A major trend in information society is the integration of personal information from different sources. Digital data about persons, their behavior, their content and their social structure is merged into the personal information sphere; a multi-dimensional space containing information related to a person. In the research project di.me 1 , funded by the EC, a so called userware is developed to s...

BACKGROUND Human prostate basal cells expressing alpha-6 integrin (CD49f(Hi)) and/or CD44 form prostaspheres in vitro. This functional trait is often correlated with stem/progenitor (S/P) activity, including the ability to self-renew and induce differentiated tubules in vivo. Antigenic profiles that distinguish tubule-initiating prostate stem cells (SCs) from progenitor cells (PCs) and mature l...

In this paper, we propose a novel system to localize a sound source in any planar direction using only two microphones. In our system, the two microphones are asymmetrically placed on a sphere, thus, 1) the diffraction by the sphere and the asymmetrical arrangement of the microphones give the localization cue including the frontback judgment, and 2) unlike the dummy head system, no previous mea...

The interdisciplinary field of reflections on food as politics goes through a process of expansion and overflow to the private sphere, and routine daily food consumption. This process seems to be a reflection of transformations in the global agrifood markets, the wide publicity and awareness of food hazards and the politicization of consumption. To the extent that individuals are to assume resp...

The following article discusses the relationship between the model of intellectual disability and the attitudes towards sexuality of people with disabilities. This correlation has been verified during the author's own research conducted on students of several medical faculties such as nursing, public health, emergency medical services and physiotherapy. Tools of the author's design have been us...

Summary This study investigates family involvement and culturally informed social work in Native American communities. The was conducted communities Montana, USA. Twenty-three professionals participated qualitative interviews. Analyses draw on theory of historical trauma indigenous social. Throughout the study, methodology has been a central principle. Findings Among workers, there is common un...