Donald Trump's mother Mary Anne MacLeod grew up on the Hebridean island of Lewis.

NHS Highland and Highland Council say they are progressing towards taking over Moss Park.

Cox delivered a speech about the earth and the forces of nature in the context of sustainability issues.

The woman said she had stolen £10,500 to help a daughter who was under paramilitary threat over a debt.

Ten people were taken to hospital after the blaze at Niddrie Mill Crescent.

As employers face a skill shortage, some firms have turned to unusual tactics to get the right workforce.

Marty Hay says the geese can go through an acre of crops overnight, which can cost up to £700 to grow.

Guernsey Post issues customers with cards aimed at protecting their staff from dog attacks.

The fire in Hailsham is being treated as suspected deliberate ignition, police say.

Their owner thanks people for their help after finding the birds three miles away.

The wooden boat took on water very quickly as it tried to navigate the harbour in the early hours.

Sheffield United striker Kieffer Moore withdraws from Wales' Nations League games against Turkey and Iceland this month because of a calf injury.

The man remains in hospital with unknown injuries, Devon and Cornwall Police say.

The government has taken control of a decision over 8000 new homes near Sittingbourne.

73-year-old Rob Cocker from Penkhull has now had a drink in 12,000 pubs nationwide.

Cambridge United manager Garry Monk will make a late decision on whether striker Shayne Lavery is fit to return in Saturday's derby with Peterborough United.

Indigenous Australians says the book is damaging and stereotypes first nation people.

Pop Idol's Mark offered a young Liam Payne advice on how to deal with the pop industry.

Influencers say Sephora is "another world for beauty" as it prepares to open in Birmingham.

Luton and Sunderland are fined by the Football Association for a mass confrontation at the end of their Championship game last month.

Hear from the incredible children ready to represent Worcestershire on TV.

Tasha Morris lost her son Oscar during surgery after a serious car crash in August.

Ben Brook was appointed as the service's new Chief Fire Officer on Friday.

Wall art and technology inside custody cells is not a "soft approach on crime", say police.

Roblox is introducing new safety features for children under the age of 13, following criticism of how it protects younger users. The free online gaming platform, which has around 70 million […]

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  Kia’s compact electric SUV, the Kia EV3, has arrived in Europe with a range of up to 375 miles on a single charge and an interior design that the […]

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Bristol City defender Rob Atkinson plays 90 minutes for the club's under-21 side as he nears a full return from a serious knee injury.

Spruce up on your arboreal knowhow.

Ever hung out on Ebury Bridge?

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From pre-race confusion to post-race joy, from 17th on the grid to a stunning win, here's how Max Verstappen's Brazilian Grand Prix unfolded on his radio.

In the round-up: New simulator 'like Star Wars' - Krack • Pirelli likes 'flexibility' of new C6 • Play NZ anthem when McLaren wins - Lawson

Niels Wittich has unexpectedly stood down from his role as Formula 1's race director. The FIA named Rui Marques as his replacement.

Decision creates incentives for more secrecy

Uncle Sam’s got his hand in The Mitten

TRIBUNE. Des experts saluent la creation de ce collectif pro-business, tout en exprimant le souhait qu'il s'attaque egalement au dirigisme de l'Etat.

This work presents a first approach to the synthesis of Spanish Sign Language's (LSE) Classifier Constructions (CCs). All current attempts at the automatic synthesis of LSE simply create the animations corresponding to sequences of signs. This work, however, includes the synthesis of the LSE classification phenomena, defining more complex elements than simple signs, such as Classifier Predicates, Inflective CCs and Affixal classifiers. The intelligibility of our synthetic messages was evaluated by LSE natives, who reported a recognition rate of 93% correct answers.

The paper explores the application of Web 2.0 technologies to support product development efforts in a global, virtual and cross-functional setting. It analyses the dichotomy between the prevailing hierarchical structure of CAD/PLM/PDM systems and the principles of the Social Web under the light of the emerging product development trends. Further it introduces the concept of Engineering 2.0, intended as a more bottom up and lightweight knowledge sharing approach to support early stage design decisions within virtual and cross-functional product development teams. The lessons learned collected from a cross-company study highlight how to further developblogs, wikis, forums and tags for the benefit of new product development teams, highlighting opportunities, challenges and no-go areas.

