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ASSETS
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Refreshable tactile graphics applied to schoolbook illustrations for students with visual impairment
This article presents research on making schoolbook illustrations accessible for students with visual impairment. The MaskGen system was developed to interactively transpose illus...
Grégory Petit, Aude Dufresne, Vincent L&eac...
SSD
2001
Springer
122views Database» more  SSD 2001»
13 years 11 months ago
Calendars, Time Granularities, and Automata
The notion of time granularity comes into play in a variety of problems involving time representation and management in database applications, including temporal database design, t...
Ugo Dal Lago, Angelo Montanari
DASFAA
2009
IEEE
253views Database» more  DASFAA 2009»
13 years 10 months ago
Implementing and Optimizing Fine-Granular Lock Management for XML Document Trees
Abstract. Fine-grained lock protocols with lock modes and lock granules adjusted to the various XML processing models, allow for highly concurrent transaction processing on XML tre...
Sebastian Bächle, Theo Härder, Michael P...
HPCA
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Speculative synchronization and thread management for fine granularity threads
Performance of multithreaded programs is heavily influenced by the latencies of the thread management and synchronization operations. Improving these latencies becomes especially...
Alex Gontmakher, Avi Mendelson, Assaf Schuster, Gr...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Bringing the field into focus: user-centered design of a patient expertise locator
Managing personal aspects of health is challenging for many patients, particularly those facing a serious condition such as cancer. Finding experienced patients, who can share the...
Andrea Civan-Hartzler, David W. McDonald, Chris Po...