We show that the mechanism of quantum freeze of fidelity decay for perturbations with a zero time average, recently discovered for a specific case of integrable dynamics [New J. Phys. 5, 109 (2003)], can be generalized to arbitrary quantum dynamics. We work out explicitly the case of a chaotic classical counterpart, for which we find semiclassical expressions for the value and the range of the ...

Dichotic listening experiments show a right-ear advantage (REA), reflecting a left-hemisphere (LH) dominance. However, we found a decrease in REA when the initial stop consonants of two simultaneous French CVC words differed in voicing rather than place of articulation (Experiment 1). This result suggests that the right hemisphere (RH) is more involved in voicing than in place processing. The v...

Inter-consonantal cohesion in French word-initial CC clusters is investigated in light of recent proposals of gestural coordination. Specifically, the timing of lip and tongue movements of C1/l/ and C1/n/ productions, with C1 being one of the consonants /p, f, k/, of two speakers were studied using electromagnetic articulography (EMA). In French, C/l/ clusters occur frequently in word-initial p...

In this paper, a comparison between Cosine Similarity and k-Nearest Neighbors algorithm in Latent Semantic Analysis method to score Arabic essays automatically is presented. It also improves Latent Semantic Analysis by processing the entered text, unifying the form of letters, deleting the formatting, replacing synonyms, stemming and deleting "Stop Words". The results showed that the use of Cos...

We examine the dynamics of VOT in Polish stops under lexical stress and focus. We elicit real Polish words containing voiced and voiceless stop+/a/ syllables in primary, secondary and unstressed, as well as focus positions. We also correlate VOT with speech rate estimated on the basis of equisyllabic word length. Our results show that the relationships between prosody and VOT are consistent wit...

I was 16 when I first started coughing. It was in the middle of school exams. After months of coughing non-stop, I had a chest x ray and it was confirmed. “You have TB,” my general practitioner said. These three words changed my life. I didn’t know anything about this disease. I was about to start university. Everything changed. From a young person filled with hope I became an anxious patient. ...

In the multimodal search component, the LM-JM model (λ = 0.7) is used for ASR/OCR for the frequent-words in the event-kit description. BM25 is used for ASR [8] and OCR features for the event name query (1-3 words), where k1 = 1.2 and b = 0.75. Both the frequent-words query and the event name query are automatically generated without manual inspection. While parsing the frequent words in the eve...