Variational KL (varKL) divergence minimization was previously applied to restructuring acoustic models (AMs) using Gaussian mixture models by reducing their size while preserving their accuracy. In this paper, we derive a related varKL for exponential family mixture models (EMMs) and test its accuracy using the weighted local maximum likelihood agglomerative clustering technique. Minimizing var...

C.D. FROGGATT ∗, L.V. LAPERASHVILI †, H.B. NIELSEN ‡ and Y. TAKANISHI § ∗ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Glasgow University, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland E-mail: [email protected] † ITEP, 25 B. Cheremushkinskaya Str., 117218 Moscow, Russia E-mail: [email protected] ‡ The Niels Bohr Institute, Blegdamsvej 17, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark E-mail: [email protected] § The Abdus Salam I...

background: smoking is a well‑known public health problem in women as well as men. in many countries including iran, there is an increase in tobacco use among women. exploring the experience of smoking by educated women in order to develop effective tobacco prevention programs in these women is necessary. this study aimed to explore the experiences of smoking among iranian educated women. metho...