Logical metonymies (begin the book→ reading) involve the understanding of covert events. Lexicalist approaches claim that the metonymy arises from a type clash (event-selecting verb + entity-denoting object), and place (limited) covert event information in the noun’s lexical entry. Recent work suggests that people exploit generalized knowledge about typical events and their participants (quanti...

The wheat kernels were processed by moistened in water. The spontaneous and water-induced luminescence data (photon counts) were noted with an ultra-weak luminescence (UWL) detector. The following was the features of the data analyzed by the statistical parameters of the spontaneous luminescence and the fitting curves of the water-induced luminescence. The results show that the UWL intensity ri...

Building effective learning environments is an art that can only be perfected by a great deal of explorations involving the environments’ audience: the learners. This paper focuses on taking into account the learners’ spatial ability into the development of Intelligent Tutoring Systems. We modified ERM-Tutor, a constraint-based tutor that teaches logical database design, to provide not only tex...

Sometimes, power system events have shown the need for generators to operate in the overexcited region to support stable operation. Operation up to, and transiently beyond, the overexcited limits from the capability curve is sometimes required. The two main issues in the paper are the generator capability in this region and the design of OEL (OverExcitation Limiters) in the excitation system th...

The neutrino signal from SN1987A is analysed with respect to spin-flavour oscillations between electron antineutrinos, ν̄e, and muon neutrinos, νμ, by means of a maximum likelihood analysis. Following Jegerlehner et al. best fit values for the total energy released in neutrinos, Et, and the temperature of the electron antineutrino, Tν̄e , for a range of mixing parameters and progenitor models are...

Skewness is often present in a wide range of applied problems. One possible approach to model this skewness is based on the class of skew normal distributions. Fitting such distributions remains an inference challenge in various cases. In this paper, we propose and study novel estimators using weighted moments for the closed multivariate skew-normal distribution.

Based on combined 3-year data, the IceCube collaboration has reported recently the discovery of a diffuse background of high energy (HE) astrophysical neutrinos with energy above 60 TeV that extends at least up to 3 PeV, in excess (5.7σ significance level) of that produced by cosmic ray (CR) interactions in the atmosphere. The neutrino events did not point back to any identified sources and are...

1 Phase-Type Distributions 2 1.1 Continuous Phase-Type Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.2 Discrete Phase-Type Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.3 Closure Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.4 Further Closure Properties for Continuous Distributions . . . . . . . . . ....

Learning-based Text To Speech systems have the potential to generalize from one speaker to the next and thus require a relatively short sample of any new voice. However, this promise is currently largely unrealized. We present a method that is designed to capture a new speaker from a short untranscribed audio sample. This is done by employing an additional network that given an audio sample, pl...