Digital games and playful interactive installations are considered a promising means to raising awareness about the environment and persuading people to adopt an environmental friendly behavior. However, the selection and use of appropriate methods and paradigms for designing and evaluating such systems and successfully blending the ‘fun’ element with the messages to be communicated is still an...

Pharmacovigilance is “the science and activities relating to the detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects or any other drug related problem”. There is criticism that drug safety reporting in medical research is inadequate. There is possibility of many types of bias in vaccine safety studies especially in the diagnostic process, at investigator level and in the proc...

The General Chord Type (GCT) representation is appropriate for encoding tone simultaneities in any harmonic context (such as tonal, modal, jazz, octatonic, atonal). The GCT allows the re-arrangement of the notes of a harmonic sonority such that abstract idiom-specific types of chords may be derived. This encoding is inspired by the standard roman numeral chord type labelling and is, therefore, ...

In this paper we focus on issues of harmonic representation and computational analysis. A new idiomindependent representation is proposed of chord types that is appropriate for encoding tone simultaneities in any harmonic context (such as tonal, modal, jazz, octatonic, atonal). The General Chord Type (GCT) representation, allows the re-arrangement of the notes of a harmonic simultaneity such th...

Digital typefaces for computer graphics and multimedia applications must be capable of supporting operations such as font variations, transformations, deformations and blending. A powerful implementation of such operations must rely on the inherent typographic attributes of the typeface. However, even today's most advanced typeface representations support only geometric outline representations ...

M A N A G E M E N T A C C O U N T I N G Q U A R T E R L Y S P R I N G 2 0 1 4 , V O L . 1 5 , N O . 3 I t is generally accepted that one of management’s primary roles is to optimize profits by controlling costs effectively. This includes costs associated with operating the day-today business, such as those related to labor, materials, and administrative functions, as well as more strategic cost...

Large-scale datasets generated by dynamical systems arise in many applications in science and engineering. Two research topics of current interest in this area involve using data collected through observational networks or output by numerical models to quantify the uncertainty in long-range forecasting, and improve understanding of the operating dynamics. In this research expository we discuss ...

We preset a network model for context-based retrieval allowing for integrating domain knowledge into document retrieval. Based on the premise that the results provided by a network model employing spreading activation are equivalent to the results of a vector space model, we create a network representation of a document collection for retrieval. We extended this well explored approach by blendi...