in planning any vaccination program, priority should be given to such programs within the country’s overall health plan. this judgment is made on the basis of indices on morbidity, mortality, vulnerability, feasibility and cost-benefit/effectiveness analyses. the application of mathematical / epidemiological models and the use of simulation and goal –seeking techniques and monograms are of grea...

THE BO DIDDLEY BEAT Much of the world’s traditional and contemporary music makes use of characteristic rhythms called timelines. A timeline is a distinguished rhythmic ostinato, a rhythm that repeats throughout a piece of music with no variation, that gives the particular flavor of movement of the piece that incorporates it, and that acts as a timekeeper and structuring device for the musicians...

We present an approach for detecting salient (important) dates in texts in order to automatically build event timelines from a search query (e.g. the name of an event or person, etc.). This work was carried out on a corpus of newswire texts in English provided by the Agence France Presse (AFP). In order to extract salient dates that warrant inclusion in an event timeline, we first recognize and...

Recent advances technology have dramatically increased production and consumption of digital media such as audio. The intrinsically time-based nature of audio, however, presents unique problems, in particular with navigation. Unfortunately, audio navigation interfaces do not differ widely from the decades-old tape recorder metaphors. In this paper, we discuss our current work in exploring audio...

The MEDIANEUM project consists in an interactive installation allowing an audience to explore a timeline and access informational data such as texts, images and video. Through a Microsoft Kinect depth sensor, users’ skeletons are captured and their gestures are tracked to interact with the data presented on a screen, made using Processing for faster prototyping, This part of the workflow is bei...

Biological curation, or biocuration, is often studied from the perspective of creating and maintaining databases that have the goal of mapping and tracking certain areas of biology. However, much biocuration is, in fact, dedicated to finite and time-limited projects in which insufficient resources demand trade-offs. This typically more ephemeral type of curation is nonetheless of importance in ...

Planning systems need to be endowed with some additional features to cope effectively with execution: e.g., the ability to keep the plan database updated with respect to the actual feedbacks provided by the controlled system, to mention but one. In this paper, we identify a set of noteworthy planning and execution open issues relatively to the timeline-based planning approach. We address those ...

background: public interest in assisted reproductive technology (art) has remained high since the birth of the world’s first in vitro fertilization baby, louise brown, in the united kingdom. art allows scientists to manipulate the fertilization process in order to bypass some pathological obstacles such as blocked fallopian tubes and non-functioning ovaries in the females, and blocked vas defer...