Soundstair is an experiment integrating people's movement patterns and electronically-generated sound. A photo-cell system is installed at the edge of each step on the stair. These are then individually wired to an electronic trip-switch system which is coupled to a set of synthesizers. The synthesizers are then tuned to an ascending musical scale and coordinated with the ascending movement pat...

Bootstrap and restructuring (BSRS) has been shown in our previous work to be superior over the conventional acoustic modeling approach when dealing with low-resourced languages. This paper presents a full covariance based BSRS scheme, which is an extension of our previous work on diagonal covariance based BSRS acoustic modeling. Since full covariance provides richer structural information of ac...

Social networks are widely accepted application of Semantic Web technologies and are also interesting for general public. Nowadays there is a lack of quality user-friendly browser which could express meaning of the metadata stored in the most of FOAF profiles and present this knowledge in human-understandable form. The aim of the article is to inform about development of the AFE (Advanced FOAF ...

The measurement of living standards is widely recognized to be a multivariate challenge. In this paper, problems with the use of typical univariate indicators are outlined, and a novel approach is suggested which relies on Kohonen maps. The stability and accuracy of the map are evaluated via a bootstrap methodology. This paper presents an application of the technique of Kohonen maps in the cont...

The paper considers statistical tests for determining if the heterogeneity distribution of the treatment group in a randomized experiment changes during the experimental period. Solving the problem is of practical interest since heterogeneity changes may indicate serious selection problems in the randomized experiment. To make the tests easily implementable in practice, we discuss estimating cr...

Many entrepreneurs have used a variety of bootstrap financing methods to satisfy their ventures’ resource needs. These techniques, which may be a combination of social or economic transactions, have included purchasing used rather than new equipment, getting the “best” possible terms from suppliers, forgoing salary withdrawals from the business, bartering for goods and services, and sharing equ...

The bootstrap technology introduced by [1] has wide applications, particularly, in regression analysis. It has been used by researchers to construct empirical distributions for estimates of the regression coefficients. In case of outliers in the data, the classical bootstrap procedure fails to give us fine results even if robust regression estimates are used. In this paper we introduced a new b...

In this paper we examine long-run house price convergence across US states using a novel econometric approach advocated by Pesaran (2007) and Pesaran et al. (2009). Our empirical modelling exercise employs a probabilistic test statistic for convergence based on the percentage of unit root rejections among all state house price differentials. Using a sieve bootstrap procedure, we construct confi...

In 2012, 41 touchscreen tablets were given to children in two villages in rural Ethiopia. These villages had no schools, and the children had no access to literacy. Nicknamed the ‘literacy tablet’, this technology was intended as an educational delivery mechanism to bootstrap reading. The tablet was designed to help remotely located rural children teach themselves to read. Throughout the year-l...

Kangal and Akbash dogs are the two well-known shepherd dog breeds in Turkey. In order to contribute to the understanding of the genetic relationship between Kangal dogs, Akbash dogs and the dogs from different regions of Eurasia, 585 base pair (bp) segment of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region was sequenced from Kangals and Akbashes. Sequences of the Kangal and Akbash dogs examined in the...