Acceptance, accessibility, and usability data from a series of studies of a series of applications suggest that most users readily accept responsive virtual characters as valid conversational partners. By responsive virtual characters we mean full-body animated, conversant, realistic characters with whom the user interacts via natural language and who exhibit emotional, social, gestural, and co...

There are a number of choices to be made in the design of a type based usage analysis. Some of these are: Should the analysis be monomorphic or have some degree of polymorphism? What about subtyping? How should the analysis deal with user defined algebraic data types? Should it be a whole program analysis? Several researchers have speculated that these features are important but there has been ...

OBJECTIVE This study evaluated a gender-specific, computer-mediated intervention program to prevent underage drinking among early adolescent girls. METHOD Study participants were adolescent girls and their mothers from New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Participants completed pretests online and were randomly divided between intervention and control arms. Intervention-arm girls and their ...

TECHNOLOGY, ECONOMIC FACTORS, AND changes in the educational system are major factors in what is being termed a “revolution” in libraries. Does library user education have a place in that future? Some believe that libraries would be more effective concentrating their resources elsewhere. To put library instruction in perspective requires a look at its past and the status of programs in terms of...

Priapism is a rare but important side effect of antipsychotic drugs which may evolve into a urological emergency. Most antipsychotic drugs are alpha-1 adrenergic antagonists, which is thought to be the principal mechanism involved in antipsychotic-induced priapism. Other aetiologies exist, however. A case is presented with multiple episodes of priapism during the use of several different antips...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Legitimate opioid use is associated with an increased risk of long-term opioid use and possibly misuse in adults. The objective of this study was to estimate the risk of future opioid misuse among adolescents who have not yet graduated from high school. METHODS Prospective, panel data come from the Monitoring the Future study. The analysis uses a nationally representa...

Queryable Linked Data is available through several interfaces, including SPARQL endpoints and Linked Data documents. Recently, the popular DBpedia dataset was made available through a Triple Pattern Fragments interface, which proposes to improve query availability by dividing query execution between clients and servers. In this paper, we present an initial usage analysis of this interface so fa...

' Corresponding author. Abstract Scatter Plots are one of the most powerful and most widely used techniques for visual data exploration. A well-known problem is that scatter plots often have a high degree of overlap, which may occlude a significant portion of the data values shown. In this paper, we propose th e generalized scatter plot technique, which allows an overlap-free representation of ...

The status of drug usage for patients is important for the research about clinical application. This paper analyzes the drug usage in an eye hospital. Two approaches are adopted for the analysis procedure. There are statistics and complex theory. Four networks for different kinds of drugs are built first. Then degree property of these networks is used. Finally, the comparison between the two me...

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