Providing Collaborative Support to Virtual and Remote Laboratories

Virtual and remote laboratories (VRLs) are e-learning resources that enhance the accessibility of experimental setups providing a distance teaching framework which meets the student's hands-on learning needs. In addition, online collaborative communication represents a practical and a constructivist method to transmit the knowledge and experience from the teacher to students, overcoming physical distance and isolation. This paper describes the extension of two open source tools: (1) the learning management system Moodle, and (2) the tool to create VRLs Easy Java Simulations (EJS). Our extension provides: (1) synchronous collaborative support to any VRL developed with EJS (i.e., any existing VRL written in EJS can be automatically converted into a collaborative lab with no cost), and (2) support to deploy synchronous collaborative VRLs into Moodle. Using our approach students and/or teachers can invite other users enrolled in a Moodle course to a real-time collaborative experimental session, sharing and/or supervising experiences at the same time they practice and explore experiments using VRLs.

Augmented and Virtual Reality techniques for footwear

The use of 3D imaging techniques has been early adopted in the footwear industry. In particular, 3D imaging could be used to aid commerce and improve the quality and sales of shoes. Footwear customization is an added value aimed not only to improve product quality, but also consumer comfort. Moreover, customisation implies a new business model that avoids the competition of mass production coming from new manufacturers settled mainly in Asian countries. However, footwear customisation implies a significant effort at different levels. In manufacturing, rapid and virtual prototyping is required; indeed the prototype is intended to become the final product. The whole design procedure must be validated using exclusively virtual techniques to ensure the feasibility of this process, since physical prototypes should be avoided. With regard to commerce, it would be desirable for the consumer to choose any model of shoes from a large 3D database and be able to try them on looking at a magic mirror. This would probably reduce costs and increase sales, since shops would not require storing every shoe model and the process of trying several models on would be easier and faster for the consumer. In this paper, new advances in 3D techniques coming from experience in cinema, TV and games are successfully applied to footwear. Firstly, the characteristics of a high-quality stereoscopic vision system for footwear are presented. Secondly, a system for the interaction with virtual footwear models based on 3D gloves is detailed. Finally, an augmented reality system (magic mirror) is presented, which is implemented with low-cost computational elements that allow a hypothetical customer to check in real time the goodness of a given virtual footwear model from an aesthetical point of view.

Madinat iyyuh: El Tolmo de Minateda en el siglo IX

Explicación de los datos arqueológicos de El Tolmo de Minateda (Hellín, Albacete) que permiten construir los relatos novelados de La casa de Aixa y La leyenda de la Kanisia.

Mihr va Mushtarī : manuscript, undated

According to a note in a later hand on fly leaf 1, poem composed in 1376 AD.

Le livre de éthiques d'Aristote;

"This first French translation of the Nicomachean ethics was the earliest complete version of an authentic Aristotelian work in any of the modern languages. Completed in 1370, it was published by Verard at Paris in 1488." Pref.

Chroniques de J. Froissart,

Vol. 8, pt. II, to vol. 11, edited by Gaston Raynaud; vol. 12- by Léon Mirot.

Ordonnances des roys de France de la troisième race, recueillies par ordre chronologique.

Index B: Table chronologique des ordonnances des rois de France de la troisième race jusqu'au règne de Louis XII inclusivement, suivie d'une table alphabétique pour en faciliter l'usage, par J. M. Pardessus ... . Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1847. 2 p. l., viii, 607 p. 40 cm.

Miscellaneous publication /

Description based on: No. 1382.

Ioannis Bustamantini Camaerensis... De reptilibus verè animantibus S. Scripturae libri sex : duobis tomis comprehensi : tomus primus : opus cùm theologis, maximè praedicatoribus, tum medicis, philosophis... : cum triplici indice.

De animantibus Scripturae Sacrae reptilibus verè dictis : tomus secundus : p. 849-1382, [62] p.

Manual de mnemotecnia, ó arte de ayudar la memoria, aplicado al estudio ... /

Mode of access: Internet.

Medulla theologiae moralis : facili ac perspicua methodo resolvens casus conscientiae /

Mode of access: Internet.

De cura reipublicae et sorte principantis, opnieuw uitgegeven, met de inleiding van R. Fruin,

Mode of access: Internet.

Tratado de patología externa y medicina operatoria /

Mode of access: Internet.