User authentication through textual passwords is very common in computer systems due to its ease of use. However textual passwords are vulnerable to different kinds of security attacks, such as spyware and dictionary attacks. In order to overcome the deficiencies of textual password scheme, many graphical password schemes have been proposed. The proposed schemes could not fully replace textual ...

Location-based services (LBS) have become more and more ubiquitous recently. Existing methods focus on finding relevant points-of-interest (POIs) based on users’ locations and query keywords. Nowadays, modern LBS applications generate a new kind of spatio-textual data, regions-of-interest (ROIs), containing region-based spatial information and textual description, e.g., mobile user profiles wit...

This paper discusses the recognition of textual entailment in a text-hypothesis pair by applying a wide variety of lexical measures. We consider that the entailment phenomenon can be tackled from three general levels: lexical, syntactic and semantic. The main goals of this research are to deal with this phenomenon from a lexical point of view, and achieve high results considering only such kind...

Hermeneutics, the art of the interpretation, is applied to brain. The relevance of concepts of hermeneutic processes and hermeneutic devices to brain theory are

Affinities have been noted between radical behaviorism and phenomenology, hermeneutics, and poststructuralism, but this paper claims the most promising one has been neglected. Skinner’s behaviorism is best seen as elucidating that time-sense characteristic of ordinary, habitual life which Heidegger calls a “temporalizing of everydayness.” We usually live ‘from moment to moment’ as if we were ju...

Abstract This article seeks to reorientate ‘digital oral history’ towards a new research paradigm, Multimodal Digital Oral History (MDOH), and in so doing it build upon Alistair Thomson’s (Thomson, A., 2007, Four paradigm transformations history. Review, 34(1): 49–70.) characterization of ‘dizzying digital revolution’ paradigmatic transformation history (OH). Calling for recalibration the curre...

In many application areas, systems reports occurring events in a kind of textual data called usually log files. Log files report the status of systems, products, or even causes of problems that can occur. The Information extracted from log files of computing systems can be considered one of the important resources of information systems. Log files are considered as a kind of “complex textual da...

One of the major challenges in the post-genomic era is the speed up of the process of identification of molecules involved in a specific disease (molecular targets). Even if the experimental procedure have greatly enhanced the analytical capability, the textual data analysis still play a central role in the experimental activity design or in the data collection. The extraction of useful informa...

Hermeneutics remains a divisive and polarizing topic within scholarly ecclesiastical communities in South Africa. These tensions are not limited to theoretical differences but often crystallize on grassroots level when local churches church assemblies have make important decisions controversial ethical topics such as ordaining women offices, assessing the ethics of gay marriages, taking stance ...