6&. NAME OF PERFORMING ORGANIZATION 6b. OFFICE SYMBOL 7a. NAME OF MONITORING ORGANIZATION University of California (If applicable) U.S. Army Research Institute for at Irvine the Behavioral and Social Sciences 6c. ADDRESS (City, State, and ZIP Code) 7b. ADDRESS (City, State, and ZIP Code) Department of Information and Computer 5001 Eisenhower Avenue Science, University of California Alexandria, ...

Multi-agency response to mass-casualty incidents is a complex socio-technical domain with unique communication and information management needs to provide real-time situation awareness. We describe technical and human factors challenges to implementation of distributed alerts in a mobile, wirelessly enabled informatics platform based on a flexible, non-locking remote object architecture and pub...

AIMS The aim of the study was to review and describe the Alcoholic Pellagra Encephalopathy, a severe neuropsychiatric condition caused by a combination of niacin (vitamin B3) deficiency and alcohol abuse. METHODS PsychInfo, Medline and Embase databases were searched for peer-reviewed studies addressing this illness. RESULTS A historical and conceptual review of the psychopathological aspect...

In this paper we address fundamental questions of growing conceptual spaces for autonomous sign users such as autonomous robots. Often concepts are considered prototypes in the perceptual space of a robot or animal. Here we advocate a more complex view starting from the purpose of using signs or pursuing sign acts. We argue that concepts actually serve a number of purposes and revisit technique...

This paper describes a novel compact hardware oriented algorithm and its conceptual implementation for real-time traffic signs detection system. The speed limit sign area on a grayscale video frame is detected based on a novel, simple and compact rectangle pattern matching and circle detection modules. The speed limit recognition system is divided into two-pipeline stages. The frame is scanned ...

Issues of representation arise in natural language processing, user interface design, art, and indeed, communication with any medium. This paper addresses such issues using algebraic semiotics, which draws on algebraic specification to give (among other things) an algebraic theory of representation, and a generalization of blending in the sense of cognitive linguistics. New ideas in this paper ...