Automobile light weight structural composites are subjected to the various loadings in their service lives. Honeycombs are increasingly used as core structures in automobile light weight structures as energy absorbers. In this paper the energy absorption of honeycomb panels under impact of cylindrical projectile is numerically and experimentally studied. The effect of the core materials and cro...

This study investigated the effects of an online interprofessional education (IPE) program on nursing students at a university in Japan. It conducted comparative analysis between traditional face-to-face and interventions. All who enrolled “Team Medical Practice” course both 2019 2020 were invited to participate. After team-based learning with different healthcare professions, we quantitatively...

With restricted face-to-face interactions, COVID-19 lockdowns and distancing measures tested the capability of computer-mediated communication to foster social contact wellbeing. In a multinational sample ( n = 6436), we investigated how different modes related wellbeing during pandemic. Computer-mediated was more common than face-to-face, its use influenced by death rates, so state stringency ...

We present the DUEL corpus, consisting of 24 hours of natural, face-to-face, loosely task-directed dialogue in German, French and Mandarin Chinese. The corpus is uniquely positioned as a cross-linguistic, multimodal dialogue resource controlled for domain. DUEL includes audio, video and body tracking data and is transcribed and annotated for disfluency, laughter and exclamations.

To understand use of tuberculosis (TB) services for migrant workers, we conducted a cross-sectional census of 95 migrant workers with TB from Armenia by using medical record reviews and face-to-face interviews. Prolonged time between diagnosis and treatment, treatment interruption, and treatment defaults caused by migrant work might increase the risk for multidrug-resistant TB.

Objective: To assess the level of awareness on breast cancer among women of reproductive age. Materials and methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in OPD of Dhaka Medical College Hospital among the 175 respondents by face to face interview using pretested semi structured

We report a new case of a right temporal pole variant of frontotemporal dementia (Rtv-FTLD), MD, who presented a slowly progressive deterioration of the recognition of familiar and famous people. We thoroughly investigated MD's face processing and semantic abilities, including a neuroimaging investigation. This analysis revealed a cross-modal person-based deficit together with a more general se...

In this paper, an approach to reduce the computation steps required by fast neural networks for the searching process is presented. The principle of divide and conquer strategy is applied through image decomposition. Each image is divided into small in size sub-images and then each one is tested separately using a fast neural network. The operation of fast neural networks based on applying cros...

Recently, promising results have been shown on face recognition researches. However, face recognition and retrieval across age is still challenging. Unlike prior methods using complex models with strong parametric assumptions to model the aging process, we use a data-driven method to address this problem. We propose a novel coding framework called Cross-Age Reference Coding (CARC). By leveragin...

Visual cues to speech prosody are available from a speaker’s face; however the form and/or location of such cues are likely to be inconsistent across speakers. Given this, the question arises as to whether such cues are general enough to signal the same prosody information across speakers, and if so, where and what these cues are. To investigate this, this study used visual-visual and auditory-...