In children with cleft lip and palate speech disorders appear often. One major disorder amongst them is hypernasality. This is the first study which shows that it is possible to automatically detect hypernasality in connected speech without any invasive means. Therefore, we investigated MFCCs and pronunciation features. The pronunciation features are computed from phoneme confusion probabilitie...

Özet. Yazılımın kullanıcı ile olan iletişimini sağlayan kullanıcı arayüzlerini tasarlamak ve programlamak, gereksinim mühendisinin ve programcının ürün üretme sürecinde, uğraş harcadıkları önemli adımlardır. Gereksinim mühendisi, bu adımları kendi adına kolaylaştırmak için çeşitli tasarım araçları kullanmayı tercih eder. Bu tasarım araçlarını kullanarak, ekranları müşteri ile görüşmeler yaparke...

In the face of uprisings and revolutions happening in several countries within short period of time (Arab Spring 2011), the need for fast network assessments is compelling. In this article we present a rapid network assessment approach which uses a vast amount of pre-indexed news data to provide up-to-date overview and orientation in emerging and ongoing incidents. We describe the fully automat...

Stereolithography (SL) technology is the mostly widely used Rapid Prototyping (RP) process in which complex structures are fabricated in a layer-bylayer fashion. Currently Microstereolithography (MSL) is undergoing fast development. In this paper, the development of MSL and its application in micromanufacturing are reviewed. One promising direction for the development of MSL is the assembly-fre...

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(ISO-NE) for providing review comments on a draft of this report. We also thank the utility program managers who were willing to be interviewed and who provided valuable information on the RTP tariffs included in this study. The authors are solely responsible for any errors or omissions contained in this report.

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In tensor products of a left-right symmetric CFT, one can define permutation orientifolds by combining orientation reversal with involutive permutation symmetries. We construct the corresponding crosscap states in general rational CFTs and their orbifolds, and study in detail those in products of affine U(1)2 models or N = 2 minimal models. The results are used to construct permutation orientif...

Since the late eighties generative manufacturing methods have been established as manufacturing systems for the product development in various sectors of industries. After only used for the production of demonstration models (Rapid Prototyping) is the rapid tooling and manufacturing now able to service a steady increasing range of applications. In order to achieve this status the range of usabl...