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The sense of touch is fundamental during the interaction between humans and their environment; in virtual reality, objects are created by computer simulations and they can be experienced through haptic devices. In this context haptic textures are fundamental for a realistic haptic perception of virtual objects.

This book formalizes the specific artefacts corrupting the rendering of virtual haptic textures and offers a set of simple conditions to guide haptic researchers towards artefact-free textures. The conditions identified are also extremely valuable when designing psychophysical...

Aeryn Murphy is 28 years old, single and living in Chicago. Her dead-end advertising job comes to an abrupt halt when she tells the higher-ups where they can stick it. Seeing as she has burned every bridge in the industry, Aeryn decides to finally open the purse boutique she has been dreaming of for years. But, with what money?

With limited options to make cash fast, Aeryn ends up driving a cab! Not really the choice job for an attractive woman, but in the city of Chicago a cabdriver is a hot commodity. Except to Aeryn's super successful new boyfriend, that is.

Aeryn's cab chases...

This issue of Culture and Cosmos includes seven significant papers on the history of astrology, covering a range of periods and approaches. Roger Beck's 'The Ancient Mithraeum as a Model Universe. Part 2', touches on archaeoastronomy and classical religion 1]. Helena Avelar and Charles Burnett's analysis of a twelfth century horoscope cast by Abraham the Jew examines the technical practice of medieval astrology. Lindsay Starkey's paper on Mellin de Saint-Gelais and John Calvin, and Scott Hendrix's on Galileo, concern theoretical contexts for the European astrology of the middle...

At twenty-nine years old, Sari Clarke had it all: a blossoming career as a TV reporter, a successful defense attorney fiance, an adoring family and her two best friends - her sisters. Until one story, her first exclusive, threatens everything, and everyone, she holds dear.

A horrific murder has captivated Chicago. Sari is not only the reporter on this exclusive story, she is the exclusive. Sari takes the story to the public in her own way, in her own words. She is determined to single-handedly bring this predator down.

It is a race against time as Sari and the rookie Detective Brad...