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Smile Analyzer: A Software Package for Analyzing the Characteristics of the Speech and Smile

Taking into account the factors related to lip-tooth relationships in orthodontic diagnosis and treatment planning is of prime importance. Manual quantitative analysis of facial parameters on photographs during smile and speech is a difficult and time-consuming job. Since there is no comprehensive and user-friendly software package, we developed a software program called "Smile Analyzer" in the...

Smile with a smile

Smiling during talking yields speech with higher formants, and hence larger formant dispersion. Previous studies have shown that motor resonance during perception of words related to smiling can activate muscles responsible for the smiling action. If word perception causes smiling activation for such smile-related words, then this motor resonance may occur also during production, resulting in l...

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A winning smile? Smile intensity, physical dominance, and fighter performance.

The smile is perhaps the most widely studied facial expression of emotion, and in this article we examine its status as a sign of physical dominance. We reason, on the basis of prior research, that prior to a physical confrontation, smiles are a nonverbal sign of reduced hostility and aggression, and thereby unintentionally communicate reduced physical dominance. Two studies provide evidence in...

Smile — a Simulation Environment for Energy Systems

The simulation system Smile has been developed as part of a research project at the Technical University of Berlin that is concerned with the development of simulation tools for modeling the behavior of energy supply and consumption systems. The main goal in design of the language was to facilitate the modeling of components as well as the compiling of large simulation scenarios. Starting with ...