This chapter is aimed at presenting a review of evolutionary design paradigms, which determine the end user’s role in IT (Information Technology) projects across recent decades. This review covers different perspectives starting from technology-oriented sequential software development lifecycles, through user-centred approaches, ending finally in contemporary service design approaches supported...

The paper reports work on collecting and annotating code-mixed English-Hindi social media text (Twitter and Facebook messages), and experiments on automatic tagging of these corpora, using both a coarse-grained and a fine-grained part-ofspeech tag set. We compare the performance of a combination of language specific taggers to that of applying four machine learning algorithms to the task (Condi...

A minimally defined medium was developed for the cultivation of the acetogen Clostridium thermoaceticum. The medium contained glucose as the carbon and energy source, ammonium sulfate as the nitrogen source, nicotinic acid as the sole essential vitamin, reductant, a phosphate-bicarbonate buffer, mineral salts and chelator, and a CO2 gas phase. Adaptation of C. thermoaceticum from undefined medi...

We demonstrate enhanced focusing of polychromatic light through strongly scattering media. The experimental results validate a theoretical relationship among source bandwidth, sample bandwidth, and initial contrast of a far-field speckle. For various combinations of source bandwidth and sample bandwidth, we optimize far-field focal intensity enhancement using a MEMS spatial light modulator to m...

In an IDTV environment, which facilitates self-scheduling, skipping advertisements by zipping is an emerging ad-avoidance behavior. This study explores whether an alternative ad format, called simultaneous presentation advertising (SPA), may overcome the limitations of classical sequential advertising (CSA) in controlling zipping behavior and increasing the effectiveness of ads. The experiment ...

The study of automatic emotional awareness of human subjects by computerized systems is a promising avenue of research in human-computer interaction with profound implications in media arts and theatrical performance. A novel emotion elicitation paradigm focused on self-generated stimuli is applied here for a heightened degree of confidence in collected physiological data. This is coupled with ...

In his letter to the editor, Dr Schräder poses the rhetorical question of whether the results of our study are ‘true’. To substantiate his doubts, he points out that different non-ionic contrast media (CM) were used in our study and calls for a subgroup analysis. In addition, he refers to the data obtained during the COURT trial. I am very happy to be given this opportunity to discuss the inter...

We present a probabilistic language model that captures temporal dynamics and conditions on arbitrary non-linguistic context features. These context features serve as important indicators of language changes that are otherwise difficult to capture using text data by itself. We learn our model in an efficient online fashion that is scalable for large, streaming data. With five streaming datasets...

In human in-vitro fertilization (IVF), embryos are routinely transferred to the uterus on either day 2 or day 3 of development, resulting in a 10-15% implantation rate. However, in other mammalian species, the transfer of cleavage stage embryos, which normally reside in the oviduct, to the uterus results in a significantly lower implantation rate compared with blastocysts. It is therefore propo...

background: selection of the best approach for the treatment of helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) infection that encompasses higher eradication and lower failure rates leads to a decline in its related complications and disorders. to understand the relative efficacy of new sequential therapy compared with standard triple therapy as two common regimens, we have performed a randomized, controlled t...