Sensors available on mobile devices allow the automatic identification of Activities of 18 Daily Living (ADL). This paper describes an approach for the creation of a framework for the 19 identification of ADL, taking in account several concepts, including data acquisition, data 20 processing, data fusion, pattern recognition, and machine learning. These concepts can be mapped 21 in a module of ...

This paper studies the effects of changes in collateral requirements on the cyclical properties of unemployment and job creation. I develop a general equilibrium model in which labor market frictions prevent the costless adjustment of employment. Financial frictions arise from an imperfect enforcement contract. An environment in which borrowing limits are linked to the firm's physical capital s...

Sensors available on mobile devices allow the automatic identification of Activities of Daily Living (ADL). This paper describes an approach for the creation of a framework for the identification of ADL, taking into account several concepts, including data acquisition, data processing, data fusion, and pattern recognition. These concepts can be mapped onto different modules of the framework. Th...

In order to effectively exploit the wealth of content in Learning Object Repositories several issues should be addressed including the “closed corpus” problem as identified in the field of Adaptive Hypermedia as well as the “one size fits all” problem. Both are related to personalization. The creation of personalized learning experiences is considered as a necessity to cope with the overwhelmin...

E-Mail is the most exploited service in the Internet. We present an application based on Java mobile agents to automatically perform required steps to register an account. The use of roles makes the development easier and the application adaptable, while the use of the Java technology improves portability. Even if our approach is used for e-mail account creation, our results can be applied to o...

Computer-supported collaborative knowledge creation is the continuous process of development of knowledge assets, where produced knowledge has to be assessed by the developers, taking into account a set of criteria that may keep some interdependencies. This work poses an approach for collaborative creation of learning objects in a Web-based, educational context, based upon a coordination protoc...

job creation, income generation, and natural resources conservation, all are pillars of sustainable development for industries using new technologies. despite the importance of new technologies, developing countries face many limitations, such as economic and political problems, which make the development and transfer of technologies more difficult. in this study, we focus on development of new...

BACKGROUND This paper proposes an approach to estimating the costs of demand creation for voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) scale-up in 13 countries of eastern and southern Africa. It addresses two key questions: (1) what are the elements of a standardized package for demand creation? And (2) what challenges exist and must be taken into account in estimating the costs of demand creatio...