in nutritional experiments the animals are kept in metabolic cage and are fed according to the planned interval times. a machine was designed and fabricated to feed the sheep every one or two hours. the machine operates with 220 volts electricity and the feed storing capacity is designed for three days feeding. the weight of sheep and type of feed determines the amount of feed required. by chan...

The authors show that integrity protection as a technical means towards automated teller machine (ATM) security is not enough to establish trust towards ATM users. The attacks, aiming at getting into possession of users’ bank card details and personal identification numbers (PINs) are manifold. The authors come up with a solution that allows users to establish trust into the ATM integrity prote...

automatic analysis of human facial expressions is one of the challenging problems in machine vision systems. it has many applications in human-computer interactions such as, social signal processing, social robots, deceit detection, interactive video and behavior monitoring. in this paper, we develop a new method for automatic facial expression recognition based on facial muscle anatomy and hum...

Part of the process of rehabilitation after a brain injury is the relearning of various daily tasks such as preparing food, managing finances, getting from one place to another and so forth. These tasks require learning on all levels from physical to cognitive. Remembering a PIN code for a bank card, for example, can become automatic and ‘in the fingers’ after much repetition. However, other ta...

The automatic identification of direct and indirect discourses and the association of each “direct” utterance with its author are research topics that begin to be explored in Natural Language Processing. We developed the DID system that when applied to children stories starts by classifying the utterances that belong to the narrator (indirect discourse) and those belonging to the characters tak...