In this paper, we discuss issues encountered in the early phase of the development of serious games against cyber bullying. The goal was to develop the scenarios based on output from plenary sessions involving people from different disciplines. These sessions have provided us useful information on the role of this first phase of the development of a serious game. We also discuss a tool that we ...

Speech data is crucially important for speech recognition research. There are quite some speech databases that can be purchased at prices that are reasonable for most research institutes. However, for young people who just start research activities or those who just gain initial interest in this direction, the cost for data is still an annoying barrier. We support the ‘free data’ movement in sp...

Aims. The supernova-GRB (γ-ray burst) association is tested by showing the consistence of the distributions of pulsar’s kick velocities and GRB energies, under the assumption that cosmic GRBs are related to supernova explosions that form pulsars. Methods. These two distributions are derived from observations, and are checked by K-S test. Results. The deduced distribution of kick velocity from t...

purpose the objectives of this study include: (1) determination of the attenuation of strike acceleration that tae kwon do sparring safety pads provide from kicks from olympic style tkd fighters, (2) the sex and weight differentiation in acceleration achieved within the thorax model with the roundhouse kicks. methods this prospective, observational study utilized 15 olympic style fighters from ...

The purpose of this study was threefold: 1) to assess the eggbeater kick and throwing performance using a number of water polo specific tests, 2) to explore the relation between the eggbeater kick and throwing performance, and 3) to investigate the relation between the eggbeater kick in the water and strength tests performed in a controlled laboratory setting in elite water polo players. Fiftee...

INTRODUCTION The incidence of fractures after a kick, coupled with marked soft tissue trauma at the site of injury, suggests that the force of a kick from the hind limb of a horse is enormous. The goal of this study was to measure this force and to investigate whether the Tekscan F-SCAN in-shoe pressure measuring system is suitable for quantification of the impact strength of a kick from a hors...

The role of binary progenitors of neutron stars in the apparent distribution of space velocities and spin-velocity alignment observed in young pulsars is studied. A Monte-Carlo synthesis of pulsar population from single and binary stars with different assumptions about the NS natal kick model (direction distribution, amplitude, and kick reduction in binary progenitors which experienced mass exc...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to assess the effect of taekwondo kicks and peak foot velocity (FVEL) on resultant head linear acceleration (RLA), head injury criterion (HIC15) and head velocity (HVEL). METHODS Each subject (n=12) randomly performed five repetitions of the turning kick (TK), clench axe kick (CA), front leg axe kick, jump back kick (JB) and jump spinning hook kick (J...