The interpretation of interpersonal gaze behavior requires the use of complex cognitive processes and guides social interactions. Among a variety of different gaze characteristics, gaze direction and gaze duration modulate crucially the meaning of the "social gaze". Nevertheless, prior neuroimaging studies disregarded the relevance of gaze duration by focusing on gaze direction only. The presen...

The social computing, such as social networking services (SNSs) and social Networking Platforms (SNPs) provide a coherent medium through which people can be interactive and socialize. The SNP is a Web-based social space, specifically designed for end user-driven applications that facilitate communication, collaboration and sharing of the knowledge through a variety of SNSs, such as text, video ...

One important part of information systems development work is business modelling. Traditionally businesses have been regarded as systems consisting of sub-systems. During the 90’s a number of process-oriented approaches for business modelling have gained a lot of interest. One problem about dividing businesses into processes is that there resolves controversy around the number of processes appr...

The article provides a multidimensional analysis of the post-truth phenomenon from historical aspect, as well an instrumental means achieving informational-communicational goal; way positioning in relation to significant aspects socio-political reality; and political technology aims at ensuring competitive advantages, etc. Post-truth is conceived form specific information communication product ...

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) architectures are gaining popularity over traditional ones for building open, distributed, and evolving software. Since the fundamental concepts of multi-agent systems are social and intentional rather than object, functional, or implementation-oriented, the design of MAS architectures should be eased by using what we call social patterns rather than object-oriented de...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the meanings attributed to the voice by menopausal women. METHODS Data were collected from 148 medical records of women seen in the Climacteric Women Health Program of the Irmandade Santa Casa de Misericordia Gynecology Outpatient Clinic in Curitiba, Brazil, between February 2000 and October 2001. Of them, 30 women aged between 48 and 59 years who did not consider themsel...

Modeling software systems using complex networks can be an effective technique for analyzing the complexity of software systems. To enhance the technique, the structure of a complex network can be extended by assigning a weight to the edges of the complex network to denote the strength of communicational cohesion between a pair of related software components. This paper proposes an approach to ...

The Black Panther Party was one of the most important American radical groups 1960s, although few scholars have examined them as a model revolutionary vanguard party. Following recent political theory, this study performs discourse analysis newspaper through lens infrastructure. It offers reading Panthers articulating an infrastructural politics by activating infrastructure site struggle, provi...

Computer-assisted language learning knowledge tests should no longer be designed on traditional skills to measure individual competence through such as reading, comprehension and writing, but instead, it diagnose interactive communication in foreign lan-guages. In recent years online education, has been necessary review the concept of digital environments a comple-mentary way its use. It is imp...