Confusion in Weights and Measures

Errors in Dispensing Due to Confusion of Weights

Ancient Greek weights and measures

Moreover, the comparative study of prices in Egypt and even in parts of Egypt (a nome, a toparchy, a village) is rendered very difficult by many peculiar circumstances. This is true, for example, of the prices of such a basic commodity as grain. In the statistical lists compiled by modern scholars the price of grain is shown per artaba, as if the artaba were a constant measure. In fact, as has ...

Weights and Measures in East Asian Studies

An important topic in East Asian Studies is the way things have been measured throughout history. Although this is a highly technical subject, some familiarity with it is necessary if you are to understand how people keep track of things. As with many of the handouts for this course, the comments contained here are designed to introduce the basics and only suggest some of the deeper complexitie...

Internal Consistencies: regarding Weights and Measures

Rather than seeing a distinction between theoretical discourse and the science of building Vitruvius, a Roman architect and engineer active in the 1st century BC, argued convincingly for the breadth of knowledge necessary to practice architecture with authority, that "knowledge is the child of practice and theory". The crux of his argument is that a sufficient breadth of training, to appreciate...

Impostor Detection in Speaker Recognition Using Confusion - Based Confidence Measures

Kyuhong Kim et al. 811 ABSTRACT⎯In this letter, we introduce confusion-based confidence measures for detecting an impostor in speaker recognition, which does not require an alternative hypothesis. Most traditional speaker verification methods are based on a hypothesis test, and their performance depends on the robustness of an alternative hypothesis. Compared with the conventional Gaussian mixt...