BACKGROUND Hispanic adults in the United States are at particular risk for diabetes and inadequate blood pressure control. Physical activity improves these health problems; however Hispanic adults also have a low rate of recommended aerobic physical activity. To address improving physical inactivity, one area of rapidly growing technology that can be utilized is text messaging (short message se...

The article examines the features of a new drama promoted by Lesya Ukrainka in her literary-and-critical articles, and further artistic work. In drama, focuses on nature dramatic work, specifically, text as link connecting addresser addressee. She sees H. Hauptman’s dramaturgy an example such creation, namely, motives types characters his plays. word becomes lead character texts turns into comm...

DCU participated in the ImageCLEF 2008 photo retrieval task, submitting runs for both the English and Random language annotation conditions. Our approaches used text-based and image-based retrieval approaches to give baseline retrieval runs, with the highest-ranked images from these baseline runs clustered using K-Means clustering of the text annotations. Finally, each cluster was represented b...

English. This paper addresses the problem of the metadata annotation for dramatic texts. Metadata for drama describe the dramatic qualities of a text, connecting them with the linguistic expressions. Relying on an ontological representation of the dramatic qualities, the paper presents a proposal for the creation of a corpus of annotated dramatic texts. Italiano. Questo articolo affronta il pro...

In this paper we describe a prototype system that recognizes text in images, captured by camera phones and provide access to the content in a different language. Two Indian languages – Hindi and Tamil are used to demonstrate such a system. The prototype system is built using off-the-shelf components, and in house developed algorithms. The acquired image is first transferred to a server, which c...

The purpose of this paper is to show a contributor the required style for a paper for ECAI-2000 and PAIS-2000. The specifications for layout are described so that non-LTEX users can create their own style sheet to achieve the same layout. The source for the sample file is available for LTEX users. The PostScript and the PDF file is available for all. The layout is identical to ECAI-98 papers ex...

In reading, a text change during an eye fixation can increase the duration of that fixation. This increased fixation duration could be the result of disrupted text processing, or from the effect of perceiving the brief visual change (a visual transient). The present study was designed to test those two hypotheses. Subjects read multiple-line text while their eye movements were monitored. During...

Chekhov's drama “Three Sisters” is the richest of all plays in terms sound design – despite a number scientific works devoted to score play, it still attracts attention researchers this aspect. Today seems relevant consider sounds, noises, musical fragments drama, recorded by author remarks and text, constituting an integral part with semantic field drama. This article shows that conce...