Gaze controlled games

The quality and availability of eye tracking equipment has been increasing while costs have been decreasing. These trends increase the possibility of using eye trackers for entertainment purposes. Games that can be controlled solely through movement of the eyes would be accessible to persons with decreased limb mobility or control. On the other hand, use of eye tracking can change the gaming experience for all players, by offering richer input and enabling attention-aware games. Eye tracking is not currently widely supported in gaming, and games specifically developed for use with an eye tracker are rare. This paper reviews past work on eye tracker gaming and charts future development possibilities in different sub-domains within. It argues that based on the user input requirements and gaming contexts, conventional computer games can be classified into groups that offer fundamentally different opportunities for eye tracker input. In addition to the inherent design issues, there are challenges and varying levels of support for eye tracker use in the technical implementations of the games.     

Porous Permeable Polymers

Features of extrusion for mixtures of polyvinyl chloride and a pore-forming agent with the aim of preparing very porous materials are studied. It is shown that extrusion rate depends on the particle size of the pore-forming agent with the same volume content. This is explained by the difference in the structure of mixtures with respect to pore-forming agent. Marked anisotropy is established for the porous structure of materials in the extrusion direction and perpendicular to it. The hydraulic and mechanical properties of porous materials are determined and possible fields for their application (aeration in fish breeding, capillary transport for under-root irrigation, etc.) are suggested.     

Orientation-controlled,low-temperature plasma growth and applications of h-BN nanosheets

Nano Research - Dimensionality and orientation of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) nanosheets are promising to create and control their unique properties for diverse applications. However,...     

Dynamic Trust Management

Trust management forms the basis for communicating policy among system elements and demands credential checking for access to all virtual private service resources—along with careful evaluation of credentials against specified policies—before a party can be trusted.     

Love wave immunosensor for antibody recognition using an innovative semicarbazide surface functionalization

A new novel and easy functionalization route of a Love wave acoustic sensor based on the α-oxo-semicarbazone bond is described. The interest is firstly to observe in real-time the immobilization of the peptide on the semicarbazide surface of the transducer and secondly to monitor the specific binding of antibodies. Site-specific immobilization of antigenic-peptides as well as binding of murine monoclonal antibodies has been shown by gravimetric measurements. A tetramethylrhodamine-labeled goat antibody directed against murine antibodies was used to further characterize the biomolecular interactions by fluorescence microscopy and surface analysis (by AFM). Our data show that the gravimetric monitoring developed from the prepared Love wave immunosensor is a promising alternative route to characterize chemical and biomolecular events.     

Toward efficient execution of data-intensive workflows

The Journal of Supercomputing - Workflows that consume and produce large amounts of data are being widely used in modern scientific computing and data processing pipelines. Scheduling of...     

Modelling of transport of two proppant‐laden immiscible power‐law fluids through an expanding fracture

Hydraulic fracturing technology is one of the most popular and efficient reservoir stimulation techniques in oil and gas industry since it allows significant increase of the hydrocarbon production rate. A possible advancement of this technology involves consequent pumping of several immiscible fluids laden with solid particles (proppant) into a fracture. This technique has a potential for better control of the proppant placement and, thus, a better control of the fracture shape. The major result of the present work is a mathematical model and a computational code for investigation of a flow of two immiscible slurries inside an expanding fracture. © 2012 Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering     

Investigation of upper oligotrophic mires in the middle Ob basin (West Siberia)

The paper presents results of research into the upper ecosystems and convex forms of peat mires of moss (oligotrophic) type in the Ob basin area. We have determined four types of upper mire ecosystems, and have described their morphometric, botanical and hydro-chemical properties. These studies allow us to evaluate the structure and functioning of the upper mire ecosystems.