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DB
2008
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Environmental influences on gender in the IT workforce
In an effort to better understand the underrepresentation of women within the IT profession, one promising line of investigation is the influence of factors in the socio-cultural ...
Eileen M. Trauth, Jeria L. Quesenberry, Benjamin Y...
PRESENCE
2008
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Pilot Evaluation Study of a Virtual Paracentesis Simulator for Skill Training and Assessment: The Beneficial Effect of Haptic Di
Effective, real-time training of health care professionals in invasive procedures is a challenging task. Furthermore, assessing in practice the acquisition of the dexterity and sk...
Costas S. Tzafestas, Kostas Birbas, Yiannis Koumpo...
IJWBC
2007
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Salutogenic community building
This paper explores a new approach to community building. It is based on the concept of salutogenesis; a proactive approach to community health which seeks preventative measures i...
Khamphira Viravong
MMS
2008
14 years 9 months ago
Semantic interactive image retrieval combining visual and conceptual content description
We address the challenge of semantic gap reduction for image retrieval through an improved SVM-based active relevance feedback framework, together with a hybrid visual and concept...
Marin Ferecatu, Nozha Boujemaa, Michel Crucianu
KDD
2007
ACM
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Relational data pre-processing techniques for improved securities fraud detection
Commercial datasets are often large, relational, and dynamic. They contain many records of people, places, things, events and their interactions over time. Such datasets are rarel...
Andrew Fast, Lisa Friedland, Marc Maier, Brian Tay...