Although the human brain may have evolutionarily adapted to face-to-face communication, other modes of communication, e.g., telephone and e-mail, increasingly dominate our modern daily life. This study examined the neural difference between face-to-face communication and other types of communication by simultaneously measuring two brains using a hyperscanning approach. The results showed a sign...

Turn-taking provides a basis for comparing interactions in different communication environments, and this paper demonstrates that readily observable features of turns can be linked to principles that organize and manage the interaction. Results are based on 150 decision-making interactions elicited in a face-to-face environment, an asynchronous, e-mail environment, and several types of synchron...

For more than 35 years, researchers have debated whether face recognition is carried out by face-specific mechanisms or whether it involves more general mechanisms that are also used for objects. Prosopagnosic patients have furnished powerful evidence for face-specific mechanisms. Yet for each case that has been tested there have always been several untested alternative explanations that could ...

Location based applications have gained much attention in recent years mainly with the advent of mobile devices such as smart-phones, PC-tablets, and netbooks. These devices facilitate the position data collection and allows some applications to make use of this data. For instance, mobile search is taking advantage of the local information to improve the user experience. Among the most common l...

Xiaobiao Huang Beam Diagnosis and Lattice Modeling of the Fermilab Booster A realistic lattice model is a fundamental basis for the operation of a synchrotron. In this study various beam-based measurements, including orbit response matrix (ORM) and BPM turn-by-turn data are used to verify and calibrate the lattice model of the Fermilab Booster. In the ORM study, despite the strong correlation b...

1.1.1 Introduction For linear accelerators, a single bunch instability of a positron bunch due to electrons created by ionization of the residual gas was discussed in Ref. [1], where a coherent oscillation of both electrons and positrons grows from any small initial perturbation of the bunch distribution, e.g. from the statistical fluctuations due to the finite number of beam particles. This in...

Prior research on gaze, turn-taking, and backchannels suggests that the speaker’s gaze cues the listener’s paralinguistic responses, including feedback behaviors. To explore how conversants use feedback cues and responses, I studied a corpus of face-to-face conversational interaction, primarily using a conversation-analytic approach. Analysis of the dialogs suggests that paralinguistic behavior...

PURPOSE To describe the clinical features of Duane's retraction syndrome (DRS) in Korean patients. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed the 78 DRS cases that presented to our department between 1995 and 2004. The clinical features investigated included sex distribution, laterality, type of presentation, deviation in primary position, anomalous vertical movements, face turn, amblyopia and aniso...

In this paper, we introduce a novel colour histogram based approach to human face detection in colour images. We reason that different regions of a human face contain different facial features and that the colour distributions of these regions may have certain characteristics that are unique to human faces. By concatenating colour histograms of different regions of a human face, we can form a v...