The concept of optical transparency in antennas for epidermal electronics is demonstrated this work as a means improving the long-term comfort-of-wear level and possibly opening up wider range applications. In contrast to previous attempts, antenna achieved by employing dielectric conductive materials that are both transparent flexible (i.e., polydimethylsiloxane-transparent textile composite) ...

Background The continuous growth of the older adult population will have implications for organization health and social care. Potentially, in-home monitoring unobtrusive sensing systems (USSs) can be used to support formal or informal caregivers adults, as they monitor deviant physical physiological behavior changes. Most existing USSs are not specific Hence, facilitate implementation in care,...

This study attempted to systematically inspect the impact of direct and indirect corrective feedbacks on the writing ability of EFL learners when using product/process based instructions. To do so, 110 female EFL learners, between the ages of 15 and 18, were randomly assigned into four experimental groups to receive four different kinds of treatments, namely product-based instruction with direc...

Machine translation (MT) evaluation metrics based on n-gram co-occurrence statistics are financially cheap to execute and their value in comparative research is well documented. However, their value as a standalone measure of MT output quality is questionable. In contrast, manual methods of MT evaluation are financially expensive. This paper will present early research being carried out within ...

Currently, a particular focus of human centered technology is in expanding traditional contextual sensing and smart processing capabilities of ubiquitous systems exploiting user’s affective and emotional states to develop more natural communication between computing artefacts and users. This paper presents a smart environment of Web services that has been developed to integrate and manage diffe...

The cognitive load placed on users by both the proactive and spontaneous provisioning of service functionality and by the physical activities performed in ambient intelligence environments can lead to the depletion of their mental resources. This paper demonstrates how burdening the inappropriate selection of service functionality can be for users by conducting a semi-naturalistic and controlle...

For more than a century, it has been known that the body recoils each time the heart ejects blood into the arteries. These subtle cardiogenic body movements have been measured with increasingly convenient ballistocardiography (BCG) instruments over the years. A typical BCG measurement shows several waves, most notably the "I", "J", and "K" waves. However, the mechanism for the genesis of these ...

In this paper we propose a novel approach to manage the throughput vs latency tradeoff that emerges when managing updates in geo-replicated systems. Our approach consists in allowing full concurrency when processing local updates and using a deferred local serialisation procedure before shipping updates to remote datacenters. This strategy allows to implement inexpensive mechanisms to ensure sy...