The dependence on the assistance of computer specialists to develop realistic and interactive cases.
With the assistance of computer-enhanced special effects, they can put anything on screen, and yet, as "The Mummy Returns" demonstrates, they sometimes do it so clumsily.
Obviously, modelling on a system-level will require the very assistance of computers.
P. Brunk, F. Chen, J. Felsenstein, M. Heiges, J. Mrazek, A. Oliveira, E. Robinson, and H. Wang provided valuable assistance on the use of computer hardware and software.
We thank William Cole for assistance with population sampling, Justin Giancola and Stéphane De Mita for invaluable advice on computer programming, Stephen Wright, Asher Cutter, David Guttman and John Stinchcombe for helpful discussion.
Aided by her best friend and future boyfriend Ron Stoppable and his pet naked mole rat, Rufus, with technological assistance from computer genius Wade, Kim goes on extraordinary missions to protect the world from danger, often the results of ambitious schemes plotted by supervillains and "evil geniuses".
He would also like to express his appreciation for the assistance of Jia-Ming Liu and Lin-Lie Sun on computer programming for making figures.
We thank Dale Lockwood for assistance with computer algorithms, Paul Beardsley and Amy Angert for helpful discussions about Mimulus, and John McKay and Matt Olson for comments on a draft version of the manuscript.
