background : during the past two decades, a great deal of research has been conducted on developing affective norms for words in various languages, showing that there is an urgent need to create such norms in persian language, too. the present study intended to develop a set of 362 persian words rated according to their emotional valence, arousal, imageability, and familiarity so as to prepare ...

This paper proposes a new emotional model for Virtual Humans (VHs) in a conversational environment. As a part of a multi-users emotional 3D-chatting system, this paper focus on how to formulate and visualize the flow of emotional state defined by the Valence-ArousalDominance (VAD) parameters. From this flow of emotion over time, we successfully visualized the change of VHs’ emotional state thro...

only two voices have been represented in italian grammar. if we look at the passive constructions from a pragmatic point of view, it can be seen as a language strategy being classified as an event. this change of perspective creates different structures. in this article we shall study a speaker’s change of perspective in attention to the valence theory. according to this theory, a verb on the b...

Heat conduction in fins and slab bodies, a traditional undergraduate topic, is treated with the Green’s function (GF) method. A variety of boundary conditions and heating conditions are included. Computer programs are described which are designed to improve student learning of the GF method. The programs are available from the author.

la littérature libertine française du xviiie siècle a longtemps été considérée secondaire ou inférieure dans le panorama de la littérature française à cause de sa valence subversive en opposition au roman d’inspiration bourgeoise. si ce dernier représentait l’expression triomphante de la bourgeoisie, le roman libertin n’était que son ombre : le roman bourgeois symbolisait la victoire de la stab...

that the yield of matrix-trapped excess electrons in D 2 0 is larger than in H20 and concluded that D 2 0 is less efficient in the initial electron localization (to yield the solvated electron) than HzO. Our results do not, however, answer the question whether a solvated electron represents the ground state of a cluster anion comprised of as few as 12 water molecules. The reason for this differ...