‘Easter eggs’ are hidden components that can be found in computer software and various other media including music. In this paper the concept is explained, and various examples are discussed from a variety of mediums including analogue and digital audio formats. Through this discussion, the purpose of including easter eggs in musical mediums is considered. We propose that easter eggs can serve ...

The propagation of plane waves in a Faraday chiral medium is investigated. Conditions for the phase velocity to be directed opposite to the direction of power flow are derived for propagation in an arbitrary direction; simplified conditions which apply to propagation parallel to the distinguished axis are also established. These negative phase-velocity conditions are explored numerically using ...

The growth of the Internet is currently occurring at phenomenal rates. In this new environment, agents are needed to support our activities, ranging from simple Web surfing to sales and shopping. For instance, effective agents will change the nature of sales on the Internet from the current basic sales scheme to a full customer management approach. Agents can change the nature of interactions o...

Internet and chat mediums provide important and quite useful information about human life in different societies such as their current interests, habits, social behaviors and criminal tendency. In this study, we have presented an intelligent identification system that is designed to identify the sex of a person in a Turkish chat medium. To do this task, a target oriented chat agent is implement...

Minnaert resonance is a well known physical phenomenon and it has many important applications, in particular the effective realisation of acoustic metamaterials using bubbly mediums recent years. In this paper, motived by resonance, we consider low-frequency for bubbles embedded soft elastic materials. This hybrid process that couples wave propagations. By delicately subtly balancing parameters...

Information communication between two peers can be done using various mediums. These mediums can be either linguistic or gestures. The development of procedure for realizing gestures into meaningful information plays a pivotal role in instances where linguistic feature cannot be taken as a basis and gestures can be used as the alternative for the conveying the same. This paper presents a very s...

When using optical methods turbidity is one of the main hindrances to achieving good imaging and ranging qualities in underwater applications of remote sensing, ROVs and instruments. This paper gives the principles of operation and design of an optical turbidity meter. The operation of the meter is based on illuminating the medium with light of selected wavelengths and then measuring the backsc...

Involving caregivers in hospice interdisciplinary team (IDT) meetings has been offered as a potential solution to caregivers' unmet communication needs. This case study details one caregiver's participation in her mother's hospice interdisciplinary team care planning meetings, both in person and via videophone technology. This preliminary case is offered as part of a larger National Cancer Inst...

The purpose of this research is to examine the relationships between changes to computer selfefficacy (CSE) and computer anxiety and the impact on performance on computer-related tasks in both online and face-to-face mediums. While many studies have looked at these factors individually, relatively few have included multiple measures of these factors concurrently and assessed the effects over a ...

Der interaktive Perspektivenfilm (IPF), eine besondere Form des Hyperfilms, unterstützt unter Beibehaltung der bewährten linearen Erzählweise des Mediums Film zu verschiedenen Zeitpunkten des Verlaufs einer Geschichte die aktive Auswahl aus konkurrierenden Erzählperspektiven. Der Zuschauer wird auf diese Weise zum Entscheidungsträger und Gestalter des Informationsflusses. Die bisher weitestgehe...