Automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology has matured over the past few decades and has made significant impacts in a variety of fields, from assistive technologies to commercial products. However, ASR system development is a resource intensive activity and requires language resources in the form of text annotated audio recordings and pronunciation dictionaries. Unfortunately, many language...

This essay presents a posthumanist reading of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, two plays which feature scientist/magus who attempts to control his environment through personal agency. After detailing the analogy between agency posthuman figures workings computerized writing machines, as Katherine Hayles has proposed, my shows how Kott’s writing, especially notion “Grand M...

The treatment of COPD follows a stepwise approach in practically all clinical practice guidelines and also current strategy documents [1]. Lung function impairment or low forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1), once considered the single most important treatment parameter, now represents one of the target parameters for risk reduction in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD...

The article discusses the use of original compositional methods in first movement Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata W. O. 47 No. 2 F minor “Kurfürsten”, adopted to innovate sonata on a structural level, but also offer it greater variety characters. alternation slow sections with fast ones within movement, opening work introduction, repeated recapitulation, which was used by composer at age 13...