The CV transition (or PIVOT) is an area at which the maximum of new spectral information coincides with rapidly rising intensity. These acoustic characteristics of PIVOTs are among the most salient events in speech [1,2]. It has been shown [3] that spectral changes whose response in the auditory nerve is predominantly an onset of firing (like in the CV transition) are much more perceptually sal...

The performance of a sparse direct solver is dependent upon the pivot sequence that is chosen during the analyse phase. In the case of symmetric indefinite systems, it may be necessary to modify this sequence during the factorization to ensure numerical stability. Delaying pivots can have serious consequences in terms of time as well as the memory and flops required for the factorization and su...

To rapidly feed industrial parts on an assembly line, Carlisle et. al. [7] proposed a flexible part feeding system that drops parts on a flat conveyor belt, determines position and orientation of each part with a vision system, and then moves them into a desired orientation. A robot arm with 4 degrees of freedom (DoF) is capable of moving parts through 6 DoF when equipped with a passive pivotin...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to compare the changes in trunk and shoulder angles, and reaction forces under the two hands elicited by different hand base of support positions during sitting pivot transfer. [Subjects and Methods] Eighteen unimpaired subjects performed independent sitting pivot transfer. Subjects performed sitting pivot transfer between an initial seat to a target seat...

To analyzing the data efficiently in Data mining systems are widely using datasets with columns in horizontal tabular layout. Generally preparing a data set is the more complex task in a data mining project, require many complex SQL queries, aggregating columns and joining tables. Conventional RDBMS usually manage tables with vertical form. Aggregated columns in a horizontal tabular layout retu...

The Physics Interactive Video Tutor (PIVoT) is a Web-based multimedia resource for college-level Newtonian mechanics. The Personal Tutor (PT) is an intelligent tutoring system (ITS) integrated into PIVoT, assisting students and teachers in navigating through, understanding, and assessing PIVoT's educational media. PT is adaptive in that it personalizes its functionality to the preferences of it...

We present our work on leveraging multilingual parallel corpora of small sizes for Statistical Machine Translation between Japanese and Hindi using multiple pivot languages. In our setting, the source and target part of the corpus remains the same, but we show that using several different pivot to extract phrase pairs from these source and target parts lead to large BLEU improvements. We focus ...

UNLABELLED A better understanding of overall survival among patients with clinically localized prostate cancer (PCa) in the US Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is critical to inform PCa treatment decisions, especially in light of data from the Prostate Intervention Versus Observation Trial (PIVOT). We sought to describe patterns of survival for all patients with clinically localized PCa tre...