Social networks proliferate daily life, many are part of big groups within social networks, many of these groups contain people unknown to you, but with whom you share interests. Some of these shared interest are based on context which has real-time properties (e.g. Who would like to go to a jazz concert during an AI conference). This paper presents a possible method for identifying such subgro...

We present an after-action report for a large-scale damage assessment project that followed Hurricane Sandy's landfall on the Eastern seaboard of the USA in 2012. The Civil Air Patrol (CAP) took over 35,000 GPS-tagged images of damage-affected areas, as part of their mandate to provide aerial photographs for disaster assessment and response agencies, primarily FEMA, who used the aggregate geolo...

Electrodermal activity (EDA) is a physiological signal which has been considered as one of the best indicators of sympathetic arousal, since it provides an indication of sweat gland activity. For this reason, it can be used to measure the engagement of the audience during a performance. This work exploits the use of wearable EDA sensors to measure the audience engagement during a live performan...

Members of the genus Isospora have a single host. Merogony and gametogony take place within the host cells, and sporogony occurs outside the body. The oocysts contain two sporocysts, each containing four sporozoites (Mehlhorn, 1988). Many species of Isospora were described from lacertilian hosts (Finkelman and Paperna, 2002; Daszak et al., 2009). Regarding genus Acanthodactylus, Isospora acanth...