This paper aims to find errors that lead to dialogue breakdowns in chat-oriented dialogue systems. We collected chat dialogue data, annotated them with dialogue breakdown labels, and collected comments describing the error that led to the breakdown. By mining the comments, we first identified error types. Then, we calculated the correlation between an error type and the degree of dialogue break...

there exists an arrangement in 5 in which a* follows all the Oi with i<k. Such sets Ssurely exist; for example, any set of m arrangements whose terminal elements are 1, 2, • • • , m, respectively, will obviously be ^-suitable for any k^m. The smallest cardinal number N such that there exists a set of N arrangements which is ^-suitable for m will be denoted by N(m, k); this is therefore a well d...

existence of capacity drop phenomenon, as the difference between pre-queue and queue discharge flow rates, has been one of the controversial concepts of traffic engineering. several researches have focused on capacity drop existence and also its estimation issues. this paper aims to estimate capacity drop based not only on a comparison between breakdown and queue discharge flow rates, but also ...

Objectives This study aimed to evaluate the discriminant validity of family adaptability and cohesion evaluation subscales. We investigated families referring to counseling, family courts, substance dependence treatment centers, and healthy and clinically defined cutoff scores for the breakdown of healthy Iranian families.  Methods This scale was validated by four psychologists and translated ...

This paper presents a method for acquiring a concession strategy of an agent in multi-issue negotiation. This method learns how to make a concession to an opponent for realizing win-win negotiation. To learn the concession strategy, we adopt reinforcement learning. First, an agent receives a proposal from an opponent. The agent recognizes a negotiation state using the difference between their p...

Thirty seven patients with established cirrhosis of the liver were subjected to measurement of body protein metabolism using L-(1-14C) labelled leucine as a tracer. The effects of disease severity and those of solutions containing 0%, 16%, 35%, 53%, and 100% branched chain amino acids were evaluated. Significant increases in protein synthesis were noted with solutions containing 35%, 53%, and 1...

Telemedicine is a vast subject, but as yet there are limited data on the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of most telemedicine applications. As a result, objective information about the benefits and drawbacks of telemedicine is limited. This review is therefore based mainly on preliminary results, opinions and predictions. Many potential benefits of telemedicine can be envisaged, i...

We have developed a model of the high-current breakdown of the integer quantum Hall effect, as measured in contactless experiments using a highly-sensitive torsion balance magnetometer. The model predicts that, for empirically “low-mobility” samples sm,75 m2 V−1 s−1d, the critical current for breakdown should decrease with, and have a linear dependence on, temperature. This prediction is verifi...

In 1969, Pozefsky et al. (8) reported on the effects of systemic insulin infusion on forearm amino acid and glucose uptake. They noted that a large increase in insulin from 12 to 157 U/ml resulted in a significant lowering of forearm (muscle) “. . . alpha amino nitrogen release by 74% . . . declines in output were seen for leucine, isoleucine, tyrosine, phenylalanine, threonine, glycine . . .”....

We have investigated the relationships between the rates of muscle protein synthesis and degradation and of transmembrane transport of selected amino acids in leg skeletal muscle of 19 severely burned patients and 18 normal controls in the postabsorptive state. Patients were studied on the 14 +/- 5 postburn day, and their mean burn size was 66% +/- 18% of total body surface area. Methods were b...