Social presence, the sense of connection with another, is more important than ever as teachers, healthcare providers, and other professionals are using immersive tools to facilitate social interaction for education, training, therapy collaboration between geographically distributed humans surrogates (avatars, agents, or robots). Leading researchers cite subjective nature traditional self-report...

the plasmid palca1sifn containing cdna that encodes the human interferon a-2b was obtained from the atcc(no. 531667). in this system the expression of the gene is under the control of an alca promoter. alca p is a specific promoter for expression of different genes in aspergillusfilamentous. in this plasmid the coding region of ifn?-2b is preceded by the coding region of a synthetic signal pept...