Text-to-speech (TTS) voices, which vary in their apparent native language and dialect, are increasingly widespread. In this paper, we test how speakers perceive align toward TTS voices that represent American, British, Indian dialects of English the extent social attitudes shape patterns convergence divergence. We also whether top-down knowledge talker, manipulated as a “human” or “device” guis...

Aftereffects of accommodation and convergence demonstrate the adaptability of these two visual motor systems. These aftereffects were reduced after ramp tracking exercises of either accommodation or vergence, and this reduced aftereffect or fatigue was associated with an increase of accommodative vergence and vergence accommodation. When one motor system (accommodation or vergence) adapted more...

OBJECTIVE To describe a benign condition of transient, isolated accommodation paralysis in young patients as a specific entity. DESIGN Case series of children and young adults with transient loss of accommodation who were referred to the neuro-ophthalmology clinic at the Meir Medical Center from 1997 to 2006. Five young patients who complained of an inability to read had full neuro-ophthalmol...

This paper addresses the problem of fault diagnosis in a robotic manipulator designed for human interaction. Faults in the external force sensor are addressed with a constant or slowly time-varying profile. A model-based strategy is considered that takes into account uncertainty in the mathematical representation, where a proportional-integral (PI) observer is in charge of estimating the fault ...

in spain, camping accommodation accounted for 6.32% of total tourism accommodation and 8.2% of overnight stays in 2007. there were 1,152 registered campsites which provided lodging for almost 6.4 million users. although these figures are higher than those of rural accommodation, few studies have analyzed the main attributes of this sector and their contribution to the development of spanish tou...

0301-0104/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.chemphys.2009.12.018 * Corresponding author. Address: Department of Ph son University, Clemson, SC 29634, USA. Tel.: +1 864 0805. E-mail address: [email protected] (J.R. Manso Calculations are carried out for the energy accommodation coefficient at a gas–surface interface using a recently developed classical mechanical theory of ...

Derivations from nonverbal communications accommodation theory are tested, and this knowledge is extended both theoretically and methodologically. Fast fourier transform and statistical analysis of a low-frequency nonverbal signal-in voices from 25 dyadic interviews between a talk show host and his guests revealed voice convergence between partners. Correlation coefficients from comparisons of ...

PURPOSE Results in previous studies indicated that the lateral suprasylvian (LS) area, the cortical area surrounding the middle suprasylvian sulcus (Mss) of the cat, has important roles in the control of accommodation. The current study was conducted to investigate descending projections from the accommodation-related area in the LS area to the brainstem. METHODS Wheat germ agglutinin-horsera...

purpose: to determine the amplitude and facility of accommodation after photorefractive keratectomy (prk) in myopic subjects. methods: the study was performed on 160 eyes of 80 patients aged 19 to 72 years. amplitude and facility of accommodation was evaluated before and 2 weeks and one and three months after prk. amplitude of accommodation was evaluated by “minus lens” method and facility of a...