We describe an online ADR (Alternative Disputation Resolution) System using a tool for generating facial expressions of animated agents. In this system, a participant of ADR disputes against an opponent through a computer network. The participant agent searches similar cases of arguments and supports the participant by showing the similar cases. The participant edits the next proposal by referr...

In this article, we introduce a measure of within-participant response consistency for use in the analysis of performance in decision-making tasks. The measure is an estimate of the correlation between the responses associated with two identical blocks of trials, the second of which has yet to be conducted. We derive a formula for the measure that can be applied to data from any two-choice deci...

When combining results across related studies, a multivariate meta-analysis allows the joint synthesis of correlated effect estimates from multiple outcomes. Joint synthesis can improve efficiency over separate univariate syntheses, may reduce selective outcome reporting biases, and enables joint inferences across the outcomes. A common issue is that within-study correlations needed to fit the ...

A desktop personal computer can be greatly extended in usefulness by attaching it to a local area network and implementing a full set of network protocols, just as one might provide for a mainframe computer. Such protocols are a set of tools that allow the desktop computer not just to access data elsewhere, but to participate in the computing milieu much more intensely. There are two challenges...

A model is proposed in which the neuron serves as an information channel. Channel distortion occurs through the channel since the mapping from input Boolean codes to output codes are many-to-one in that neuron outputs consist of just two distinguished states. Within the described model, the neuron performs a decision-making function. Decisions are made regarding the validity of a question passi...

Choreographies offer means to capture global interactions between business processes of different partners. BPEL4Chor has been introduced to describe these interactions using BPEL. Currently, there are no formal methods available to verify BPEL4Chor choreographies. In this paper, we present how BPEL4Chor choreographies can be verified using Petri nets. A case study undermines that our verificat...

We investigated whether speakers represent their partners' task in a joint naming paradigm. Two participants took turns in naming pictures; occasionally the (initial) picture was replaced by a different picture (target), signaling that they had to stop naming the initial picture. When the same participant had to name the target picture, he or she completed the name of the initial picture more o...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the incidence of adverse events related to the use of varying silicone hydrogel contact lens and lens solution combinations. METHODS Individuals with myopia (N = 558) participated in 1 or more of approximately 40-participant trials in a matrix of 20 silicone hydrogel contact lens and lens-solution combinations. Visits were at baseline, 2 weeks, 1 month, and 3 months. ...

Fran Bagenal, University of Colorado, OPAG Chair William Bottke, Southwest Research Institute, PSS-MOWG Chair Timothy E. Dowling, University of Louisville, PSS-MOWG Member Julianne Moses, Lunar and Planetary Institute, OPAG Participant Scot Rafkin, Southwest Research Institute, OPAG Participant Adam Showman, University of Arizona, OPAG Participant Amy Simon-Miller, Goddard Space Flight Center, ...