Today, the latest technological developments and practices in e-learning are exploited in order to help public servants and private sector employees to master electronic services in order to improve their work performance in an increasingly interactive, digital environment. This paper presents results of two projects dealing with e-learning for e-government. The comparative analysis of these ca...

Trichoscopy has become an essential tool for the diagnosis of various diseases that affect the hair and scalp. Through dermatoscopy we identified a set of findings that share a circular shape of hair shafts. The objective of this study is to distinguish among the various forms of circular hairs in order to identify their peculiarities and to describe in which skin disorders they can be found.

During the last decades special attention of scientists has been focused on environmental pollution intensity and a great number of the so-called outdoor allergens (SO2, NO2, phenol, combustion gases, etc.) as well as on their increasing effect of formation of allergic diseases. Children's population is most sensitive to the influence of unfavorable environmental factors. This is associated wit...

This book continues the enhanced post-workshop proceedings series on “Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning System” (ABiALS), published as Springer LNAI 2684 and LNAI 4520 [3,5]. The proceedings offer a multidisciplinary perspective on anticipatory mechanisms in cognitive, social, learning, and behavioral processes, with contributions from key researchers in psychology and computer science...

"What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilisations and cultures, progress weakens life and favours death. The ideal of a single civilisation for everyone implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates...

What does it mean for a system to be goal oriented? In this paper we investigate how goals are represented and how they activate actions. We review the main philosophical and psychological assumptions about the ideomotor principle and we compare it with the TOTE model in cybernetics. We also present three computational architectures that implement goal orientedness, discussing their main peculi...

Pediatric cervical spine injuries (CSIs) are rare [1]. Nevertheless, their significance cannot be understated, considering the peculiarities of injury patterns, clinical presentation, diagnostic dilemma and management of these injuries, in comparison to the adult counterparts [2]. They also contribute to a significant proportion of morbidity and mortality in the pediatric patients [1]. The appr...

The problem of designing complex dependable systems is addressed in this paper. Due to some peculiarities of their application and behavior these are often referred to as reactive systems. Two main paradigms for their design have recently been proposed; we name these paradigms living processes and hidden concurrency, depending on their approach to concurrency handling. The analysis of applicati...

China’s publishing enterprise Agile Supply Chain has its own peculiarities. The authors elaborate the significance of building the Chinese publishing enterprise Agile Supply Chain based on dynamic alliance in the current highly competitive market, and then construct and analyze three models and their characteristics. At last the authors discuss some problems deriving from the information Game, ...