This paper addresses the recommendation of online services provided by public administrations taking into account both the specific characteristics of these services and the perception of other citizens. The solution discussed is based on an enhanced hybrid model that relies on content-based and collaborative strategies aimed to exploit the information shared by other users to validate the qual...

RTP-Açores television fictionAn essay on «Açorianidade» While there has been television fiction in Portugal for over 30 years, this genre has achieved special relevance in the last 10 years due to the efforts of TVI, a Portuguese private channel. The television market in Portugal has been forced to adapt all its programming because of TVI’s pointed strategy to produce scripts in Portuguese and ...

BACKGROUND Recent advances in laboratory information systems have largely been focused on automation. However, the phlebotomy services have not been completely automated. To address this issue, we introduced an automated reception and turnaround time (TAT) management system, for the first time in Korea, whereby the patient's information is transmitted directly to the actual phlebotomy site and ...

This article considers how the representation of Palestinians in popular imaging has shifted from nineteenth century to current day. It will utilise a mixture media, including photography, portraiture, film, political posters and television. longitudinal study charts relationship Orientalism biblification as systems – their respective connotations familiarity otherness delineating questions ind...

In Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A), the Discontinuous Reception (DRX) mechanism conserves the power of a User Equipment (UE) by monitoring the UE’s downlink channels for a specific period and turning off the UE’s radio when no packets arrive during the period. There has been heated discussion in previous studies, but most previous models of DRX operation are partially inconsistent with the...

In order to minimize the amount of energy consumption at the user equipment (UE) level, the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) presented in the Long Term Evolution (LTE) an approach called discontinuous reception (DRX). Nevertheless, existing models for the LTE DRX and their extension to scenarios that support carrier aggregation (CA) and multi-stream carrier aggregation (MSCA) have seve...

Abstract Reality Television Show (RTS), an emerging variant of entertainment education, is renowned for its popularity among audiences all over the world, making it a great medium conveying targeted educational messages to specific audiences. However, yet be exploited disseminating agriculture-related concepts such as Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA). Therefore, this study examined farmers’ prop...

television is being seen and heard increasingly in many homes. its effects on health of youth and pollution of the mind are of considerable interest, research and concern. the review of the two most popular daily newspapers of iran revealed alarming examples of violence in children imitating the aggressive acts of the television scene. since children are more vulnerable than adults, parents sho...

Broadcast digitalization with its enormous benefits to the broadcasting industry will improve the quality of content of programs delivered by television stations. Africa has a switchover date of June, 2017. For Nigerians to have access to television broadcast once the switch over is completed, they must purchase high definition television sets or the set-up box. The awareness among urban dwelle...