This paper presents an abstraction of a vague and rapidlychanging environment, an urban disaster space, and a reasoning engine which recognizes and describes the motion of rescue agents as they traverse the disaster space. More specifically, we present a qualitative abstraction of the Robocup Rescue simulation environment, and implement a commentator engine, which constructs a qualitative repre...

Introduction In recent months, partnership working between health and social care has had a bad press. Although the health and social care White Paper (Department of Health, 2006a) sets a clear strategic direction for community health and social services, PCT reorganisation and NHS financial difficulties have inevitably focused health care management attention on internal NHS issues. In academi...

In “The Rorschach Test in Clinical Diagnosis: A Critical Review, With a Backward Look at Garfield (1947),” we have shown that the Rorschach has little validity as a diagnostic tool. In the present piece, we respond to comments by Garfield (2000), Lerner (2000), and Weiner (2000). Until very recently, Rorschach proponents have claimed that the test is useful for diagnostic purposes. It is striki...

This article describes the real-time speech recognition system for closed-captioning of TV ice-hockey commentaries. Automatic transcription of TV commentary accompanying an ice-hockey match is usually a hard task due to the spontaneous speech of a commentator put often into a very loud background noise created by the public, music, siren, drums, whistle, etc. Data for building this system was c...

Detection and evaluation of the effects of treatments was given impetus in the late 1800s by the arrival of some effective medical treatments, such as salicylic medicines, phenacetin, and diphtheria antitoxins (Morse, 1878; Roux et al., 1894; Sørensen, 1896; Fibiger, 1898; Haas, 1983; Hróbjartsson et al., 1998; Lafont, 2007). One remarkable commentator during this important period was the Danis...

With the publication of The Psychology of Genocide, Massacres, and Extreme Violence: Why “Normal” People Come to Commit Atrocities, Donald Dutton, a distinguished professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, joins Joseph Conrad, Francis Ford Coppola, and a host of professional peers as a commentator on the nature and origins of human evil. Dutton's volume, however, is neither ...

The research variables of this study are “Turkish journalists’ role preferences” and television channels’ use sources” during the first eight hours breaking news coverage 2018 missile strikes against Syria. researcher employs content analysis to answer mainly two questions: “Did Turkish journalists perform roles other than “traditional disseminator?” “Was their reporting balanced insofar as con...

Over the centuries, new forms of surveillance technology have emerged. At founding U.S., government did not sophisticated spying and technologies at its disposal. In eighteenth century, police might tried to eavesdrop on their fellow citizens in taverns or other public settings, they listened outside a suspect’s window. However, without advanced that exist today, opportunities for successful ea...

R un an Internet search on the subject of “toxic mold,” and you are likely to find quickly that there is little middle ground on this controversial subject. Depending on where your mouse clicks take you, you will be told of the frightening, potentially fatal health effects of exposure to an underestimated menace—or you will be told of a scourge of money-grubbing lawyers and clients perverting s...

This paper considers the emerging phenomenon of crowdsourced cartography in relation to ideas about the organisation of contemporary knowledge production in capitalist societies. Taking a philosophical perspective that views mapping as a processual, creative, productive act, constructed through citational, embodied, and contextual experiences, we examine how we might profi tably analyse collabo...