The analysis of the possibilities of the determination of moving objects by the means of GSM nets.

Modern organization is an organization, which has main features of contemporary organization, of which most important, is based on unique knowledge, created by high additional value. The information system has been created by using Delphi.

„A translation memory is a multilingual text archive containing (segmented, aligned, parsed and classified) multilingual texts, allowing storage and retrieval of aligned multilingual text segments against various search conditions.” TRANSMEM offers modern technologies for conducting and updatings of databases of the executed translations. Keeping work performed by the translator, TRANSMEM provides high efficiency and real profit in the future projects. The database of the executed translations releases the translator from repeated, taking away it is a lot of operating time, the translator keeps the full control over the maintenance and quality of the text. One of attractive features of system “Transmem” - the translator can work with a familiar word-processor – Open.Office.org. TRANSMEM compiles a linguistic database (TM) on the second plan while translators work in Open.Office.org. TM keeps the initial text and its corresponding translation. When there is a new segment (a phrase or the offer) the system immediately compares it with kept in TM segments. If identical or similar initial the segment is, it is displayed together with translation. Words and phrases which differ from the kept text, are highlighted by system. The translator makes a decision: to edit, reject or accept translation. Each change or new translation are kept in ТМ. As a result, the same offer should be never translated manually twice.

In the contemporary world of techniques, voice technologies, such as speech recognition, synthesis of speech signals, and their combined versions, acquire more and more significance. If we had a good synthesizer, we could use it widely. An example could be the reading of electronic books in voice, etc. Speech synthesizers of older generation were quite primitive. A modern synthesis machine is not only able to read the text evenly, but to convey the emotionality as well. Speech synthesizer can raise a tone, dictate a question, and synthesize a voice of a desired timbre and speed. These features considerably enrich the speech synthesized. The articulatory speech synthesizer is based on a model of the physiology of the human speech production process. Articulatory synthesis usually consists of two separate components – articulatory model and acoustic model. In the articulatory model, the vocal tract is divided into numerous small sections and the corresponding cross – sectional areas are used as parameters to represent the vocal tract characteristics. In the acoustic model, each cross–sectional area is approximated by an electrical analog transmission line. To simulate the movement of the vocal tract, the area functions change time. The aim of the research paper is to analyze the consistent pattern of the vocal tract, generating the sound of Lithuanian language. The tasks are these: to look at the history of speech synthesis; to look at the architecture of speech; to overlook... [to full text]

Qualitative cleaning of the equipment is very important for the food industry, especially dairy sector, and for ensuring the quality of the product. Very high hygiene requirements make the manufacturers take care of the cleanliness of the equipment they use. It is essential for the dirt not to get into food produce or its germs to increase. The aim of this work is to design an automatic three-feed-line washing station for cleaning milk-float tanks. First, the environment of the system that is being designed was analyzed. Then, a principled scheme of the cleaning station was made and the requirements for the software were set. To put this project into practice the software and equipment of the "Siemens" company were chosen as its production occupies the biggest part of the market of Lithuania. The usage of the "Siemens" software and equipment enables to extend and network the system. The requirements raised for the functioning of the cleaning station have been formed considering the requirements for the cleaning stations used in the world as well as taking into account the practical advantages and disadvantages of the familiar cleaning stations. With reference to these requirements better software for the cleaning station was created. Having the system implemented, the cleaning process would be faster, more qualitative and economical. The current service staff of the cleaning station would be optimized.

One of the most important elements of educational change is implementation of innovation. Innovation in education may be either created inside a country or adopted as foreign experience by the means of different international programmes, projects, individuals, and etc. There are a lot of problematic questions in relation to the implementation of external (those of foreign countries) innovation. The article analyses the case of the implementation of the ‘Step by Step' programme, as well as evaluates the innovation, implemented along with created programme in Microsoft Access Database of Information System of Teachers and Accounting in Secondary School.

This phenomenological study explores the digitally-mediated literacy practices of a group of students who have been unsuccessful with the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test. More specifically, this study documents the out-of-school online literacy practices that are attractive to students who have failed to achieve dominant school literacy and explores the conditions that drive them. These practices are recognized as socially situated. Interviews were conducted at a Toronto school with 3 grade twelve students enrolled in the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Course, an alternative method to fulfil the provincially mandated literacy graduation requirement. Three findings emerged: a) participants’ desire for “real” texts, defined as those that reflect their understanding of the world and connect them to the lives of others, b) the high value placed on visual and verbal semiotic resources and c) participants felt empowered by their online literacy practices but regarded in-school literacy as a site of resistance.

This research examines loyalty marketing as an empirical case study of consumer surveillance. Focusing on the Canadian context, the research investigates the relationship between the personal information economy and loyalty marketing through several interrelated perspectives. These are marketing and business literature, theoretical frameworks of surveillance, the branding of consumers and corporations, consumer ambivalence towards surveillance and privacy issues, and the mutual shaping of consumers and these programs. These interrelated yet distinctive perspectives provide different means to understand loyalty programs as information portals in the increasingly monitored, measured and marketed lives of consumers. They are a means of surveillance through which corporations systematically collect consumption data in order to influence, manage, entitle, or control consumers (Lyon 2001). The research is based on interviews with loyalty program executives, international survey results, and focus groups to both describe the relationship between corporate information processing and consumers as well as the current and potential social effects and issues embedded in this relationship. Loyalty programs are seen as an important means for conceptualizing contemporary marketing practices, the use of personal information, and personal identity in an information oriented society. They are a complex manifestation of a ‘knowing capitalism’ (Thrift 2005) that has implications far beyond the accumulation of points and the ‘reward yourself’ appeal of participation by contributing to a cultural consumption circuit that perpetuates and reinforces already existing socio-economic differences. / Thesis (Ph.D, Sociology) -- Queen's University, 2008-04-24 10:19:22.99

This phenomenological study explores the digitally-mediated literacy practices of a group of students who have been unsuccessful with the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test. More specifically, this study documents the out-of-school online literacy practices that are attractive to students who have failed to achieve dominant school literacy and explores the conditions that drive them. These practices are recognized as socially situated. Interviews were conducted at a Toronto school with 3 grade twelve students enrolled in the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Course, an alternative method to fulfil the provincially mandated literacy graduation requirement. Three findings emerged: a) participants’ desire for “real” texts, defined as those that reflect their understanding of the world and connect them to the lives of others, b) the high value placed on visual and verbal semiotic resources and c) participants felt empowered by their online literacy practices but regarded in-school literacy as a site of resistance.

In this work, the Internet Information System is created for the Artists‘ Association. It was planned to meet the specific needs of the Artists who wanted to let the people know about themselves and their works, and finally sell them. It also meets the needs of every Internet user who might be interested in information about the popular or perspective artists and who might purchase their works. The system was developed on the basis of .NET technologies: ADO.NET, ASP.NET and programmed with Visual C#. The data of the information system are stored in MS SQL Server 2000. Finally the information system was implemented and thoroughly tested. It meets all the functional and non-functional requirements of end users: the Administrator, the Artist, the Registered User and Internet User. The system is safe, fast, and comfortable to use, has good look, and may be extended in future when the needs of its users would grow.