This paper presents a novel approach for generating VRML animation sequences from Sign Language notation, based on MPEG-4 Face and Body Animation. Sign Language notation, in the well-known Sign Writing system, is provided as input and is initially converted to SWML (Sign Writing Markup Language), an XML-based format that has recently been developed for the storage, indexing and processing of Si...

An essential change has been occurring in TV nowadays in Brazil: the migration from the analogical system to the system digital TV. A major impact of this change is the increasing capacity transmission of new channels. The Electronic Programming Guide helps viewers to navigate between channels, but the measure that new channels are available it is inevitable that information overload occurs mak...

Nowadays there is a variety of TV channels and programs. This seems to be an advantage for the TV user, but in most cases the user is overwhelmed and not able to choose the most appropriate content though. Assistive systems are needed to support the user in selecting the most appropriate content regarding the user’s interests. The research group Next Generation PVR faced the task to develop a u...

Objective Cervical length is often measured during the third trimester, especially in cases of threatened preterm labour. The gold standard is the transvaginal (TV) approach. A transabdominal approach is an alternative but it is often difficult to achieve a satisfactory image of the cervix in the third trimester. Transperineal (TP) ultrasound is considered less invasive and could offer a reliab...

the aim of present study was to investigate the effect of individual and co-inoculation of trichoderma species and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (amf) on growth, mycorrhization, population of trichoderma, and wilt disease severity in pigeon pea (cajanus cajan l millsp). three species of trichoderma, namely, t. harzianum (th), t. virens (tr), and t. viride (tv) and consortium of amf (myc; mixture...

Nowadays, more and more distributed digital TV and TV-related resources are published on the Web, such as Electronic Personal TV Guide (EPG) data. To enable applications to access these resources easily, the TV resource data is commonly provided by Web service technologies. The huge variety of data related to the TV domain and the wide range of services that provide it, raises the need to have ...

Nowadays, more and more distributed digital TV and TV-related resources are published on the Web, such as Electronic Personal TV Guide (EPG) data. To enable applications to access these resources easily, the TV resource data is commonly provided by Web service technologies. The huge variety of data related to the TV domain and the wide range of services that provide it, raises the need to have ...

In the last 100 years we have observed a great development of the technology. This development applied to the mass media as the radio, the cinema, the television, or Internet have influence in the human communication and the interaction of the society with the technologies. The new communicative environments need new actors (avatars) with high communicate face expression. The modeling and the a...