A work environment for the National Archives of Singapore (NAS) digital library is described. The system provides an integrated platform for supporting scholarly tasks such as browsing, querying, organizing and annotating of resources using a spatial metaphor. When complete, the system will allow users to build and share personal collections of resources as well as author new resources of vario...

The Network-on-Chip (NoC) paradigm brings networks inside chips. We use the routing capabilities inside NoC to serve as a replacement for Virtual Method Table (VMT) for Object-Oriented (OO) designed hardware/software co-design systems where some methods could be implemented as hardware modules. This eliminates VMT area and performance overhead in OO co-designed embedded systems where resources ...

Wide access to large information collections is of great potential importance in many aspects economic, environmental, health, cultural, social, etc. of everyday life. Historical video documentaries hold by national audiovisual archives, constitute one of the most precious from a historical and cultural viewpoint and less accessible cultural information. This paper presents the ECHO (European C...

Wide access to large information collections is of great potential importance in many aspects economic, environmental, health, cultural, social, etc. of everyday life. Historical video documentaries hold by national audiovisual archives, constitute one of the most precious from a historical and cultural viewpoint and less accessible cultural information. This paper presents the ECHO (European C...

the presence of european physicians in iran during the qajar period had political and religious dimensions, in addition to its health aspects. different segments of iranian society had a very hard life due to the increasing epidemics and relative ineffectiveness of traditional medicine in the treatment of diseases. being accomplished through an analytic-descriptive method, the present research ...

1. ABSTRACT In this paper we describe the curriculum design of a new one-year taught postgraduate programme in System on Chip that is currently being run at the University of Southampton. We report on the different teaching methods and practical approaches that are being employed to meet the course aims and objectives leading to improved graduates’ employment opportunities and effective contrib...

Let p be an odd prime. We construct a non-abelian extension Γ of S1 by Z/p × Z/p, and prove that any finite subgroup of Γ acts freely and smoothly on S2p−1 × S2p−1. In particular, for each odd prime p we obtain free smooth actions of infinitely many non-metacyclic rank two p-groups on S2p−1 × S2p−1. These results arise from a general approach to the existence problem for finite group actions on...