Lists future events that should be of interest to practitioners and researchers.

9:00-10:00 Invited Talk – Raymond Wong 10:00-10:25 Results and Summaries FAC 2004 10:25-10:45 Refreshment 10:45-12:50 Oral Presentations (cont.) 12:50-14:0 LUNCH 14:00-14:35 Invited Talk – Edwin Rood, West Virginia University, U.S.A. 14:35-15:10 Invited Talk – Jürgen Pampus, Cognitec Systems GmbH, Germany 15:20-17:00 Oral Presentations (cont.) 17:00-18:00 Refreshment and Poster Session 19:00-21...

James E. Bingham Award, established by members of the law firm of Bingham Summers Welsh & Spilman, in memory of James E. Bingham, Class of 1911, given each year to one or more distinguished seniors who will enroll in an A.B.A.-accredited law school for the next academic year. The cash award is presented at the Peck Award Banquet each spring with a member of Mr. Bingham’s law firm participating ...

Adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming services have spread with advances in the codec, video streaming, and network technologies. For smooth playback ABR services, a player runs an algorithm, which dynamically adjusts of data on basis statuses player. Existing algorithms calculate suitable to maximize quality experience (QoE). However, providing high-QoE increases investment costs content delivery (...

On 9 October 2011, the University Hospital of North Norway alerted the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) about an increase in Shigella sonnei infections in Tromsø. The isolates had an identical ‘multilocus variable-number tandem repeat analysis’ (MLVA) profile. Most cases had consumed food provided by delicatessen X. On 14 October, new S. sonnei cases with the same MLVA-profile were r...

Recent studies show that hospitality and services can, if attractively designed, elicit positive responses from guests or customers. Although responses are individual and highly subjective, Fuzzy Quality Function Deployment (FQFD) may provide a competitive advantage to those who are able to read and interpret customers’ responses and needs in terms of hospitality services. This study introduces...

In February 2000, an outbreak of gastroenteritis occurred among employees of a car dealership in New York. The same meal was also supplied to 52 dealerships nationwide, and 13 states reported illness at dealerships where the banquet was served. A retrospective cohort study was conducted to identify risk factors associated with the illness. Stool samples were collected to detect Norwalk-like vir...

 The present study is a theoretical attempt to illustrate how Fillmore's Scenes and Frames Semantics (SFS) could be employed as a framework to portray the process of understanding and translating hybrid texts. It first reviews the origin of SFS; then it maps SFS onto Nida’s linguistic model of translation process and the Interpretive Theory of Translation; it examines in the next section, withi...