BACKGROUND The sound-induced flash illusion is an auditory-visual illusion--when a single flash is presented along with two or more beeps, observers report seeing two or more flashes. Previous research has shown that the illusion gradually disappears as the temporal delay between auditory and visual stimuli increases, suggesting that the illusion is consistent with existing temporal rules of ne...

BACKGROUND Exercise is consistently recommended for older adults with knee pain related to osteoarthritis. However, the effects from exercise are typically small and short-term, likely linked to insufficient individualisation of the exercise programme and limited attention to supporting exercise adherence over time. The BEEP randomised trial aims to improve patients' short and long-term outcome...

Intrusion detection is an area of increasing concern in the Internet community. In response to this, many automated intrusion detection systems (IDS) have been developed, e.g., commercial (Real Secure) and public domain (SNORT). However, there is no standardized way for IDS to communicate with each other or to a common manager. To remedy this, the Intrusion Detection Working Group (IDWG) was ch...

Pronunciation by analogy (PbA) is a data-driven technique for the automatic phonemisation of text which is receiving renewed attention from workers in text-to-speech synthesis. It uses the dictionary which provides the primary source of pronunciations via direct look-up as a secondary source of information about the pronunciation of unknown words. In this paper, we provide theoretical and empir...

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We present distances to 76 medium-sized molecular clouds and an extra large-scale one in the second Galactic quadrant ($104.75^\circ <l<150.25^\circ $ $|b|<5.25^\circ$), 73 of which are accurately measured for first time. Molecular cloud samples drawn from $l$-$b$-$V$ space ($-95 < V_{\rm LSR}< 25$ \kms) with density-based spatial clustering applications noise (DBSCAN) algorithm, background-eli...

In a number of practical scenarios a wireless device needs to mark its presence, for instance, to some access point. That enables the access point to assign the device its transmission slot or update the count of the network nodes. Many protocols can achieve exactly this result. In this paper, our goal is to show how that can be done in the simplest messaging model, the so-called beeping model....

This paper presents an HMM-based method and experimental results for voice conversion between UK and US accented English. Phonetic-tree based tiedstate triphone HMMs are used to map equivalent states of the source and target spectra. Then a linear transformation method is incorporated to estimate the most likely target spectra for a given input. The mapping is between two different sets of phon...