Wireless and mobile devices are beginning to offer stunning new technical capabilities for collaborative learning. Yet, researchers in this field must recognize the importance of complementing these technical advances with improved understanding of the patterns of classroom activity that most need support. Our approach is to create conceptual tools that help us think and talk about technology-s...

Casual multiparty conversation is an understudied but very common genre of spoken interaction, whose analysis presents a number of challenges in terms of data scarcity and annotation. We describe the annotation process used on the d64 and DANS multimodal corpora of multiparty casual talk, which have been manually segmented, transcribed, annotated for laughter and disfluencies, and aligned using...

Some older studies have found that 67 percent of American adults have some type of sleep problem, and 37 percent of Americans say daytime sleepiness interferes with daily activities. If you feel you have a sleep problem, discuss it with your physician, particularly for potentially serious problems like sleep apnea. If you think that your medications may be a factor, talk to your doctor before s...

Wikipedia offers researchers unique insights into the collaboration and communication patterns of a large self-regulating community of editors. The main medium of direct communication between editors of an article is the article’s talk page. However, a talk page file is unstructured and therefore difficult to analyse automatically. A few parsers exist that enable its transformation into a struc...

Natural Language Processing Chatbots may be able to talk like humans, but they cannot fool our brains. Subjectively indistinguishable chatbot and human language elicits distinct patterns of brain activity in the mentalizing network regions. A promising blueprint emerges by adding neural data as an extra index assessment criteria for standard Turing tests. More details can found article number 2...

abstract: the purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of realistic self-talk technique in increasing marital satisfaction of women. this study uses an experimental design so 20 women were selected randomly from those referring to imam hussein mosque and assigned randomly in two “experimental” and “control” groups. those in experimental group received the technique of realistic se...

abstract background: stressors in the intensive care unit (icu) impair patients’ comfort, excite the stress response, and increase oxygen consumption in their body. non‑medical interventions are recommended by several studies as a treatment to improve comfort in the icu patients. sensory stimulation is one of the most important interventions. since arterial blood oxygen saturation is an importa...

This study employs descriptive and regression analyses of the National Sports Society Survey (N = 3,993) to examine patterns implications sexual stigma prejudice in sports contexts by focusing on U.S. adults’ reports sports-related mistreatment involvement. Results indicate that about 1/3 adults perceive as unwelcoming LGBT athletes nearly 40% report experiencing mistreatment; who identify a mi...