4.8%, respectively, which indicate only a minor difference from zero. For those participants who have received prior psychoor pharmaco-therapy, the average effect size was even lower, at 3.3 and 1.9%. Overall, the effect of the testimonials for both groups combined was 5.3%, which is neither clinically significant nor statistically significant (p = 0.179). Therefore, the conclusion from the stu...

Although the 10-item Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10) is a popular measure, a review of the literature reveals 3 significant gaps: (a) There is some debate as to whether a 1- or a 2-factor model best describes the relationships among the PSS-10 items, (b) little information is available on the performance of the items on the scale, and (c) it is unclear whether PSS-10 scores are subject to gende...

Recent studies of distributional semantic models have set up a competition between word embeddings obtained from predictive neural networks and word vectors obtained from count-based models. This paper is an attempt to reveal the underlying contribution of additional training data and post-processing steps on each type of model in word similarity and relatedness inference tasks. We do so by des...

PURPOSE Dance may improve functional mobility in individuals with mild-to-moderate Parkinson disease (PD), yet dance effects in severe PD remain unexamined. This study's purpose was to evaluate the feasibility and effects of partnered tango classes on balance, endurance and quality of life in an individual with severe PD. DESIGN Over 10 weeks, the participant attended 20, 1-h tango classes fo...

We propose a new cascaded regressor for eye center detection. Previous methods start from a face or an eye detector and use either advanced features or powerful regressors for eye center localization, but not both. Instead, we detect the eyes more accurately using an existing facial feature alignment method. We improve the robustness of localization by using both advanced features and powerful ...

Intelligibility of speech in adverse near-end noise conditions can be enhanced with post-processing. Recently, a postprocessing method based on statistical mapping of the spectral tilt of normal speech to that of Lombard speech was proposed. However, previous intelligibility improvement studies utilizing Lombard speech have mainly gathered data from read sentences which might result in a less p...

Full recovery of argument structure information for question answering or information extraction requires that parsers can analyse long-distance dependencies. Previous work on statistical dependency parsing has used post-processing or additional training data to tackle this complex problem. We evaluate an alternative approach to recovering long-distance dependencies. This approach uses a two-le...

In this paper we present preliminary results obtained at Dragon Systems on the Resource Maaaagernent benchmark task. The basic conceptual units of our system are Phonemes-m-Context (PICs), which are represented a s Hidden Mmkov Models, each of which is eapressed as a sequence of Phonetic Elements (PELs). The PELs corresponding to a given phoneme constitute a kind of alphabet for the representat...

In this paper we introduce a definition of post-Turing ICT with an initial analysis of its sustainability. At the beginning of the history of computing the attention was concentrated on the single machine: a device able to read and write a memory and able to execute different actions depending on the internal state. It was only in the 1960's that the fifth function (after input, memory, process...

objective: different educational tools are now commonly used in universities worldwide such as illustrations, audio and videotapes, etc. this study aimed to compare the efficacy of educational film and clinical demonstration for instruction of fiber-reinforced composite (frc) post restorations to dental students in department of restorative dentistry.   methods: this interventional study was co...