Tokyo Japanese has a lexical pitch-accent system whereas Seoul Korean features no wordlevel tonal representations. The present study investigated phonological perception of lexical pitch-accent by advanced Seoul Korean learners of Japanese, via sequence-recall experiments. The results, on the contrary to our prediction, showed that advanced Korean learners performed as well as native Japanese s...

Emerging research has suggested that digital games can generate entertainment experiences beyond hedonic enjoyment towards eudaimonic experiences: Being emotionally moved, stimulated to reflect on one’s self or a sense of elevation. Studies in this area have mainly focused individual game characteristics elicit singular and static moments. However, such focus neglects the interplay multiple asp...

Over the last years, there has been a lot of interest in the area of Interactive Virtual Humans (IVHs). Virtual characters who interact naturally with users in mixed realities have many different applications, such as interactive video games, virtual training and rehabilitation, or virtual heritage. The main purpose of using interactive virtual humans in such applications is to increase the rea...

although the promotional effects on bone healing of pulsed electromagnetic fields (pemf) have beenwell demonstrated, the effects of static magnetic fields (smf) remained unclear. in this study, effects of acustom-made magnetic wrap on radiographic and histopathological aspects of bone healing using a canineunstable osteotomy gap model were investigated. after an osteotomy of the midshaft radius...

one of the main factors that cause to quality loss for fresh fruit market apples is bruise damage. amongst the factors that affect apple sensitivity to bruising, major one is drop height and area profile during the impact. in the present study, four iranian apple varieties consisted of atirli, kapak, kowse and paiez that were selected and 100 fruits of each variety were picked up, then apples w...

Sexual differences in morphology, ranging from subtle to extravagant, occur commonly in many animal species. These differences can encompass overall body size (sexual size dimorphism, SSD) or the size and/or shape of specific body parts (sexual body component dimorphism, SBCD). Interacting forces of natural and sexual selection shape much of the expression of dimorphism we see, though non-adapt...