It is well known that stress and Lombard effect impact speech production. The goal in this study is to investigate how Lombard effect impacts perceptual speaker recognition. We report results from In-Set/Out-of-Set speaker identification (ID) tasks performed by human subjects with a comparison to automatic algorithms. The main trends show that mismatch in reference and test data causes a signif...

Introduction The dissolution test as defined in the United States Pharmacopoeia (1) is used in judging the quality of pharmaceutical products. Dissolution testing is a method for evaluating physiological availability that depends upon having the drug in a dissolved state. The USP Dissolution testing involves three stages and the acceptance criteria are defined for each stage as a function of a ...

We are developing an acceptance measurement system to evaluate the matching of the emittance of an injection beam to the acceptance of the AVF cyclotron. The system is composed of a phase-space collimator in the low energy section and beam intensity monitors which are installed just after the phase space collimator and in the high energy section. The phase-space collimator, which consists of tw...

Introduction Acceptance and commitment therapy tries to increase one's psychological acceptance regarding subjective experiences (thoughts, feelings, etc.,) and in turn, decrease ineffective control actions. Aim The current study was conducted with the aim to investigate the effect of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) on the amount of life expectancy and anxiety among bereaved patients....

Introduction: Irritable bowel syndrome is the most common, costly, and disabling dysfunction of the gastrointestinal tract. Mental disorders can be one of the main factors in the onset, continuation, or exacerbation of gastrointestinal signs and symptoms in people with this syndrome. Commitment and acceptance therapy is a mixture of four approaches of awareness, acceptance, commitment, and beha...

The European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods (ECVAM) was established by the European Commission in 1991, to co-ordinate the validation of alternative methods at the European Union level, to establish a database on alternative methods, and to promote dialogue among all the interested parties, in order to secure the international recognition and acceptance of validated alternativ...

Acceptance Testing is a fundamental part of XP. It provides the customer-developer “handshake” required for a project to succeed. One logical place to do this testing is at the GUI level. However, to do so requires a GUI testing tool. This paper will discuss the lessons we learned developing and using such a tool over the course of several projects. We believe that these lessons are generally a...

Various business considerations have led a growing number of organizations to rely on external vendors to develop software for their needs. Much of the day-to-day data from vendors are not available to the vendee, and typically the vendee organization ends up with its own system or acceptance test to validate the software. The 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney was one such project in which IBM eva...