This study investigates whether people can infer a speaker's social affective expressions in a language that is not their native language, by examining the variable lexical labels used to identify them. A freelabeling paradigm shows evidence of culturalspecificity in the perceptual behavior of listeners. Subjects were 16 US English listeners, asked to name the affective expressions carried by a...

Companies strive to retain the knowledge about their business processes by modelling them. However, non-routine people-intensive processes, such as distributed collaboration, are hard to model due to their unpredictable nature. Often such processes involve advanced activities, such as discovery of socially coherent teams or unbiased experts, or complex coordination towards reaching a consensus....

In this work, the geometric relation between space time block code design for the coherent channel and its noncoherent counterpart is exploited to get an analogue of the information theoretic inequality I(X;S) I((X;H);S) in terms of diversity. It provides a lower bound on the performance of non-coherent codes when used in coherent scenarios. This leads in turn to a code design decomposition res...

See related article, pages 1447–1453. When making a diagnosis of stroke, a physician should ask the patient how he experienced his deficit. Most patients, if not impaired by speech or memory, will give a straightforward account of their surprising and miserable experience of having felt a sudden motor or sensory loss, distressing weakness, or alarming loss of vision or of coordination. Interest...

This paper explores a new approach to community building. It is based on the concept of salutogenesis; a proactive approach to community health which seeks preventative measures instead of the traditional reactionary corrective and curative culture of public health care. Increasingly organizations are concerned with sustainable healthy work forces but they often lack a coherent mechanism for do...

A central problem for interactive storytelling research is how to create a story which procedurally varies as the result of a user’s actions, while still feeling like a story. Research has largely concentrated on how to provide coherent variations each time a user experiences an interactive story, without consideration for the relationship between subsequent experiences. This paper examines the...

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) explores the role of discourse structures in constituting social inequality. Metaphorical structure, however, has received relatively little attention in explicit CDA. The paper aims to redress this by developing a coherent theoretical framework for CDA and metaphor. This framework adopts conceptual blending theory over conceptual metaphor theory, where the lat...

Received November 14, 2013 Abstract. The article presents a study of some characteristics of post and comment publishing in the Russian segment of Facebook. A number of non-trivial results has been obtained. For example, a significant anomaly has been detected in the number of user accounts with the rate of publishing posts of approximately two posts per three days. The analysis has been carrie...

Next-generation networks are expected to support a wide variety of services. Some services such as video, voice, and plant control tra c have explicit timing requirements on a per-message basis rather than on the average. In this paper we develop a general model of dual-link networks to support real-time communication. We examine the desirable properties of this network and the di culties in ac...