This paper investigates how the theme of uprising is conveyed in Bob Marley’s final music album by the name “Uprising”. Through the methodological lenses of multimodality, attention is focused on how the album cover design, lexical items, literary devices, and other aesthetic ways such as the titles of the ten songs of the album and their order of arrangement contribute to the overall theme of ...

We present first steps towards intelligent retrieval of music album covers from the web. The continuous growth of electronic music distribution constantly increases the interest in methods to automatically provide added value like lyrics or album covers. While existing approaches rely on large proprietary databases, we focus on methods that make use of the whole web by using Google’s or A9.com’...

The antimicrobial activity of aqueous extract leaf and stem of Santalum album was performed against Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas. S. album leaf extract showed inhibition to E.coli (0.8mm), Staphylococcus aureus (1.0mm) and Pseudomonas (1.4mm) were as stem extract showed inhibition on E.coli (0.6mm), Staphylococcus aureus (0.4mm) and seudomonas (1.0mm) respectively. Ho...

In most cases photography is considered to be a medium to save and share memories and emotions from photographed events. We have proposed an innovative method of photo album visualization, which is used for events recall, recognition and for navigation through a photo album. Thus we can easily satisfy the needs of most photographers. Visualization described in this paper is also intended to enh...

VISCUM ALBUM EXTRACT MAY INCREASE OVERALL SURVIVAL IN ADULTS WITH LOCALLY ADVANCED OR METASTATIC PANCREATIC CANCER NOT ELIGIBLE FOR ANTINEOPLASTIC THERAPY Level 2 (mid-level) evidence Reference: Eur J Cancer 2013;49 (18):3788 At least 60% of medications used to treat cancer were originally derived from plants. Viscum album (European mistletoe) is widely used in Europe for the treatment of cance...