This paper investigates interactions between audio and visual cues to friendliness in questions in two perception experiments. In the first experiment, manually edited parametric audio-visual synthesis was used to create the stimuli. Results were consistent with earlier findings in that a late, high final focal accent peak was perceived as friendlier than an earlier, lower focal accent peak. Fr...

Luce's (1959, 1963) choice model was used to characterize individual differences in men's perception of women's affect as friendly, sexually interested, sad, or rejecting. Women's clothing styles were associated with differences in the model's parameters. Sensitivity to sadness, rejection, and friendliness declined when women were dressed provocatively, whereas sensitivity to sexual interest in...

A growing number of studies have explored the oxytocin system in humans and non-human animals, and some have found important genetic polymorphisms in the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) associated with the bonding system, social behaviors, and personality in several species. Although single nucleotide polymorphisms in OXTR have been well-examined in various species, microsatellites (or short tand...

The study is aimed at investigating the connection between the friendliness of the home environment and the moral motives' level. The friendliness of the home environment includes two aspects: the number of functions provided by home (functionality) and the congruence of these functions with inhabitants' needs (relevance). The theoretical framework of the study was formed by research and ideas ...

BACKGROUND Few neighborhood observational measures have been replicated by separate research teams in different cities. PURPOSE This study replicates the neighborhood active living potential observation measure in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. METHODS Observers (n=5) participated in a 3-day neighborhood active living potential training session. Observers rated 60 neighborhoods in Saskato...

This demo presents a software tool whose aim is to quantify the level of network awareness and friendliness of the currently deployed Internet P2P applications. Considering such systems as black-boxes, we passively measure the traffic they generate and we gather, by means of both passive inference and active-probing techniques, some quantities relevant for their description. Observed metrics in...

In this paper, we propose a refinement of TCP Westwood allowing the management of the Efficiency/Friendliness-toNewReno tradeoff. We show that the refined TCP Westwood is able to achieve higher efficiency yet at the same time maintain friendliness. TCP Westwood (for short, TCPW) implements a novel window congestion control algorithm based on available bandwidth estimation. The performance of TC...

Scalable TCP is a simple change to the traditional TCP congestion control algorithm which dramatically improves TCP performance in high speed wide area networks. The focus of this contribution is to model the performance of Scalable TCP algorithm sharing bottleneck link with a NewReno TCP. The analysis is performed during congestion avoidance phase, for both TCP flows, in steady state and near ...

In this paper, we propose a new version of TCPW (TCP-Westwood) to (1) maintain friendliness to widely used protocols, such as TCP-Reno, as well as (2) improve efficiency in mixed wired-wireless networks with non-negligible random packet losses due to link errors. In addition to significant efficiency gains, TCPW has been shown to be unfriendly to existing protocols under certain RTT and/or rout...

Past research showed that people are able to perceive the personality of others at zero acquaintances. There are two main ways, verbal and non-verbal methods, which play an important role for one in perceiving personality of others. Extensive research was conducted in relating personality with verbal, paralinguistic and gestures cues. However, there are not much research, to our knowledge, that...