The paper explores the interaction between sentence boundaries marked by annotators in transcriptions of Russian spontaneous speech and actual prosodic boundaries in the signal. The aim of the research is to investigate whether annotators’ prosodic competence allows them to correctly detect sentence boundaries in speech based on textual information only. We found that inter-annotator agreement ...

This paper discusses the use of Linear Mixed Models (LMM) and Generalized Linear Mixed Models (GLMM) to predict the wear and damage trajectories of railway wheelsets for a fleet of modern multiple unit trains. The wear trajectory is described by the evolution of the wheel flange thickness, the flange height and the tread diameter; whereas the damage trajectory is assessed through the probabilit...

Since the 1970s, researchers in psycholinguistics and the cognitive sciences have been aware of the language-as-fixedeffect fallacy, or the importance in statistical analyses to not only average across participants (F1) but also across items (F2). Originally, the language-as-fixed-effect fallacy was countered by proposing a combined measure (minF’) calculated by participant (F1) and item (F2) a...

Electrodermal activity (EDA) delineates positive and negative emotions, especially in the lower arousal range, which reflects small variations. This study derived formulas to extract features from the EDA graph and found they are effective to predict search satisfaction and explain mobile shopping behaviors including add to cart, purchase, and abandonment (added to cart without purchase). The b...

This paper develops an approach to minimize the number of process tooling adjustments and deliver an acceptable fraction of non-conforming products based on given product quality specification limits in assembly processes. A linear model is developed to describe the relationships between product quality and process tooling locating positions. Based on the model, the process mean shifts of tooli...

This study is aimed at uncovering a way that participants in conversation predict end-of-utterance for spontaneous Japanese speech. In spontaneous everyday conversation, the participants must predict the ends of utterances of a speaker to perform smooth turn-taking without too much gap. We consider that they utilize not only syntactic factors but also prosodic factors for the end-of-utterance p...

This paper mainly illustrates how to use PROC MIXED to fit linear mixed models in clinical trials. We first introduce the statistical background of linear mixed models. We explore the situations under which the mixed effects are identified. A randomized complete block design is used to explain the difference between PROC GLM and PROC MIXED in dealing with the linear mixed models. Examples inclu...

The aim of this paper is to derive local influence curvatures under various perturbation schemes for elliptical linear models with longitudinal structure. The elliptical class provides a useful generalization of the normal model since it covers both lightand heavy-tailed distributions for the errors, such as Student-t, power exponential, contaminated normal, among others. It is well known that ...

much research hasn’t been done in the area of project selection in the public sector. in this paper, we tried to choose projects in the public sector, and a linear programming model is presented. in an effort to build the model, the decision criteria were identified using the delphi method and then the criteria were reviewed at conceptual combining. the model was constructed in a linear, goal a...