Hospitalized children often experience physical changes that negatively affect their bodily perceptions, thereby adding to the stress of being sick. Existing approaches to supporting hospitalized children such as those promoted by the Clown Doctors use play to distract the child from negative bodily perceptions. In contrast, we propose reframing the bodily perception of these children through b...

With a growing trend in usage of mobile navigation devices, there is also a need for an intelligent pedestrian navigation system. As an example, one might think of a visit to a large commercial center or a theme park, where the visitor must be efficiently guided to accomplish his tasks. In order to efficiently schedule a visit in such a scenario, the system not only needs to simulate and determ...

A large family of real-world applications are influenced by geospatial features and known relationships between them. Also, a very large volume of geospatial data is currently available from different sources, prepared for different applications, and with different levels of uncertainty. This paper presents a brief analysis about spatial, thematic, technical and temporal aspects of uncertainty ...

The ideas in this book revolve around a central theorem, the horotube surgery theorem, which is mainly of interest to specialists in complex hyperbolic geometry; see Section 6 below. This book is the culmination of several important papers by Schwartz in this area, which we describe in Section 4 below. As well as the main theorem, this book contains background material and applications. It may ...

The paper provides a personal view of the implications of computational concepts and technologies on art practice. It draws upon 40 years of such practice by the author. As the title implies, the paper concentrates on the themes of structure within the artwork, time-based art, correspondences between different media that the computer enables, and interaction with the audience. The paper draws a...

There are numerous definitions of the term “spirituality”. To a large extent, the diversity of content of these definitions reflects the varied perspectives of their authors. However, collectively, it is clear that this enormously large number of different definitions comprise a relatively small number of common themes. The present paper is concerned with a review of the literature on addiction...

Abstract: This survey article discusses the main concepts and techniques of Stein’s method for distributional approximation by the normal, Poisson, exponential, and geometric distributions, and also its relation to concentration of measure inequalities. The material is presented at a level accessible to beginning graduate students studying probability with the main emphasis on the themes that a...

as scholarships for training for almoners' work. The Council consider that not enough women are entering upon this work to fill the vacancies that are likely to occur in the future. Hitherto, indeed, the demand for trained almoners has always exceeded the supply. This is no doubt explained by the fact that the inherent qualities that go to the making of a good almoner are somewhat exceptional. ...

The aim of this article is to introduce the reader to the study of testing graph properties, while focusing on the main models and issues involved. No attempt is made to provide a comprehensive survey of this study, and specific results are often mentioned merely as illustrations of general themes.

Humans tend to organize perceived information into hierarchies and structures, a principle that also applies to music. Even musically untrained listeners unconsciously analyze and segment music with regard to various musical aspects, for example, identifying recurrent themes or detecting temporal boundaries between contrasting musical parts. This paper gives an overview of state-of-theart metho...