Current state of the art speech recognition systems use very little structural linguistic information while doing word recognition. Some systems attempt to apply syntactic and semantic analysis to speech, but this is typically done in a pipelined approach, where there is thresholding done in between each stage. It would be advantageous to make use of information about higher level linguistic st...

This paper described a prediction system called BSES (Boss Scenario Evaluation System), which can evaluate control scenarios in real time, predicting their effects in terms of various measures of effectiveness. The system is case-based, i.e. it uses either synthetic or real-life examples of the effect of control scenarios under different circumstances. It determines the similarity of the curren...

A 47-year-old African American woman was evaluated for a prolonged prothrombin time (PT) result obtained before she underwent right total hip arthroplasty. The patient had no history of gastrointestinal or intracranial bleeding, epistaxis, or hemarthrosis. However, she reported a tendency toward easy limb bruising and menorrhagia, which required iron supplementation. She had a negative family h...

In this work, two known probability distributions based on the replacement model, namely, the Maxwell-Boltzmann and Bose-Einstein ones, are examined. Each of these distributions is assigned to a specific case of query processing, which is known in the literature as batching on primary key values or secondary key retrieval, respectively. These distributions are applied in evaluating the expected...

This paper focuses on the Firm Real-Time requirements of Time-Critical Wide Area Measurement and Control systems, that are expected to play a major role in future Smart Grids. It analyses the operation of these systems and identifies their communication traffic characteristics. It shows that these characteristics are significantly different to those of the current Near Real-Time Wide Area Measu...

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This paper presents a speed comparison between the use of Digimarc Barcodes and the Universal Product Code (UPC) for customer checkout at point of sale (POS). The recently introduced Digimarc Barcode promises to increase the speed of scanning packaged goods at POS. When this increase is exploited by workforce optimization systems, the retail industry could potentially save billions of dollars. ...

As control systems become more distributed and they are implemented with smaller hardware and software components, implementing the necessary communication links becomes challenging. There are considerable technical difficulties in guaranteeing upper bounds for latencies in motion or machine control, synchronizing the execution and communication of distributed components, taking corrective acti...

The evaluation of response time of a constant temperature thermoresistive sensor based feedback circuit, excited by a pulsewidth modulated (PWM) waveform is done by a way of simulation studies in PSPICE environment and compared with that of a circuit excited by an analog voltage (continuous time domain). For a thermoresistive sensor with an intrinsic time constant much larger than the period of...