This investigation focuses on the development of intonation patterns in four Catalan-speaking children and two Spanish-speaking children between 0 ; 11 and 2 ; 4. Pitch contours were prosodically analyzed within the Autosegmental Metrical framework in all meaningful utterances, for a total of 6558 utterances. The pragmatic meaning and communicative function were also assessed. Three main conclu...

In this lecture we discussed the classic architecture question of reduced instruction set computers (RISC) versus complex instruction set computers (CISC). Generally speaking, CISC refers to an instruction set architecture (ISA) in which there are many instructions, typically including both powerful and specialpurpose operations. In contrast, a RISC ISA is focused on a comparatively compact and...

Statistics deals with data. Generally speaking, the goal of statistics is to make inferences based on data. We can divide this the process into three phases: collecting data, describing data and analyzing data. This fits into the paradigm of the scientific method. We make hypotheses about what’s true, collect data in experiments, describe the results, and then infer from the results the strengt...

Standards are, generally speaking, a sensible way of simplifying a number of issues; this is also true for ICT professional competences, the standardization of which could bring huge benefits to all stakeholders, including education & training providers, employers, candidates and agencies for employment, freelance professionals, ICT associations, governmental and statistical institutions, and f...

Due to the large strain capability, electroactive polymers (EAPs) are promising materials for several engineering applications, for example: they can be used as actuators and sensors in cameras, pumps, valves, etc. Generally speaking, the mode of action in EAPs is based on Coulomb forces generated by electric field that causes the polymer membrane to contract in the thickness direction. In this...

It is a consequence of the theorem of Stallings on groups with many ends that splittings over finite groups are preserved by quasi-isometries. In this paper we use asymptotic topology to show that group splittings are preserved by quasi-isometries in many cases. Roughly speaking we show that splittings are preserved under quasi-isometries when the vertex groups are fundamental groups of aspheri...

Standards are, generally speaking, a sensible way of simplifying a number of issues; this is also true for ICT professional competences, the standardization of which could bring huge benefits to all stakeholders, including education & training providers, employers, candidates and agencies for employment, freelance professionals, ICT associations, governmental and statistical institutions, and f...

It has often been said that "To have wisdom means to have more questions than answers." When simply applied to the field of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFIDS/ME), there are certainly many more questions than answers generally speaking. However, for the National CFIDS Foundation (NCF) to run out of questions would imply that we have given up on learning about this disease and that definitely would...

Speaking generally, the treatment of fractures in country districts is very unsatisfactory in South India. Out of 165 fractures of the metacarpals and phalanges seen from 1930-37, 85 per cent were treated as sprains and contusions in mofussil hospitals and by bone-setters. The result of such treatment was very marked I functional disability. Any injury which occurs ! at the metacarpophalangeal ...

Gesture and speech are two very important behaviors for virtual humans. They are not isolated from each other but generally employed simultaneously in the service of the same intention. An underlying PaT-Net parallel finite-state machine may be used to coordinate them both. Gesture selection is not arbitrary. Typical movements correlated with specific textual elements are used to select and pro...