The introduction of a GNU/Linux-based desktop system in a large company is often problematic, in terms of technical issues but especially for employees' training costs. Mainly, these obstacles are represented by different hardware configurations that might require several ad-hoc activities to adapt a standard release to the specific environment, including company's application profile. On the o...

Two experiments tested the ability to distinguish between ordinary and fantastic complex visual displays in 6and 9-year-old children and adults. In Experiment 1, adults found discrimination between ordinary and fantastic visual realities (Task 1) as clear and manageable as the discrimination between pictures that included or did not include human characters (Task 2), but 6and 9-year-old childre...

This paper focuses on the potential of collaborative live coding in educational settings. In particular, it draws from our experience with EarSketch, a free online platform for algorithmic composition and computational music remixing that allows students to learn Computer Science Principles (CSP) by making music using either Python or JavaScript. We argue that collaborative live coding is a pro...

In the setting of collaborative live coding, there emerges a number of issues: (1) the need for communication, (2) issues of conflicts in sharing program state space, and (3) remote control of code execution. This paper proposes solutions to these problems. In the recent extension of UrMus a programming environment for mobile music application developmentwe introduce a paradigm of shared and in...

This demonstration presents a live observatory system named ‘NExTLive’. It aims to analyze live online social media data to mine social phenomena, senses, influences and geographic trends dynamically. It builds an efficient and robust set of crawlers to continually crawl online social interactions on various social networking sites, covering contents from different facets and in different mediu...

The micro-viscosity and molecular crowding experienced by specific proteins can regulate their dynamics and function within live cells. Taking advantage of the emerging TMP-tag technology, we present the design, synthesis and application of a hybrid genetic-chemical molecular rotor probe whose fluorescence lifetime can report protein-specific micro-environments in live cells.

objective: the orange-red spectrum of  the skin of  electric yellow (labidochromis caeruleus) is  one  of  the  idealistic and  necessary  schemas sought  by  aquarists  and commercial producers. in this study, the effect of live foods meal on the skin coloration of juvenile electric yellow was examined. methods: 270 fish with an average living body weight was 0.42 ± 0.11 g, and average total l...

introduction: vaccinology provides promising approaches for the control of various infectious diseases. among different strategies, dna vaccines offer attractive research opportunities for development of vaccines for induction of antigen-specific immunity owing to their stability, simplicity of delivery, safety and cost effectiveness. however, there is a need to increase their potency by the us...