due to the change of lifestyle and improvement of public health the number of aged people has considerably increased. considering the relationship of the environment and people, the built environment features could exacerbate or facilitate the elderly people’s vulnerability and social needs. recently, a large number of studies have put emphasis on the relationship between the neighborhoods’ ope...

'Space and place are central to the strategies and meaning of protest’ (p. xi) reads the opening sentence of Katrina Navickas's latest study, Protest and the Politics of Space and Place 1789–1848. Written, in part, as a response to the 'spatial turn' in History, Navickas makes a cogent and persuasive argument for attending to the importance of the particularities of 'place' rather than the abst...

OSIRIS is a technological platform dedicated to the development of Ontologybased System for Semantic Information Retrieval and Indexation of multimedia resources which are shared within communautary and open web Spaces. Based on the use of both heavyweight ontologies and thesaurii, OSIRIS allows the end-user (1) to describe the semantic content of its resources by using an intuitive model of an...

In this paper, Web 2.0 open content mashups or combinations are explored. Two case studies of recent initial teacher training programmes are reviewed where blogs and wikis were blended to create new virtual learning spaces. In two separate studies, students offer their views about using these tools, and reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of this approach. There is also discussion about agg...

In this paper we introduce the TTCS system, so named after Terms To Conceptual Spaces, that exploits a resource-driven approach relying on BabelNet, NASARI and ConceptNet. TTCS takes in input a term and its context of usage and produces as output a specific type of vector-based semantic representation, where conceptual information is encoded through the Conceptual Spaces (a geometric framework ...

Worldwide initiatives toward digital library (DL) support for electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), facilitated by the work of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), are a key part of the move toward open access. When all graduate students learn to use openly available ETDs, and have experience with authoring and submission in connection with their own research...