This paper presents the application of a quantitative model for measuring impact manipulative implicit linguistic strategies on small comparable corpus Italian, German and French political discourses. The aim is to show cross-linguistic applicability model, originally developed put test Italian. Furthermore, analysis allows qualitative comparison three corpora: some statistical correlations ten...

In AI, multi-agent decision problems are of central importance, in which independent agents aggregate their heterogeneous preference orders among all alternatives and the result of this aggregation can be a single alternative, corresponding to the groups collective decision, or a complete aggregate ranking of all the alternatives. Voting is a general method for aggregating the preferences of mu...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the contribution of stereopsis to the processing of observed manipulative actions. To this end, we first combined the factors "stimulus type" (action, static control, and dynamic control), "stereopsis" (present, absent) and "viewpoint" (frontal, lateral) into a single design. Four sites in premotor, retro-insular (2) and parietal cortex operated spec...

Influencing the public attitude towards certain topics had become one of the strongest weapons in today’s information warfare. The ability to recognize a presence of propaganda in newspaper texts is thus a treasured phenomenon, which is not directly transferable to algorithmic analysis. In the current paper, we present the first steps of the project aiming at detection and recognition of select...

Some osteopathic physicians are not properly reimbursed by insurance companies after providing osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) to their patients. Common problems associated with lack of reimbursements include insurers bundling OMT with the standard evaluation and management service and confusing OMT with chiropractic manipulative treatment or physical therapy services. The authors sugg...

Many electoral control and manipulation problems—which we will refer to in general as “manipulative actions” problems—are NP-hard in the general case. Many of these problems fall into polynomial time if the electorate is singlepeaked, i.e., is polarized along some axis/issue. However, real-world electorates are not truly single-peaked—for example, there may be some maverick voters—and to take t...

BACKGROUND Low back pain is a costly illness for which spinal manipulative therapy is commonly recommended. Previous systematic reviews and practice guidelines have reached discordant results on the effectiveness of this therapy for low back pain. PURPOSE To resolve the discrepancies related to use of spinal manipulative therapy and to update previous estimates of effectiveness by comparing s...

In order to achieve natural, proactive, and non-intrusive interaction between humans and robots, the understanding of human actions is a highly relevant task. In this paper, a vision-based method for manipulative gesture recognition is proposed. Different from the traditional trajectory-based approaches, the manipulative actions are modeled not only based on the hand trajectories but also on th...

The West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine in Lewisburg instituted a free, community-based medical clinic in spring 1995 as part of an institution-wide Osteopathic Principles and Practices Integration Project. Under this initiative, osteopathic medical students are provided with 26 hours of supervised experience in osteopathic palpatory diagnosis and osteopathic manipulative treatment. Th...

Bell's palsy is caused by a lesion of the facial nerve and results in unilateral paralysis or paresis of the face. The condition affects approximately 23 in 100,000 persons, with onset typically occurring between the ages of 10 and 40 years. The authors report the case of a 26-year-old woman with Bell's palsy, whom they treated with osteopathic manipulative treatment that was focused on the enh...