In this work, we demonstrate an automatic video annotation system which can provide users with the representative keywords for new videos. The system explores the hierarchical concept model and multiple feature model to improve the effectiveness of annotation, which consists of two components: a SVM classifier to ascertain the category; and a multiple feature model to label the keywords. We imp...

This paper introduces the Sensapp platform, a semantic and OGCbased sensor application platform to enable users to register, annotate, search, visualize, and compose OGC-based sensors and services for creating addedvalue services and applications. Functionalities of Sensapp such as sensor registration, sensor data visualization, visual composition and generation of executable service compositio...

This paper aims to investigate the performance of a system consisting of plethysmographic sensors used to measure the human pulse (or heart rate), and ZigBee wireless networks used to collect the data in view of processing and storing. A demo system build around a MICROCHIP development kit (PICDEM Z) is described. Some conclusion derived on the basis of the observations obtained during the impl...

OBJECTIVE Assessing the relationship between happiness and social support networks in Colombia. METHODOLOGY A cross-sectional, observational study was carried out on 7,335 people living in an urban area (Bogotá) and a rural area (Ubaté) who had been stratified by age, economic status and last year of schooling. A questionnaire asked about the people's perception of their current mood and how ...

So much depends upon a person’s point of view. If there’s anything that ties the 3 disparate lessons together today it is the fact that with God in the picture things are never quite what they seem. Springs of water in a desert – a new thing – new life where there was no life at all; a race where even someone in my physical shape is in the running as well as tiny babies with no teeth who are un...

Although religiousness is tied to coping, little work examines the role of specific religious beliefs in the coping process. Applying the transactional model of coping, positivity of God image and vertical religious focus were assessed in a national sample of 103 parents of children with disabilities. Controlling for general religiousness, these specific beliefs were correlated with parents’ ap...

The Bible is a cross-cultural (cc) training document. It has the only absolutes that we possess. A member of any culture can use it safely to relate both to God and to fellow humans. Ted Ward, a missiologist, has said that commonalties outweigh differences among people. We are more alike than dissimilar. The image of God rests on all people (Gen. 1:27). All people have a longing for eternity in...

Some have argued that belief in God is intuitive, a natural (by-)product of the human mind given its cognitive structure and social context. If this is true, the extent to which one believes in God may be influenced by one’s more general tendency to rely on intuition versus reflection. Three studies support this hypothesis, linking intuitive cognitive style to belief in God. Study 1 showed that...