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Semantics Enhances Web Meaning for Machines and Users

But internet searches are often fruitless – even Google's eight billion indexed web pages and vast store of data and documents. Text-based searches do what…

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RFID Transforms Supply Chain Efficiency in Retail

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) promises to revolutionise retailing through advanced stock management, sophisticated promotions and supply chain…

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Feelix Growing: Robots That Understand Human Emotions

Feelix Growing is developing software empowering robots that can learn when a person is sad, happy or angry.The learning part is achieved through the use of…

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Data Sharing Boosts Emergency Response in Italy

The Italian Ministry of the Interior has issued a formal decree concerning the sharing of data between the fire department and other emergency organisations,…

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Fixing Faulty Software: A New Era of Reliability Emerges

We have become used to the idea that software will not work properly. While we would take a faulty car back to the dealer and demand they put it right, we are…

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Custom Interfaces: Speed Up Your Computer Clicking Experience

Insert your key in the ignition of a luxury car and the seat and steering wheel will automatically adjust to preprogrammed body proportions. Stroll through the…

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New C++ Software Simplifies PIV Card Development for Developers

The demonstration software, written in C++, will assist software developers, system integrators and computer security professionals as they develop products…

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Advancing Wireless Communications: The Future Beyond 3G

European researchers at the EU-funded SPICE project are putting the final touches to a total solution that advances wireless telecommunications services beyond…

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Boosting Processing Power: Meeting Research Needs Efficiently

Personal computers may be getting faster, but the increasing amount of processing power is still not able to keep pace with what researchers need. The…

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Transforming Classrooms: Games That Inspire Creative Learning

What’s more, the special computer games developed by the eMapps.com project could help build communities of creative, networking children across Europe,…

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World's Highest-Resolution Scientific Display System

As the size of complex scientific data sets grows exponentially, so does the need for scientists to explore the data visually and collaboratively in ultra-high…

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Enhanced Tsunami Early Warning: Insights from GITEWS Simulation

After completing their simulation component in the German-Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System (GITEWS), the team for tsunami modelling of the Alfred…

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Avatars That Convey Emotions: The Future of Digital Interaction

Scientists have been working for decades so that the interaction between people and computers be more natural and intuitive. In fact, a great part of the…

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Detecting Nanocontaminations in Semiconductors Using Synchrotron

Miniaturisation plays a crucial economic role to-day and contributes significantly to the key technologies of the 21st century; however, the smaller the…

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Smart Vest Monitors Stress Levels for Better Well-Being

Stressed out? Time to take a break? It will not be long before our clothing gives us the answer. In the EU’s CONTEXT project, companies and research institutes…

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Advancing Microwave Amplifiers for Efficient Wireless Communication

Today’s information-rich, wireless world depends on microwave amplifiers that operate efficiently and linearly at high power and high frequencies, so it is…

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