27 Social pollinators such as honey bees face attacks from predators not only at the nest, but also during 28 foraging. Pollinating honey bees can therefore release alarm pheromones that deter conspecifics from visiting 29 dangerous inflorescences. However, the effect of alarm pheromone and its chemical components upon bee 30 avoidance of dangerous food sources remains unclear. We tested the re...

‎We firstly prove the completeness of the category of crossed modules in a modified category of interest‎. ‎Afterwards‎, ‎we define pullback crossed modules and pullback cat objects that are both obtained by pullback diagrams with extra structures on certain arrows‎. ‎These constructions unify many corresponding results for the cases of groups‎, ‎commutative algebras and can also be adapted to ...

The productivity of chemical plants and petroleum refineries depends on the performance of alarm systems. Alarm history collected from distributed control systems (DCS) provides useful information about past plant alarm system performance. However, the discovery of patterns and relationships from such data can be very difficult and costly. Due to various factors such as a high volume of alarm d...

In this study, we transform the verification scores of a speaker recognition system in order to standardize the imposter score distribution, this facilitates setting of a speaker-independent threshold at desired False Alarm (FA) rates. Impostor score distributions are estimated using GMMs, and a univariate Gaussianization [1] transform (which is a monotonically increasing mapping) is applied on...