From its first introduction in this same conference, the original prototype of the Semantic Bookmarking tool Semantic Turkey has undergone a deep and extensive revision process, breaking the boundaries of its original intents and going more and more towards an extensible platform for Knowledge Management and Acquisition based on Semantic Web technologies. Following its recent official release, ...

Background: Urtica dioica is known as an anti-hyperglycemic plant. Urtica dioica distillate (UD) is a traditional Iranian drink, locally known as “aragh gazaneh”. In spite of its widespread consumption in Iran, according to traditional Iranian medicine, there is no scientific report on the usefulness of UD for diabetic patients. This survey was designed to evaluate its protective effects for th...

Graph visualization is concerned with visual representations of graph or network data. Effective graph visualization reveals structures that may be present in the graphs, and helps the users to understand and analyze the underlying data. A graph consists of nodes and edges. It is a mathematical structure describing relations among a set of entities, where a node represents an entity, and an edg...

We are living in a world where seeing is no longer believing – the technology that allows for digital media to be manipulated and distorted is developing at break-neck speeds. And at the same time our understanding of the technological, ethical, and legal implications is lagging behind. How is this technology affecting our society and how do we contend with the implications? Hany Farid describe...

Farid Farahmand1, Isabella Cerutti2, Ankitkumar N. Patel3, Jason P. Jue3 and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues4∗,† 1Department of Engineering Science, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA 94928, USA 2Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy 3Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75083, USA 4Instituto de Telecomunicacões, NetGNA Group, Portugal University of...

Moises Solis, Florent Ravelet, Sofiane Khelladi, Farid Bakir. Experimental and numerical analysis of the flow inside a configuration including an axial pump and a tubular exchanger. ASME. Proceedings of ASME 2010 3rd Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting and 8th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels, FEDSM2010-ICNMM2010., Aug 2010, Montreal, Can...

[1] Here we describe, test, and apply a spatially explicit, global model for predicting dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) export by rivers to coastal waters (NEWS-DIN). NEWS-DIN was developed as part of an internally consistent suite of global nutrient export models. Modeled and measured DIN export values agree well (calibration R = 0.79), and NEWS-DIN is relatively free of bias. NEWS-DIN pred...

PurposeInter-frame and intra-frame motion can adversely impact the performance of dynamic brain PET imaging. Only correcting the former can still result in degraded qualitative and quantitative performance. Meanwhile, patient motion introduces mismatches between transmission and emission data which may lead to incorrect attenuation and scatter compensation in the reconstruction process. As a re...

G. Farid,1 J. Pečarić,1, 2 and Atiq Ur Rehman1 1 Abdus Salam School of Mathematical Sciences, GC University, 68-B, New Muslim Town, Lahore 54600, Pakistan 2 Faculty of Textile Technology, University of Zagreb, Pierottijeva 6, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia Correspondence should be addressed to G. Farid, [email protected] Received 11 July 2010; Revised 18 September 2010; Accepted 27 November 2010 A...