When describing complex characteristics of a specific genre, specialist expressions are often used. This can become quite a problematic situation for an inexperienced person, as expressions not used in everyday language are difficult to understand. This is particularly apparent when trying to describe wines, known as winespeak, as a range of specialist expressions are used in a subjective manne...

Telemedicine, through its advantages based on the synergic action of medicine, electronics and computers technologies, offers the facilities to support and to improve the quality of life and to facilitate rapid transfer of information at the distance for medical intervention, emergency situation or home care. The study indicated the knowledge and perception of your people (students in the first...

Children are generally regarded as “vulnerable individuals.” There has long been reluctance to perform research in children except in limited settings such as pediatric cancer and vaccine development. However, avoidance of trials in children has resulted in uncertainty regarding efficacy, safety, appropriate formulations, and dosages of treatments in pediatric populations, a situation now recog...

To the editor: We thank Clement et al. for their interest in our work [1] and for questioning the diagnostic sequence and management of such a complex clinical and biological situation. During pregnancy, diagnosis of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) caused by hantaviruses, including Seoul virus (SEOV), can easily be missed due to its rarity and its ‘pseudo-vasculoplacental’ clinica...

A major weakness of extant statistical machine translation (SMT) systems is their lack of a proper training procedure. Phrase extraction and scoring processes rely on a chain of crude heuristics, a situation judged problematic by many. In this paper, we recast the machine translation problem in the familiar terms of a sequence labeling task, thereby enabling the use of enriched feature sets and...

We present CyberMath, an avatar-based shared virtual environment aimed at improving the current problematic situation in mathematics education. CyberMath allows mathematics to be presented in a new and exciting way and is suitable for exploring and teaching mathematics in situations both where teacher and students are co-present and physically separated. CyberMath also supports a variety of tea...

Virtual Reality (VR) is a recent technology to assist in therapy and neurorehabilitation. In doing so, VR enables a realistic performance, with higher motivation and immersion in the problematic situation. VR increases ecological value and skills generalization; however this technology is still disorder-oriented. Patient’s response to treatment differs from patient to patient. So it is relevant...

The dilemmas between legal obligations and ethical responsibilities can often create problems in clinical work. The treatment of minors, and particularly adolescents, can present special issues to the clinician that are becoming increasingly frequent and difficult. The issue of informed consent for treatment of adolescents raises serious questions for the clinical practitioner who is faced with...

This study compares brain activation during causal attribution to three different loci, the self, another person and the situation; and further explores correlations with clinical scales (i.e. depression, anxiety and autism) in a typical population. While they underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging, 20 participants read short sentences about another person ( someone ) who engaged in be...

Data is generally expected to continue its exponential growth the next five to ten years. However, it is commonly agreed that the amount of data that currently exist is abundant and that there is still much to achieve with it. The industry, in general, has recognized both the growth and the need to analyze the data. This is also the case with oil well drilling operations. Currently, operators m...