Future communication environments have to support mobility at various levels ranging from device and personal to session and service mobility. Much e ort is currently beeing spent in the areas of cellular access technology, wireless LAN technology and mobility support in IP (Mobile IP). There is a clear trend that the IP protocol is becoming the dominant networking protocol. Since standard IP n...

Ultrasonography is an important modality that is frequently used in all aspects of breast imaging, including breast cancer screening, the evaluation of palpable abnormalities, further characterization of lesions seen mammographically, and for determining the method of percutaneous biopsy. Understanding the basic technical aspects of ultrasonography equipment is critical to ensure high breast ul...

Portability is an important issue to the viability of a domainspecific translation approach. This paper describes an English to Chinese translation system for flight-domain queries, utilizing an interlingua translation framework that has been successfully applied in the weather domain. Portability of various components is tested, and new technologies to handle parse ambiguities and illformed in...

Correspondence to Dr Jenkins [email protected] Last summer, as part of the NHS next stage review, Lord Darzi, Ann Keen and David Nicholson (the NHS Chief Executive) published “A High Quality Workforce”. In this report they emphasised that delivering the vision of a quality health service requires the provision of the best possible education and training for future generations, together with s...

This paper studies quality of human labels used to train search engines’ rankers. Our specific focus is performance improvements obtained by using overlapping relevance labels, which collecting multiple human judgments for each training sample. The paper explores whether, when, and for which should obtain overlapping training labels, as well as labels per sample are needed. The proposed scheme ...

Hatching lines are often used in line illustrations to convey tone and texture of a surface. In this paper we present methods to generate hatching lines from polygonal meshes and render them in high quality either at interactive rates for on-screen display or for reproduction in print. Our approach is based on local curvature information that is integrated to form streamlines on the surface of ...

This paper presents a quality-driven software architecture design method. The method produces architectural descriptions at two levels of abstraction. Both the levels are described using four similarly named views: structural, behavior, deployment and development. More importantly, the method enables the realization of quality attributes by means of quality requirements and quality scope, which...

Kei Kikuiri, Nobuhiko Naka and Shinya Abe The high-quality speech coding is a super-wideband speech coding technique for providing high-quality VoIP services in a high-speed wireless communication environment, and was developed in collaboration with DoCoMo Communications Laboratories USA, Inc. This technology encodes and transmits nearly all of the frequency components of the human voice to all...