In the quest for models that could help to represent the meaning of images, some approaches have used contextual knowledge by building semantic hierarchies. Others have resorted to the integration of images analysis improvement knowledge and images interpretation using ontologies. The images are often annotated with a set of keywords (or ontologies), whose relevance remains highly subjective an...

IMGT, the international ImMunoGeneTics database (http://imgt.cines.fr), is a high quality integrated information system specializing in Immunoglobulins (IG), T cell Receptors (TR) and Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) of human and other vertebrates, created in 1989, by LIGM, at the Université Montpellier II, CNRS, Montpellier, France. IMGT provides a common access to standardized data, whi...

We present a new version of QUEST – an open source framework for machine translation quality estimation – which brings a number of improvements: (i) it provides a Web interface and functionalities such that non-expert users, e.g. translators or lay-users of machine translations, can get quality predictions (or internal features of the framework) for translations without having to install the to...

The paper discusses methods, forms and safety issues of social network usage for school students. Taking into consideration the growing interest of students to electronic communication in social networks (ESN), it was described their place in the information educational environment. There were made the classification of objects and use of ESN to help teachers and school authority to teach stude...

The use of internet as an interactive marketing media has captured much attention from managers in their quest for a better relationship with online customers. The belief that serving existing customers are more profitable than acquiring new ones, entailing relationship building effort no longer a choice, but a necessity. This study attempted to uncover the measures of E-CRM program and determi...

Sciacca, Charles W. Emala, Donald O. Quest, Paul C. McCormick, James F. McKinsey, Gene T. Yocum, John G. Gaudet, Susie S. Lee, Yaakov Stern, Lauren A. Teverbaugh, Robert R. Cognitive Dysfunction After Carotid Endarterectomy Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase Promoter Polymorphism Affords Protection Against Print ISSN: 0039-2499. Online ISSN: 1524-4628 Copyright © 2009 American Heart Association, I...

The circumstances for shifting to new kinds of economies and to new ways of doing business are compelling, with the concept of the sharing and circular economies opening up novel ways to reconcile the quest for growth and business value with the environmental prudence perspective: “doing more with less”. The evolution of Sensing Enterprises is expected to capture new business value across suppl...

Of the processes that make up a transaction of selling a physical product for money over the Internet, those that presume some form of physical product handling are most problematic. These include the process of determining product utility and the delivery phase. The difficulties that the latter poses for the spread of on-line shopping and e-commerce-enabled disintermediation are well known, wh...

The recent advances in the smart sensor technology and proliferation of their availability in conjunction with ubiquitous communication platforms have tremendously enabled researchers in surveillance and situational understanding area to propose and build cutting edge Monitoring and Surveillance applications with high quality and fidelity. The purpose of this special issue is to provide details...