INTRODUCTION The Suwa Onbashira Festival is held every six years and draws approximately one million spectators from across Japan. Men ride the Onbashira pillars (logs) down steep slopes. At each festival, several people are crushed under the heavy log. During the 2004 festival, for the first time, a medical care system that coordinated a medical team, an emergency medical service, related agen...

Finally Festival speaks Italian. In this work, the development of the first Italian version of the Festival TTS system is described. One male and one female voice for three different speech engines are considered: the Festival-specific residual LPC synthesizer, the OGI residual LPC Plug-In for Festival and the MBROLA synthesizer. The new Italian voices will be freely available for download for ...

This paper proposes a new adaptive data control model based on situation-awareness environments for smart festival management by analyzing the window and attributes of the object data. This paper presents the design of the adaptive model for sharing control, which is running on RCSM(Reconfigurable Context Sensitive Middleware) for smart festival management. RCSM provides standardized communicat...

This report describes the 1993 SRC Algorithm Animation Festival. The festival continues an experiment in developing algorithm animations by non-experts, started the previous year, and described in SRC Research Report #98. This year nineteen researchers at Digital Equipment Corporation’s Systems Research Center worked for two weeks on animating algorithms. Most of the participants had little (if...

The idea quickly spread. When the organizers of a San Diego Science Festival (www.sdsciencefestival.com) sought help and assistance from the Cambridge Festival, it eventually led to the establishment of the Science Festival Alliance. The US National Science Foundation (Arlington, VA) has joined the bandwagon and provides a 3-year US$3 million grant to promote the science programmes. Festivals i...

This paper proposes a new adaptive error event control model for smart festival management running on situation-awareness environments by analyzing the window and attributes of the object error event. This paper presents the design of the adaptive error event control model for sharing control, which is running on RCSM (Reconfigurable Context Sensitive Middleware) for smart festival management. ...

On June 18, 2010, Hamilton County Public Health (HCPH), a local health department in Ohio, began receiving reports of gastrointestinal illness from persons who attended a church festival held during June 11-13 in a suburban community of Hamilton County. HCPH investigated and confirmed the existence of a foodborne outbreak associated with consumption of pulled pork prepared in a private home and...

In India, festivals are celebrated with lot of enthusiasm and Diwali is the major festival of light. In this festival, houses are illuminated by lights and sky is illuminated by fireworks. These fireworks though create lot of amusement but also pollute the atmosphere in terms of air pollution. The continuous air pollution monitoring was undertaken during Diwali festival (2014) at residential si...

This paper investigates the techno-cultural issues surrounding Virtual Reality on the present-day Web, or 'Web3D', over the Internet by developing as its illustration a particularly UK (United Kingdom) cultural event, the St Albans Virtual Beer Festival, which mimicked the actual, real beer festival that ran in September 2000. Given the planned cultural focus and the short turnaround of time av...

This study contributes to the debate on tourism and local development through evaluating an ambivalent case of traditional festival revival and tourism development in Hong Kong: Bun Festival tourism in Cheung Chau Island. The significance of this case is that it will put into relief the significance of ‘cultural sustainability’— an evaluative factor that is very insufficiently emphasized and th...