We propose a cup-shaped device called Cup-le for conversational experiment. Cup-le has various sensors to record participants’ nonverbal behavior such as utterance. Cup-le saves the work of attaching sensors. Also, since Cup-le appears cup-shaped, it can sense without being aware of the sensor unlike conventional wearable sensors. Moreover, by attaching touch display, Cup-le can show informatio...

We give a geometric interpretation of the maximal Satake compactification of symmetric spaces X “ G{K of noncompact type, showing that it arises by attaching the horofunction boundary for a suitable G-invariant Finsler metric on X. As an application, we establish the existence of natural bordifications, as orbifolds-with-corners, of locally symmetric spaces X{Γ for arbitrary discrete subgroups ...

Proto-oncogene tyrosine-protein kinase receptor RET is implicated in the development and maintenance of neurons of the central and peripheral nervous systems. Attaching activity-compromising photocleavable groups (caging) to inhibitors could allow for external spatiotemporally controlled inhibition using light, potentially providing novel information on how these kinase receptors are involved i...

Chain modular robots form systems with many degrees of freedom which are capable of being reconfigured to form arbitrary chain-based topologies. This reconfiguration requires the detaching of modules from one point in the system and re-attaching at another. The internal errors in the system (especially with large numbers of modules) are such that accurate movement of chain ends, required for th...

INTRODUCTION Shiga toxin-producing E. coil (STEC) O157:H7 and enteropathogenic E. coil (EPEC) produce a characteristic histopathology on intestinal epithelial cells known as attaching and effacing (AlE). The characteristics of this pattern includes effacement of epithelial cell microvilli and intimate adherence between the bacterium and the epithelial cell membrane. Marked cytoskeletal changes ...

By simply attaching sensor nodes to physical objects with no information about the objects, the method proposed in this paper infers the type of the physical indoor objects and the states they are in. Assuming that an object has its own states that have transitions represented by a state transition diagram, we prepare the state transition diagrams for such indoor objects as a door, a drawer, a ...

Detachable user interfaces consist of graphical user interfaces whose parts or whole can be detached at run-time from their host, migrated onto another computing platform while carrying out the task, possibly adapted to the new platform and attached to the target platform in a peer-to-peer fashion. Detaching is the property of splitting a part of a UI for transferring it onto another platform. ...

The spectroscopic response of and structural dynamics around all azido-modified alanine residues (AlaN3) in lysozyme are characterized. It is found that AlaN3 a positionally sensitive probe for the local dynamics, covering frequency range ?15 cm?1 center line shape. This consistent with findings from selective replacements amino acids PDZ2, which reported span ?10 Val, Ala, or Glu by azidohomoa...

Network models with preferential attachment, where new nodes are injected into the network and form links with existing nodes proportional to their current connectivity, have been well studied for some time. Extensions have been introduced where nodes attach proportionally to arbitrary fitness functions. However, in these models, attaching to a node always increases the ability of that node to ...