It is necessary to analyze evaluation structure of impression of human for robot’s natural interaction with human. In this paper, we assume hierarchy in evaluation structure of impression of human, and clarify the relationship between lower impression and higher impression in human-robot haptic interaction. Lower and higher stand for a strong and weak relationship to physical property of robot’...

In this paper, the use of two modals (can and may) in four varieties of English (British, India, Philippines, and USA) was compared and the characteristics of each variety were statistically analyzed. After all the sample sentences were extracted from each component of the ICE corpus, a total of twenty linguistic factors were encoded. Then, the collected data were statistically analyzed with R....

This paper presents the preliminary results of a research project where the context of software development is observed. The goal of this study is to observe, extract, and categorize the contextual factors that have an effect on the software development process. The study uses themebased interviews as its data collection method and approaches the research question qualitatively. Various manager...

Using the restrictions implied by the heteroskedasticity of stock returns, we identify four factors in the U.S. industry returns. The first correlates highly with the market portfolio; the second is a portfolio of stocks that produce investment goods minus stocks that produce consumption goods; the third differentiates between cyclical and noncyclical stocks. The fourth, a portfolio of industri...

Studies have shown that oxygenated compounds are important in beverage and food products. It seems that Citrus rootstocks have a profound influence on these factors. The goal of the present study is to investigate on rootstocks and these factors. Peel oil components were extracted using cold-press method and eluted using n-hexane.  All compounds analyzed using GC and GC-MS. Data were analyzed u...

OBJECTIVE Environmental pollutants, especially environmental toxins (ET), may have the potential to disrupt neurodevelopmental pathways during early brain development. This study was designed to test our hypothesis that mothers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) children would have less knowledge about ET and more chance to be exposed to ET than mothers with healthy children (MHC). METHODS O...

OBJECTIVE To identify factors that contribute to intent to donate organs in Hispanic American individuals. DESIGN Cross-sectional telephone surveys. SETTING Four southern California neighborhoods with a high percentage of Hispanic American individuals. PATIENTS Respondents 18 years or older were drawn randomly from lists of Hispanic surnames. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Telephone surveys were...