An audience can have a profound effect on the dynamics of communicative interactions. As a result, non-human primates often adjust their social decision-making strategies depending on the audience composition at a given time. Here we sought to test how the unique vocal behaviour of multiple audience members affected decisions to communicate. To address this issue, we developed a novel experimen...

Over the recent past, world has witnessed increased uptake of social media and use internet. In particular, The tremendous growth in number people accessing through accessible mobile devices. this foregoing, exposed millions to privacy infringement as voluminous personal information is shared via able influence individuals' self-awareness along with self-image. aim essay address concepts self c...

Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) languages are a popular alternative when building applications to run on large scale parallel machines. Unified Parallel C (UPC) is a well known PGAS language that is available on most high performance computing systems. Good performance of UPC applications is often one important requirement for a system acquisition. This paper presents the memory managem...

Most high performance scientific applications require efficient support for collective communication. Point-to-point message-passing communication in current generation clusters are based on Send/Recv communication model. Collective communication operations built on top of such point-to-point message-passing operations might achieve suboptimal performance. VIA and the emerging InfiniBand archit...

Sawtooth is an audiovisual improvisation environment in which an information-rich visual interface for the performer simultaneously serves as an aesthetic visual experience for the audience. Gestural input is captured by video camera and translated into audiovisual performance through direct mappings and the initiation of autonomous algorithmic processes. This paper describes Sawtooth's design,...

This paper offers a new reading of register polarization in two types translations (narrative and gandul/interlinear) the tafsīr part al-Ibrīz li-Ma’rifat Tafsīr al-Qur’ān al-‘Azīz by Kiai Bisri Musthafa. A close narrative translation requires identification every word comprising speech to identify register. In order recognize thegandul/interlinear translation, one must put into one’s perspecti...

OBJECTIVE The images of smiling people are omnipresent in marketing. Frequency, smile characteristics, context of the smile and target audience in newspaper advertisements were points of interest of this study. MATERIAL AND METHODS Four examiners analyzed 600 advertisements from 46 European magazines and newspapers by using content and framing analysis. Twenty items of the analysis form the p...