Ubiquitous computing is giving rise to applications that interact very closely with activity in the real world, usually involving instrumentation of environments. In contrast, we propose Cooperative Artefacts that are able to cooperatively assess their situation in the world, without need for supporting infrastructure in the environment. The Cooperative Artefact concept is based on embedded dom...

In this article, the authors have carried out a hermeneutic analysis of problem violence among adolescents in audio-visual media texts and peculiarities violent content impact. The material study is movies, TV programs, electronic versions reflecting segment adolescent environment. main method discourse, which based on methodology created by A. Silverblatt U. Eco. A with showed that: - differen...

In this paper, we present an alarm management system focused on guiding offshore platform operators’ attention to the essential information that calls for immediate action during emergency situations. Due to the imminent associated danger involved in the petroleum operation domain, only well trained workers are allowed to operate in offshore oil process plants. Although their vast experience, h...

Real-world imagery does not always exhibit good visibility and clean content, but often suffers from various kinds of degradations (e.g., noise, blur, rain drops, fog, color distortion, etc.), which severely affect vision-driven tasks image classification, target recognition, tracking, etc.). Thus, restoring the true scene such degraded images is significance. In recent years, a large body deep...

a r t i c l e i n f o Previous literature finds that situations that put managers under significant levels of pressure (e.g. IPO, upcoming credit rating changes, violation of debt covenant, etc.) might affect the way earnings are manipulated. The aim of this study is to investigate whether the pressure caused by the non-temporary level of financial distress, conditions the choice between real a...