Happy reunion

Happy Chatbot, Happy User

We compare our own embodied conversational agent (ECA) scheme, BotCom, with seven other complex Internet-based ECAs according to recentlypublished information about them, and highlight some important attributes that have received little attention in the construction of realistic ECAs. BotCom incorporates the use of emotions, humor and complex information services. We cover issues that are likel...

Reunion Dinner

as a success and it has been decided to repeat it this year. The dinner will be in the Criterion Restaurant, Piccadilly Circus, London, W.I., on Saturday, 21st June, 1947, at 7-30 or 8 o'clock. Several Indian psychiatrists, members of the I.A.M.C., are temporarily in London; and this letter may catch the eye of others who propose to be in the U.K. during the summer on holiday or for post-gradua...

The Reunion Starling

No vacuolar reunion

gate that guards the translocon is opened and closed by ATP cycles that also give the same protein chaperone activity, as shown on page 389 by Alder et al. The translocon is an aqueous pore in the ER membrane through which secreted proteins pass during translation. To prevent the unwanted passage of ions, unused pores are plugged on the lumen side by the action of BiP. Within the ER, BiP is als...

Ethnic reunion and cultural affinity

Ethnic reunion is the propensity of tourists to travel to regions where their ancestors originate from, while cultural affinity is the propensity of tourists to travel to regions with a shared cultural identity. This paper uses a “world migration matrix”, which records the year 1500 origins of the current populations of 159 countries, in a standard tourism gravity equation to provide the first ...