Since the first introduced Collaborative Filtering Recommenders (CFR), there have been many attempts to improve their performance by enhancing the prediction accuracy. Even though rating prediction is the prevailing paradigm in CFR, there are other issues which have gained significant attention with respect to the content and its variety. Coverage, which constitutes the degree to which recommen...

This paper proposes an emotion recognition system. Human emotion can be expressed through many kinds of medium such as speech, image, facial expression, and so forth. This paper focuses on the textual data of them. Proposed system is a hybrid system that uses alternatively two methods, keyword-based and machine learning method. Keyword-based methods are traditional approaches using emotional ke...

Abstract Christmas, as the celebration of birth Jesus Christ, is a central and joyful feast Christian worship. In medieval early modern Europe, this translated into rich musical tradition, which Christmas songs were significant part. Song collections from Devotio moderna, spiritual movement that spread in Low Countries Germany during 15th 16th centuries, are an important witness to tradition. H...

Infrared Functional Imaging was applied to the study of Raynaud’s Phenomenon obtaing a simultaneous assessment of the thermal properties of all five fingers of both hands of a group of patients with respect of a control group. The method is based on the use of high-resolution telethermography imaging and allows identification of objective parameters from the re-warming curves of finger immediat...

almost three centuries after the publication of the life and adventures of robinson crusoe, j. m. coetzee re-imagines the original story in two different versions; foe (1986) and his nobel prize acceptance speech, he and his man (2003). the recreation of one of the early novels of the western literary canon from the viewpoint of a marginalized character, which is technically called postcolonial...

as a literary work, a novel is imitation of actual life, it is as important as the conversation in the actual life, but for bakhtin, the issue is beyond the conversations in the stories. he takes every literary work in two levels to be studied. on one hand, every literary work is a response to its previous works, it also expects the future works, on the other hand, a novel is the field where th...