Mixup linearly interpolates pairs of examples to form new samples, which has been shown be effective in image classification tasks. However, there are two drawbacks mixup: one is that more training epochs needed obtain a well-trained model; the other mixup requires tuning hyper-parameter gain appropriate capacity. In this paper, we find constantly explores representation space, and inspired by ...

This study was designed to understand which factors influence consumer hesitation or delay in online product purchases. The study examined four groups of variables (i.e., consumer characteristics, contextual factors perceived uncertainty factors, and medium/channel innovation factors) that predict three types of online shopping hesitation (i.e., overall hesitation, shopping cart abandonment, an...

This study has had a twofold ambition; to probe into the life in museums, and try out some concepts cultural policy research setting. The article does this by analysing encounters between art visiting audiences with use of “acontextual” analytic concepts; event instead experience, affect rather than emotion broad understanding concept atmosphere. Furthermore, empirical material for analysis con...

The relationship between a recipient's response to a disclosure of negative emotional experiences, and the resulting negative emotions, hesitation in self-disclosure (interpersonal and intra-personal hesitation), and negatively-confused thoughts of the person making the disclosure were investigated. Female undergraduates (N=271) were asked to write about angry or sad events in their interperson...

In our efforts to model spontaneous speech for use in, for example, spoken dialogue systems, a series of experiments have been conducted in order to investigate correlates to perceived hesitation. Previous work has shown that it is the total duration increase that is the valid cue rather than the contribution by either of the two factors pause duration and final lengthening. In the present expe...

In many economic, political and social situations, circumstances change at random points in time, reacting is costly, and changes appropriate to present circumstances may be inappropriate after later changes, requiring further costly change. Waiting is informative if the hazard rate for the arrival of the next change is non-constant. In a broad range of contexts we show that hesitation or delay...

BACKGROUND The professionalism of hospital workers in Japan was challenged by the pandemic (H1N1) 2009. To maintain hospital function under critical situations such as a pandemic, it is important to understand the factors that increase and decrease the willingness to work. Previous hospital-based studies have examined this question using hypothetical events, but so far it has not been examined ...