in recent decades, empowerment has been used as a mechanism to improve the quality of women’s personal life and career. in this respect, information technology can be used as an effective instrument to meet that end. the purpose of this study is to examine gender roles in inclination of men and women towards using information technology in agricultural extension. the study is conducted in gilan...

Security Architecture (SA) is concerned with such tasks as design, development and management of secure business information systems. These tasks are inherently complex and become several orders of magnitude more sophisticated in a Collaborative De-Perimeterised Environment (CDePE). Although significant research exists about the technical solutions that may be used in a CDePE, we believe there ...

In human-human communications, especially in face-to-face communication, sub-verbal and non-verbal messages have more importance than messages transported by words. On the other hand, in traditional manmachine interfaces, machines only understand pre-defined operations, and never understand operators’ sub-verbal and non-verbal messages. This causes some usability problems in machine operations....

Leisure and recreation facilities are strongly intertwined due to their mutual dependencies. Thus, they build up invisible networks. Leisure and recreation facilities are one of the imperative components for socio-cultural, psychological, and economic development. In the spectrum of sustainable development, it is not possible to initiate development process without strategically planning for le...

When animals are transported and pass through customs, some of them may have dangerous infectious diseases. Typically, due to the cost of testing, not all animals are tested: a reasonable selection must be made. How to test effectively, yet avoid cataclysmic events? First, we extend a model proposed in the literature for the detection of invasive species to suit our purpose. Secondly, we explor...

Recording engineers, mixers, and producers play important yet often overlooked roles in defining the sound of a particular record, artist, or group. The placement of different sound sources in space using stereo panning is an important component of their work. Stereo panning information typically is not utilized in music information retrieval (MIR) tasks such as genre and artist classification....

Information search in a distributed environment is an interactive process that involves both retrieval and the processing of information across users and artifacts. How the information is distributed across internal representations and external representations affects the efficacy of information search. Using a human-centered method called UFuRT, we developed an information search model and a t...

OBJECTIVE Despite at least 40 years of promising empirical performance, very few clinical natural language processing (NLP) or information extraction systems currently contribute to medical science or care. The authors address this gap by reducing the need for custom software and rules development with a graphical user interface-driven, highly generalizable approach to concept-level retrieval. ...

In many institutions, data analysts use a Biomedical Query Mediation (BQM) process to facilitate data access for medical researchers. However, understanding of the BQM process is limited in the literature. To bridge this gap, we performed the initial steps of a cognitive task analysis using 31 BQM instances conducted between one analyst and 22 researchers in one academic department. We identifi...