Ethnicity has been defined primarily by the physical appearance of pedagogical agents. Research has shown that shared ethnicity between the agent and the user reflects in a positive perception of the agent's capabilities and provides motivation for learning tasks for students of color (Baylor, 2005; Nass et al., 2000). However, research has failed to examine what kinds of implementations of ped...

Integrity critical databases, such as financial information, which are used in high-value decisions, are frequently published over the internet. Publishers of such data must satisfy the integrity, authenticity, and non-repudiation requirements of end clients. Providing this protection over public data networks is an expensive proposition. This is, in part, due to the difficulty of building and ...

An innate deficiency of the Internet is its susceptibility to IP spoofing. Whereas a router uses a forwarding table to determine where it should send a packet, previous research has found that a router can similarly employ an incoming table to verify where a packet should come from, thereby detecting IP spoofing. Based on a previous protocol for building incoming tables, SAVE, this paper introd...

Gubitak sluha i tinitus svakodnevno u znatnoj mjeri otežavaju govornu komunikaciju pogođenim osobama. Teškoće slušanja uzrokovane njima mogu se ublažiti različitim terapijskim pristupima, međutim rehabilitacijski postupci usmjereni na poboljšanje kod odrasle populacije slabo su zastupljeni zdravstvenom sektoru. U novije vrijeme, računalni programi za tretiranje različitih zdravstvenih teškoća s...