Facial displays are an extremely important communication channel fulfilling a wide variety of functions in discourse and conversation. Humans use them naturally, often subconsciously, and are therefore very sensitive to the application of such displays in their computer-generated correspondents

- the most inspiring, productive, and exciting journey. Journey, which has completely changed my life and has prepared me for new challenges and opportunities. I owe a very special debt to the ex president of Georgia – Mikheil Saakashvili, for initiating a scholarship program for Georgian students abroad

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of concept representation is introduced to mathematically formulate the various aspects of a product concept. This representation also enhances the understanding of the overall objectives, allowing for design sensitivity analyses, pre-computation of the engineering design spaces and multi

of BTS is to provide a stan-dard means of transcribing signed utterances, meeting the following objectives: – compatibility with CHAT format and CLAN programs (CHILDES) – linear representation on a continuous typed line, using only ASCII characters – representation at the level of meaning components

piecewise linear fashion as the channel-gain ratio varies. 2) We show that the performance of q-PAM PNC is highly sensitive to imbalanced received powers from the two users at the relay, even when the power imbalance is slight (e.g., the residual power imbalance in a power-controlled system

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