human behavior analysis in ambient gaming and playful interaction

... with increasing grain size, and fine-graining transferring information with decreasing grain size Sometimes, upscaling and downscaling refer specifically to coarse-graining and fine-graining, ... changing scale on sampling J Wu, K.B Jones, H Li, and O.L Loucks (eds.), Scaling and Uncertainty Analysis in Ecology: Methods and Applications, 3–15 © 2006 Springer Printed in the Netherlands ... done, finding the indefinite integrals of nonlinear models, in general, is a formidable task If the closed-form indefinite integrals cannot be found, approximating the double definite integral...

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... Sourligas and Foteinopoulos (2006) have used the first six principal components of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) as input variables in nonlinear modeling of oil properties Pasquini and Bueno ... R.; Marins, F A S.; Loures, C C A.; Silva, M B Multivariate modeling in quality control of viscosity in fuel: an application in oil industry Fuel Injection in Automotive Engineering Rijeka: InTech, ... Multivariate Analysis in Management, Engineering and the Sciences Pasquini, C.; Bueno, A F Characterization of petroleum using near-infrared spectroscopy: Quantitative modeling for the true boiling point...

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... presenting and grooming This preoccupation with presenting and grooming by the stump-tailed monkeys resulted in lower scores in the remaining behavioral categories The reports of Kling and Orbach51 ... Sensitive Line and Flinders Resistant Line The Flinders Sensitive Line (FSL) and the Flinders Resistant Line (FRL) were selectively bred at Flinders University, in Australia, by selective breeding for ... sold in 1960 From the beginning, the Wistar Institute maintained a random bred, heterogeneous colony Therefore, there was considerable variability in the commercial colony maintained by the Institute...

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... ending at 517, the second coding segment starting from 646 and ending at 1735, and the third coding segment starting from 1933 and ending at 2165 The complete coding sequence is made by joining ... find this book exactly what you have been looking for Acknowledgement added in the second printing Perhaps nothing is more gratifying than preparing one’s first book for the second printing, and ... that the genes in the two sequences each contain three exons, and the final coding mRNA results from the splicing out of the introns and the joining of these three exons The CDS entry in the FEATURES...

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... results from inspecting the IR data The article by L Raskin et al., titled “Using gaussian process annealing particle filter for 3D human tracking,” tracks humans in 3D scenes using particle filters ... on Advances in Signal Processing infrared cameras They exploit the strengths of both modalities by utilizing the more accurate localization made possible by the stereo cameras in combination with ... article by M Hossain et al., titled “Edge segment-based automatic video surveillance,” describes a paper using image edge information for automatic video surveillance A Enis Cetin Eric Pauwels...

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... resulted in lower scores in the remaining behavioral categories The reports of Kling and Orbach51 and Orbach and Kling52 regarding the docility of stump-tailed macaques initiated great interest in ... strains, differ in regard to important baseline behavioral characteristics Some years ago, Harringon29,30-37 and others presented behavioral standardization data for several outbred and inbred ... conditioning,33 shuttle-box avoidance conditioning,35 home cage behavior, 3 1and runway learning.34 Other comparisons measured anatomic and physiologic variables, including basal metabolism Harrington and...

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... Harrington, G M Strain differences in runway learning in the rat Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 13, 159–160, 1979 35 Harrington, G M Strain differences in shuttle avoidance conditioning in ... training is an example of emergent behavior. 66 Emergents resemble human concept formation, and are present in many species, but are striking in primates, such as macaques, and especially striking ... record: locomotion (number of square crossings within the specified time), rearing, grooming, and stereotypical behaviors (such as licking, biting, and head weaving) These activities may be recorded...

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... subjects in lieu of plain water during a standard access interval Ingestion onset was noted for each subject, and the flavored solution was available for a minimum of 10 and for at least after drinking ... the CS during drug sessions than during vehicle sessions 12 Testing begins by substituting the training drug with (1) different doses of the training drug, (2) another drug in varying doses, ... Drugs producing false positives include amphetamine, scopolamine, and ethanol (Possible interpretations of these finding are found in Riley and Tuck.20) In summary, classical TA conditioning can be...

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... PM Intravenous Drug Self-Administration in Nonhuman Primates 99 decrease cocaine-maintained responding.38,39 This type of drug interaction has been attributed to a satiation of cocaine-maintained ... doses of cocaine were used to maintain responding Moreover, the rate-decreasing effects of GBR 12909 were greater on cocaine-maintained responding than on food-maintained responding under a multiple ... attributed to a selective interaction with the reinforcing effects of cocaine The author concluded that the selective increase in responding maintained by cocaine following pimozide pretreatment...

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... significance in understanding the complexity of cognitive function in non -human primates and in relevance of this function in modeling the human condition This is perhaps most significant in regard ... cages Other investigators have suggested that behavioral testing of nonhuman primates in home cages may prove distracting.18 Indeed, others typically perform delayed recall testing in non -human primates ... necessary for individual animals For each of the initial training programs described, no delay intervals between sample and choice push-key illumination are included At each stage of training, it is...

