We have developed a location-aware sightseeing support system for visitors to KOTOHIRAGU Shrine, using only popular mobile phones employing the gpsOne system. Its design is not a map-based navigation system, but a shared virtual world system like multi-player online role-playing games. We conducted an experiment recruiting 29 subjects from real tourists visiting the shrine, who had their own co...

Why the name Bedwyr? In the legend of King Arthur and the round table, several knights shared in the search for the holy grail. The name of one of them, Parsifal, is used for an INRIA team associated with the “Slimmer” effort. Bedwyr was another one of those knights. Wikipedia (using the spelling “Bedivere”) mentions that Bedwyr appears inMonty Python and the Holy Grail where he is “portrayed a...

Recent molecular analysis of pathogenic bacterial DNA recovered from a dental abscess in the mummified head of a woman more than sixty years old, buried in K95 in Dra Abu el Naga in the necropolis of western Thebes, has identified Corynebacteria as one of the pathogens present in the New Kingdom, c. 1550-1080 BC, either in the original inhabitant of the tomb or in a later, intrusive New Kingdom...

Sambor Prei Kuk is the site of an ancient city called īçānapura, which flourished as capital Chenla in late 6th early 7th century. This was home to several Hindu temples that marked start a process architectural evolution culminating spectacular architecture Khmer civilization, exemplified Angor Wat. During pre-Angkorian times before foundation Empire beginning 9th century, religious places gen...

The authors developed a prototype Shared Health Research Information Network (SHRINE) to identify the technical, regulatory, and political challenges of creating a federated query tool for clinical data repositories. Separate Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) at Harvard's three largest affiliated health centers approved use of their data, and the Harvard Medical School IRB approved building a ...