Towards a Methodology Supporting Semiautomatic Annotation of HeadMovements in Video-recorded Conversations

We present a method to support the annotation of head movements in video-recorded conversations. Head movement segments from annotated multimodal data are used to train a model to detect head movements in unseen data. The resulting predicted movement sequences are uploaded to the ANVIL tool for post-annotation editing. The automatically identified head movements and the original annotations are compared to assess the overlap between the two. This analysis showed that movement onsets were more easily detected than offsets, and pointed at a number of patterns in the mismatches between original annotations and model predictions that could be dealt with in general terms in post-annotation guidelines.

Building And Evaluating Digital Elevation Models (Dem) Byusing Geographic Information System

This research aimed for using Geographic Information System (GIS) in producing Digital Elevation Model (DEM) for Dimas District, By applying various methods: Spatial Analyst, Geo Statistical Analyst, Triangulated Irregular Network (TIN), and interpolating DEM from contour lines. The study showed that the best methods for interpolating DEM is Kriging method, Which interpolated an evaluated surface for scattered points which had (Z values) whether they were closed or scattered from each other. And (TIN) method which required less area on hard disc to be stored comparing with other methods, and it's perfect for representing surfaces in wide areas, Also generating DEM from contour lines produced DEM which had very accurate representing for surfaces.

The moral basis of scientific knowledge in popper philosophy

The research addressed a critical analytical study of the moral basis of scientific knowledge from the viewpoint of the contemporary philosopher of science Karl popper, throughout his opinion on the fact that scientific knowledge is incomplete when not based on cognitive approach and moral content which protect it from slipping and error, stressing the close relationship and the strong correlation between knowledge and ethics, which if deviated affected the standards of science as a whole. Results showed that knowledge, generally, is everyone's right to possess, threr resides the truth, and to reach this truth there must be many methodologies, says popper, the most important of which is the critical approach and rational dialog, by which we realize that the human makes mistakes and, consequently, his knowledge may be wrong, and to access the real scientific knowledge the skeptical approach should be followed in which the premise is tested in different ways. Popper pointed out that the insightful human recipient can exercise these logical operations, and the insightful human is naturaly forgivable non- fanatic, open to criticism, non-monopolistic of knowledge and therefore the basis of knowledge is purely ethical, without which knowledge loses its meaning and credibility.

Study and Assessment System of Economic Factors Affecting the Spatial Variation of Needs of the Population to Services and Consumption in the Spatial Organization of Urban Centers and Regions Study in the Theoretical and Methodological Basis

The study assesses the impact of economic factors in the geography of services in terms of need, consumption and spatial organization are topics and trends in a study in this new world. These economic factors form a stand-alone system that belongs to the larger system that includes all the factors in the geography of services. System of these economic factors is composed of the five factors that constitute the elements of this system as follows : 1 - the geographical economic location. 2 - transport routes, and means . 3 - Capital . 4 - SOA (substructure of service) . 5 - economic resources and aspects of economic activity in urban centers and regions. Economic factors interact with each other within the system, and in at the same time they interact with the system of human factors and the system of natural factors for shaping the service sectors of the place by showing the spatial variation in the needs of the population to services and they use them, and its spatial organization of place in urban centers and regions. Economic factors are different in the strength of their impact in this variation and spatial organization of the services sector of the population, depending on different areas or trends in the study in of the geography of services, and the first trend studies the needs of the population is services. The quality of these to services, and the second trend studies consumption of the population to these services, and the third trend studies the spatial organization of the services sector of the population. A system of economic factors forms inputs which interact together, and at the same time interact with the system of natural factors and human factors, to give outputs that show the nature of services for the population and the characteristics of its distribution and development in place .