Intelligent assistants are handling increasingly critical tasks, but until now, end users have had no way to systematically assess where their assistants make mistakes. For some intelligent assistants, this is a serious problem: if the assistant is doing work that is important, such as assisting with qualitative research or monitoring an elderly parent’s safety, the user may pay a high cost for...

This paper focuses on access control approaches usable for information sharing through large screens where several individuals are present at the same time. Access control in this setting is quite different from traditional systems where a user logs on to the system. The paper outlines a number of possible approaches to access control, and evaluates them based on criteria derived from risk anal...

Let A = UP be a polar decomposition of an n×n complex matrix A. Then for every unitarily invariant norm ||| · |||, it is shown that ||| |UP − PU |||| ≤ |||A∗A−AA∗||| ≤ ‖UP + PU‖ |||UP − PU |||, where ‖·‖ denotes the operator norm. This is a quantitative version of the wellknown result that A is normal if and only if UP = PU . Related inequalities involving self-commutators are also obtained.

In this paper a humming method for music information retrieval is presented. The system uses a database with real songs and does not need another type of symbolic representation of them. The system employs an original fingerprint based on chroma vectors to characterize the humming and the references songs. With this fingerprint, it is possible to get the hummed songs without needed of transcrip...

adenoviruses are one of the most important etiological agents of serious gastroenteritis among infants and young children. fecal specimens from patients with an acute gastroenteritis were evaluated for the presence of adenovirus (ad40, 41) from april 2002 to february 2004. during the study, 1052 samples were collected from children under the age of 5 years in six educational and therapeutic ped...

tio 2 nanoparticles (nps) might be considered as the most important photosensitizer due to high photocatalytic and sonocatalytic efficiency, low toxicity, excellent biocompatibility, low cost and high chemical stability. tio 2 -nps normally tend to aggregate in physiological medium and which results to decreased cell viability and inducing expression of stress-related genes. thus dispersion and...