Introduction: To investigate the effects of predictable and unpredictable external perturbations on cortical activity in healthy young and older adults. Methods: Twenty healthy older and 19 healthy young adults were exposed to predictable and unpredictable external perturbations, and their cortical activity upon postural recovery was measured using a 32-channel quantitative encephalography. Th...

One of primary reasons for the establishment of the ARM Southern Great Plains research site was to obtain long-term records of surface radiation data and the impact of clouds on these data (Stokes and Schwartz 1994). This research project focuses on the creation of a two-year climatology of the surface radiation budget and the impact of clouds on that budget. The period of analysis extends from...

Family businesses are an important factor for technological progress and high economic efficiency, determining a significant part of economic strength. At present, inside the European Monetary Union (EMU), there are efforts to reduce public debt to fulfill the criteria imposed by the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP), which are mandatory for members of the Euro zone. Due to these constraints, pub...

This paper present a study of the relationship between subglottal pressure (SGP) and intensity of the speech signal in the case of sustained French oral vowels with controlled pitch. The corpus is based on a male and a female subjects, the SGP is measured directly by tracheal puncture. The results show that the relationship between intensity and subglottal pressure varies when one considers the...

This paper introduces a new algorithm to detect aerosols and clouds based on micropulse lidar measurements. A semidiscretization processing technique is first used to inhibit the impact of increasing noise with distance. The value distribution equalization method which reduces the magnitude of signal variations with distance is then introduced. Combined with empirical threshold values, we deter...

In the present study, remote sensing of soil moisture is carried out using the Passive and Active Land S-band airborne sensor (PALS). The data in this paper were taken from 5 days of overflights near Chickasha, Oklahoma during the 1999 Southern Great Plains (SGP) experiment. Presently, we analyze the collected data to understand the relationships between the observed signals (radiometer brightn...

This paper presents all the aspects expected for the MediaEval Workshop. The tested and adopted solutions are well described and the interest of using a set of features versus another one is discussed. The conclusion follows state-ofthe-art findings and allows bringing new inputs in the understanding of emotion prediction.

Stein's method is used to prove approximations in total variation to the distributions of integer valued random variables by (possibly signed) compound Poisson measures. For sums of independent random variables, the results obtained are very explicit, and improve upon earlier work of Kruopis (1983) and Cekanavicius (1997); coupling methods are used to derive concrete expressions for the error b...