is done periodically, followed by application of stimulant paste containing sulfuric acid and other chemicals on the freshly wounded exposed surface. To better understand the molecular basis of chemically-stimulated and wound induced oleoresin production, we evaluated the stability of 11 putative reference genes for the purpose of normalization in studying Pinus elliottii gene expression during oleoresinosis. Samples for RNA extraction were collected from field-grown adult trees under tapping operations using stimulant pastes with different compositions and at various time points after paste application. Statistical methods established by geNorm, NormFinder, and BestKeeper softwares were consistent in pointing as adequate reference genes HISTO3 and UBI. To confirm expression stability of the candidate reference genes, expression profiles of putative P. elliottii orthologs of resin biosynthesis-related genes encoding Pinus contorta β-pinene synthase [PcTPS-(−)β-pin1], P. contorta levopimaradiene/abietadiene synthase (PcLAS1), Pinus taeda α-pinene synthase [PtTPS-(+)αpin], and P. taeda α-farnesene synthase (PtαFS) were examined following stimulant paste application. Increased oleoresin yields observed in stimulated treatments using phytohormone-based pastes were consistent with higher expression of pinene synthases. Overall, the expression of all genes examined matched the expected profiles of oleoresin-related transcript changes reported for previously examined conifers.
Towards a Noise-Tolerant, Representation-Independent Mechanism for Argument Interpretation

We describe a mechanism for the interpretation of arguments, which can cope with noisy conditions in terms of wording, beliefs and argument structure. This is achieved through the application of the Minimum Message Length Principle to evaluate candidate interpretations. Our system receives as input a quasi-Natural Language argument, where propositions are presented in English, and generates an interpretation of the argument in the form of a Bayesian network (BN). Performance was evaluated by distorting the system's arguments (generated from a BN) and feeding them to the system for interpretation. In 75% of the cases, the interpretations produced by the system matched precisely or almost-precisely the representation of the original arguments.
High-Latitude H I in the Low Surface Brightness Galaxy UGC 7321

From the analysis of sensitive H I 21 cm line observations, we find evidence for vertically extended H I emission ( ≲ 2.4 kpc) in the edge-on, low surface brightness spiral galaxy UGC 7321. Three-dimensional modeling suggests that the H I disk of UGC 7321 is both warped and flared, but that neither effect can fully reproduce the spatial distribution and kinematics of the highest z-height gas. We are able to model the high-latitude emission as an additional H I component in the form of a "thick disk" or "halo" with a FWHM of ~3.3 kpc. We find tentative evidence that the vertically extended gas declines in rotational velocity as a function of z, although we are unable to completely rule out models with constant V . In spite of the low star formation rate of UGC 7321, energy from supernovae may be sufficient to sustain this high-latitude gas. However, alternative origins for this material, such as slow, sustained infall, cannot yet be excluded.
Memory training alters hippocampal neurochemistry in healthy elderly

&NA; Accumulating epidemiological evidence supports the notion of brain reserve, but there has been no investigation of neurobiological change associated with brief mental activation training in humans. Healthy older individuals were therefore investigated with magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) in different brain regions before and after 5 weeks of focused memory training. Recall of a test‐word list of > 23 items was achieved accompanied by elevation of creatine and choline signals in the hippocampus. Those at risk for neural dysfunction, as indicated by lower neurometabolites at baseline, demonstrated the largest MRS increases after training. Biochemical changes related to cellular energy and cell‐membrane turnover were found to increase after structured memory exercises and were limited to the medial temporal lobe. NeuroReport 14:1333–1337 © 2003 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Culture di territorio: dalla governance alla compliance

