F0 characteristics were analyzed and modeled for the output of speech with natural prosody in communication systems. Lexicons were selected to express speaker's attitude during the human speech generation process. We modeled the prosody using information of constituent lexicons expressing attitude and markedness. Motivated by preliminary observations of prosodic variations in conversational spe...

In this study, conducted a survey to examine the relationship among sexual attitude, sexual knowledge, optimistic bias of venereal disease and contraceptive practice in university students. The data were collected via structural questionnaires completed by 148 university students located in Cheonan who agreed to participate in this study. There was a statistically significant positive correlati...

BACKGROUND Prior to introduction of universal varicella vaccination, it is crucial to gain insight into the willingness to vaccinate among the population. This is because suboptimal national vaccination coverage might increase the age of infection in children, which will lead to higher complication rates. We studied the attitude and intention to vaccinate against varicella among Dutch public he...

This research tested for counteractive optimism: a self-control strategy of generating optimistic predictions of future goal attainment in order to overcome anticipated obstacles in goal pursuit. In support of the counteractive optimism model, participants in 5 studies predicted better performance, more time invested in goal activities, and lower health risks when they anticipated high (vs. low...

The global statistics reveal that at least one in every five women experiences rape or attempted rape during her lifetime. Rape myths encompass a set of (false) beliefs. Adolescents have high rates of rape victimization than other age groups. Rape myths among health care providers may have a negative influence on proper care of the victims. A total of 422 medical undergraduates of both sexes, s...

We consider the problem of explaining temporal behavior black-box systems using human-interpretable models. Following recent research trends, we rely on fundamental yet interpretable models deterministic finite automata (DFAs) and linear logic (LTL_f) formulas. In contrast to most existing works for learning DFAs LTL_f formulas, from only positive examples. Our motivation is that negative examp...