Abstract Address terms are closely related to the conceptualisation of hierarchical relations in a speech community, so, since – at least Western societies tendencies towards flattening hierarchies have been noted (cf. Mair, 2006), we expect changes this domain. Some evidence has produced for German, American and British English, but empirical insights on address choice Indian English lacking d...

Past research often found that older adults searched less in terms of browsing and generating keywords; few studies examined the processes and underlying mechanism that caused the age-related reduction on search. In the current study, 20 younger and older adults performed ill-defined search tasks with a search box we implemented. In addition to the age differences in the quantities of search, r...

This technical report synthesizes the results of the analysis of paedophile keywords’ dynamics in two sets of eDonkey queries, collected during several months in 2007 and 2009 respectively. The goal of this work is to study the evolution of paedophile keywords’ frequency and popularity over several weeks (i.e. within a given dataset), as well as between the two different datasets. Moreover, spe...

This paper proposes an emotion recognition system. Human emotion can be expressed through many kinds of medium such as speech, image, facial expression, and so forth. This paper focuses on the textual data of them. Proposed system is a hybrid system that uses alternatively two methods, keyword-based and machine learning method. Keyword-based methods are traditional approaches using emotional ke...

Infrared Functional Imaging was applied to the study of Raynaud’s Phenomenon obtaing a simultaneous assessment of the thermal properties of all five fingers of both hands of a group of patients with respect of a control group. The method is based on the use of high-resolution telethermography imaging and allows identification of objective parameters from the re-warming curves of finger immediat...

In this paper, we address the issues associated with the dynamic optimization of OSPF weights. For this work we have chosen the packet loss rate in the network as the optimization metric as it is a good indicator of congestion in the network and also impacts the performance of the underlying applications. The packet loss rate has been formulated in terms of the link parameters, such as bandwidt...