Research on human-agent interaction has focused mainly on domains which are conversational in nature, but little work has been done on examining the behavior of interactive agents in domains such as team sports. This paper analyzes utterance behavior in this domain, specifically a virtual basketball game with an agent teammate. The main motivation is to assess the nature of utterances during th...

The second of two targets is often missed when presented shortly after the first target--a phenomenon referred to as the attentional blink (AB). Whereas the AB is a robust phenomenon within sensory modalities, the evidence for cross-modal ABs is rather mixed. Here, we test the possibility that the absence of an auditory-visual AB for visual letter recognition when streams of tones are used is d...

BACKGROUND During ultrasound-guided radiofrequency ablation (RFA) of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), high echoic areas due to RFA-induced microbubbles can help calculate the extent of ablation. However, these areas also decrease visualization of target tumors, making it difficult to assess whether they completely cover the tumors. To estimate the effects of RFA more precisely, we used an image ...

INTRODUCTION Adrenal pseudocysts are rare cystic masses that arise from the adrenal gland and which are usually non-functional and asymptomatic. Adrenal pseudocysts consist of a fibrous wall without an epithelial or endothelial lining. We report the case of a patient with a giant adrenal pseudocyst presenting with right hypochondralgia and high fever. CASE PRESENTATION A 52-year-old Japanese ...

A new and efficient room acoustics simulation software package for MATLAB is presented which can simulate recordings of arbitrary microphone arrays within an echoic room. This simulator supports research related to developing and experimenting with multichannel microphone arrays and higher order ambisonic playback. Based upon the work by Schimmel et al. [1], this new simulation software package...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ultrasonographic features of benign adenomyoepithelioma of the breast. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between 2005 and 2009, five patients had histologically confirmed adenomyoepithelioma of the breast. We retrospectively evaluated the ultrasonographic findings of the tumors in correlation with the pathology, and reviewed medical records. RESUL...

PURPOSE The aim of this work is to explain the clinical features and the imaging findings of primitive epiploic appendagitis in 12 patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twelve patients were examined in 2 University hospitals between January 2011 and June 2016. Their medical charts have been reviewed. Nine patients have undergone enhanced CT examination and only two among them, have had at first an ...

Entrainment, a physical phenomenon in which one individual’s expressed information synchronizes with another’s and vice versa, can be observed between two communicators who are in smooth interaction. In this study, we focused on the “rate of utterances” as communicators’ expressed information, and then conducted an experiment to observe whether entrainments exist in the rate of utterances in sp...

Evaluation of syllable stress in speech utterances is an important and challenging task in the area of speaker evaluation. In this paper, we propose a method to classify correct utterances of English words based on the evaluation of the lexical syllable stress pattern. Here we use only correctly stressed utterances of the words as training samples since a statistically significant pool of incor...