The demand for a great variety of sophisticated telecommunications services with multimedia characteristics is increasing. This trend highlights the need for the efficient creation of distributed programs with multimedia data exchanges running on distributed processing environments. Therefore, it is necessary to support the objectoriented development of distributed multimedia applications in a ...

Social media technologies and services have empowered individuals and organisations by revolutionalising the way people communicate, socialise and conduct business. Two examples of social media services are Facebook and Twitter. Many organisations have been quick to realise the potential benefits of social media and have adopted social media marketing practices. Social media analytics are condu...

Storing, organizing, accessing, and maintaining distributed information (documents) for specific Web applications is a difficult and error-prone task if many critical information is not easily and directly accessible at run time, but rather generated information is embedded in various static HTML

Currently, popular operating systems are unable to support the end-to-end real-time requirements of distributed continuous media. Furthermore, the integration of continuous media communications software into such systems poses significant challenges. This paper describes a design for distributed multimedia support in the Chorus micro-kernel operating system environment which provides the necess...

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Program development processes for the Television, School, and Family Project, a school-based smoking prevention and cessation project, are presented in this article. We first review applications of social-psychological and communications theory to school-based and mass media program development. These include the three broad areas of (a) mediators of mass media effects on behavior change, (b) t...

This paper describes the two systems for determining the semantic similarity of short texts submitted to the SemEval 2012 Task 6. Most of the research on semantic similarity of textual content focuses on large documents. However, a fair amount of information is condensed into short text snippets such as social media posts, image captions, and scientific abstracts. We predict the human ratings o...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis remains an important disease which mainly affects the majority of vulnerable individuals in society, who are subjected to poor living conditions and difficulties to access the services of public health. Under these circumstances, the present study aims to understand patients' perception in relation to the influence of individual and social vulnerabilities on the adherenc...

Engineering Design Communication (EDC) is fundamental to almost all Engineering Design activities as it provides the ability for knowledge and information to be shared between engineers. It is part of ‘what we do’. This communication contains a great deal of rationale relating to the evolution of Product Development and is essential for understanding ‘why the product is the way it is’. The need...

Media spaces support remotely based cooperative activities and in some cases promote telepresence. Often, however, video use surrounding these systems has not been completely adequate or even appropriate for the tasks typically investigated. Research has primarily focused on “talking heads” video—video images of participants conversing face to face. Presently, the findings suggest that use of v...