In this paper we present an approach to improving navigability of a hierarchically structured Web content. The approach is based on an integration of a tagging module and adoption of tag clouds as a navigational aid for such content. The main idea of this approach is to apply tagging for the purpose of a better highlighting of cross-references between information items across the hierarchy. Although in principle tag clouds have the potential to support efficient navigation in tagging systems, recent research identified a number of limitations. In particular, applying tag clouds within pragmatic limits of a typical user interface leads to poor navigational performance as tag clouds are vulnerable to a so-called pagination effect. In this paper, a solution to the pagination problem is discussed, implemented as a part of an Austrian online encyclopedia called Austria-Forum, and analyzed. In addition, a simulation-based evaluation of the new algorithm has been conducted. The first evaluation results are quite promising, as the efficient navigational properties are restored.

RDF data can be analyzed with various query languages such as SPARQL. However, due to their nature these query languages do not support fuzzy queries that would allow us to extract a broad range of additional information. In this article we present a new method that transforms the information presented by subject-relationobject relations within RDF data into Activation Patterns. These patterns represent a common model that is the basis for a number of sophisticated analysis methods such as semantic relation analysis, semantic search queries, unsupervised clustering, supervised learning or anomaly detection. In this article, we explain the Activation Patterns concept and apply it to an RDF representation of the well known CIA World Factbook.

Trump confie l'immigration à Tom Homan, le "tsar des frontières"

1. Météo : jusqu’à quand le premier épisode de froid va-t-il durer ?  CNEWS
2. Météo : alerte à la vague de froid, la neige va tomber dans tous ces départements  Linternaute.com
3. Semaine prochaine : risque d'intempéries après 15 jours de calme  La Chaîne Météo
4. Qu'est-ce qu'une "goutte froide", phénomène météo qui touche la France cette semaine ?  Yahoo Actualités
5. Météo. Les premiers flocons sont tombés dans l’Ain  Le Progrès

Alien-like signal from 2023 has been decoded. The next step is to figure out what it means  CNN

Along with amazing advancements in the field of digital payments, this article seeks to provide a summary of research undertaken over the last four decades and to suggest areas in need of additional study. This study employs a two-pronged technique for analysing its data. The first is concerned with performance analysis, and the second with science mapping. The study uses the apps VOS viewer and R-studio to do bibliometric data analysis. From 1982 until May 2022, the most trustworthy database, Scopus, is used to compile a database of 923 publications The findings of this study identify the scope of current research interest, which is explored with critical contributions from a variety of authors, journals, countries, affiliations, keyword analysis, citation analysis, co-citation analysis, and bibliometric coupling, as well as a potential research direction for further investigation in this emerging field.

While digitalisation reforms aiming to enhance the quality of public services were put in place, most stakeholders in developing countries still use paper-based-tendering processes, which are associated with increased costs. To overcome these problems, calls to adopt e-bidding have recently emerged. This study aims to explore the readiness of Moroccan SMEs to adopt e-bidding. To achieve this goal, we proposed an integrated framework combining the TAM and UTAUT models to examine the predictors of SMEs' intention to adopt e-bidding. We empirically tested the conceptual model using a partial least squares (PLS) estimation based on data from 210 SMEs. Our results suggest that effort expectancy, facilitating conditions, and social influence as the key factors influencing SMEs intention to adopt e-bidding. We also suggest firm size as a significant moderator. This will help in improving SMEs' user experience and will also allow a better implementation of e-bidding in Morocco and similar contexts.

The aim of the study is to examine the determinants of digitalisation in public sector. This research is particularly relevant as digital transformation has become a crucial factor in modernising public sector and enhancing service delivery to citizens. The method of the systematic literature review (SLR) was implemented by searching documents on the Scopus database. The initial research reached the 7902 documents and after specifying the keywords the authors found 207 relevant documents. Finally; after the careful read of their abstracts and the use of inclusion and exclusion criteria; the most cited and relevant 32 papers constituted the final sample. Findings highlighted the focus of the literature on technological factors such as the sense of trust and safety as well as the ease of use in the adoption of digital governance; emphasising the need for effective; trustworthy and user-friendly digital services. The most discussed internal factors were leadership and organisational culture. The study offers a deeper understanding of the factors that shape the successful implementation of digital governance initiatives.

Intellectual assets, especially its relational forms, have become increasingly important to explain a firm's innovation. To examine relational forms of intellectual assets (IA), this study theoretically and empirically advances a concept of alliance management capability (AMC) to explain the value creation and capture aspects of a firm's innovation process. The concepts of value-creating alliance experiences (VCAE) and value capturing alliance experiences (VCPAE) were introduced in which a firm's ability to learn from these alliance experiences increases the firm's ability to discover and govern partnerships that bring the firm's innovations to market. Hypotheses were developed and empirically examined in the biotechnology industry. A contribution of this study is that a firm's VCAE and VCPAE introduce a greater 'openness' to a firm's innovation process. This openness enables a firm to better adapt and respond to the opportunities of the market and thus impact a firm's competitive advantage to innovate.