Radiology, News, Education, Service

The "News Web Easy" news service as a resource for teaching and learning Japanese: An assessment of the comprehension difficulty of Japanese sentence-end expressions

Japan’s public broadcasting corporation, NHK, launched “News Web Easy” in April 2012 1. It provides users with five simplified news scripts (easy Japanese news) on a daily basis. This web service provides users with five daily simplified news scripts of “easy” Japanese news. Since its inception, this service has been favorably received both in Japan and overseas. Users particularly appreciate i...

Gender Mainstreaming in Globalized News: Cultural Globalization and the Inter Press Service

Food, Nutrition and Lead Absorption

June 2010 Page 1 of 41 LEAD Action News vol 10 no 2, June 2010 ISSN 1324-6011 Incorporating Lead Aware Times (ISSN 1440-4966) & Lead Advisory Service News (ISSN 1440-0561) The journal of The LEAD (Lead Education and Abatement Design) Group Inc. PO Box 161 Summer Hill NSW 2130 Australia Ph: (02) 9716 0014 Email www.lead.org.au/cu.html Web:www.lead.org.au/ Edited by Anne Roberts. Food Photos by C...

Network Structure and its Influence on User Behavior

Social networks are now ubiquitous across many online services in diverse areas such as communication, music, education, health, and news. This thesis provides an understanding of the interplay between network structure and user behavior in the Twitter network and on the Duolingo language learning platform. We develop models and algorithms that can explain observed user behavior and distinguish...

PERSONALISED NEWS ON DEMAND: THE “HyNoDe” SERVICE

This paper presents the approach of the ESPRIT project HyNoDe (EP 22160 Hypermedia News on Demand) towards a novel Personalised News-On-Demand (PNoD) Service. The HyNoDe Service Personalised feature refers to customisation of the service to suit individual needs and preferences of the clients based on the information filtering concept. The service addresses all the involved phases in the news p...