In this paper, we discuss the design and implementation of an adaptive visualization platform effectively supporting Grid-enabled visualintensive applications such as mechanical CAD, medical, virtual heritage and etc across heterogeneous network of computing resources. In our preliminary design of the visualization platform, we choose to focus on the study of the adaptive strategies and caching...

In this paper, we present a virtual heritage application called MHEX (Mobile Heritage Exploration for George Town) that provides a technologyintegrated environment that allows users to gain knowledge of various heritage sitesthrough gaming on mobile platform. With this application, everybody can learn about the significance of various heritage sites through a game that combines the games of mon...

Augmented reality is one of the emerging technologies to reconstruct the historical building and monument in the previous era, where the user experiences with the real environment or virtual scene. In education, Virtual Heritage becomes as a platform of learning, motivating and understanding of certain events and historical elements for the students and researchers. The significance of reconstr...

Searching of old document images is a relevant issue today. In this paper, we tackle the problem of old Arabic document images retrieval which form a good part of our heritage and possess an inestimable scientific and cultural richness. We propose an approach for indexing and searching degraded document images without recognizing the textual patterns in order to avoid the high cost and the diff...

" Arabic is the language of the Muslims – that's how it was supposed to be " : Exploring language and religious identity through reflective accounts from young British-born South Asians This study explores how a group of young British-born South Asians understood and defined their religious and linguistic identities, focusing upon the role played by heritage languages and liturgical languages a...

as an important event, each war has a lasting effect on people's life and language for decades. some war consequences are in direct relation with end result (winning or losing) of the war and some others are the aftermath of the war itself. this essay discusses two points about the period following the war, considering iran-iraq war. first, death becomes a routine. it will be internalized ...

was written c. 1450 in N. France. Such errors and omissions by Professor Ullmann do not seriously diminish the value of what he has offered us, but they emphasize that any editor of a text of an ancient medical author, in whatever language, should first check with the office of the Corpus Medicorum in East Berlin, whose files constitute the most up-to-date and correct list of manuscripts. For a...

was written c. 1450 in N. France. Such errors and omissions by Professor Ullmann do not seriously diminish the value of what he has offered us, but they emphasize that any editor of a text of an ancient medical author, in whatever language, should first check with the office of the Corpus Medicorum in East Berlin, whose files constitute the most up-to-date and correct list of manuscripts. For a...

Abstract Research on Western Armenian (WA) has described it as having a contrast between voiceless aspirated stops and voiced (Fairbanks 1948; Vaux 1998; Baronian 2017). Since there is no monolingual community of WA, all speakers are part minority language community, also speak the majority language. The current study examines from two heritage communities WA: one in Lebanon, where Arabic, US, ...