During adult interactions, behavioral mimicry, the implicit copying of an interaction partner's postures and mannerisms, communicates liking and affiliation. While this social behavior likely develops during early childhood, it is unclear which factors contribute to its emergence. Here, the roles of inhibitory control and social understanding on 5-year-olds' behavioral mimicry were investigated...

Mrs R., aged 34, comes of healthy stock. There is no outstanding feature in the medical history of her family, and her own history was uneventful until shortly after her marriage in March 1930. The menarche occurred at the age of 15, and her periods were of 5/28 day type, associated with cramping suprapubic pain on the first day. Immediately after her marriage she and her husband sailed for Afr...

Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) in pMOS transistors has become a major reliability concern in the state-of-the art digital circuit design. This paper discusses the effects of NBTI on 32 nm technology high fan-in dynamic OR gate, which is widely used in high-performance circuits. The delay degradation and power dissipation of domino logic, as well as the Unity Noise Gain (UNG), are ...

Heterosexual transmission of HIV is the most common mode of infection in the global HIV epidemic. In the absence of an effective vaccine, there is an urgent need for additional strategies to prevent new HIV infections. Evidence from a variety of investigations, including epidemiologic studies on sexual transmission, in vivo studies in rhesus monkey, and ex vivo studies using human explant model...

We have been doing a research on vision-based reinforcement learning and applied the method to build real soccer playing robots towards RoboCup Initiative. In the first stage [Asada et al., 1994a; Asada et al., 1995b], a robot learned to shoot a ball into a goal given the state space in terms of the sizes and the positions of both the ball and the goal in image. As one extension of this first a...

Eight salt-tolerant yeasts were isolated from contaminated pickled plums which were seasoned with honey and "Umami" seasoning. They were classified into four main groups according to random amplified polymorphic DNA analysis, and three of ten kinds of food additives tested inhibited their growth. The type strains of each group were identified as Zygosaccharomyces bisporus, Pichia subpeliculosa,...