Information retrieval (IR) is concerned with techniques that can provide effective access to large databases of objects that contain primarily text. It is generally assumed that there is a wide variety of users and a large number of potential queries. Although these characteristics are different than those of a typical case-based reasoning (CBR) application, there are opportunities for integrat...

The long term goal of the 3S international cooperative research program is to investigate behavioral reactions of cetaceans to naval sonar and various control sounds, and the sound exposures required to elicit responses, in order to establish safety limits for sonar operations. 3S project efforts have been focused upon informing the ‘exposure-effect assessment’ component of a full risk-assessme...

OBJECTIVE To describe our use of intervention mapping as a systematic method to adapt an evidence-based physical activity and nutrition program to reflect the needs of rural Latinas. METHODS An intervention mapping process involving six steps guided the adaptation of an evidence based physical activity and nutrition program, using a community-based participatory research approach. We partnere...

The use of multiple academic indicators to identify students at risk of experiencing difficulty completing licensure requirements provides an opportunity to increase support services prior to high-stakes licensure examinations, including the United States Medical Licensure Examination (USMLE) Step 2 clinical knowledge (CK). Step 2 CK is becoming increasingly important in decision-making by resi...

The long term goal of the 3S international cooperative research program is to investigate behavioral reactions of cetaceans to naval sonar and various control sounds, and the sound exposures required to elicit responses, in order to establish safety limits for sonar operations. 3S project efforts have been focused upon informing the ‘exposure-effect assessment’ component of a full risk-asssessm...

It can be argued that the business of museums is information. Information is of paramount importance in fulfilling the basic functions of collecting, recording, preserving, managing, researching and communicating. Museums need to manage many types of information in the operation of facilities , fulfilling mandates, administering finances, getting members, soliciting funds, acquiring objects, or...

remote collaboration, casual capture, imaging, scanners Sharing images or documents is a natural activity between people both at work and in their social life. Sharing between remotely-located people is now possible through one of the many remote collaborations tools available on the market. However, none of them was particularly designed with image sharing in mind. This short technical report ...

This paper introduces a method to calibrate a wide area system of unsynchronized cameras with respect to a single global coordinate system. The method is simple and does not require the physical construction of a large calibration object. The user need only wave an identifiable point in front of all cameras. The method generates a rough estimate of camera pose by first performing pair-wise stru...

Recent studies indicate that nearly 75% of queries issued to Web search engines aim at finding information about entities, which are material objects or concepts that exist in the real world or fiction (e.g. people, organizations, products, etc.). Most common information needs underlying this type of queries include finding a certain entity (e.g. “Einstein relativity theory”), a particular attr...

Intelligence gathering by human observers is important for acquiring indirect and non-physical information. The drawback is that it is often delivered as free text which is not well-suited for further exploitation through automatic processing. In this paper we present a concept for structured human reporting based on an ontology-driven adaptive user-interface. The concept lays the foundation fo...