ONTOLOGIES SPECIFY THE CONcepts and relations within a domain of discourse. Scientists, philosophers, sociologists, and linguistics have been striving for good ontologies since Empedocles described the four elements—air, earth, fire, and water—in the fifth century BC. We now use ontologies for classification, system modeling, humancomputer interaction, computer reasoning, and data mining in fie...

In this thesis we address the problem of distributing large contents in the Internet. We focus on two interesting and very common services, video on demand (VoD) and file replication. We first investigate how to provide an efficient VoD service to a large number of clients in a dedicated overlay network (e.g. Akamai [5]). Our contribution here is a new video distribution architecture that is hi...

Abstract The aim of this paper is to analyze a new phenomenon that emerging in the field social robotics, which we name as “roboid”. roboid robot still at prototype stage but claims be fully functioning. We argue has been created handle phase between prototyping and commercialization robots. In intermediate phase, wide-spread promotional campaign organized by producers, with purpose understandi...

Several studies have tried to find an efficient agent to prevent or reverse gentamicin (Gm) induced acute kidney injury (AKI). In this study, we assessed the potential renal protective effects of Descurainia sophia (L.) Webb ex Prantl against Gm-induced nephrotoxicity in rats. Thirty-five male Wistar rats were categorized in five groups (n = 7 per group). Control group was treated with...

Paraschos, Sophia, "Unconventional doctoring: a medical student's reflections on total suffering" (2013).

Dedication To my wife Christina and my parents Sophia and Nikos.

Key members: Péter Horváth [1] Zoltán Kató [2] Founded by: Hungarian Science and Technology Foundation (TET), Hungarian-French Cooperation (Balaton) [3] Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA) [4] European Union FP5 project IMAVIS PhD Scholarship of the Doctoral School in Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Szeged [5] PhD Scholarship of the French Government Partners: Ariana...

Key members: Péter Horváth [1] Zoltán Kató [2] Founded by: Hungarian Science and Technology Foundation (TET), Hungarian-French Cooperation (Balaton) [3] Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA) [4] European Union FP5 project IMAVIS PhD Scholarship of the Doctoral School in Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Szeged [5] PhD Scholarship of the French Government Partners: Ariana...

1 Department of Mathematics, School of Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China 2 Pedagogical Department E.E., Section of Mathematics and Informatics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 4, Agamemnonos Str., Aghia Paraskevi, 15342 Athens, Greece 3 School of Communication and Information Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Che...

Key members: Péter Horváth [1] Zoltán Kató [2] Founded by: Hungarian Science and Technology Foundation (TET), Hungarian-French Cooperation (Balaton) [3] Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA) [4] European Union FP5 project IMAVIS PhD Scholarship of the Doctoral School in Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Szeged [5] PhD Scholarship of the French Government Partners: Ariana...