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Symptom-based experiencing therapy is a humanistic therapy developed from focusing therapy based on great amount of practices. Experiencing is considered as clients' subjective feelings on summarized and representative internal problems. Because of informational disorder, clients could be deep in an irrational state and thus were not able to arouse positive experiencing. In this case, it is difficult...
To obtain perception abilities, conventional methods independently detect static and dynamic obstacles, and estimate their related information, which is not quite reliable and computationally heavy. We propose a fusion-based and layered-based approach to systematically detect dynamic obstacles and obtain their location and timing information. The layered-based concept helps us to first search pedestrians...
The present study was to investigate the protective effect of Echinacea, purpurea (E. purpurea) extract, a natural scavenger of peroxynitrite (ONOO-), on the biomolecules injury induced by ONOO- in vitro. The results showed that E. purpurea extract could prevent the ONOO--mediated damage in tyrosine nitration, low density lipoprotein (LDL) oxidation and DNA strand breaks. The ONOO- scavenging ability...
Aquaporin (AQP) has been reported to express in microvessels of many different type of tumor, indicating the possible involvement of AQP in tumor angiogenesis. Tumor angiogenesis is a mandatory step of tumor growth involving endothelial cell proliferation and migration from blood vessels in peritumoral tissues and formation of tubules. A murine Hepal-6 hepatocellular carcinoma-bearing model in AQP1...
In this paper, we try to understand what people mean when they say that two objects are ldquosimilar.rdquo This is an important question in the area of human-robot interactions, where robots must interpret human movements in order to act in a ldquosimilarrdquo manner. Specifically, we assume that we are given a collection of empirically generated pairwise comparisons between a subset of so-called...
In this paper we study the human oculomotor system as a simple mechanical control system. Most of the time, such as during dasiasmooth pursuitpsila, eye movements obey listing's constraint, which states that the movements consist of rotation matrices for which the axes are orthogonal to the normal gaze direction. Eye movements fail to satisfy the Listing's constraint either as a result of abnormality...
Our study established a new serodiagnostic data transformation method of schistosomiasis japonica such that the cut off value based on normal distribution can be used. Sera collected in 2 different Schistosoma japonica (S j) endemic areas were tested by using a S j specific IgG antibody detection kit. The data were assessed by Stata. Results indicated that before the proposed transformation, the specific...
In the traditional (2-valued) logic, we assume that each statement is either true or false. In practice, for some statements, we do not know whether they are true or false. It is therefore natural to consider different degrees of confidence; the (partially) ordered set V of all such degrees forms a fuzzy logic. For example, in the standard [0,1]-based fuzzy logic, these degrees form the interval [0,1]...
We present an approach to a more efficient generation of linguistic summaries using the traditional degree of truth and a degree of focus based mechanism for discarding nonpromising summaries. We use the approach to derive linguistic data summaries to subsume the past performance of an investment (mutual) fund, and then present numerical results on the efficiency of the truncation process proposed...
We address the voice quality assessment by focusing on the harmonic and temporal aspects that are less treated in the literature. The main focus is on the influence on synthetic voice quality of the higher formants. We view the higher formants role as primarily mediated by the ratios of their frequencies and that of the pitch. We present a comparative study between human and synthetic voice in this...
The Chernoff faces is a classical method to display multidimensional data graphically in Multivariate Statistics. Based on the V-system, a class of complete orthogonal function system on L2[0,1], a new method to quantify the overall features of Chernoff faces is proposed in this paper. Chernoff faces are firstly transformed into the frequency domain by the V-system, the overall features of Chernoff...
Recent studies in signal detection theory suggest that the human responses to the stimuli on a visual display are nondeterministic. People may attend to different locations on the same visual input at the same time. Constructing a stochastic model of human visual attention would be promising to tackle the above problem. This paper proposes a new method to achieve a quick and precise estimation of...
A conceptual possibility-probability based framework is proposed to manage the uncertainties encountered in distribution system reliability. Probability distribution of reliability parameters, the failure rate, the load point outage duration and the power injection of feeder branch are transformed consistently into the corresponding possibilistic distribution function. Under the proposed framework,...
Automatic text summarization is a wide research area. Automatic text summarization is to compress the original text into a shorter version and help the user to quickly understand large volumes of information. There are several ways in which one can characterize different approaches to text summarization: extractive and abstractive from single document or multi document. This paper focuses on the automatic...
Effect of consecutive maximal dry breath-holds was compared between two groups of free divers with different experience levels and a control group. Hemoglobin concentration ([Hb], by functional near infrared spectroscopy, fNIRS), heart rate and systemic oxygen saturation (SO2, by pulse oxymetry) measurements were performed during four consecutive maximal dry breath-holds change in [Hb] (Delta[Hb]),...
The authors introduce a new method for the establishment of an extension to current product models in order to enhanced communication between human and modeling processes. The main contribution of the reported work to product modeling is a dialogue input and model representation of human intent in order to make assistance for human who applies product model and needs important details from thinking...
ldquoIt isn't that they can't find solutions, it is that they don't see the problemrdquo Gilbert K.Chesterton (1874-1936) Critical destabilized resource uses that endanger individual and societal life require gap reductions between what is and what ought to be. In a genuine ldquolearning organizationrdquo (Peter Senge) and society, the progressive narrowing of ldquoIngenuity Gapsrdquo (Thomas Homer-Dixon)...
In this paper, we present a simple but effective color space conversion method for converting high precision YUV signals to 24-bit RGB signals. Compared to conventional color conversion method, our proposed method preserves more precisely the luminance information of the original YUV signal, while the chrominance difference is kept within a tolerable range. This method results in a smoother perception...
Investigating customer's activity patterns is of primary importance for accurate predication and intuitive modelling of the call arrival rates to a queueing system. The present study analyzes a customer's activity pattern based on the mobile phone dataset and gives the empirical results of inter-call time distribution that follows exponential form, under traditional assumption, which could sustain...
In recent years, dome display has become popular, and it is desired to establish a method to create dome image contents easily. In this study, psychophysical experiment was conducted to measure the three-dimensional sensation that was felt in the dome environment quantitatively. Based on the result of this experiment, the layered image representation method was developed. In this method, dome image...
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