The range grazing and distance walked for diet selection and nutritive value were studied in close and open range systems at the flowering and seed setting stages during the September and November 2009 respectively in El-khuwei locality (El Rosa). A completely randomized design was used (CRD). Sampling was done by two stage flowering and seed sating stage under protected and open range systems ...

The Internet offers huge volume of data to the users and grows rapidly every day. The web server creates log files regarding details about the page, IP address of the user, browser, and operating system used and time/date stamp regarding browsing patterns and this data is mined to extract useful information using web usage mining. The primary objective of this paper is to find the low hit pages...

Neotoma lepida (woodrat) browses on the leaves of Juniperus osteosperma near Dugway, UT. A comparison between woodrat (N. lepida ) browsed and not-browsed Juniperus osteosperma trees revealed that the percentage of total volatile leaf oil yields was not significantly different between browsed trees (2.22%, 24 hr dist., DM-basis) and not-browsed trees (2.47%). On a percent total oil basis, α-pin...

The patient is able to use an advanced search engine to retrieve relevant, high quality information. The feedback presented to the patient considers the following databases to make the results of the query as personalized as possible: a) Topics/Terms Database which indexes all web documents that are being searched for relevant information. Those web documents are high quality web resources (web...

Unedited video often has significant content that is of low interest to the viewer. One way to present such videos is by creating a video montage preserving interesting content. Manually doing this is difficult for a non-expert without specialized video editing software. We propose and demonstrate a technique for creating a video montage automatically from unedited video with minimal need for u...

An increasing number of documents found in digital libraries and on the Web are marked up with XML. Special information retrieval techniques for XML documents obviously help to improve precision and recall. At the same time, the structure found in documents, queries and answers allows for new interactive visualization and exploration techniques that bridge the gap between documents, queries and...

Caroline is a wine buff and bon vivant. She likes to stop at her local wine store, Transcendental Tastings, on the way home from work. She browses the aisles looking for the latest releases from her favorite vineyards. Occasionally she picks up a few bottles. She stores these in a rack in a cool corner of her cellar. She and her partner eat out frequently but when they are at home they usually ...

Nowadays, the heterogeneity of networks, terminals, and users is growing. At the same time, the availability and usage of multimedia content is increasing, which has raised the relevance of content adaptation technologies able to fulfill the needs associated to all usage conditions. For example, mobile displays tend to be too small to allow one to see all the details of an image. In this report...

Custom ring tones for cellular phones have become extremely popular over the past several years, allowing users to customize their mobile computing experience, expressing their personality or enjoying their favorite tune. In the ring tone selection process, a user generally searches or browses for a ring tone by title in one of several ring tone databases and then purchases his selection. Resea...

Machine improvisation and related style simulation problems usually consider building representations of time-based media data, such as music, either by explicit coding of rules or applying machine learning methods. Stylistic learning applies such methods to musical sequences in order to capture salient musical features and organize these features into a model. The Stylistic simulation process ...