Software Advance Helps Computers Act Logically

Computers just respond to commands, never "thinking" about the consequences. A new software language, however, promises to enable computers to reason much more precisely and thus better reflect subtleties intended by commands of human operators. Developed by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers and colleagues in France, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom, the process specification language software, known as ISO 18629, should make computers much more useful in manufacturing.

ISO 18629 uses artificial intelligence (AI) and language analysis to represent computer commands in the context of a manufacturing plan. Researchers have incorporated approximately 300 concepts, such as "duration" and "sequence," into its software structure. Computers using software with this expanded, though still primitive AI capacity, can act on a word's "meaning," interpreting a command almost like a person.

For instance, a person who hears the commands "paint it, before shipping it" and "turn on the coolant, before milling" understands that the word "before" has slightly different meanings in these two different contexts. In the first command, it is understood that painting and drying must be completed prior to the next action, shipping. In the second command, however, the first action, turning on the coolant, continues after the milling starts. ISO 18629 supports computer systems with this type of rudimentary understanding of context-specific language.

The ISO 18629 language is especially suited for the exchange of process planning, validation, production scheduling and control information for guiding manufacturing processes. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which already has approved six sections of the fledging standard, is currently reviewing the last of its three sections. Once the expected ISO approval is given, software vendors will begin building a variety of manufacturing systems that conform to ISO 18629.

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Virtual Toothache Helps Student Dentists

Masha is a dental patient. Her oral health problems continue to change as she meets new Case Western Reserve University student dentists in Second Life's virtual dental office.
The middle-aged avatar is an integral part of a new research project of the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine and the College of Arts and Sciences department of communication sciences to teach and give students practice time to communicate with mock patients.
Not only do findings from the study have potential to revolutionize dental education but also to change the way national testing is done for patient-side communication skills.

Kristin Z. Victoroff from the dental medicine's department of community dentistry will direct the three-year Innovative Dental Assessment Research and Development (IDEA) Grant project from the American Dental Association's Joint Commission on National Dental Examinations. She will develop patient communication scenarios for simulated education and test their effectiveness in preclinical training for students.

"More dental schools are experimenting with simulation as a way to teach," said Victoroff. She is joined in the research project by Roma Jasinevicius and Catherine Demko from the dental school faculty in testing and implementing simulations in dental education at the university.

Since 2001, the Case Western Reserve dental school has been on the forefront in using simulations in teaching the physical dexterity skills by using a technology called DentSim. DentSim is a simulated and computerized training system that uses a simulated dental patient. The school's use of the technology in dental education was spearheaded by Jasinevicius.

From that technology, the attention turned to developing what Victoroff's describes simulated experiences for the "softer" skills of dental medicine--communicating with patients.

Victoroff enlisted virtual reality experts and Art and Sciences' communication disorder scientists Stacy Williams, who directs the Virtual Immersion Center for Simulation Research (VICSR), and Kyra Rothenberg, director of the health communications minor.

They will take three approaches to simulated communications training--live actors, the immersion theater where students interact with a virtual patient in a 180-degree surround theater and with avatars, like Masha, in Second Life.

Of the three simulation methods, Victoroff is interested in using the immersion theater and Second Life. She noted that paper-based, live actors and real patients present limitations from ethical issues to logistical challenges. Meanwhile, the interactive theater and Second Life have capabilities to assess competencies in a convenient, standardized and cost-effective situation.

According to Victoroff, if successful, the virtual scenarios in an immersion theater setting or the online Second Life community might provide a potentially better way of assessing a student's abilities to communicate with patients than the current multiple-choice questions on the national examinations required for practicing professionally.

During spring semester, 70 students in the third-year dental class participated in a pilot study to develop their communication skills with live actors and virtual patients during communication skills training at the Mt. Sinai Skills and Simulation Center at the Veterans Administration Hospital.

The research project focuses on developing scenarios that aid and test students in taking patient histories, providing oral health education like tobacco cessation counseling for smokers, explaining procedures, talking about healthcare options and obtaining informed consent, and working through situations that present ethical dilemmas. These are among the competencies outlined by the American Dental Education Association.

Along with communication sciences students, the use of the virtual reality theater by dental students will advance the researchers understanding in how this technology can be applied to teaching and assessing students in different disciplines. The dental students will use a portable 50-inch LCD panel instead of the larger fixed 180-degree theater. In real time, the students interact and communicate with Masha.

"Ideally it is not that we are out to prove that virtual worlds or the VICSR system is better than standard instruction, but that they are of equal value," said Williams, adding that students should be able to walk away learning the same types of knowledge they can learn from working with live patients.

Students are very accepting of the VICR environment and put a lot of reflection in their voices when they are talking to the animated characters, said Williams.

Rothenberg will piece together students' motivations and perceptions when using this technology for their education.

According to Rothenberg who works in health communications, VICSR is already showing positive results from communication science students and patients using the virtual theater for their education and speech therapy.

"Virtual patients have much to offer in training healthcare providers, and it is equally important to explore how interactive virtual reality technology can enhance assessment of competency," said Victoroff.

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Spyware files

Computer system consists of various files. You can find thousands of files by different filenames and in different parts of the system. Some of the files are SYSTEM FILES and they are needed to maintain system stability and functioning, others are APPLICATION FILES, which are required to run various applications properly. And of course there are various MALICIOUS FILES which can harm your computer, collect information and do various other things. This section will help you to identify various files by their filenames, see if its related to some parasites or applications.
There are lots of files which uses legitimate system filenames but they are placed in other sections of the computer simply to deceive the user. We will help you to understand the difference between malicious files and legitimate files. Use our search form and find the descriptions of the files by their filenames.

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roamsvc.exe Part1.Utorrent.exe reset.exe reportingservicesservice.exe RegSrvc.exe registryrepairpro.exe RECGUARD.EXE rcp.exe ramasst.exe quickset.exe

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Spyware Software

In this section you can find reviews and test results of hundreds of more or less known anti-spyware programs available in the Internet. An anti-spyware program is a specific application designed to fight against spyware, adware threats and other kinds of parasites. It scans a computer, detects security and privacy risks and completely removes them from the system. Different spyware removers have different features and functions, use different detection and removal techniques and approaches, they can be similar to each other or may have absolutely nothing in common. The only thing that unites them is the purpose - to find and eliminate pests and clean up a compromised system. Here is side by side ANTISPYWARE COMPARISON CHART

But not all anti-spyware tools can be trusted. The spyware software section is divided into categories: anti-spyware and corrupt anti-spyware. In the first one we provide reviews of recommended solutions and effective enough products. The second one contains the list of corrupt, rogue, fake, illegal, even harmful programs that cannot properly detect and remove spyware. We DO NOT recommend to purchase or use any programs that fall into our corrupt anti-spyware list.

The main purpose of the Spyware Software section is to introduce reliable and really working anti-spyware software available on the market and help to avoid bad products, which vendors just want to make money from you. Provided categories can also be used for software comparison and analysis. 2-spyware.com wants to help you to choose the right product.

Software by categories:

Anti-Spyware (75) - Anti-Spyware contains the list of all known legitimate anti-spyware programs that can effectively detect and remove spyware, adware threats and other kinds of computer parasites from the system.

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Parasite removal tools (5) - This section provides the list of separate parasite removal tools designed to find and remove specific trojans, worms, viruses, spyware or adware threats.

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