This article takes its name and inspiration from Mad Professor’s album A Caribbean Taste of Technology in response to the theme of this Technosphere issue. This makes a good place to start a discussion of creolization and technology – the dub reggae tracks of this album produced British producer Mad Professor and released in 1985, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewDTHfJqLwI So what I present he...

In this work we explore the potential role of music album cover arts for the task of predicting the overall rating of music albums and we investigate if one can judge a music album by its cover alone. We present the results of our participation to the Linked Data Mining Challenge at the Know@LOD 2016 Workshop, which suggest that the the cover album alone might not be sufficient for the rating p...

Digitizing cultural information is a complex endeavor. Not only do users expect to have access to primary information like digital music files; it is also becoming more important for digital systems to provide contextual information for the primary artifacts contained within. The Liner Notes Markup Language (LNML) was developed to provide an XML vocabulary for encoding complex contextual docume...

In this paper, an MPEG-7 based album system for managing consumer-generated photographs is introduced. Face detection and recognition technologies are adopted to implement the query-by-face functionality of the content-aware album. A convenient face database construction and training mechanism is also provided. By utilizing both user attention model for visual objects and face information, the ...

BACKGROUND Arsenic in groundwater and its accumulation in plants and animals have assumed a menacing proportion in a large part of West Bengal, India and adjoining areas of Bangladesh. Because of the tremendous magnitude of the problem, there seems to be no way to tackle the problem overnight. Efforts to provide arsenic free water to the millions of people living in these dreaded zones are bein...

A method of rotation invariant texture classification based on spatial frequency model is developed. Features are derived from the multichannel Gabor filtering method. The classification performance is first tested on a set 1440 samples of 15 Brodatz textures rotated in 12 directions (0 to 165 in steps of 15 degrees). For the 13-class problem reported in [13] we got better classification with o...

Ethanolic and aqueous extracts from five plant species used in Turkish traditional medicine were evaluated for in vivo hypercholesterolaemic and antioxidant activities: Agrostemma githago L., Potentilla reptans L., Thymbra spicata var. spicata L., Urtica dioica L. and Viscum album var. album L. We assayed the effects of the administration of plant extracts on serum total cholesterol, triglyceri...

Viscum album L. is a parasitic plant that grows on various trees, in our days, mistletoe extracts are widely used in addition to the treatment of cancer. The aim of the present study is to asses the efficiency of mistletoe extract in combination therapy with doxorubicin chloride, a widely used chemotherapeutic agent. The Viscum album (plant raised from the apple tree) was harvested from Cluj ar...

This paper examines the interrelationship between music blog buzz and album sales, examining both time precedence and the contemporaneous relationship between the two. Using the Granger Causality methodology to examine time precedence, we find evidence of bi-directional causality for the full sample of music albums we are examining as well as for both independently released and major-label rele...