The COVID-19 outbreak was declared a pandemic (a global health emergency) following its ravaging spread and increasing death toll that led to the unprecedented multi-sectoral crisis collateral damage. These, non-discovery of reliable therapeutic medicines combined generate rising fears tension across globe. To cope with these realities, discourse participants devised humorous expressions create...

BACKGROUND Disordered interpersonal communication can be a serious problem in schizophrenia. Recent advances in computer-based measures allow reliable and objective quantification of nonverbal behavior. Research using these novel measures has shown that objective amounts of body and head movement in patients with schizophrenia during social interactions are closely related to the symptom profil...

Social play is a frequent behaviour in great apes and involves sophisticated forms of communicative exchange. While it is well established that great apes test and practise the majority of their gestural signals during play interactions, the influence of demographic factors and kin relationships between the interactants on the form and variability of gestures are relatively little understood. W...

The influence of depression on perception, information processing, and judgment is receiving increasing attention (3). O n a complex social perception task, i.e., judging rapport in videotaped dyadic interactions, depressed persons preferentially tracked the negative member of each pair, while nondepressed subjects attended ta both (4). Present data came from a cross-cultural replication carrie...

with ASPM siRNA, there is defective cleavage furrow orientation, cytokinesis failure and an increase in apoptosis. Dominant negative expression of GFP-ASPM C-terminal fusion proteins induces cytokinesis failure in HeLa cells. To further investigate the functions of ASPM in cell division we are currently performing a foetal brain yeast two-hybrid (Y2H) screen to identify direct interactants of t...

ECAs ought to be entities endowed with dialogic and expressive capabilities. They are used in interactive systems in which they can communicate with users. Being involved in a communicative process implies to perceive signs displayed by the other interactants and to emit signs. ECAs ought to have qualities over two main computational domains: perception and generation. We consider another domai...

We describe how static anthropomorphic images of avatars affected users’ emotion perceptions of interactants and medium when they engaged in a conversation on a mobile telephone. We utilized measurements of social presence, specifically interactant satisfaction and social richness of medium. The items of these two measurements were modified to include new items of emotional credibility. The res...

This paper describes how a virtual agent assists a huam user in collaborative construction tasks by combining manipulative capabilities for assembly actions with conversational capabilities for mixed-initiative dialogue. We present an interaction model for representing the evolving information states of the participants in this interaction. It includes multiple dimensions along which an interac...

Tumour suppressor protein 53 (TP53 or simply p53) is a well known protein linked to apoptosis, cell signalling, cascading and several myriad functions in cells. Many diseases are linked to p53 though analysis show only 216 interaction partners. Whether p53 plays an important role in cardiovascular diseases (CVD) remains uncertain. Through this bioinformatical analysis, we propose that p53 might...