Ubiquitous computing spaces, which have displays generously embedded into the environment, allow interaction with graphical user interfaces in a much more casual manner than desktop computers, which tie the user a particular desk. But simply putting desktop applications on a ubiquitous display will not make their use casual. We propose applications that can roam among displays as well as to per...

Typically, in digital entertainment, the screen is the center of the player's attention. If the real world was part of the gameplay, the player would also pay attention to what is happening around her. That is the case of pervasive games. Our objective is to find ways of making pervasive play available for a large casual audience, but in a way that casual games are not deprived of their intrins...

In this study, we compared current data and of the census made in 1990s related to vascular flora Capo Mortola (Ventimiglia, Italy), considering 270 taxa not dependent on crop management. The status reported 198 alien species: 5 invasive, 65 naturalized 75 casual, 38 occurring as casual human-dominated systems, but without direct intervention by humans close parent plant, 15 alien, still with s...

Spanish is one of the best documented languages in the world. However, no large corpus of casual Spanish suitable for detailed phonetic analysis is available to our knowledge. The goal of this article is to introduce the Nijmegen Corpus of Casual Spanish (NCCSp from now on), a new corpus designed to fill this gap. The corpus was designed taking the Nijmegen Corpus Casual French as a model [Torr...

BACKGROUND Few data exist regarding frequency and predictors of bleeding complications associated with anticoagulant therapy using dabigatran in Japanese patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). METHODS AND RESULTS We retrospectively studied 184 patients with AF who were administered dabigatran from April 2011 to August 2012 in our institution. Twenty-eight patients (15%) developed some type o...

In many Western societies, drug users are accountable for heterosexual transmission of HIV. Although various studies have shown that safe sex is not a common practice among drug users, we still have little understanding of the factors that determine their use of condoms in their sexual relationships with steady or casual partners. The objective of this study is to gain more insight into the det...

OBJECTIVES Blood pressure (BP) is poorly controlled in many countries. Poor compliance was suggested as the main cause for poor BP control. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between compliance and the control of both casual blood pressure (BP) and 24-hr ambulatory BP in a Japanese elderly population. METHODS The study was a cross-sectional survey. Casual BP and 24-hr am...

The elderly population is increasing in Brazil. According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), in the last ten years the elderly population increased 47,8% while the increasing proportion in the overall population was 21,6%. This fact raises the need for new forms of leisure and entertainment for this audience. Casual games on smartphones constitute an option for them....

OBJECTIVES To examine the amount of time adolescents waited to have intercourse with past partners (main and casual), and intentions to delay with future partners. To determine psychosocial factors which predict delay intentions among adolescent males and females with future partners (main and casual). METHODS Adolescent STD clinic attendees were approached before clinical appointments to par...