We currently witness a massive digitization of domestic materials e.g. photos, music, calendars, recipes, notes, messages. This digitization provides new conditions for how we interact with materials as well as how users shape the ambience of their homes. Observing the qualities of physical materials in the home, the process of digitization risks loosing the qualities of the spatial distributio...

Maternal diabetes has an adverse influence on the intrauterine growth of the fetus, which is attributable to the exposure of the mammalian embryo to an abnormal metabolic environment. A sustained exposure of the fetus to such an environment (ie, elevated concentration of glucose), during the first 6 to 8 weeks of gestation in humans may result in diabetic embryopathy, which is characterized by ...

Supporting people in the pursuit of their everyday activities is a laudable objective and one which researchers in various disciplines including computing, actively seek to accomplish. The dynamic nature of the end-user community, the environments in which they operate, and the multiplicity of tasks in which they engage in, all seem to conspire against the desired objective of providing service...

Since the introduction of the digital versatile disk (DVD) and the super audio CD (SACD), a revival of mul-tichannel audio has appeared in sound systems for consumer use today. It is, however, desirable to maintain compatibility with the existing two-channel stereo recordings and/or broadcasting. Therefore the conversion of two-channel stereo to the multichannel format has been studied extensiv...

This article is an examination of what hard and soft contracts are, how they impact the psychotherapy process differently, especially unconscious type material each contract will tend to elicit. in turn has considerable effects on happens therapy room. The two types create a different ambience climate which can occur. explains approaches are be dealt with by therapist.

We present a novel scheme to recognize isolated speech signals using certain statistical parameters derived from those signals. The determination of the statistical estimates is based on extracted signal information rather than the original signal information in order to reduce the computational complexity. Subtle details of these estimates, after extracting the speech signal from ambience nois...

Those who have been charmed by the ambience of life in an Asian city probably felt its evocative and at times palpable connection with past traditions and history and enjoyed the sociability of its street life. They might wonder how one could sustain and even replicate the sense of place and the quality of life one experiences in such a city. The Disappearing Asian City shows that such cities f...

Providing patient-centric health care services is the goal of health-care institutions. However, due to human-related aspects, this goal is frequently undermined. PINATA offers an automated patient-centric system based upon Pervasive Ambience Intelligence techniques and enriched with Semantic Web technologies. The system makes use of RFID sensors to track the movements of patients and medical s...