This paper deals with the signals that are used to express hesitation and uncertainty in conversational interactions. It studies the relation between gesturing, body posture, facial expressions, and speech, and draws conclusions of their role and function in the interpretation and coordination of interaction with respect to the basic enablements of communication. Dialogues are assumed to be coo...

The Medumba consonant inventory includes plain and prenasalized bilabial trills /ʙ, mʙ/, which contrast with bilabial stops. The trills occur most often before the central vowels /ʉ̜ ə/, while they are not attested before /u/. The central vowel /ʉ̜/ has a vowel posture that is particularly conducive to trilling of the lips: it does not form a circular opening, the corners of the mouth are drawn s...

Information technology (IT) is a crucial resource and enabler in almost every part of our society. However, there are severe risks associated with IT that may substantially decrease the potential benefits. To handle these risks, it is essential to be able to judge the security posture of systems. This requires the ability to perform security assessments. However, since security is an abstract, ...

This paper analyzes four kinds of Cantonese polar questions, HO2, ME1, AA4 and A-NOTA questions in the framework of radical inquisitive semantics (Groenendijk & Roelofsen, 2010; Aher, 2012; Sano, 2014). HO2, ME1 and A-NOT-A questions have multidimensional semantics. In addition to their primary speech act of questioning, HO2 and ME1 interrogatives encode secondary assertive acts of positive and...

on the source of plasma density and electric field perturbations in pmse and pmwe regionspolar mesospheric summer/winter echoes (pmse/pmwe) are very strong radar echoes produced by ionospheric electron density fluctuations at half the radar wavelength. the main focus of this paper is the altitude range 80 to 90 km in summer and altitude range 65-86 km in winter in the polar mesosphere . this pa...

the rhizome of anemarrhena asphodeloides is used as food and traditional chinese medicine for its hypoglycemic effect. the aim of this study was to investigate the isolation, purification and hypoglycemic activity of anemaran as the active component. the influence factors (isolation duration, ratio of residuals to water and extracting times) during the isolation process were evaluated. the opti...

objective: this study carried out to monitor the status of nutritional management and measuring difference between present and desired feeding system in dairy cattle of rural conditions of chaharmahal and bakhtiari. methods: 334 rural flocks consisting of 1442 dairy cows were selected from seven towns of this province. the experiment was lasted for in a year and using completely randomized desi...

the regulated price policy may be implemented for some products. it is generally implemented for some products such as electricity, natural gas, water and so on that are supplied as monopolist. the regulated price shock on these products may lead to an adjustment in the endowments of primary factors. the aim of this paper is to investigate the effects of a regulated price shock on price indices...