While the textual chat is a highly popular tool for various kinds of social interactions, its extension to the visual three-dimensional domain remains almost untouched and without practical utilization yet. This paper discusses advantages and disadvantages of spatial virtual environment when used as a platform for connecting people and serving for social and cultural interaction. The difference...

We argue that the inability of schools to embrace new core technologies lies instead in the nature of schools as social institutions. Thus the catalytic power of information technologies are likely to leave the core practices of schooling untouched, and instead open up a wide range of alternative learning venues to traditional schools. We see the seeds of a technology-driven, alternative system...

In Puri town and district and throughout Orissa, cholera shows itself year after 37ear regularly over a defined area, and from this " infected focus" the disease invades the same bazaars and villages, leaving the greater part of the district untouched. The usual course of the disease is intimately connected with the pilgrimages. In Orissa, cholera is more 01 less endemic from January to August,...

Many health experts worry that the dra matic health gains of recent years may prove temporary if external resources wane. The U.S. Global Health Initiative (GHI) outlines an ambitious agenda to permanently strengthen the health systems of the countries we assist, but there is no consensus on how to do this. One promising approach applies the lessons learned from improving care in the U.S. healt...

[...] translation practices the difference between signified and signifier. But if this difference is never pure, no more so is translation, and for the notion of translation we would have to substitute a notion of transformation: a regulated transformation of one language by another, of one text by another. We will never have, and in fact have never had, to do with some ‘transport’ of pure sig...

This paper describes our approach for the Visual Privacy Task (VPT) of the MediaEval 2014. Video privacy filtering based on privacy-sensitive-object transparency is proposed. The background (hidden behind the object) is estimated by median filtering over time sequence of pixel values. We focus only on the areas labeled as high privacy sensitive (i.e. face). Low and medium privacy areas were rat...

We study correlation analysis for monopole components of stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds, including the maximally allowed polarization degrees. show that, typical detector networks, can probe virtually five spectra: three intensities tensor, vector, and scalar modes two chiral asymmetries tensor vector modes. The asymmetric signal has been left untouched so far. In this paper, we deri...

Predictive Processing theory, hotly debated in neuroscience, psychology and philosophy, promises to explain a number of perceptual cognitive phenomena simple elegant manner. In some its versions, the theory is ambitiously advertised as new conscious perception. The task this paper assess whether claim realistic. We will be arguing that cannot transition from unconscious perception proprietary t...

The integral monodromy on the Milnor lattice of an isolated quasihomogeneous singularity is subject almost untouched conjecture Orlik from 1972. We prove this for all iterated Thom-Sebastiani sums chain type singularities and cycle singularities. main part paper purely algebraic. It provides tools dealing with tensor products ${\mathbb Z}$-lattices automorphisms finite order cyclic generators. ...

one of the major sources of psychology in the field of teaching english as foreign language in iranian universities is a book named the psychology of the language learner: individual differences in second language acquisition written by zoltan dornyei. the book was first published in 2005 and was later revised in 2015 and published by routledge. this study thus aims to analyze this book critica...