This archive contains supplementary materials for the article titled "A Survey of Corpora in Computational and Cognitive Narrative Science" by Mark A. Finlayson, published in the journal *Sprache und Datenverarbeitung*. ...

Our initial study indicates that successful integration of new communication medium into South African schools is not only challenging from the financial point of view, but also in terms of designing tools that fit within ...

The phenomenal emergence of several heterogeneous wireless networks and technologies has allowed users to have access to IP services anywhere, at anytime, from any network and with whatever terminal they use. This computing ...

The skill of accurately predicting the optimal time to buy or sell shares on the stock market is one that has been actively sought by both experienced and novice investors since the advent of the stock exchange in the early ...

An automatic speech recognition (ASR) system is a software application which recognizes human speech, processes it as input, and displays a text version of the speech as output or uses the input as commands for another ...

Virtualisation is a method of partitioning one physical computer into multiple "virtual" computers, giving each the appearance and capabilities of running on its own dedicated hardware. Each virtual system functions as a ...

This dissertation focuses on enhancing autonomous robots' capability to identify drivable regions in underground terrains. A system model that compares the drivability analysis of underground terrains using the entropy ...

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is the most common form of preventable mental retardation worldwide. This condition affects children whose mothers excessively consume alcohol whilst pregnant. FASD can be identified ...

The field of Procedural Generation is being increasingly used in modern content generation for its ability to significantly decrease the cost and time involved. One such area of Procedural Generation is Shape Grammars, a ...

Our research documents the successful development of a system for stakeholders in the low-income urban environment, to facilitate the dissemination of information through enhanced mobile technology. The research project ...

Labor and Delivery is a complex clinical service requiring the support of highly trained healthcare professionals from Obstetrics, Anesthesiology, and Neonatology and the access to a finite set of valuable resources. In ...

Background: Neural circuits can spontaneously generate complex spatiotemporal firing patterns during development. This spontaneous activity is thought to help guide development of the nervous system. In this study, we had ...

A very-high-level data manipulation language for a database system is one in which the user specifies in non-procedural terms the operations that are to be performed on the data stored in the database; the actual method ...

Several models exist for diffusion of signals across biological, social, or engineered networks. However, the inverse problem of identifying the source of such propagated information appears more difficult even in the ...

Multi-dimensional security protocol engineering is effective for creating cryptographic protocols since it encompasses a variety of design, analysis and deployment techniques, thereby providing a higher level of confidence ...

The lack of communication facilities in developing countries is a constraint to social, political and economic empowerment of the people. However, advances in technology promise to deliver voice, video and data communication ...

The complexity of determining whether a system meets the requirements of its designers has increased with the widespread use of real time concurrent systems. This testing process has however been simplified with the emergence ...

This thesis examines how parallel and distributed algorithms can increase the power of techniques for correctness and performance analysis of concurrent systems. The systems in question are state transition systems from ...

Real-time computer games and simulations often contain large virtual outdoor environments. Terrain forms an important part of these environments. This terrain may consist of various granular materials, such as sand, rubble ...

HiLog is a logic-based language which boasts the expressiveness of a higher-order syntax while retaining the simplicity of a first-order semantics. This work examines the suitability of Horn-clause HiLog as a query language ...