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... patterns in health and senescence Mech Ageing Dev 9, 89, 1979 17 Eslinger, P.J and Benton, A.L Visuoperceptual performances in aging and dementia: clinical and theoretical implications J Clin Neuropsychol ... prior to training increased the number of RE but not PE; and (2) injected immediately prior to testing increased both RE and PE The effects of pre-training and pre-testing scopolamine are further ... choline, AF64A is taken into the terminal by the HAChT system and, once inside the terminal, the highly reactive aziridinium induces cholinergic hypofunction and the death of the cell (reviewed in5 2,53)...

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... Nicotinic and muscarinic interactions and choice accuracy in the radial-arm maze Brain Res Bull., 27, 125, 1991 18 Olton, D.S and Werz, M.A., Hippocampal function and behavior: Spatial discrimination ... agonist and antagonist drugs Psychopharmacology, 127, 25, 1996 26 Levin, E., Kaplan, S., and Boardman, A., Acute nicotine interactions with nicotinic and muscarinic antagonists: Working and reference ... memory effects in the 16-arm radial maze Behav Pharmacol., 8, 236, 1997 27 Levin, E.D., Bettegowda, C., Weaver, T., and Christopher, N.C., Nicotine-dizocilpine interactions and working and reference...

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... hand-shaping operant behavior during the learning phase Secondly, we were interested in determining if there were critical or sensitive periods during development when such exposure caused behavioral ... 0.067 mg/kg Saline D4G Saline Saline 0.2 mg/kg 0.067 mg/kg Saline D8G Saline Saline Saline 0.2 mg/kg Saline a Control Group injected once, prior to the 13th session b Physostigmine injected post-sessions ... D8G were injected with saline The rats in the group injected with physostigmine while in their home cages (HCG) were injected with saline after their autoshaping sessions and the group injected...

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... restraint prior to attempting any behavioral training or testing The animal should become accustomed to the restraint and be relaxed in the testing situation prior to the initiation of training ... pressed again increases dramatically In practice, robust lever-pressing behavior can usually be established within a single training session Once lever-pressing behavior is established, behaviors ... forgetting and pyramidal cells in remembering spatial information Brain Research, 409, 316, 1987 24 Huang, M., Messing, R B., and Sparber, S B., Learning enhancement and behavioral arousal induced...

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... Methods of Behavior Analysis in Neuroscience 306 automated, thus minimizing stress and disturbance of the animal due to experimental handling during the test a) Apparatus Testing is conducted using ... BALB/c mice were administered with vehicle or apamin (0.2 mg/kg) immediately after training or h post-training The number of reinforced responses made during the last of the training sesssion (Pre) ... timing behaviors in animals and humans to detect drug and/ or toxicant effects, Neurotox Teratol., 1999, in press 12 Meck, W H., Neuropharmacology of timing and time perception, Cognitive Brain...

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... sensitive methods In recent years, owing to an increase in the antiviral prophylaxis, there has been a decline in reduction in morbidity and mortality caused by this virus [5] Since unwanted exposure ... specimens in Rotor gene Real time PCR machine (Corbett Research, Australia) using primers and thermal profile described earlier [17] The intra-assay and inter-assay reproducibility were evaluated using ... design of the study and performed the statistical analysis HNM conceived of the study, and participated in its design and coordination All authors read and approved the final manuscript 11 12...

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... hBD-3, and hBD-4 were also examined by colony count assay using E coli HB101 and P aeruginosa PAO1 Then, 5000 CFU of bacteria was incubated for h at 37°C with defensin in concentrations ranging in ... tract [2-4] hBD-2 and hBD3, isolated from psoriatic scale extracts [5,6], are expressed mainly in the respiratory tract, and their expression increases in response to infections and inflammatory mediators ... were incubated in µg/ml proteinase K (DakoCytomation) for 30 at 37°C and treated with 6% hydrogen peroxidase for 60 to inactivate endogenous peroxidases Nonspecific binding was inhibited by an incubation...

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... Retinoblastoma protein, myosin regulatory light chain-interacting protein and retinoblastoma-binding protein 1-like miR-155 Overexpressed in CLL, B-cell, Hodgkin’s and Burkitt lymphomas and in human ... Statistical analysis 3.1 62 62 CHAPTER Analysis of Adenosine-to-Inosine editing of miR376 cluster in gliomas 63 Introduction and aims 63 3.2 Editing analysis of primary miRNAs in gliomas 3.3 Editing analysis ... adenosine-uracil pair to an inosine-cytidine pair (Figure 1.5B) 35 A B Figure 1.5 Adenosine deamination to inosine by ADAR A Hydrolytic deamination converts adenosine to inosine B Base-pairing...

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... Realism and essentialism about kinds 1.1 kinds of things We are a classifying species We recognize not just individuals but kinds of things, and we sort individuals into kinds Among the myriad kinds ... nonnatural kinds 1.6 intrinsicality There is considerable debate concerning the notion of an intrinsic property, including the correct way to distinguish intrinsic from extrinsic properties My aim in ... Hacking (1999, 2002) claims that human kinds can be interactive whereas natural kinds cannot, but some natural kinds also come into existence as a result of human intervention and they can interact...

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