First steps towards national radon action plan in Serbia

The Assesment of the Radon Problem in Switzerland and the New National Radon Action Plan 2012-2020

The potential risk of indoor radon for the public in Switzerland has been comprehensively investigated by the Federal Office of Public Health since 1994. Numerous radon measurements have been carried out to da te and they show that several regions in Switzerland are affected by high levels of radon exposure. In a pilot study different methods of indoor radon prevention and remediation have been...

First Steps Towards Automatic Recognition of Spontaneuous Facial Action Units

We present ongoing work on a project for automatic recognition of spontaneous facial actions (FACs). Current methods for automatic facial expression recognition assume images are collected in controlled environments in which the subjects deliberately face the camera. Since people often nod or turn their heads, automatic recognition of spontaneous facial behavior requires methods for handling ou...

Toxoplasmosis in Serbia: time for an action plan.

Known for a century, Toxoplasma gondii has been studied in Serbia half this time, ever since the introduction of the Sabin-Feldman test at the Institute for Medical Research (IMR) in 1959. However, despite 50 years of continuous efforts, exact data on the frequency of acute clinical disease, acute infections in pregnancy and congenital infection in the offspring are still lacking, due to the va...

Barriers of molecular epidemiology in Iran: Action plan and necessary steps

First Steps Towards Revising Ontologies

When modeling an ontology, one very often wants to add new information and keep the resulting ontology consistent. Belief Revision deals with the problem of consistently adding new formulas to a knowledge base. In this paper, we present some steps towards applying belief revision methods to ontologies based on description logics. We depart from the well known AGM-paradigm and show how it can be...