Laughter, as component of social interaction, has attracted interest within conversational analysis [2, 5]. While laughter can be expressed in different contexts, voluntary or involuntary [6], and diverse in function and degree of functionality [2], it is not random. We study timing of laughter during conversation in relation to topic changes: whether recurrent patterns in laughter distribution...

We could show in the past that Hierarchical SpectroTemporal (HIST) features improve the performance of Automatic Recognition Systems (ARS) of speech in difficult environments when they are combined with conventional speech spectral features. The target here is to improve the noise robustness of the HIST features by investigating a channel distribution equalization in our feature hierarchy. Ther...

BACKGROUND Complementary strategies to shift risk factor population distributions and target high-risk individuals are required to reduce the burden of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD). PURPOSE To examine secular changes in glucose and CVD risk factors over 20 years during an individual and population-based CVD prevention program in Västerbotten County, Sweden. METHODS Popul...

River Ganga is one of the prime sacred National Rivers of India, closely associated with economic, social, and cultural heritage of Indian people. Recently, it has been subjected to immense degradation and pollution as a result of receiving huge amounts of domestic and industrial wastewater as well as religious ritual activities and surface runoff. The present study attempts to study spatial an...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the age and sex distribution of calcifications of the internal elastic membrane (IEM) in temporal arteries. METHODS Calcifications of the IEM were assessed light-microscopically in temporal arteries from 40 women and 21 men, aged 51 or more, who were known not to have giant cell arteritis (GCA). Their relation to age and the difference between women and men were teste...

understanding the spatial distribution of weeds would provide good results for the commercial applications of future research programs, development forecast desirable of yield loss and understanding the processes that cause changes in spatial and temporal distribution weeds. in this order an experiment was conducted in 1388 to find the effects of biological interactions, climate and agricultura...

distribution of magnetic fields in the quiet-sun internetwork areas has been affected by weak polarization (in particular stokes q and u) signals. to improve the signal-to-noise ratio (snr) of the weak polarization signals, several approaches, including temporal integrations, have been proposed in the literature. in this study, we aim to investigate a proper temporal-integration time with which...

the determination of temporal and spatial salinity in tidal rivers is significant in supplying water for agriculture purposes, particularly where there is no controller dam at the downstream. in this research, the coherens model was applied to study the hydraulics of water flow, salinity distribution and transmission at the bahmanshir river. coherens is a 3d multi-purpose hydrodynamic model whi...