The sliding stop method of fielding in cricket is gaining popularity in schools and club cricket through its frequent exposure on television. The case history is reported of a cricketer who suffered a torn medial meniscus in his knee, a rare cricketing injury, while performing this technique incorrectly in a club game. The correct method of performing the technique is described in coaching manu...

Time-Delay Neural Networks (TDNN) have been shown by Waibel et al. [1] to be a good method for the classification of dynamic speech sounds such as voiced stop consonants. In this paper we discuss key issues in the design and training of a TDNN, based on a Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP), when used for classification of the sets of voiced stop consonants (/b/, /d/, and /g/) and unvoiced stop conson...

We report on optical transmission studies of three-dimensionally ordered photonic crystals of close-packed spherical shells. These samples are fabricated using a double-template method, which allows for extensive control over shell thickness. The transmission spectra exhibit an optical stop band, whose spectral position and width depend on the thickness of the shell and on the overlap between a...

In this paper, a novel technique for the design of two-channel Quadrature Mirror Filter (QMF) banks with linear phase in frequency domain is presented. To satisfy the exact reconstruction condition of the filter bank, low-pass prototype filter response in pass-band, transition band and stop band is optimized using unconstrained indirect update optimization method. The objective function is form...

Traffic oscillation, stop and go traffic, is created by different reasons such as: sudden speed drop of leader vehicle. Stop and go traffic commonly is observed in congested freeways results in traffic oscillation. Many theories had been presented to define congestion traffic based on laws of physics such as: thermodynamics and fluid. But, these theories could not explain the complexity of driv...

Can’t Stop is a jeopardy stochastic game played on an octagonal game board with four six-sided dice. Optimal strategies have been computed for some simplified versions of Can’t Stop by employing retrograde analysis and value iteration combined with Newton’s method. These computations result in databases that map game positions to optimal moves. Solving the original game, however, is infeasible ...

This paper considers the determination of optimal retention in a stop-loss reinsurance. Assume that we only have incomplete information on a risk X for an insurer, we use an upper bound for the value at risk (VaR) of the total loss of an insurer after stop-loss reinsurance arrangement as a risk measure. The adopted method is a distribution-free approximation which allows to construct the extrem...

This paper proposes a method to acquire linguistic features from a corpus of short sentences by extracting analogous sentences like what ’s the next station ? : where ’s the bus station ? :: what is the next stop ? : where is the bus stop ? The procedures used to construct clusters of analogous sentences are presented. Experiments performed on roughly 40,000 short sentences from the tourism dom...