Given the importance of syllables in the development of reading, spelling, and phonological awareness, information is needed about how children syllabify spoken words. To what extent is syllabification affected by knowledge of spelling, to what extent by phonology, and which phonological factors are influential? In Experiment 1, six- and seven-year-old children did not show effects of spelling ...

We present a novel dataset captured from a VW station wagon for use in mobile robotics and autonomous driving research. In total, we recorded 6 hours of traffic scenarios at 10-100 Hz using a variety of sensor modalities such as highresolution color and grayscale stereo cameras, a Velodyne 3D laser scanner and a high-precision GPS/IMU inertial navigation system. The scenarios are diverse, captu...

This paper describes a robust method for recognizing vehicle classes. In our previous work, we have developed a vehicle recognition system based on local-feature configuration, which is a generalization of the eigen-window method. This system could recognize one vehicle class very accurately, but there have been limitations in recognizing several classes, when they are quite similar to each oth...

In recent years, it has been postulated that cigarette smoking can aggravate noise-induced hearing loss. In this study, we aimed to assess the effect of concurrent exposure to cigarette smoke and occupational noise on binaural hearing impairment (BHI). In an analytic study on the workers of a large wagon manufacturing company in 2007, 622 male workers (252 smokers and 370 non-smokers, matched f...

Advances in modern machine learning techniques has encouraged interest in the development of vehicle health monitoring (VHM) systems. These techniques are useful for the reduction of maintenance and inspection requirements of railway systems. The performance of rail vehicles running on a track is limited by the lateral instability and track irregularities of a railway wagon. In this study, a fo...

This paper describes a computer aided approach to the study of the longitudinal dynamics of a braked train. The numerical simulation of the phenomena takes into account the delay between the braking action of the cars and the fact that the values of the braking force of each wagon is reached gradually, in certain time after the braking command. The values of the time interval elapsed between th...

During an excavation of a Bronze Age, Füzesabony-culture cemetery at Encs (north-eastern Hungary), clay wagon model with spoked wheels (grave 1290) and three miniature solid were found 1389). Miniature wheel models in burials began to appear the Late Copper Age lasted until Iron Central Europe. Their presence allows several interpretations. These grave 1290 provide early evidence about appearan...