Research on emotional expressive embodiments for simulated affective behavior resulted in impressive systems allowing for characters being perceived as more natural. In consequence we want to explore what happens if these characters gain the human ability to hide their true emotions. More particular we are looking for the change in emotional engagement and the change in perceived naturalism. Th...

(This is not the abstract): The language is Japanese. If your printer does not have fonts for Japases characters, the characters in figures will not be printed out correctly. Dissertation for Bachelor's degree at Kyoto University(Nagao lab.),March 1994.

—This paper explores how Will & Grace, which has been heralded in the popular press for its positive representations of gay men, situates the potentially controversial issue of homosexuality within safe and familiar popular culture conventions, particularly those of the situation comedy genre. This paper draws on feminist and queer theory to examine the liabilities of relying on these familiar ...

There remains a conviction that the torrent of publications and the financial outlay on leadership development will create managers with the skills and characters of perfect leaders, capable of guiding healthcare organisations through the challenges and crises of the 21st century. The focus of much attention continues to be the search for the (illusory) core set of heroic qualities, abilities o...

Chinese is a tone language. For a tone, the characters of its F0 pitch contours will be quite different in the condition of continuant speaking from the isolated speaking. The present researches about the Chinese tone are still centralized on the isolated speaking one, and about tone in fluent speech, there are some statements about the phenomenon of the two-word, threeword, four-word co-readin...

This article is a reflection on significant recent growth in engineering education programs devoted to service-learning, sustainable development, humanitarian engineering, and so on, which we group under the term “engineering to help” (ETH). ETH programs are touted for their ability to provide engineering students, mainly from wealthy nations, with an opportunity to practice small-scale enginee...

A new segmentation algorithm for multifont Farsi/Arabic texts based on conditional labeling of up and down contours was presented in [1]. A preprocessing technique was used to adjust the local base line for each subword. Adaptive base line, up and down contours and their curvatures were used to improve the segmentation results. The algorithm segments 97% of 22236 characters in 18 fonts correctl...

Let G be an algebraic group over an algebraically closed field k of characteristic p > 0. In this paper we develop the theory of character sheaves on groups G such that their neutral connected components G◦ are solvable algebraic groups. For such algebraic groups G (which we call neutrally solvable) we will define the set CS(G) of character sheaves on G as certain special (isomorphism classes o...