The aim of this study was to analyzing and modeling domestic activities (i.e. what people do in the home). The ultimate goal is to help to design ubiquitous technologies which are context sensitive and which really fit with our needs.

Acceptability of case ellipsis on focused subjects and objects exhibits clear asymmetry which so far has not received a plausible explanation. Case ellipsis on focused direct objects occurs naturally, whereas case ellipsis on focused transitive subjects is unnatural whether the subject is contrastively focused or not. The main purpose of this paper is to provide experimental evidence that the d...

Retrieving relevant data for location-sensitive keyword queries is a challenging task that has so far been addressed as a problem of automatically determining the geographical orientation of web searches. Unfortunately, identifying localizable queries is not sufficient per se for performing successful location-sensitive searches, unless there exists a geo-referenced index of data sources agains...

Vector quantization is a popular technique in low bit rate coding of speech signal. The transmission index of the codevector is highly sensitive to channel noise. The channel distortion can be reduced by organizing the codevector indices suitably. Several index assignment algorithms are studied comparatively. Among them, the index allocation algorithm proposed by Wu and Barba is the fastest met...

We present highly sensitive refractometers based on a long-period grating in a large-mode-area photonic crystal fiber (PCF). The maximum sensitivity is 1500 nm/refractive index unit at a refractive index of 1.33, to our knowledge the highest reported for any fiber grating. The minimal detectable index change is 2 x 10(-5). The high sensitivity is obtained by infiltrating the sample into the hol...

We prove that a variant of the insertion encoding of Albert, Linton and Ruškuc for any class of pattern avoiding permutations is context-senstive. It follows that every finitely based class of permutations bijects to a context-sensitive language.

We establish a bijection from the set of all permutations (of a given length) that avoid a pattern q and a context-sensitive language.

This article presents a brief history of the Information Society and a research framework that is intended to address the challenges of ensuring that information and communication technologies are applied in ways that are enabling and responsive to the varied contexts in which people live their lives. ICT policies have come to be reasonably well-accepted as components of broader development pol...

This surgical planning and training system integrates an electronic atlas of brain structure with a virtual stereotactic frame and patient data, for intuitive, reach-in manipulation. The objective is plans prepared faster; better, more accurate choice of target points; improved avoidance of sensitive structures; fewer sub-optimal frame attachments; and speedier, more effective training. If vali...