By the proliferation of lows (European, national, regional) and by the attempt to bring them back to unique thematic (cultural heritage, environment, etc), texts and procedures are increased; but this makes harder for the public manager/promoter to compare different planning and management offers about cultural heritage and landscapes. In order to reduce these risks, the theme will be treated highlighting those rules (governance) and those procedures/lows (compliance) to which the territorial government is due to, transferring planning address in cultural heritage’s subject. Rules and lows of the European culture unify the treatment of the cultural heritage and landscapes, making subsidiary orientations, procedures, standards; they transform interests of investors, enterprise systems, interest-taken, citizen and citizenships on the "best practise” way. Governance and compliance were born in the enterprise’s management area and their applications to the territorial planning for cultural heritage and landscapes are recent: they update planning formalities and management of cultural sources, enhancing endogenous and original aspects, useful to the competitiveness, to the sustainability, to the cohesion, creating competences’ network, reinforcing the role of the public institution and creating also new planning forms for cultural heritage and landscapes. Governance and compliance weight upon principles orientated on the government’s actions; they should be coherent with trans-national, national, regional recommendations, without substitute themselves to ones regulating new free state and individual initiative. Following, we will talk about it also about its structure (method and process); through it, some experiences fix different objectives for cultural heritage adopting models of sustainable and competitive planning, deciding methods and techniques to reach and monitor performances finalised to the cohesion’s enforcement.
alpha-, r-, and s-process element trends in the Galactic thin and thick disks

From a detailed elemental abundance analysis of 102 F and G dwarf starswe present abundance trends in the Galactic thin and thick disks for 14elements (O, Na, Mg, Al, Si, Ca, Ti, Cr, Fe, Ni, Zn, Y, Ba, and Eu). Stellar parameters and elemental abundances (except for Y, Ba and Eu)for 66 of the 102 stars were presented in our previous studies (Bensbyet al. 2003, 2004a). The 36 stars that are new in this study extend andconfirm our previous results and allow us to draw further conclusionsregarding abundance trends. The s-process elements Y and Ba, and ther-element Eu have also been considered here for the whole sample for thefirst time. With this new larger sample we now have the followingresults: 1) Smooth and distinct trends that for the thin and thick disksare clearly separated; 2) The alpha-element trends for the thick diskshow typical signatures from the enrichment of SNIa; 3) The thick diskstellar sample is in the mean older than the thin disk stellar sample;4) The thick disk abundance trends are invariant with galactocentricradii (R_m); 5) The thick disk abundance trends appear to be invariantwith vertical distance (Z_max) from the Galactic plane. Adding furtherevidence from the literaure we argue that a merger/interacting scenariowith a companion galaxy to produce a kinematical heating of the stars(that make up today's thick disk) in a pre-existing old thin disk is themost likely formation scenario for the Galactic thick disk. (Less)
Incorporating the human hearing properties into multichannel speech enhancement

In this paper we propose perceptually motivated multichannel system for speech dereverberation and noise suppression. We modify a conventional generalized sidelobe canceler (GSC) structure by introducing perceptual weighting factor into noise cancellation loop. The purpose of this factor is to shape residual noise according to masking effects and to minimize the speech leakage. We implement the GSC structure using a delay-and-sum beamformer and blocking matrix that depends on second order statistics only. Therefore we do not require exact estimates of the channel transfer functions nor its ratios. Finally a comparative evaluation of the proposed methods is performed using objective speech quality measures. Results show that the novel method outperforms conventional one providing better speech quality.
Quality wine in the modern distribution

This article examines the consumers preferences for wine in different distribution channels (iper and supermarket, traditional shops and others types). Using a hedonic pricing model we have analysed how the modern distribution could be an interesting alternative market for wine trade. To reach this object we analyzed a panel of Italian families. Using a patented hand-held scanner, the ACNielsen Homescan Panel record all UPC-barcoded products, variable weight and non–UPCbarcoded products, from every outlet.
Markovian Analysis in Mathematica : 20 Appendix B . Simulation of the P 2 P system in Mathematica : 22 ii

