Speaker transitions in conversation are often brief, with minimal vocal overlap. Signed languages appear to defy this pattern with frequent, long spans of simultaneous signing. But recent evidence suggests that turn boundaries in signed language may only include the content-bearing parts of the turn (from the first stroke to the last), and not all turn-related movement (from first preparation t...

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Throughout the history of East Asian medicine, different kinds of acupuncture treatment experiences have been accumulated in classical medical texts. Reexamining knowledge from classical medical texts is expected to provide meaningful information that could be utilized in current medical practices. In this study, we used data mining methods to analyze the association between acupoints and patte...

,I Scholarly comrnunication is the root of scientific progress. Research on how to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the scholarly communication system is being carried out worldwide, particularJy with respect to electronic journals which can and should be constructed as communication forums. Refereeing new contributions for thest:; forums is a major means for their quality control an...

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This paper reports results of a meta-analysis of construct reliability measures reported in MIS research. Based on 418 measures from 63 articles published in four major journals, it is observed that although scales developed more recently are no more reliable than those developed in the 1980s, the reliability of most scales reported in the literature is above generally accepted levels. However,...

Children aged 3, 5, and 8 years received training on a temporal bisection task, with standard short and long durations being presented as visual stimuli lasting 1 and 4 s or 2 and 8 s. Nonstandard comparison stimuli were spaced linearly between the standards. Psychophysical functions showed increasing proportions of “long” responses (responses appropriate to the long standard) with increasing s...

Random optical fields with two widely different correlation lengths generate far field speckle spots that are themselves highly speckled. We call such patterns speckled speckle, and study their critical points (singularities and stationary points) using analytical theory and computer simulations. We find anomalous spatial arrangements of the critical points and orders of magnitude anomalies in ...