Recounts the career and contributions of Jim Meindl.

A major shortcoming of current models of ideological prejudice is that although they can anticipate the direction of the association between participants' ideology and their prejudice against a range of target groups, they cannot predict the size of this association. I developed and tested models that can make specific size predictions for this association. A quantitative model that used the pe...

This article presents thoughts on the future of speech technology research, and a vision of the near future in which computer interaction is characterized by natural face-to-face conversations with lifelike characters that speak, emote and gesture. A first generation of these perceptive animated interfaces are now under development in a project called the Colorado Literacy Tutor, which uses per...

The following study aims at examining prosodic thresholds of perception for Spanish, parting from the algorithm analysis offered by Prosodic Analysis Speech (PAS) model Cantero (2019). approach is based on defining values each syllable after a process standardization, relativizing value associated with to that preceding one. As threshold in case melody was defined as 10% Spanish (FONT-ROTCHÉS; ...

Background: fine motor function of school-aged children with dyslexia, learning disabilities and learning difficulties. Aim: this study aimed to characterize the fine motor, sensory and perceptive function of school-aged children with dyslexia, learning disabilities and learning difficulties and to correlate these results with the analysis of the children’s handwriting. Method: participants wer...

together, people have used them for communication. From email—one of the first network applications—to the original MIT Zephyr notification system to the now-popular AOL Instant Messenger System, people use computers to break down physical distances and provide a sense of awareness about another person in another place. Beyond basic text interaction, research—such as the Portholes project at Xe...

-Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse is most important role player in the enterprises. Data warehouse (DW) is a collection of integrated databases. The DWHDB are designed to support managerial decision-making and problemsolving functions. The data’s available in the DWHDB are very perceptive. Such perceptive information needs security so as to prevent this perceptive information from the u...

Rubella antibody was detected in 85 (61%) of 139 children aged from 6 months to 7 years with congenital perceptive deafness. Of the 112 children who were aged under 4 years 61 (54%) had rubella antibody (seropositive) compared with 7.1% in randomly selected children of the same age. A close correlation was found between the presence of antibody in children with perceptive deafness and (1) a mat...