When integrating numerous in-car information and assistance systems, a consistent way of spatial distance presentation for drivers is required. A common practice is to use discrete textual information (e.g. 500 meters) in combination with a graphical bar representing relative spatial information. Hitherto there exists no design consistency with respect to bars for distance illustration. Contemp...

Recently, progress indicators have been proposed for SQL queries in RDBMSs. All previously proposed progress indicators consider each query in isolation, ignoring the impact simultaneously running queries have on each other’s performance. In this paper, we explore a multi-query progress indicator, which explicitly considers concurrently running queries and even queries predicted to arrive in th...

abu ahmad askari - the scholar, philologist and hadith teller - was living in askar makram city that unfortunately this city and his literary works have lost. he wished to meet the scientist – saheb ibn abad. but why the works of abu ahmad and his hometown scientists were lost while they caused the progress of literature especially in elementary literary criticism and created a dam against the ...

Limited user-feedback exists in cluster computing environments such as MapReduce. Accurate, time-oriented progress indicators could provide much utility to users in this domain, where job execution times can have high variance due to the amount of data being processed, the amount of parallelism available, and the types of operators (often user-defined) that perform the processing. This feedback...

Theory of Mind is the ability to attribute mental states (beliefs, intents, knowledge, perspectives, etc.) to others and recognize that these mental states may differ from one’s own. Theory of Mind is critical to effective communication and to teams demonstrating higher collective performance. To effectively leverage the progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI) to make our lives more productive...

Many stream-processing systems enforce an order on data streams during query evaluation to help unblock blocking operators and purge state from stateful operators. Such in-order processing (IOP) systems not only must enforce order on input streams, but also require that query operators preserve order. This orderpreserving requirement constrains the implementation of stream systems and incurs si...

a EPiUnit, Instituto de Saúde Pública, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal b Departamento de Epidemiologia Clínica, Medicina Preditiva e Saúde Pública, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal c Programa de Doutorado em Saúde Pública Global, Instituto de Saúde Pública, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal d Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação, Universidade d...

the efficacy of allergen immunotherapy for the treatment of allergic rhinoconjunctivitis with or without seasonal bronchial asthma and anaphylaxis caused by the sting of the hymenoptera class of insects has been clearly demonstrated in numerous well-designed, placebo-controlled trials. immunotherapy whether by subcutaneous injection of allergen extract or by oral/sublingual routes modifies peri...

The efficacy of allergen immunotherapy for the treatment of allergic rhinoconjunctivitis with or without seasonal bronchial asthma and anaphylaxis caused by the sting of the hymenoptera class of insects has been clearly demonstrated in numerous well-designed, placebo-controlled trials. Immunotherapy whether by subcutaneous injection of allergen extract or by oral/sublingual routes modifies peri...

Existing country studies of the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW), the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) and related measures, while sharing the same basic methodological approach, differ with respect to the valuation of important items. This paper provides a critical, but constructive, discussion of the various methods used for the valuation of non-renewable resource depletion and lo...