This article focuses on transparency in the context of asynchronous method invocation. It describes two solutions available to provide full-transparency: where asynchronism is entirely masked to the developer. The main contribution of this paper is to clearly present the drawbacks of this approach: exception handling and developer consciousness are two problems inherent to full-transparency tha...

Nowadays, driving support systems, such as car navigation systems, are getting common, and they support drivers in several aspects. It is important for driving support systems to detect status of driver's consciousness. Particularly, detecting driver's drowsiness could prevent drivers from collisions caused by drowsy driving. In this paper, we discuss the various artificial detection methods fo...

abstract emergence agitation that has been first described by eckenhoff et al. in 1960’s is a dissociated state of consciousness in which the child is inconsolable, irritable, uncooperative, typically thrashing, crying, moaning or incoherent. it is also a common problem in pediatric postanesthetic care unit with an incidence ranging from 10 to 80%. this literature review focused on presence of ...

In his Nobel acceptance lecture in 1981, Roger Sperry, who was awarded the Prize for Physiology or Medicine, argued that his research and that of his collaborators had demonstrated that the right hemisphere of split-brain patients had a rich cognitive and emotional life that might be said to rival that of the left hemisphere in many respects. This cemented the belief that two consciousness may ...

objective: to determine the prediction value of disorder of consciousness scale (docs) for consciousness recovery after traumatic brain injury (tbi) leading to coma. methods: this is a descriptive-cross-sectional study of the correlation between the level of patients’ consciousness in the first and second weeks and the first 2 months after traumatic brain injury, using docs scale. results: the ...

Currently a new version of the distance education platform WeLearn [3] to be combined with an agent system ([1], also developed locally) for providing advanced services [2] is under development. In a previous stage of the project software was created to automatically derive keywords from documents, either from the different versions of metadata already contained (various Microsoft file formats,...

As our ability to store information increases, the mechanisms we employ to access that information become ever more important. In this paper, we present Archosum, a prototype of an organizational system that attempts to encapsulate the benefits of both hierarchical and keyword systems. By introducing abstract entities, Archosum provides a simple interface with which users can build and maintain...