This paper presents a study in the framework of the ISHT – Interior sound design of high-speed trains project. During a train journey between the cities of Stockholm and Gävle, Sweden, 9 travellers participated in a listening experiment to evaluate the use of sonification to convey nonspeech based information about the travel. We tested sonification for communicating the distance between two st...

The paper ...nds empirical evidence on the ripple e¤ect of sunspots on the interwar German economy. It identi...es a sequence of negative shocks to expectations for the 1927 to 1932 period. The arti...cial economy predicts the 1928-1932 depression and a long boom from 1933 onwards. Overall, a tangible fraction of interwar output volatility is attributed for by sunspots.

We demonstrate combat scenarios between two NPCs in the Neverwinter Nights (NWN) game in which an NPC uses a new learning algorithm ALeRT (Action-dependent Learning Rates with Trends) and the other NPC uses a static strategy (NWN default and optimal) or a dynamic strategy (dynamic scripting). We implemented the ALeRT algorithm in NWScript, a scripting language used by NWN, with the goal to impr...

Dy f\ainarine vvnitenorn Eyre Methuen, 85p As a little something to take along to a hospital patient, this book has a great deal going for it. The pictures (by Bill Tidy), while lacking the great Giles' special brand of malicious hospital humour, are funny and reasonably apposite. The text is informative and lighthearted enough without being arch or gigglegiggle (a rare enough achievement in hu...

Questions in natural language typically consist of a proposition articulated into a foreground part, which evokes a set of alternatives, and a background part, which provides a function for distinguishing among those alternatives. For instance, the question Who left? asks which of the people that who quantifies over (the foreground) have the property of leaving (the background). Concealed quest...

In the recent years, we have linked a large corpus of formal mathematics with automated theorem proving (ATP) tools, and started to develop combined AI/ATP systems working in this setting. In this paper we first relate this project to the earlier large-scale automated developments done by Quaife with McCune’s Otter system, and to the discussions of the QED project about formalizing a significan...

audience members too numerous to mention. Dan Levin gave the shooting-ahead military example. Dave Cooper, Ido Erev, and Bill Frechette wrote helpful emails.

Many people love traveling for entertainment nowadays. In a journey, visitors often produce digital multimedia resources by capturing images, audios and videos. With digital devices like cameras, travel notes are not limited to texts, multimedia resources are also used for decorating records in a journey. In this paper, an interactive traveling assistant application is proposed to save time for...

Doris Howell RN, PhD is RBC Chair, Oncology Nursing Research and Education at Princess Margaret Hospital in toronto, ON and Lead, guidelines and standards, Cancer Journey Portfolio, Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (CPAC); Barry Bultz, PhD, CPsych is Director of the Department of Psychosocial Resources at the tom Baker Cancer Centre, university of Calgary and Lead, screening for Distress, Ca...

The effects of floor space on the trailer and journey time during transport from the farm to the packing plant on indicators of stress (open-mouth breathing, muscle tremors, and skin discoloration) and on the incidence of transport losses (dead on arrival, nonambulatory, noninjured, and nonambulatory, injured) were evaluated in a study involving 160 loads of market-weight pigs (BW 124.7 ± 4.38 ...