Consumers are constantly bombarded with subtle and even subconscious cues from their environment. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research examines whether these cues activate goals that affect behavior in the long ...
Social Sciences
Mar 31, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Portals used to launch you, Stargate-style, to bizarre places brought to life by science fiction writers. Today, thanks to European research, portals can take you to fascinating virtual destinations - both ...
Computer Sciences
Mar 19, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Dispersed wind farms and solar panels on people’s homes are posing new challenges for managing power grids that were designed when all electricity was generated in centralised plants. A new semantic web ...
Engineering
Feb 9, 2009
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We have seen significant recent progress in pattern analysis and machine intelligence applied to images, audio and video signals, and natural language text, but not as much applied to another artifact produced by people: ...
Computer Sciences
Aug 16, 2018
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Researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid have presented a prototype of a multi-device system that can involve citizens in managing emergencies. The system, which can be used through a smart tabletop, can identify ...
Computer Sciences
Mar 14, 2017
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A risk assessment measurement system drawing on data from financial news feeds is in a testing phase with end users such as private investment banks, investment funds and pension funds.
Economics & Business
Jan 12, 2016
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The integration of ICT into every day teaching can have a positive impact on student knowledge and understanding, and can help teachers deliver stimulating and motivating classes.
Social Sciences
Sep 24, 2013
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NEC Corporation announced today the development of a "semantic search engine" that rapidly analyzes and classifies the meaning of text, enabling users to quickly and easily process information. Recent deployment of this search ...
Computer Sciences
Feb 29, 2012
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Imagine trying to analyze all of the English entries in Wikipedia. Now imagine you've got 20 times as much information. That's the challenge scientists face when working with gigabyte data sets. Scientists at Pacific Northwest ...
Computer Sciences
Sep 20, 2011
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Government agencies around the world make billions of bits of raw data available to the public each day, but this data is often in difficult formats or so widely spread around the Web it is virtually unusable to the public ...
Other
Dec 10, 2010
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