The debate about direct perception encompasses different topics, one of which concerns the richness of the contents of perceptual experiences. Can we directly perceive only low-level properties, like edges, colors etc. (the sparse-content view), or can we perceive high-level properties and entities as well (the liberal-content view)? The aim of the paper is to defend the claim that the content ...

Social user-generated content (e.g. comments, blogs) will play a key role in learning environments providing a rich source for capturing diverse viewpoints; and is particularly beneficial in ill-defined domains that encompass diverse interpretations. This paper presents ViewS a framework for capturing viewpoints from user-generated textual content following a semantic sensing approach. It perfo...

Living in the era of social networking, coupled together with great advances in digital multimedia user-generated content, motivated us to focus our research work on humanistic data generated by such activities towards new, more efficient ways of extracting semantically meaningful information in the process. More specifically, the herein proposed approach aims to extract areas of interest in ur...

Today’ s technologies in video analysis use state of the art systems and formalisms like onthologies and datawarehousing to handle huge amount of data generated from low-level descriptors to high-level descriptors. In the IST CARETAKER project we develop a multi-dimensional database with distributed features to add a centric data view of the scene shared between all the sensors of a network. We...

Radium-223 (proposed trade name Alpharadin) was granted fast track designation by the FDA. The fast track process is designed to facilitate the development and expedited review of drugs to treat serious diseases and fill an unmet medical need. Fast track designation must be requested by the drug company and can be initiated at any time during the drug development process. (Continued on page 5) ...

Message-based Web Service architecture provides a unified approach to applications and Web Services that incorporates the flexibility of messaging and distributed components. We propose SMMV and MMMV collaboration as the general architecture of collaboration based on a Web service model, which accommodates both instructor-led learning and participatory learning. This approach derives from our m...

User-provided textual tags of web images are widely utilized for facilitating image management and retrieval. Yet they are usually incomplete and insufficient to describe the whole semantic content of the corresponding images, resulting in performance degradations of various tag-dependent applications. In this paper, we propose a novel method denoted as DLSR for automatic image tag completion v...

Explicit syntax and implicit semantics of Web coding are typically addressed as distinct dominions in providing metrics for content accessibility. A more down-to-earth portrait about barriers and their impact on users with disabilities could be obtained whether any quantitative synthesis about number and size of barriers integrated measurements from automatic checks and human assessments. In th...