AIM This research was conducted to identify the expression of choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) in human cerebral microvascular endothelial cells (HCMECs) and to clarify the capability of Ocimum sanctum Linn. ethanolic extract to stimulate the presence of ChAT in the aging HCMECs. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this study, we perform an in vitro analysis some in the presence of an ethanolic extract ...

Broadcast chat messages among team members in an organization can be used to evaluate team coordination and performance. Intuitively, a well-coordinated team should reflect the team hierarchy, which would indicate that team members assigned with particular roles are performing their jobs effectively. Existing approaches to identify hierarchy are limited to data from where graphs can be extracte...

1. Abstract In this paper, we consider the problem of validating user reports and detecting malicious users in chat networks. Bad behavior in chat networks is usually handled by a rather tedious system where the victim generates a report for the administrators to act on. However, since most of these reports are spurious, administrators have to manually validate each report before taking action....

We present a chat system that uses animated text associated with emotional information to show the affective state of the user. The system obtains the affective state of a chat user from a physiological sensor attached to the user’s body. This paper describes preliminary experiments and provides examples of possible applications of our chat system. Observations from informal experiments compari...

BACKGROUND Murine and human ventricular cardiomyocytes rich in acetylcholine (Ach) receptors are poorly innervated by the vagus, compared with whole ventricular innervation by the adrenergic nerve. However, vagal nerve stimulation produces a favorable outcome even in the murine heart, despite relatively low ventricular cholinergic nerve density. Such a mismatch and missing link suggest the exis...

When multiple conversations occur simultaneously, a listener must decide which conversation each utterance is part of in order to interpret and respond to it appropriately. We refer to this task as disentanglement. We present a corpus of Internet Relay Chat dialogue in which the various conversations have been manually disentangled, and evaluate annotator reliability. We propose a graph-based c...