Communicating harmful messages in order to accomplish organizational goals is an unfortunate, yet unavoidable part of organizational life. Because “necessary evil” messages are often of personal consequence to the receiver, it is important the communication process be designed in a way that will minimize harm caused to both messengers and receivers without compromising communication performance...

The purpose of this study was to devise an algorithm utilizing chromogenic media for the detection and presumptive identification of Candida species in a clinical microbiology laboratory. In order to select one chromogenic medium, a limited evaluation of 3 commercially available yeast chromogenic media: BBL CHROMagar Candida, BioRad CandiSelect 4, and Oxoid OCCA, was conducted with 12 C. albica...

Environmental sampling has become increasingly important in the food industry for monitoring the presence of specific pathogens such as Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella enterica. Several microbiological media are available for storage and transport of environmental samples from the processing plant to the test laboratory. In this study, we quantified the survival of L. monocytogenes, S. Ty...

1.1 Identification task To analyse the capability of identification due to direct dependence of ID-procedure on media nature it is feasible to select two groups of media: material (physical bodies) and energetical (physical fields: electric currents, sound fields, etc). The common property of any field is wavelike pattern so it can be named wave media type. Electric current both the power carri...

Cross-media retrieval is a research hotspot in multimedia area, which aims to perform retrieval across different media types such as image and text. The performance of existing methods usually relies on labeled data for model training. However, cross-media data is very labor consuming to collect and label, so how to transfer valuable knowledge in existing data to new data is a key problem towar...

The Smart Party [1] is a ubiquitous computing application developed using the Panoply [2] middleware. The core idea behind the Smart Party is that someone could host a gathering which spanned multiple rooms, and attendees who are in the same room at a Smart Party will co-operate to select and provide the media for each room. This paper presents the findings of an investigation into the dynamics...

We present an event-based approach for users to explore, annotate and share media. We are constructing a web-based environment that allows users to explore and select events, including discovering meaningful, surprising or entertaining connections among them. We build a knowledge base of events from event directories that will be linked to the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud, in conjunction with a...

Communication is probably the most critical component of an organization engaged in a crossborder collaboration. Today’s smart devices substantially contribute to such communication. Combined with social media, mobile communication technologies are becoming the main platform for many core functions within organizations. In this paper, we identified seven media identifiable attributes: synchroni...

Recent reports describe the ability of select bacterial strains to bind human norovirus, although the specificity of such interactions is unknown. The purpose of this work was to determine if a select group of bacterial species representative of human gut microbiota bind to human norovirus, and if so, to characterize the intensity and location of that binding. The bacteria screened included nat...