Historical trends in face perception research during the past half century are summarized. The dual process model offered by cognitive neuroscientists to account for the perception of identity and emotion expression in the face is briefly reviewed together with supporting evidence. An ecological approach that incorporates missing pieces of face perception is offered as an additional, broader co...

THE SETTING Scene: Telecom Channel 46, January 7, 2101 Good audience, why partake in this antiquated pastime of scientific inquiry? Existence opened in mystery and will close in mystery. Our telecom channels have been designated to please, not puzzle. For those into delectation, the other telecom channels offer instantaneous desserts. Virtual Reality 3 presents Marilyn Monroe's rendezvous with ...

In this paper we describe the innovative approach that Telecom Italia is adopting in order to identify new strategies for saving energy in the environmental systems. After presenting the guidelines of the Italian Operator in the matter, we concentrate on the solutions adopted to optimise the cooling systems within TLC rooms. In particular, the paper focuses on an energy simulator (SIMEN), that ...

At present situation, telecommunication department plays vital role in our day today human life. At the same time telecommunication area attains a rapid growth in very short period of years. Due to this fact, Telecom department is one of the senses deciding factor in world market. Because of this reason, this field turned out to be a most profitable area for investment. At the mean time competi...

Meshing up telecommunication and IT resources seems to be the real challenge for supporting the evolution towards the next generation of Web Services. In telecom world, JAIN-SLEE (JAIN Service Logic Execution Environment) is an emerging standard specification for Java service platforms targeted to host value added services, composed of telecom and IT services.In this paper we describe StarSLEE ...

The emerging area of Multimodality can be well demonstrated in the operation of a Telecom. Within France Telecom there are thriving fixline, Internet and mobile businesses that can benefit from the use of Multimodal interactions. In todays networks, Multimodal interactions are particularly relevant to the mobile space, where constraints of the network and handset have a driving influence on the...

Although knowledge spillovers have long been considered a critical element for development of technology clusters by facilitating innovations, the relationship between characteristics of knowledge spillover network and regional cluster’s growth is ambiguous. Based on patent co-authorship data, we construct inventor networks for two geographical telecom clusters – New Jersey and Texas – and inve...

In the past, electronic commerce only focused on customer-to-business web interaction and on business-tobusiness web interaction. With the emergence of business process management and of service-oriented architecture, the focus has shifted to the development of e-services that integrate business processes and that diversify functionalities available to customers. The potential of electronic com...

Telecom operators base their DSL-tariffs mainly on the offered bit rate. The maximal achievable bit rate is different for each customer, because it depends on two parameters. On the one hand, the transfer function of the ‘subscriber loop’, which depends on the network topology (the cabling between the central office and the subscriber) and on the other hand the Power Spectral Density of the noi...