A hierarchical framework is proposed to address the issues of modeling different type of words in keyword spotting (KWS). Keyword models are built at various levels according to the availability of training set resources for each individual word. The proposed approach improves the performance of KWS even when no training speech is available for the keywords. It also suggests an easier way to co...

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Energy poverty can be understood as the inability of a household to secure a socially and materially necessitated level of energy services in the home. While the condition is widespread across Europe, its spatial and social distribution is highly uneven. In this paper, the existence of a geographical energy poverty divide in the European Union (EU) provides a starting point for conceptualizing ...

It is a pleasure to be invited to discuss this rich paper by Jeffrey Frankel and Andrew Rose. After the events of the past few years, with a range of commodity prices exhibiting great volatility, it is not hard to motivate Frankel and Rose’s choice of topic, seen from either a longor medium-term perspective. The authors use annual data, mainly in a panel context, to examine the relationship bet...

Noise is essential for the existence of a liquid market, and if noise traders are not present in the market, the trade volume will drop severely and an important aspect of the market philosophy will be lost. However, these noise traders bring noise to the market, and the existence of noise in prices indicates a temporary deviation in prices from their fundamental values. In particular, high-fre...

Price inflation in the U.S. has been slow to pick up last two decades. We show that this missing can be traced a growing disconnect between unemployment and core goods inflation. exploit rich industry-level data weakening pass-through from wages prices goods-producing sector is an important source of pickup. develop theory where markups depend on firms' market shares increased import competitio...

Abstract We study how management practices shape export performance using matched production-trade-management data for Chinese and American firms a randomized control trial in India. Better-managed are more likely to export, sell products destinations, earn higher revenues profits. They higher-quality at prices lower quality-adjusted prices. import wider range of inputs quality price, from adva...

BioC is a simple XML data format for text, annotations, and relations. PubAnnotation is a repository of text annotations focused on the life science literature. A conversion tool between BioC XML and the JSON import / export format of PubAnnotation has been developed, BioCconvert. As a demonstration, the Ab3P gold standard abbreviation annotations are being made available through PubAnnotation....

macroeconomic policies lead to changes in farming system. these changes are accompanied by some most prominent factors that affect soil erosion. change in relative prices and its impact on soil erosion, via induced changes in crop patterns and agricultural practices, are related to policies implemented. one of the major goals of the present study is to emphasize on the flow of trade policies in...