In this paper, we present our case-based browsing advisor for the Web, called BROADWAY. BROADWAY follows a group of users during their navigations and supports an indirect collaboration to recommend Web pages to visit next. BROADWAY uses case-based reasoning to reuse precise experiences extracted from past navigations with a time-extended situation assessment, i.e. the recommendations are based...

Two phrases are used, in abbreviated form, to describe these reactions. One is “chemically assisted nuclear reactions” (CANA). Another is “Low energy nuclear reactions” (LENR). The latter may not be accurate. Thus, there is no reason to think that the reactions concerned take place with any but those described by nuclear physicists, though slightly modified by the interactions with the surround...

A multimodal analytic framework is introduced to contribute to a discourse-oriented study of the creation of visual information. While much visually based research focuses on the image artifact, an ongoing study seeks to shed light on the phenomenon of image creation as a communication practice. This requires a content analytic methodology capable of addressing issues related to modalities of e...

This article analyses juridical discourses about Medically Assisted Reproduction (MAR) in Portugal, focusing specifically on the access of lesbians to this type of intervention. Empirical data refer to an exploratory research that combined the analysis of legislation with non-directive interviews to five judges from Family and Juvenile Courts of Law of the Northern Region of Portugal. One argue...

This article suggests evidence for and reasons why prior acquisition may either facilitate or inhibit acquisition of a new construction. It investigates acquisition of the German passive and future constructions which contain a lexical verb with either the auxiliary sein "to be" or werden "to become", and are related through these to potential supporting constructions. We predicted that a suppo...

This study describes the weakening of intervocalic /s/ in the Nijmegen Corpus of Casual Spanish and investigates the role of several potential conditioning factors, including morphological, lexical and probabilistic variables. Three acoustic parameters were examined: voicing, the difference in high-band (4-8 kHz) intensity between /s/ and the following vowel, and the duration of the dip in low-...

Mammographic databases play an important role in the development of algorithms aiming to improve Computer-Aided Detection and Diagnosis systems (CAD). However, these often do not take into consideration all the requirements needed for a proper study, previously discussed at the Biomedical Image Processing Meeting in 1993. Case selection and annotation requirements are the most commonly referenc...

Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT) or Pet Therapy is a supportive goal-oriented intervention which is mainly result from human and animal interaction. [1][6] In this treatment process, a health professional/patients’ doctor have to determine which animal model should be accompanied with a specific clinical goal. This interventions can be followed by physical therapists, neurol‐ ogist, psychiatrist, ...

o consider liberty in relation to the Constitution is to enter upon a subject of some ambiguity. Which Constitution are we to consider? The document has undergone dramatic shifts in its coverage and in its meaning over the course of our history. The unamended document ratified in 1787 had little explicit to say about individual liberties. Aside from provisions such as those barring states from ...

In order to design a robot able to learn from its user, the example of card game instruction is investigated. A detailed description of a setup for the collection of a human-to-human multimodal instruction corpus is given. This setup uses touch screens and will also provide a base for the human-robot instruction interface to be designed. Preliminary results on learning dialogues are given and i...