Automatic speech processing has recently turned to the treatment of continuous spontaneous speech, which demands, among many other issues, a representation of its prosodic organization. This paper presents a new approach to automatic prosodic boundary detection and prosodic unit structuring, based, with certain changes, on a descriptive theory of the French prosodic system initially proposed fo...

A Filter method is introduced in this paper for efficient speckle suppression and detection of calculi in sonographic images of the kidney.Wavelets are developed in applied mathematics for the analysis of multiscale image structures. The aim of this project is to analysesand to provide most significant content descriptive parameters to identify and classify the kidney stones with ultrasound sca...

We study how subjects extrapolate simple patterns in financial time series in order to develop a descriptive model of actual agent behavior. The laboratory experiment for this analysis was conducted in Germany and Japan. Statistical analyses indicate considerable similarity in expectations formation across cultures and document that agents’ expectations are at variance with the notion of standa...

In this paper, we present a two-stage approach to generating descriptive phrases from the output of a statistical topic model, such as LDA [4]. First, we propose a Bayesian method for selecting statistically significant phrases from a corpus of documents, using inferred parameter values from LDA. Second, the selected phrases are combined with the topic assignments to make a list of candidate ph...

this study aimed at the frequency and type of using cell-phone by high school students. the research method used was a descriptive-survey one. the statistical society included all the high school students in mazandran in 2010-11 academic year. the sample was chosen through multi-stage stratified random sampling method and 383 subjects were selected based on kerjecie and morgan's table. a r...

this research aimed at evaluating the students’ information literacy and its relation with their tendency to e-learning. the research method was descriptive (correlation) from the point of view of gathering data, and an applied one from the point of view of objective (goal). the statistical population included all 9335 humanity major students of islamic azad university of tehran central branch....

This paper presents a step-by-step approach in statistical and genetic analysis applied in diallel mating design using Griffing’s experimental Method II, Model II. A two-step approach is developed and implemented in order to assist the researchers in statistical and genetic analysis of diallel crossing using Griffing’s experimental Method II, Model II. The approach is exemplified on the corolla...