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The position postulated in this Parting Opinion is quite simple: the answer to the question posed in the title is a resounding NO for many people; no matter which of the categories you're in. Hopefully, you're curious to know why I believe this. If you ...

"Once upon a time on Tralfamdore there were creatures who weren't anything like machines...And these poor creatures were obsessed by the idea that everything that existed had to have a purpose...And the machines did everything so expertly that they were ...

Pauses play a critical role in adding, shifting or contradicting meaning in a conversation. To enable the study and incorporation of this important modality in computational discourse analytic and processing systems, we require extensible open source ...

One of the most important stages in the development of intonational text-to-speech systems is prosodic processing. The correct pause placement and pause duration play a large role for the perception of speech by human hearing. In this article, the ...

At times, inaction may be a wise course of action. This insight lies at the heart of the design mechanism of pause. In this note, we explore the construct of pause, its rhythms, and nuances of enacting pause. Throughout, we draw on our experience ...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the early process of mastering skills including pause and adjustment to reveal skill factors in producing traditional handicrafts. The information of biological signals and subjective scores were analyzed in two ...

This paper tries to derive fundamental movements, which are considered to be important for transmitting traditional skills, from the movement of a worker or a player. The movement is represented with a sequence of the sum of the speeds of the parts of a ...

This paper tries to clarify various pauses, which are called "Ma" in Japanese, in performances in order to employ them in transmitting traditional skills from the current generation to the next one. Various pauses are tried to be identified from ...

User interactions such as seeks and pauses are widely supported by existing Peer-to-Peer Video-on-Demand (P2P VoD) streaming systems. Their effect on the streaming system, however, has not been well studied. Seeks cause peers to skip part of the video, ...

In power electronic conversion circuits, variable relationships are more complex, animation can vividly show the relationships each other. The paper discusses how to draw nonlinear graphics principle by using MATLAB animation, introduces two methods, ...

This paper investigates 'pause' and 'duration' as conceptual resources to expand current design approaches to place, technology, and experience in museums to the extended temporality of heritage practice. The author strives to understand 'through design'...

The number of students appearing for online examinations continues to rise astronomically, from a substantial 3.2 million last year. Statistics estimate burgeoning of 871,000 online mock test-sites in the last decade. The mock test-sites, however, ...

Syntax and prosody are closely related to each other. This paper is concerned with the problem of exploiting pause information for recovering dependency structures of read Japanese sentences. Our parser can handle both symbolic information such as ...