Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) is an area that requires a lot of technical documents and an important feature of a well-written document is a coherent narrative. Even though computer software has helped authors in many other aspects of writing, support for document narratives is almost non-existent. Therefore, we introduce CANS (Computer-Aided Narrative Support), a tool that uses Rhetori...

Despite dramatic advances in the sophistication of tools for measuring prosodic and content channels of expression from natural speech, methodological issues have limited the simultaneous measurement of those channels for laboratory research. This is particularly unfortunate, considering the importance of emotional expression in daily living and how it can be disrupted in many psychological dis...

Online learning in K-12 and higher education has been growing rapidly, and open source software has the potential to improve the quality of e-learning. This chapter describes how FOSS enables turning e-learning from a potentially restrictive and narrow framing of the education experience to an emergent and social experience. The chapter will identify several key elements of the FOSS model that ...

Cyclone Hudah struck the northeastern coast of Madagascar in the spring of 2000. Over a 5-month period, 11 700 relief kits consisting of bottles of water disinfectant and foldable jerry cans were distributed to the affected population. Five months after the cyclone, a survey was conducted in 12 villages to determine the impact of these relief kits on water quality. Seventy-six percent of the su...

In this paper we describe an ultrasonic inspection system used for detection of surface defects in food cans. The system operates in pulse-echo mode and analyzes the 220 kHz ultrasonic signal backscattered by the object. The classification of samples into valid or defective is achieved with χ statistics and the k-nearest neighbour method, applied to features computed from the envelope of the ul...

Strain Genotype Source BY4741 MATa his3Δ1 leu2Δ0 met15Δ0 ura3Δ0 Open Biosystems W303 MATa ade2-1 his3-11,15 leu2-3,112 trp1-1 ura3-1 can1-100 doa4 (BY4741) MATa doa4::KanMX4 Open Biosystems MHY753 MATa his3-Δ200 leu2D1 ura3-52 lys2-801 trp1-63 ade2-101 [19] MHY754 MATa his3-Δ200 leu2D1 ura3-52 lys2-801 trp1-63 ade2-101 cim3-1 [19] YKA247 (W303) bar1::URA3 acm1::KanMX4 [11] YKA404 MATα acm1::Na...

Nonfat dry milk (NDM) and powdered whey beverages are available at the retail level, packaged in No. 10 cans in a reduced oxygen atmosphere to prolong shelf life. The objective of this research was to determine the sensory and nutritional quality of these dried milk products at the time of purchase. In the 10 brands tested, wide variation existed in headspace oxygen, can seam quality, sensory q...