The huge investment in 3G mobile licences is an incentive to develop extra services above and beyond basic telephony and data services. Service control provides an infrastructure to deliver services, particularly those of a real-time nature. This paper focuses on the progress in developing service control in the context of the 3GPP Release 4/5 network. To achieve the objectives for service evol...

The goal of this study is twofold: first, to examine in greater depth the claimed contribution of differences in syllable structure to measures of speech rhythm for three languages that are reported to belong to different rhythmic classes, namely, English, Spanish, and Catalan; and second, to investigate differences in the durational marking of prosodic heads and final edges of prosodic constit...

MHMD is an EU-funded project poised to create the first open biomedical information network centred on the connection between organisations and the individual, aiming at encouraging hospitals to start making anonymised data available for open research, while prompting citizens to become the ultimate owners and controllers of their health data.

I was born in South Africa, as were my parents and grandparents. We have descended from people who had been brought to Africa through indenture, a colonial labour system that introduced alien agricultural methods an workforce India, optimise monocultures like sugarcane. My very presence here is, therefore, entangled with colonialism’s domestication mastery over land, plant, (Indigenous indentur...

Tipping is a widespread custom in which service patrons voluntarily give money, above and beyond the price of the service, to the workers who have served them. This study found that the greater a nation’s level of neuroticism the larger the number of service professions that it is customary to tip in that country. This finding provides some support for an anthropological theory that tipping evo...

Research Projects Agency, grant # DAAB07-02-1-L28. In large part because of their guidance, this project was interesting and challenging, enabling me to hone my technical proficiency in integrated circuits while here at Berkeley. My fellow graduate students have provided me with the best possible support for intellectual development and social interaction, particularly Through all the exhilarat...