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eMoto – Affectively Involving both Body and Mind
No full textIt is known that emotions are experienced by both body and mind. Oftentimes, emotions are evoked by sub-symbolic stimuli, such as colors, shapes, gestures, or music. We have built eMoto, a mobile service for sending affective messages to others, with the explicit aim of addressing such sensing. Through combining affective gestures for input with affective expressions that make use of colors, shapes and animations for the background of messages, the interaction pulls the user into an embodied ‘affective loop’. We present a user study of eMoto where 12 out of 18 subjects got both physically and emotionally involved in the interaction. The study also shows that the designed ‘openness ’ and ambiguity of the expressions, was appreciated and understood by our subjects. Author Keywords Affective interaction, gestured-based interaction, usercentere
Improvement of Automatic Physics Data Analysis Environment for the LHD Experiment
No full textThe physical data of the Large Helical Device (LHD) project have been serviced by the Analyzed Data Server system, and approximately 600 kinds of physical data are served. In order to execute simulation programs for the LHD experiment, one must gather sets of physical data. Because the Automatic Analyzed Server (AutoAna) calculates the physical data automatically, it eases the scientist’s task of collecting these physical data. The AutoAna has provided better computing environments for the scientists. Thus, the scientists, having recognized its benefits, make various requests as issues arise. In this paper, the authors introduce the current status of the AutoAna system.journal articl
Predictive response-relevant clustering of expression data provides insights into disease processes
No full textThis article describes and illustrates a novel method of microarray data analysis that couples model-based clustering and binary classification to form clusters of ;response-relevant' genes; that is, genes that are informative when discriminating between the different values of the response. Predictions are subsequently made using an appropriate statistical summary of each gene cluster, which we call the ;meta-covariate' representation of the cluster, in a probit regression model. We first illustrate this method by analysing a leukaemia expression dataset, before focusing closely on the meta-covariate analysis of a renal gene expression dataset in a rat model of salt-sensitive hypertension. We explore the biological insights provided by our analysis of these data. In particular, we identify a highly influential cluster of 13 genes-including three transcription factors (Arntl, Bhlhe41 and Npas2)-that is implicated as being protective against hypertension in response to increased dietary sodium. Functional and canonical pathway analysis of this cluster using Ingenuity Pathway Analysis implicated transcriptional activation and circadian rhythm signalling, respectively. Although we illustrate our method using only expression data, the method is applicable to any high-dimensional datasets
Induction of IFN-gamma-producing CD4(+) natural killer T cells by Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette Guerin
No full textLindbladia cribrarioides M. L. Farr & Alexop.
No full text<i>Lindbladia cribrarioides</i> (Emoto) M.L. Farr & Alexop. FIGURE 3. <p>Mycobank No.: 104462</p> <p> <b>Description: Sporocarps</b> crowded in a cluster, cylindrical, 0.3‒0.5×1.6‒3.0 mm, stipitate, erect, rarely sessile, brown or blackish-brown, stalk about 0.3 mm in high, inter sporangial peridium fused but not perforated, with plasmatic granules inside, dark-brown or yellowish-brown. <b>Peridium</b> membranous, thin, with longitudinal striation on the wall outside, roughened at the upper margin, apically composed of striation between sporangia and sporangia forming a peridial reticulation, polygonal, lax, irregular, with large mesh. <b>Hypothallus</b> membranous, round, reddish to dark brown. <b>Spores</b> ochre to brown in mass, yellowish to colorless by transmitted light, 5‒6 μm in diameter, spherical, with verrucose on the surface, some verrucose connected in ridges. Plasmodium unknown.</p> <p> <b>Habitat and distribution:</b> On rotten wood in spring.</p> <p> <b>Specimen examined:</b> China. Jilin Province: Changbaishan Nature Reserve, 17 March 2017, collected by Bo Zhang (HMJAU 10102).</p> <p> <b>Distribution in China:</b> Jinlin Province.</p> <p> <b>Distribution in the world:</b> Japan, China.</p> <p> <b>Notes:</b> The Chinese report has longer sporocarps and smaller spores than reported by Emoto (1977).</p>Published as part of <i>Yang, Xin-Ya, Wang, Sai-Yu, Dai, Dan, Zhao, Hui-Nan, Wang, Yang, Li, Xue-Fei, Zhang, Bo & Li, Yu, 2023, A new species of Lycogala, and a new record of Lindbladia from China, pp. 143-153 in Phytotaxa 632 (2)</i> on page 146, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.632.2.4, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/10438479">http://zenodo.org/record/10438479</a>
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