For people with disabilities the Web holds great chances for transforming former barriers to information access, communication and participation at work and in social life. The research question underlying the described project is: What potentials do the Web and the latest Internet-technologies offer to students with extensive mobility limitations in terms of staying in touch with other people ...

The BIS–BAS scales (Carver & White, 1994), which assess Gray s motivational systems, were translated into Polish. The first part of this contribution contains a psychometric analysis of the Polish translation. The analyses include basic item and scale descriptions as well as structural equation modeling of the measurement model. The second part describes two studies for proving convergent and d...

— Fuzzy clustering is an important problem which is the subject of active research in several real world applications. Fuzzy c-means (FCM) algorithm is one of the most popular fuzzy clustering techniques because it is efficient, straightforward, and easy to implement. Fuzzy clustering methods allow the objects to belong to several clusters simultaneously, with different degrees of membership. O...

In this paper we describe our concepts for an Internet based framework for cooperative buildings (FCB). This framework supports the engineering of applications to manage future cooperative buildings that are equipped with electronically manageable devices. The term ‘cooperative’ is meant to indicate that we are striving for buildings in which all electronically controllable devices can cooperat...

In this paper, a fast implementation algorithm for EVRC encoder is presented. Among the routines of CELP-type speech coders, the fixed codebook search is the most computationally demanding. The fast algorithm developed in this study mainly concerns the fixed codebook search procedure. For efficient codebook search, two efficient schemes are developed: limiting the number of possible combination...

This paper explores the effect of product placement strategies on customer behavior in Chinese context and results will help companies China select appropriate marketing to achieve sustainable development. Following Foote, Cone Belding (FCB) grid model, we construct a difference model which products are classified into four types, namely High Involvement/Thinking, Involvement/High Feeling, Low ...