The authors promote agent-oriented models to identify, represent and evaluate high-level abstractions of digital media design projects. A major aspect is the introduction of emotional goals, in addition to functional goals and quality goals to describe feelings such as having fun, being engaged and feeling cared for. To establish emotional goals, digital media design methods and processes were ...

Arginine residues in barley a-amylase/subtilisin inhibitor (BASI) involved in binding to barley a-amylase 2 (AMY2) were differentially labelled using AMY2 as protectant and phenylglyoxal (PGO) and [14C]PGO as modifying agents. Chymotryptic fragments of labelled BASI were purified by reverse-phase HPLC, and we concluded that the radiolabelled Arg-27, Arg-155 and most likely Arg-127, identified b...

The paper focuses on the area of context modeling with respect to the specification of context-aware systems supporting ubiquitous applications. The proposed approach, followed within the SIMPLICITY IST project, uses a high-level system ontology to derive context models for system components which consequently are mapped to the system’s physical entities. For the definition of user and device-r...

Due to geographic and climatic conditions in mountainous northwest area, Roads in these areas are often covered with snow, ice and mud. Hence Transportation of equipment and soldiers encounter hardship and difficulties in rural area and specially outposts. To solve these problems, it is needed to fabricate portable roadway or traction mats. These high strength mats cover surface of roads and ar...

RESULTS: Mean age at the time of reduction mammaplasty was 17.9 ± 1.7 years. Patients with macromastia demonstrated significant score improvements postoperatively from baseline on the RSES, BRSQ, and in seven out of eight SF-36 domains. Postoperative subjects scored significantly higher than controls at follow-up on the RSES and in four SF-36 domains (physical functioning, bodily pain, social f...

The Service Availability Forum (SAF) defines a set of middleware services to support and enable high availability in a standardized manner. The Availability Management Framework (AMF) is the service in charge of managing the high availability of the services provided by an application under its control. In order to do so, the AMF service requires a configuration of the application, referred to ...

CONTEXT Universal screening for mental health problems and suicide risk is at the forefront of the national agenda for youth suicide prevention, yet no study has directly addressed the potential harm of suicide screening. OBJECTIVE To examine whether asking about suicidal ideation or behavior during a screening program creates distress or increases suicidal ideation among high school students...

In this paper we describe integrated multimedia processing for Video Scout, a system that segments and indexes TV programs according to their audio, visual, and transcript information. Video Scout represents a future direction for personal video recorders. In addition to using electronic program guide metadata and a user profile, Scout allows the users to request specific topics within a progra...

Mobile information appliances are increasingly used in numerous different situations and locations, setting new requirements to their interaction methods. When the user's situation, place or activity changes, the functionality of the device should adapt to these changes. In this work we propose a layered real-time architecture for this kind of context-aware adaptation based on redundant collect...

Nowadays, almost all enterprises are supported by Information Systems (ISs). For a group of systems (ISs) to interoperate, the organisations responsible for the systems must first agree on what the words mean in the interoperation. This agreement is called an ontology, a description of the world shared by the participants. This paper presents a set of high-level concepts (upper ontology) for in...