To Beat or Not to Beat

To Beat or Not to Beat: Beat Gestures in Direction Giving

Research on gesture generation for embodied conversational agents (ECA’s) mostly focuses on gesture types such as pointing and iconic gestures, while ignoring another gesture type frequently used by human speakers: beat gestures. Analysis of a corpus of route descriptions showed that although annotators show very low agreement in applying a ‘beat filter’ aimed at identifying physical features o...

Sinus node during atrial fibrillation. To beat or not to beat?

To beat or not to beat? From one size fits it all to an individual coronary revascularization strategy.

Beat-to-beat Left Ventricular Performance

The feasibility, accuracy and reproducibility of continuous beat-to-beat evaluation of left ventricular performance with a computerized nonimaging scintillation probe was assessed in 71 patients. This portable instrument has enough sensitivity to generate a real-time relative left ventricular volume curve using the labeled equilibrium blood pool without electrocardiographic gating. The probe wa...

To beat or not to beat a tick: comparison of DNA extraction methods for ticks (Ixodes scapularis)

Background. Blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) are important disease vectors in the United States, known to transmit a variety of pathogens to humans, including bacteria, protozoa, and viruses. Their importance as a disease vector necessitates reliable and comparable methods for extracting microbial DNA from ticks. Furthermore, to explore the population genetics or genomics of this tick, app...