The study is aimed at investigating the connection between the friendliness of the home environment and the moral motives' level. The friendliness of the home environment includes two aspects: the number of functions provided by home (functionality) and the congruence of these functions with inhabitants' needs (relevance). The theoretical framework of the study was formed by research and ideas ...

In this paper, tagging techniques are employed to identify monitored inhabitants in smart environments. The aim of the work is to recognize the presence of the tagged inhabitants in different areas of the environment. RSSI based localizing agents are used in separate areas to measure the distance of the tagged persons from the reader agents. Then a clustering method is applied to the readings f...

CD81 is a surface-associated protein expressed in the membranes of mammalian cells. It has been suggested that CD81 interacts with hepatitis C virus E2 protein, and thus might facilitate the entry of HCV into hepatocytes. The envelope-binding site appears to involve amino acids (aa) 480-493 and 544-551 within the E2 glycoprotein. Little is known about the quasispecies genetic diversity of these...

The goal of the MavHome smart home project is to build an intelligent home environment that is aware of its inhabitants and their activities. Such a home is designed to provide maximum comfort to inhabitants at minimum cost. This can be done by learning the activities of the inhabitants and to automate those activities. For this it is necessary to identify among multiple inhabitants who is curr...

OBJECTIVES To present the incidence of vestibular schwannoma (VS) in Denmark, compare the incidence with that of previous periods, and discuss the real incidence of VS. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PATIENTS Prospective registration of all diagnosed VS in Denmark, with a population of 5.1 to 5.2 million, during the 6 years from January 1996 through December 2001. Incidence in this period was compared ...