W. R. B. Battle

W 3 , b 3 ) ( W ′ 3 , b ′ 3 ) ( W ′ 2 , b ′ 2 ) ( W ′ 1 , b ′ 1 ) ( W ′ ′

In this paper, we present a deep neural network (DNN)-based acoustic scene classification framework. Two hierarchical learning methods are proposed to improve the DNN baseline performance by incorporating the hierarchical taxonomy information of environmental sounds. Firstly, the parameters of the DNN are initialized by the proposed hierarchical pre-training. Multi-level objective function is t...

Battle Royal in Biotechnology: R&d

Companies regard innovation as a central element of their business. However, as not all innovation types are the same, the central question is: should their announcements bring about the same effect on performance? This article analyses potential differences in firm value derived from the innovation-type announcements ‘R&D’, ‘product’ and ‘process’, made by intensive news-generating firms such ...

Todd R. Steven W.

Images of Mars obtained using the Planetary Camera on the Hubble Space Telescope during 1990 and 1991 are described and analyzed. Multi-spectral images of Mars record the martian season between L~ = 348 and 60 corresponding to late winter and spring in the northern hemisphere. The wavelengths of these observations varied between 230 nm in the ultraviolet and 890 nm in the near infrared. We use ...

W. R. D. Fairbairn

Dr R W M Strain

Dr Robert William Magill Strain was born on 12 April 1907 at 3 University Square, Belfast. His father was David Strain, manager of the Ulster Bank in Donegall Place, and his mother was Helen Louise Magill in 1906. His mother's sister Florence had married Dr Robert James Johnstone, later SirR J Johnstone, Professor ofGynaecology at Queen's University and University MP in the Stormont Parliament....