Figure 1: Photographs showing (A) top and bottom of the silicon microchip, and (B) a packaged device with wire-bonded connector We have developed an implantable silicon microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device for biomedical applications [1]. This device contains an array of wells that hermetically store its contents. Activation of the device electrochemically dissolves gold membranes coveri...

This paper presents an online environment aimed at community post-editing, which can record and store any post-editing action performed on machine translated content. This environment can then be used to generate reports using the standard XLIFF format with a view to provide stakeholders such as machine translation providers, content developers and online community managers with detailed inform...

there has been a recent development and explosion of interest among academicians across a wide range of disciplines in the use of virtual class room. utilization of the virtual class room as a laboratory experimentation for teaching and learning has increased significantly in recent years as development tools for web based applications have become easier to use and computers have become more ca...

Pure-play online retailers have created pressure on traditional bricks-and-mortar retailers forcing many of them to move to a multi-channel business model to provide customers online storefronts in addition to local physical stores. Conventional wisdom suggests that online prices be lower than instore prices. This study investigates whether multi-channel retailers follow such clear-cut pricing ...

This paper presents an in-store e-commerce system that provides shopping assistance and personalized advertising through the use of a new concept in context aware computing, dynamic contextualization. This system, PromoPad, utilizes augmented reality technologies on a hand-held Tablet PC to provide for dynamic modification of the contextual settings of products on store shelves through the use ...

Given the increasing importance of mobile applications in people’s daily life and the unique characteristics of the mobile environment, surprisingly little research has been conducted to investigate consumers’ downloading behavior in mobile application stores. In this study, by combining predictors of product performance with customer value framework, we consider both text and non-text informat...

We present an interactive graphical environment for the manipulation of context-free languages. The graphical environment allows the editing of a context-free grammar, the conversion to Chomsky normal form, word parsing and the (interactive) construction of parse trees. It is possible to store positive and negative datasets of words to be tested by a given grammar. The main goal of this system ...