introduction: pulsed dye laser (pdl) has been used to treat acne lesions and scar erythema by interrupting superficial vasculature. salicylic acid chemical peels are employed chiefly due to their lipophilic, comedolytic, and anti-inflammatory properties. although studies have looked at peels and laser therapy independently in acne management, we examined these treatments in combination. our pri...

UNLABELLED Crossing the hands over the body midline reduces the perceived intensity of nociceptive stimuli applied to the hands by impairing the ability to localize somatosensory stimuli. The neural basis of this "crossed-hands analgesia" has not been investigated previously, although it has been proposed that the effect may be modulated by multimodal areas. We used functional magnetic resonanc...

This paper identifies key issues, solutions and actions for multimodal interaction, communication and navigation at the user interface with ICT systems and terminals. It specifically addresses the usage context of transactional interactions for independent living, and focus on the dynamics of multimodal transactions/user dialogues for the consumers of ICT systems and terminals. It identifies ho...

exploiting multimodal information like acceleration and heart rate is a promising method to achieve human action recognition. a semi-supervised action recognition approach aucc (action understanding with combinational classifier) using the diversity of base classifiers to create a high-quality ensemble for multimodal human action recognition is proposed in this paper. furthermore, both labeled ...

Large annotation projects, typically those addressing the question of multimodal annotation in which many different kinds of informationhave to be encoded, have to elaborate precise and high level annotation schemes. Doing this requires first to define the structure of theinformation: the different objects and their organization. This stage has to be as much independent as possible ...

SmartKom provides an adaptive and reusable dialogue shell for multimodal interaction, which has been employed successfully to realize fully-fledged prototype systems for various application scenarios. Taking the perspective of system architects, we will give a review of the overall design and specific architecture framework being applied within SmartKom. The basic design principles underlying o...

The rapid development of climate policies and the need to understand the dynamics of climate change have highlighted and shaped the role of land use, land-use change and forestry dynamics (LULUCF), making it an issue of global importance. As a consequence, LULUCF has become a central topic in economic theory and in environmental sciences. The attention is focused on creating and expanding compr...

This paper explores how the dynamics of complex biological processes can be modeled as an organisation of multiple agents. This modelling perspective identifies organisational structure occurring in complex decentralised processes and handles complexity of the analysis of the dynamics by structuring these dynamics according to an organisational structure. More specifically, dynamic properties a...

From the 1990s, the multimodal turn in discourse studies makes multimodal discourse analysis a popular topic in linguistics and communication studies. An important approach to applying Systemic Functional Linguistics to non-verbal modes is Visual Grammar initially proposed by Kress and van Leeuwen (1996). Considering that commercial advertisement is an indispensable part of the modern society t...

The paper discusses usability and communicative capability of mobile multimodal systems. It reports on the evaluation of one particular interactive multimodal route navigation system and discusses the challenges encountered in this task. The main questions concerned the user’s preference of one input mode over the other (speech vs. tactile/graphics input), usefulness of the system in completing...