Sports are a key part of cultural identity, and it is necessary to preserve them as important intangible Cultural Heritage, especially the human motion techniques specific to individual sports. In this paper we present a method for extracting 3D athlete motion from video broadcast sources, providing an important tool for preserving the heritage represented by these movements. Broadcast videos i...

Bringing software process change to an organisation is a real challenge. The authors have shown a sample attempt to carry out a process change and then reflected on its results and context. The present reflection points to a need for a set of principles and practices that would support the fragile process of introducing agility. For a start, the authors propose the Empirical Evidence principle ...

Landmarks are fundamental elements for people to learn an environment. People use these landmarks to enrich their route descriptions (for example, when anchoring movements at decision points). Several automatic landmark identification and selection theories have been suggested in recent years. This paper evaluates these theories by comparing the landmarks identified by automatic landmark select...

Oppsala Chart Processor is a l inguistic processor for phonological, morphological, and syntactic analysis. I t incorporates the basic mechanisms of the General Syntactic Processor. Linguistic rules as well as dictionary articles are presented to the processor in a procedural formalism, the UCP-formelism. The control of the processing rests upon the grammar and the dictionaries. Special attenti...

We study the domain wall structure in thin uniaxial ferromagnetic films in the presence of an in-plane applied external field in the direction normal to the easy axis. Using the reduced one-dimensional thin-film micromagnetic model, we analyse the critical points of the obtained non-local variational problem. We prove that the minimizer of the one-dimensional energy functional in the form of th...

In this paper, we propose the development of a web-based, intelligent instruction system to help elementary school students for mathematical computation. We concentrate on the intelligence facilities which support diagnosis and advice. The existing web-based instruction systems merely give information on whether the learners’ replies are ‘correct’ or ‘incorrect’, and only offer evaluations of t...

Predicting the future can be a risky business, but predicting the future of nuclear disarmament is especially difficult, linked as it is to the core security concerns of very powerful countries. Not only is the subject imperfectly defined but it is constantly evolving under the influence of forces that are too numerous and too complex to allow for any confident projections. Yet because the issu...