Text entry on mobile devices (e.g. phones and PDAs) has been a research challenge since devices shrank below laptop size: mobile devices are simply too small to have a traditional full-size keyboard. There has been a profusion of research into text entry techniques for smaller keyboards and touch screens: some of which have become mainstream, while others have not lived up to early expectations...

Various forms of reasoning, the profusion of knowledge, the gap between neuro-inspired approaches and conceptual representations, the problem of inconsistent data input, and the manifold of computational paradigms for solutions of these problems challenge AI models for higher cognitive abilities. We propose the I-Cog architecture as a step towards a solution for these problems. I-Cog is a modul...

There are several challenges for AI models of higher cognitive abilities like the profusion of knowledge, different forms of reasoning, the gap between neuro-inspired approaches and conceptual representations, the problem of inconsistent data, and the manifold of computational paradigms. The I-Cog architecture – proposed as a step towards a solution for these problems – consists of a reasoning ...

the city centre, Gradually however the crowd thinned slightly, the driver put his foot down and after a certain amount of stuttering and coughing, the ailing vehicle slowly built up speed. Thereafter the driver's technique for dealing with any obstacle was to blow his horn and accelerate towards it. Miraculously the obstacle would melt away at the very last moment, or if it didn't, we simply sw...

Remeshing is a key component of many geometric algorithms, including modeling, editing, animation and simulation. As such, the rapidly developing field of geometry processing has produced a profusion of new remeshing techniques over the past few years. In this paper we survey recent developments in remeshing of surfaces, focusing mainly on graphics applications. We classify the techniques into ...

BACKGROUND Since the early 1990s, the National Health Service (NHS) has seen the encouragement and growth of research-based practice – described here on, as evidence-based practice (EBP). This policy has been promoted nationally by the UK Department of Health. As a consequence there has been a profusion of guidance, policy documents and service requirements disseminated to all levels of the NHS...

The individual animals in a large batch of European tree-frogs imported into England from Italy were found to be suffering from what proved to be, with two exceptions, a uniformly fatal attack of typical red-leg. Bacterium alkaligenes was isolated in profusion in pure culture from the heart blood and lymph fluid of all the frogs examined. The strain was highly susceptible to streptomycin, and t...

High-throughput protein arrays allow the miniaturized and parallel analysis of large numbers of diagnostic markers in complex samples. Using automated colony picking and gridding, cDNA or antibody libraries can be expressed and screened as clone arrays. Protein microarrays are constructed from recombinantly expressed, purified, and yet functional proteins, entailing a range of optimized express...

Patient motion during myocardial SPECT profusion imaging may result in the formation of artifacts in the reconstructed images. This study attempts to present a method on the basis of modeling image frames through optimum-degree polynomial curves and fitting 2D curves to detect and correct heart motion at pixel and subpixel accuracy. To evaluate our method, NCAT phantom was shifted during data a...