This paper describes a corpus of conversations recorded using an extension of the DiapixUK task: the Diapix Foreign Language corpus (DIAPIX-FL) . English and Spanish native talkers were recorded speaking both English and Spanish. The bidirectionality of the corpus makes it possible to separate language (English or Spanish) from speaking in a first language (L1) or second language (L2). An acous...

Tables show the results of the classifiers for the SFM and the FFDM datasets using a 10-fold crossvalidation and the complete dataset, with 20 features selected by the inter/intra cluster criteria and with 20 features of the PCA. Noelia Vállez1,2, Gloria Bueno1, Oscar Déniz-Suárez1, José A. Seoane2, Julián Dorado2, and Alejandro Pazos2 1 VISILAB, E.T.S.I.I, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Sp...

The paper presents the problem of choosing the representatives in an assembly when the whole electoral region is subdivided into electoral districts. Because of the two dimensions, geographical (districts) and political (parties), the problem is called bi-apportionment. Often the allocation of seats to districts is pre-determined and furthermore distorted —meaning that the ratios of the number ...

written for a particular gain. Then KGH = −1 so that a) when the amplitude of KGH is 1 or 0 dB and b) phase is 180o then we have the system just become unstable. Both the conditions have to be fulfilled. Hence, if we ask the question: How far is the system from instability ? We get two answers. The gain increment required at the frequency where phase is 180o and the phase increment required at ...

There is a strong correlation between relative mammographic breast density and the risk of developing breast cancer. As such, accurately modelling the percentage of a mammogram that is dense is a pivotal step in density based risk classification. In this work, a novel method based on manifold learning is used to segment high-risk mammograms into density regions. As such, finer details are prese...

Mass abnormality segmentation is a vital step for the medical diagnostic process and is attracting more and more the interest of many research groups. Currently, most of the works achieved in this area have used the Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) as texture features with a region-based approach. These features come in previous phase for segmentation stage or are using as inputs to class...

Elliptic curves find numerous applications. This paper describes a simple strategy to speed up their arithmetic in right-to-left methods. In certain settings, this leads to a non-negligible performance increase compared to the left-to-right counterparts.

The capability of the dimensions measurement by ten appraisers of ten samples for Charpy Vnotch pendulum impact test was evaluated by Youden plot, analysis of measurement uncertainties, Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA), %P/T, Z-score, Mandel’s statistics and ttest. The group of “better” appraisers given by Youden plot was validated by majority of other methods.

In response to my analysis of the Wellstone tragedy (READER WEEKLY, 28 November 2002, pp. 18-19) and related discussion of this event, I have received quite a few emails, many of which have taken strong exception to the very idea that George W. Bush could ever have been involved in something of this kind. My suggestion that Republicans may have been motivated to take Wellstone out, alas, is not...