As previous years, Dip 5 will continue with the redefinition of what was formerly known as public space, trying to reactivate the physical realm of the common, nowadays kidnapped by economic and political agents. The origin of the word paradise gets back to ancient Persia, and to the Avestian term pairi-daêza, composed by pairi, "around" and diz "to construct", literally enclosed space, that wa...

Numerous studies have reported an effect of prosodic information on initial parsing decision. However, whether prosody functions in the same way in adult second language (L2) sentence processing is not known. In visual world eyetracking experiments, we investigated the influence of contrastive intonation and visual context on processing locally ambiguous sentences with L1 speakers (native Engli...

Who now reads Norman Dixon’s The Psychology of Military Incompetence, published 40 years ago, and does it matter ? Historical examples of military incompetence – sometimes referred to as ‘military blunders’ or in the case of Elliot Cohen and John Gooch, 1 as “military misfortunes” or failures – are legion : the failure of the Royal Navy to defeat the German High Seas fleet at Jutland in 1916 – ...

Sexual selection favors strategies that enhance the fertilization chances of sperm donors, and sexual conflict can ensue when these adaptations negatively affect sperm recipients (Arnqvist and Rowe 2005). Such conflict often causes counteradaptive coevolution that can result in bizarre mating behaviors in separate-sex (Arnqvist and Rowe 2005) and hermaphroditic species (Michiels and Newman 1998...

We present an interactive storytelling system that aims to help us “recreate” our conscious selves by calling on traditional Japanese concepts and media. “Recreating our selves” means the process of reconciling our conscious ‘daily self’ and our ‘hidden self’. This requires deep stimulations which are difficult to achieve through conventional logic based interactions. Users create, enter and dy...

Plant resource evaluation project was carried out to investigate conservation status of some important medicinal plants of Chakesar Valley, District Shangla. The valley is located in Sino Japanese region in the remote area of District Shangla, Pakistan. Conservation status of 127 plant species was evaluated through IUCN (1994-2001) criterion. Among these species 47 (37%) were endangered (E), 32...

This paper presents the VSLHDS project (Very Large Scale Hypermedia Delivery System), one network collaboration research between NII and NAiST. The goal of this project is the study design and implementation of a very large scale hypermedia delivery system integrated with Natural Language Processing based approach to Thai text retrieval. Distance learning tutorials have been setup between NII a...