In this paper a coding scheme for annotating speech acts in the context of multimodal design tasks is presented. The scheme is an extension of the dialogue act markup in several layers scheme DAMSL (Allen and Core, 1997). This scheme has been used to annotate human-human task oriented conversations; however, information other than spoken language, like deictic gestures or information conveyed t...

the analog theories for ‘continuous’ thin films showing that general compactness and homogenization results can be proven by adapting the techniques commonly used for problems on Sobolev spaces; on the other hand we show that new phenomena arise due to the different nature of the microscopic interactions, and in particular that for long-range interactions a surface energy on the free surfaces o...

It is widely appreciated that an attractive polymer-substrate interaction can slow relaxation in thin supported polymer films and polymer nanocomposites. Recent measurements and simulations on nancomposites have indicated that this slowing of polymer dynamics occurs more strongly near a highly attractive particle surface where a "bound" layer having a much lower mobility can form, strongly infl...

Our long-term goal is to understand how physical-biological, biological-biological and chemicalbiological interactions control the formation, maintenance and dissipation of thin layers of plankton and how the resulting thin layers impact in situ and remote sensing technologies of critical interest to the Navy. We are also interested in improving our ability not only to detect, characterize and ...

Various aspects of the formation and stability of oil-in-water emulsions are described. small-molecule surfactants are considered, and influences of interfacial interactions and competitive adsorption are discussed. Differences between adsorbed layers of proteins and

A theoretical approach to consider formation of chemical compound layer at the interface between initial substances A and B due to the interfacial interaction and diffusion is developed. It is considered situation when speed of interfacial interaction is large enough and diffusion of A-atoms through AB-layer is much more then diffusion of B-atoms. Atoms from A-layer diffuse toward B-atoms and f...

cross layer interaction reduce delay, bit error rate (BER) and increase throughput significantly. Impacts of several parameters of soft handoff and beamforming and their cross layer interaction on data performance have been evaluated. Both the cases of perfect and imperfect beamforming have been investigated. Effects of DoA (direction of arrival) estimation error associated with beamforming hav...

Organic matter leads to one of the biggest problems in membranes: fouling. Developing efficient cleaning processes is therefore crucial. This study systematically examines how alginic acid fouling formed under different physical and chemical conditions affect osmotic backwashing cleaning efficiency in forward osmosis (FO). The fouling layer thickness before and after osmotic backwashing was mea...

In oredr to reduce costs and save time for the membrane manufacturing process, it is necessary to improve the quality of membranes by modeling usage. In this study, Flory Huggins model was used to predict quaternary-system containing polyether sulfone, N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone, water and used alkanes as an additive. Due to the solubility parameters and molar alkane volumes, the interaction parame...