Even when deprived of exteroceptive sensory information such as vision and touch, we are aware of the posture and motion of our bodies (kinaesthesia) and the amount of effort being exerted by our muscles. Most of this information comes from large diameter, myelinated, afferent nerve fibers innervating specialized mechanoreceptors called muscle spindles and Golgi tendon organs, whose structure a...

I consider an independent private values auction environment with risk–neutral buyers and an either risk–neutral or risk–averse seller. My setting differs from standard settings in two respects. First, the seller does not know his reservation value at the time he designs the auction, and second, he cannot commit to selling after observing the outcome of the auction. For general distributions of...

This paper gives an overview of results and developments in the area of pricing and hedging contingent claims in an incomplete market by means of a quadratic criterion. We first present the approach of risk-minimization in the case where the underlying discounted price process X is a local martingale. We then discuss the extension to local risk-minimization when X is a semimartingale and explai...

Few studies address the influence of postural changes on the vocal mechanism, and where they do so, they most often neglect the acoustic implications. This study tested participants in upright, prone and supine posture and assessed the resulting changes in formant frequencies and F0. Results show that while most formants appear to be subject to compensation strategies by the speaker, F3 differs...

We study the asymptotic behavior of asymmetrical spin glass dynamics in a Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model as proposed by Sompolinsky-Zippelius. We prove that the annealed law of the empirical measure on path space of these dynamics satisfy a large deviation principle in the high temperature regime. We study the rate function of this large deviation principle and prove that it achieves its minimum...

We present a novel dataglove mapping technique based on parameterisable models that handle both the cross coupled sensors of the fingers and thumb, and the under-specified abduction sensors for the fingers. Our focus is on realistically reproducing the posture of the hand as a whole, rather than on accurate fingertip positions. The method proposed in this paper is a vision-free, object free, da...

An efficient application of eigenspace technique to recognize human behaviors is described. The present paper investigates two types of recognition, i.e., recognition of an unknown human posture and a particular behavior by identifying human postures among several behaviors. A number of different posture sets from some selected behaviors create universal eigenspace and different sets of unknown...

We study the influence of information structure on the salience of subjective expressions for human readers. Using an online survey tool, we conducted an experiment in which we asked users to rate main and relative clauses that contained either a single positive or negative or a neutral adjective. The statistical analysis of the data shows that subjective expressions are more prominent in main ...

Even though the use of actors is a popular method for researching the expression of emotion, little is known about the relation between acted and real emotions. To shed some light on this, we set up a novel experiment, based on the Velten mood induction procedure, during which participants have to utter pre-defined sentences with a strong emotional content. In one group of participants, real po...