Automatic synthesis of realistic co-speech gestures is an increasingly important yet challenging task in artificial embodied agent creation. Previous systems mainly focus on generating end-to-end manner, which leads to difficulties mining the clear rhythm and semantics due complex subtle harmony between speech gestures. We present a novel gesture method that achieves convincing results both sem...

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A two-phase DLSM model is proposed to model transverse isotropic materials, in which the layer structure of the anisotropic materials is explicitly represented. Equations are derived to obtain elastic parameters of the two phase model from the elastic modules in parallel to the bedding planes and that in normal direction of the bedding planes. Then, the mechanical properties of the two-phase DL...

To test the hypothesis that airborne microbial cell wall components could induce an inflammatory response in the lungs, measurements were made of the amounts of bacterial endotoxin and (1-->3)-beta-D-glucan in laboratory animal bedding materials. Groups of rats were exposed by inhalation to airborne endotoxin, (1-->3)-beta-D-glucan or a combination of the two for 5 weeks. The results demonstrat...

Guzik, J., Houdek, G., Chaplin, W., Smalley, B., Kurtz, D., Gilliland, R., Mullally, F., Rowe, J., Bryson, S., Still, M., Bedding, T., Benomar, O., Huber, D., White, T., Murphy, S., Stello, D., et al (2016). Detection Of Solar-Like Oscillations, Observational Constraints, And Stellar Models For Theta Cyg, The Brightest Star Observed By The Kepler Mission. The Astrophysical Journal, 831(1), 1-22...

Guzik, J., Houdek, G., Chaplin, W., Smalley, B., Kurtz, D., Gilliland, R., Mullally, F., Rowe, J., Bryson, S., Still, M., Bedding, T., Benomar, O., Huber, D., White, T., Murphy, S., Stello, D., et al (2016). Detection Of Solar-Like Oscillations, Observational Constraints, And Stellar Models For Theta Cyg, The Brightest Star Observed By The Kepler Mission. The Astrophysical Journal, 831(1), 1-22...

Infant mice (Mus musculus) born to dams housed in isolation throughout pregnancy (IsoPreg) begin differentially approaching homenest bedding over clean bedding on Postnatal Day 6. Offspring of dams housed with 2 other potentially pregnant conspecifics (SocPreg) display such homing behavior on Day 4. Earlier onset of homing reflects facilitated olfactory responsiveness in SocPreg pups, rather th...

In social animals, signals released from fearless conspecifics attenuate fear responses, namely social buffering. The presence of conspecific odor can suppress the expression of freezing response of conditioned mice. The present study investigated if physical social experience is required for this social buffering effect. The mice were exposed to donors, donor bedding (collected from cages of d...

Choice of livestock bedding has been shown to affect density of filth fly maggots. Here, laboratory experiments indicate that bedding type can also affect natural enemies of the flies, specifically the parasitoid wasps Spalangia endius Walker and Urolepis rufipes (Ashmead) (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) parasitizing a natural host, the house fly Musca domestica L. (Diptera: Muscidae). For both par...