This paper presents a novel approach to the detection of unusual or interesting events in videos involving certain types of intentional behaviour, such as pedestrian scenes. The approach is not based upon a statistical measure of typicality, but upon building an understanding of the way people navigate towards a goal. The activity of agents moving around within the scene is evaluated based upon...

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technology is being recognized as a new approach to decentralized workflow management systems to overcome the limitation of the current centralized ClienUServer workflow management systems. However, the lack of supporting adaptability and exception handling at instance level of this approach seems to be responsible for the weakness of the P2P workflow management systems. Dyna...

Colovesical fistula is the presence of a communication between the colon and the bladder, either directly or via an intervening abscess cavity (foyer intermediare). These are the most common type of fistulous communication between the urinary bladder and the bowel. First record of Colovesical fistula was in AD 200 by Rufus of Epheus. The first monograph on the case was produced by Cripps in 188...

The Double Deck Desk (Dddesk) was a two-storied work station with accompanying software that we installed in the foyer of a large office building over a two-week period. Evolved from several iterations of speculative design proposals, it addressed the need for contemplation within the workplace by literally lifting people from everyday commotion and by providing software that encouraged people ...

Le nazisme et son extension en Europe furent à l’origine de l’émigration milliers personnes, majoritairement juives. La Palestine sous mandat britannique, qui constituait le cœur du projet sioniste d’établir un foyer national juif, constitua une destination cette migration après 1933, parfois qualifiée d’« aliya germanophone ». Les Juifs germanophones vécurent expérience migratoire notamment da...

De 1918 à 1923, August Aichhorn dirige un foyer éducatif pour enfants et adolescents dans la banlieue nord de Vienne. Soutenu par S. Freud qui dédicace son ouvrage Jeunesse l’abandon en 1925, sa pratique originale reconnue a déjà fait l’objet nombreux travaux, tant les champs psychanalytique que pédagogique. Pourtant, il est rare ces travaux mettent l&#...

O objeto deste artigo, em pesquisa de abordagem qualitativa, trajeto interdisciplinar e natureza aplicada, é a formação plateia teatro, sua eventualidade, busca pela transformação público, virtualmente duradouro, através práticas artísticas comunicacionais designadas no campo das artes cênicas “plateia-foyer” “leitura dramatizada”. No plano teórico-metodológico, com objetivo descritivo interpre...

This paper describes the results of a natural field experiment that investigated voluntary contributions to a public good. The experiment took place at an art gallery where admission was free, but donations could be deposited into a transparent box in the foyer. We manipulated the social information available to patrons by altering what was visible in the donation box. In particular, we investi...