The transition of print media into a digital form allows the tailoring of news for different audiences. This thesis presents a new approach to tailoring called augmenting. Augmenting makes articles more informative and relevant to the reader. The PLUM system augments news on world-wide natural disasters that readers often find remote and irrelevant. Using community profiles, PLUM automatically ...

This paper evaluates the gamut expansion ratio on a six-primary display by conducting a psychophysical experiment involving real objects. However, no six-primary display was used in this article; it was based on the simulated and virtual RGBCMY display. We first introduce the algorithm for simulating the six-primary display that consists of three stages: (1) colour separation, (2) code condensa...

plum pox virus (ppv), the causal agent of sharka disease, belongs to the genus potyvirus in the family potyviridae and has been reported from some regions of iran. surveys were conducted to determine the incidence of the virus in khorasan razavi province in 2010 and 2011 and 553 samples of stone fruit trees were collected and tested by das-elisa. in this method 12 samples were infected with ppv...

Although large-scale programs, like India's Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC), have improved latrine coverage in rural settings, evidence suggests that actual use is suboptimal. However, the reliability of methods to assess latrine use is uncertain. We assessed the reliability of reported use, the standard method, by comparing survey-based responses against passive latrine use monitors (PLUMs) th...

Using associative memories and sparse distributed representations we have developed a system that can learn to associate words with objects, properties like colors, and actions. This system is used in a robotics context to enable a robot to respond to spoken commands like ”bot show plum” or ”bot put apple to yellow cup”. The scenario for this is a robot close to one or two tables on which there...

The effect of delactosed whey permeate (DWP) treatment on antioxidant and phyto-chemical components of canned Irish plum tomatoes were investigated. Tomatoes were sterilised for 5 min (F(0)) at 120 °C and stored for 6 months. The DWP treatment retained significantly (p<0.05) higher levels of ascorbic acid and lycopene of tomatoes. The antioxidant activity of DWP treated tomatoes was higher (7%)...

We have implemented a neurobiologically plausible system on a robot that integrates object recognition, visual attention, language and action processing using a coherent cortex-like architecture based on neural associative memories. This system enables the robot to respond to spoken commands like ”bot show plum” or ”bot put apple to yellow cup”. The scenario for this is a robot close to one or ...

Previous reviews of plum phytochemical content and health benefits have concentrated on the European plum, Prunus domestica L. However, the potential bioactivity of red- and dark red-fleshed Japanese plums, Prunus salicina Lindl., so-called blood plums, appears to warrant a significant increase in exposure, as indicated in a recent review of the whole Prunus genus. Furthermore, Japanese plums a...

We have implemented a neurobiologically plausible system on a robot that integrates visual attention, object recognition, language and action processing using a coherent cortex-like architecture based on neural associative memories. This system enables the robot to respond to spoken commands like ”bot show plum” or ”bot put apple to yellow cup”. The scenario for this is a robot close to one or ...