Spoken dialogue systems enable the construction of complex applications involving extended, meaningful interactions with users. Building an eeective, generic dialogue system requires techniques and expertise from a number of areas such as natural language, computer-human interaction, and information systems. A key challenge is to design a system through which user-friendly applications can be c...

Arginine vasopressin (AVP) and related peptides affect social behaviors in numerous species, but AVP influences on human social functions have not yet been established. Here, we describe how intranasal AVP administration differentially affects social communication in men and women, and we propose a mechanism through which it may exert those influences. In men, AVP stimulates agonistic facial mo...

Navigation robots must single out partners requiring navigation and move in the cluttered environment where people walk around. Developing such robots requires two different people detections: detecting partners and detecting all moving people around the robots. For detecting partners, we design divided spaces based on the spatial relationships and sensing ranges. Mapping the friendliness of ea...

Packet-pair receiver-driven cumulative Layer Multicast (PLM) and Fair Layer Increase Decrease with Dynamic Layering (FLID-DL) are two of the recently proposed receiver-driven layered multicast congestion control protocols improved from the famous layered multicast protocols (RLM and RLC). Both have been evaluated by their authors and claim a few advances for layered multicast congestion control...

A new integration of Constraint Handling Rules (CHR) and Java is presented: the K.U.Leuven JCHR system. It was designed with three aims in mind: user-friendliness, flexibility and efficiency. User-friendliness is achieved by providing a high-level syntax that feels familiar to both Java programmers and users of other CHR embeddings, and by full compliance to the refined operational semantics. F...

This study explored personality traits of effective teachers represented in the narratives of American and Chinese preservice teachers. Narrative data were collected from 80 American and 75 Chinese teacher candidates. Coding and content analysis of the data generated twelve salient personality traits of effective teachers in America and China, including: adaptability, enthusiasm, fairness, high...

TCP Westwood (TCPW) is a recently proposed sender side modification of TCP congestion control. TCPW relies on bandwidth share estimation techniques to enhance congestion control over high speed and/or wireless networks. The bandwidth share estimation methods turn out to be critical to guarantee both throughput improvement and friendliness towards widely used TCP protocols such as NewReno. In th...

Previous analyses on friendly speech were made using dialogues without differentiating their linguistic functions. This paper reports an analysis on declarative and interrogative sentences respectively. Pitch and duration of prosodic words were statistically analyzed and compared concerning factors of their positions and stresses. Based on the acoustic investigation of friendly speech, tonal pi...

Multi-path TCP (MP-TCP) has the potential togreatly improve application performance by using multiple pathstransparently. We propose a fluid model for a large class ofMP-TCP algorithms and identify design criteria that guaranteethe existence, uniqueness, and stability of system equilibrium.We clarify how algorithm parameters impact TCP-friendliness,responsiveness, and wi...

Much is known about family-friendly workplaces. This article examines the less understood familyfriendliness of the communities in which dual-earner couples reside. Using data from a representative sample of dual-earner couples (N1⁄4 727) in upstate New York, we examine how individual, couple, and neighborhood characteristics are associated with perceptions of community family-friendliness. Usi...