Software-Produktlinien-Entwicklung bietet eine systematische Wiederverwendung von Software-Artefakten. Auf Grund der Tatsache, dass viele Produkte aus einer Produktlinie abgeleitet werden können, ist es unerlässlich Testverfahren zu entwickeln, die zum einen eine möglichst vollständige Abdeckung von allen möglichen Produkten sicherstellen und zum anderen weniger aufwändig sind, als jedes Produk...

St. Bartholmew's Hospital, and had the privilege of a visit to the Curie Fondation in Paris. I feel, therefore, that my views on the above subject may be of interest to the medical profession in India. The announcement of the discovery of radium was made at the Academie de Sciences in Paris on the 26th December, 1898?about 28 years ago?in a joint paper by M. and Mme. Curie. The first to discove...

At present, the most effective way to deal with the demographic shift of elders is encouraging them to live in nursing homes for more effective health care. However, such move dramatically increases their risk of social isolation. A contextual inquiry in a local nursing home revealed that most elderly people have few connections with the outside environment because of their decreased mobility a...

We propose a unified and complete solution for expert finding in organizations, including not only expertise identification, but also expertise selection functionality. The latter two include the use of implicit and explicit preferences of users on meeting each other, as well as localization and planning as important auxiliary processes. We also propose a solution for privacy protection, which ...

This paper describes the Linguistic Annotation Framework (LAF) developed by the International Standards Organization TC32 SC4, which is to serve as a basis for harmonizing existing language resources as well as developing new ones. We then describe the use of the LAF to represent the American National Corpus and its linguistic annotations.

Feel lonely? What about reading books? Book is one of the greatest friends to accompany while in your lonely time. When you have no friends and activities somewhere and sometimes, reading book can be a great choice. This is not only for spending the time, it will increase the knowledge. Of course the b=benefits to take will relate to what kind of book that you are reading. And now, we will conc...

CyberBand provides a novel and powerful approach to composing music with computers. It is based on the concept that many kinds of music can be constructed by assembling, modifying, and transforming musical fragments through direct visual manipulation. We describe our approach to music representation, the user interface, and choice of user metaphors, while emphasizing the elements that enable no...

The purpose of this article is to illustrate the differences between psychophysical (e.g. heikottaa, ‘feel weak’) and physical (e.g. janottaa, ‘be thirsty’) causative emotion verbs in Finnish by studying the factors that determine the temporal structure of the causative emotion verb + infinitive 1 -construction. The focus, in other words, is whether the situation expressed by the infinitive 1 v...