EPIC (Executive Process-Interactive Control) is a cognitive architecture especially suited for modeling human multimodal and multiple-task performance. The EPIC architecture includes peripheral sensory-motor processors surrounding a production-rule cognitive processor, and is being used to construct precise computational models for a variety of HCI situations. Some of these models are briefly i...

Adults from ten European countries have been questioned about their dietary habits and lifestyles since 1992 for the EPIC trial (European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition). Epidemiologists at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon, France, which coordinates EPIC, and colleagues from other EPIC study centres, assessed the relationship between meat and f...

EPIC (Executive Process-Interactive Control) is a human information-processing architecture especially suited for modeling human multiple-task performance. The EPIC architecture includes peripheral sensorymotor processors surrounding a production-rule cognitive processor, and is being used to construct precise computational models for basic multiple-task situations. Some of these models are bri...

This article provides the commented English translation of an ode (“To Milton”, composed twelve stanzas) by 18th-century Brazilian poet, Claudio Manuel da Costa. Our interpretation translated poem problematizes fact that Costa did not translate Milton’s works, but he wrote intersemiotic contributions to literature as a whole. “To Milton” concentrates and expands on themes related Paradise Lost ...

With the rise of ecological branch of literary criticism many critics have attempted to explore the relationship of literature and environment. Consequently the role of literature, and especially poetry is re-examined from ecocentric perspective, that is, poetry is considered as promoting ecological consciousness. Some of the critics eve argue that this consciousness can be converted into activ...

PURPOSE Peritoneal seeding is the most common type of metastasis or recurrence and one of the poor prognostic factors in gastric cancer. Moreover, there are as yet no effective treatment modalities available. Recently some research groups suggested the benefit of combined cytoreductive surgery and intraperitoneal chemotherapy, but the related experiments remain in the trial stage. Therefore, we...

This paper is about the automatic generation of creative text, more precisely the automatic generation of poetry. It starts by presenting two possible categorisations for systems that aim generating poetry and then makes a brief overview on the existing attempts to this subject based on what can be found in the literature.

Computer models are important tools for assessing regional carbon sequestration and other environmental impacts of agricultural management practices. The Environmental Policy Integrated Climate (EPIC) model is a very flexible model that has been used to make a wide range of fieldand regional-scale environmental assessments. Large regional-scale applications of EPIC and similar models can requir...