Does contrastive access help preschoolers succeed on traditional false-belief tasks? Threeand four-year-olds were presented with a modified version of the change-of-location story in which two characters are the focus of interest. In the contrastive access condition preschoolers’ observe that one character leaves the room while the other stays and witnesses the moving event; in the non-contrast...

This paper describes a system that greatly simplifies the task of authoring new behaviors for virtual characters, including physical interactions between characters and other characters or objects. The system in implemented within Twig and allows users to interactively generate and test procedural controllers for characters, as well as triggering mechanisms and arbitration mechanisms for behavi...

To achieve a high compression ratio when storing a large amount of Chinese characters is a problem in applications using Chinese characters. In this paper, we present a data compression software system which can reduce the storage requirement of Chinese characters and binary images. This system is composed of a Chinese font compressing subsystem and a binary image compressing subsystem. In the ...

Chinese characters can be compared to a molecular structure: a character is analogous to a molecule, radicals are like atoms, calligraphic strokes correspond to elementary particles, and when characters form compounds, they are like molecular structures. In chemistry the conjunction of all of these structural levels produces what we perceive as matter. In language, the conjunction of strokes, r...

Javanese characters are traditional characters that are used to write the Javanese language. The Javanese language is a language used by many people on the island of Java, Indonesia. The use of Javanese characters is diminishing more and more because of the difficulty of studying the Javanese characters themselves. The Javanese character set consists of basic characters, numbers, complementary ...

Traditional approaches for handwritten Chinese character recognition suffer in classifying similar characters. In this paper, we propose to discriminate similar handwritten Chinese characters by using weakly supervised learning. Our approach learns a discriminative SVM for each similar pair which simultaneously localizes the discriminative region of similar character and makes the classificatio...

Chinese Lexicon Project (Sze et al., 2014) summarized lexical decision response data of 2,500 Chinese characters. The original analysis has showed that the newest character frequency norm accounts the most variance of reaction times. The variance of these response data are analyzed in terms of the character frequency, strokes, and structures in use of the norms from Taiwan. First of all, simpli...

Chinese characters are generally correlated with their semantic meanings, and the structure of radicals, in particular, can be a clear indication how related to each other. In simplification movement, some different traditional have been transferred into one simplified character (many-to-one mapping), resulting phenomenon ’one corresponding many characters. Compared characters, contain richer s...

tradition has primary importance in modern arabic poetry, and invoking traditional elements is a remarkably invaluable poetic source. tradition has many resources among which literary tradition is a rich storehouseon whichpoets deeply rely. literary tradition contains many elements among which poetic figures are probably the most influential and inspirational. this article attempts to study the...