Multimedia data grow day by day which makes it necessary to index them automatically and efficiently for fast retrieval, and more precisely to automatically index them with key events. In this paper, we present preliminary work on key event detection in British royal wedding videos using automatic speech recognition (ASR) and visual data. The system first automatically acquires key events of ro...

This paper describes the idea of using context aware soft furnishing for decorations. Textile has the ability to easily change the experience of an environment. This quality combined with the dynamics of ubiquitous computing and context awareness creates an interesting design space to investigate. The examples we show, a tablecloth and a drapery, are designed for use on festive and social event...

Teen pregnancy is back in the news. After 15 years of decline, the trend in teen birth rates ticked upward in 2006. Coupled with the ongoing media spotlight on the popular film Juno and the pregnancy of Britney Spears’ younger sister, we’re once again wringing our collective hands over kids having kids. But are these concerns really warranted? To what extent does teen pregnancy lead to mothers’...

1320 Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 11, No. 8, August 2005 trophoresis (PFGE) analysis demonstrated these to be a unique clone distinct from Asian and American clinical strains (5). In July 2004, a V. parahaemolyticus outbreak of 80 illnesses occurred in A Coruña, Spain. All the casepatients attended weddings in the same restaurant. V. parahaemolyticus was isolated from s...

The purpose of writing this scientific article is to gain an understanding the oral tradition Javanese traditional seloko adat used in Malay weddings, whose problem formulation includes: (1) What tradition? (2) Jambi seloko? (3) How are efforts provincial customary institutions maintain advancement culture? To answer these three problems writer a qualitative approach with literature study metho...

People's lifestyles that are increasingly paying attention to appearance cause the bridal and make-up service business be in demand. Bridal businesses now serving weddings various events. This condition causes must more competitive. Service providers able understand factors can satisfy consumers make them willing repeat purchases. study aims test whether quality, product price reasonableness in...