Few studies have been done on the performance analysis of peer to peer (P2P) file sharing systems. They are limited to modelling the systems where the service time is exponentially distributed. In this special assignment, the effect of other service time distributions such as Erlang-2 and hyper-exponential-2 distribution in addition to the exponential distribution on the performance P2P system is studied. The different service time distributions model the kind of service the peers experience in a particular P2P system. A tandem queue consisting of two queues is considered to model the system under study. Although most of the P2P applications employ multiple chunks in file sharing, one chunk model is considered here for its simplicity. This model is first analyzed using deterministic fluid model. A more detailed analysis is done using the Markov chain analysis. The study also takes into account the stability of the system in relation to the arrival and departure rates of the peers. The simulations are performed finally which verify the analytical results.
Viewing Tennessee's New Photo Identification Requirements for Voters Through Historical and National Lens

In 2011, Tennessee became only the fifth U.S. state to strictly require photograph identification as a prerequisite to voting. ' Over the past decade, a nationwide battle has been brewing over voter identification laws. In fact, "[s]ince 2001, nearly 1,000 bills have been introduced in a total of 46 states," with 21 states passing "major [voter identification] legislation between 2003 and 2011. ,,2 2011 alone, 34 states took up the issue, either "proposals for new voter ID laws in states that didn't already require voter ID at the polls (considered in 20 states), [or] proposals to strengthen existing voter ID requirements in order to require photo ID at the polls (considered in 14 states). " 3 Despite its prevalence in state legislatures last year, the debate shows no signs of slowing down, as
Minimum-time aggregation scheduling in multi-sink sensor networks

Data aggregation is an essential operation in wireless sensor networks and aggregation time is critical in many sensor network applications. This paper focuses on the minimum-time aggregation scheduling problem in multi-sink sensor networks (MS-MTAS problem). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work on the MS-MTAS problem, which is NP-hard. In this paper, we first present a lower bound for MS-MTAS. Then, we design two approximation algorithms for MS-MTAS based on the maximal independent sets. The upper bounds of the aggregation time are, respectively, (min{26k−2, 2Δ})(max<sup>k</sup><inf>i=1</inf>{R<inf>i</inf>}−l)+2Δ and 23 max<sup>k</sup><inf>i=1</inf> {R<inf>i</inf>}+2Δ−23, where k is the number of sinks, A is the maximum vertex degree of the network graph and R<inf>i</inf> is the radius of the induced subgraph G[V(T<inf>i</inf>)], with respect to sink S<inf>i</inf>. Here T<inf>i</inf> refers to the tree generated by the corresponding algorithm and V(T<inf>i</inf>) is the vertex set of T<inf>i</inf>. We prove that the second algorithm is a nearly constant approximation. This demonstrates that nearly constant approximation can be achieved for MS-MTAS, which is the same as MTAS. Both algorithms are implemented by simulation and the simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms.
Pregnant Women Infected with Pandemic H1N1pdm2009 Influenza Virus Displayed Overproduction of Peripheral Blood CD69+ Lymphocytes and Increased Levels of Serum Cytokines

The first pandemic of the 21st century occurred in 2009 and was caused by the H1N1pdm influenza A virus. Severe cases of H1N1pdm infection in adults are characterized by sustained immune activation, whereas pregnant women are prone to more severe forms of influenza, with increased morbi-mortality. During the H1N1pdm09 pandemic, few studies assessed the immune status of infected pregnant women. The objective of this study was to evaluate the behavior of several immune markers in 13 H1N1pdm2009 virus-infected pregnant (PH1N1) women, in comparison to pregnant women with an influenza-like illness (ILI), healthy pregnant women (HP) and healthy non-pregnant women (HW). The blood leukocyte phenotypes and the serological cytokine and chemokine concentrations of the blood leukocytes, as measured by flow cytometry, showed that the CD69+ cell counts in the T and B-lymphocytes were significantly higher in the PH1N1 group. We found that pro-inflammatory (TNF-α, IL-1β, IL-6) and anti-inflammatory (IL-10) cytokines and some chemokines (CXCL8, CXCL10), which are typically at lower levels during pregnancy, were substantially increased in the women in the ILI group. Our findings suggest that CD69 overexpression in blood lymphocytes and elevated levels of serum cytokines might be potential markers for the discrimination of H1N1 disease from other influenza-like illnesses in pregnant women.