In many parts of East Alrica the ancient traditions and practices of Africans are dying out through contact with mzungus {white people) and their way of life. Employment in offices, mingling of tribes in a non-tribal environment and other factors contribute to the breakdown of traditional religions that stress the value of kinship ties, respect for elders and tribal unity. However, in Maasailan...

Existing methods for unsupervised identification of speakers in TV broadcast usually rely on the output of a speaker diarization module and try to name each cluster using names provided by another source of information: we call it “late naming”. Hence, written names extracted from title blocks tend to lead to high precision identification, although they cannot correct errors made during the clu...

CPCMS, the Cryptographically Protected Configuration Management System is a new configuration management system that provides scalability, disconnected commits, and fine-grain access controls. It addresses the novel problems raised by modern open-source development practices, in which projects routinely span traditional organizational boundaries and can involve thousands of participants. CPCMS ...

Naming is an important, but frequently overlooked, aspect of software systems. Usually, naming appears combined with other issues, e.g. distributed communication technology. This paper treats naming in isolation. It presents a naming design pattern which abstracts several naming policies and an object-oriented framework that can be customized to support naming policies. Applications designer ca...

Analogous to Malt, Sloman, Gennari, Shi and Wang (1999) we examined the relation between linguistic categorization and similarity of artifacts by Dutch-speaking and Frenchspeaking monolingual Belgians. We replicated the dissociation between naming and sorting found by Malt et al. (1999) for speakers of English, Chinese and Spanish. We also investigated the relation between the two naming patter...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Direct cortical stimulation studies suggest that responsive naming is more widely distributed within the temporal lobe than confrontation naming and involves anterior temporal regions typically resected in a standard temporal lobectomy. The aim of the current study was to further demonstrate the anatomic dissociation between confrontation and responsive naming by using fu...

It is assumed that the human sense of smell inferior to vision. This framework underdeveloped olfaction can be mainly attributed previously its historical demotion it by Western, quasi-scientific ideas, and evolutionary narratives or differences in reference other animals, such as rats mice. However, this notion a comparatively poor may have derived from narrowly focused pseudoscientific practi...