Swallowing—a complex physical process that involves closure of the mouth and nasal cavities, as well glottis, raising lowering larynx—is at boundary between speech body, yet almost nothing is known about how it works in conjunction with spoken interaction. Research into swallowing, mostly therapy, has explored articulations required, long takes bolus to pass through stomach, sounds occur on way...

How is human social intelligence engaged in the course of ordinary conversation? Standard models conversation hold that language production and comprehension are guided by constant, rapid inferences about what other agents have mind. However, idea mindreading a pervasive feature challenged large body evidence suggesting mental state attribution slow taxing, at least when it deals with propositi...

Recent theory and experimental work in metapopulations and metacommunities demonstrates that long-term persistence is maximized when the rate at which individuals disperse among patches within the system is intermediate; if too low, local extinctions are more frequent than recolonizations, increasing the chance of regional-scale extinctions, and if too high, dynamics exhibit region-wide synchro...

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between local government services and the overall satisfaction of users with the e–recruitment website (e–job website) in Taiwan. A two–dimensional mean value matrix (TDMVM) technique was used to explore the identification, classification, and application of website service quality. The results show that the asymmetrical relationship betw...

Current notations and languages do not emphasize the participation of users in business processes and consider them essentially as service providers. Moreover, they follow a centralized approach as all the interactions originate from or end in a business process; direct interactions between users cannot be represented. What is missing from this approach is that human work is cooperative and coo...