This paper illustrates an interactive mapping technique based on XML technology being tested in some possible scenarios and its adaptability verified in simplifying the integration and exchange of data between different database systems. This work is part of an effort in the development of a new technique for storing and mapping XML and different types of databases. The data from XML are compil...

one of the factors which limits the transmission capacity of the fiber optics communication channel is the material dispersion. exact analytical study of the material dispersion is often complex and involves calculating the derivatives of the refractive index of the core. these calculations are too cumbersome to do, especially for high-order derivatives. so material dispersion has only been stu...

It is still an open question whether software agents should be personified in the interface. How should faces be used to make the agent more usable and likable? In order to study the effect of faces and facial expressions, we compared subjects' responses to and evaluation of different faces and facial expressions of entertaining agents. The result shows that having faces and facial expressions ...

Autism is a highly stigmatized developmental disability in many societies, and the media are major contributors to such stigma. Presented here is the first systematic analysis of Chinese newspapers' coverage of autism for stigma-causing content. More specifically, this analysis examines the age of autistic people reported, the image of autistic people, and the use of stigma cues (in terms of pe...

Introduction. The article addresses the problem of ensuring personification individual in conditions preparing for professional career. aim study is to identify main structural components and clarify their role transformation internal structure personality that determines social success actor (the subject activity). Materials Methods. methodological basis was V. A. Petrovsky’s conception person...

A patient is described who presented with a disturbance of body cognition confined to the left side of the body. She showed difficulties in naming the left fingers and in moving the named left fingers. She also showed great difficulty in pointing to named parts of the body with her left hand. Earlier in the course of the disease she showed a personification phenomenon of the left hand. Brain MR...

introduction: hospital has a complex and special structure and the important question that hospital management facing with is how technology can change structure. in the near future, no factor like it is able to change the structure of organization. this research is a way to know the effect of it on triple dimensions of organization structure includes complexity, formalization, and centralizati...