Providers are incorporating novel techniques to cope with prospective aspects of trading like resource allocation over future demands and its pricing elasticity that was not foreseen before. To leverage the pricing elasticity of upcoming demand and supply, we employ financial option theory (future contracts) as a mechanism to alleviate the risk in resource allocation over future demands. This s...

The aim of this study is to select and formulate criteria for the assessment of tools and exercises that are using computer-assisted pronunciation training (CAPT). We examined ten different CAPT tools selected on the basis of an informal questionnaire among 10 colleagues working in a German-French CAPT project. Although the applied assessment must still be regarded as informal, and although the...

Today’s children are using computer based application in various activities especially in learning and education. Many of these tools and application such as the Computer Aided Pronunciation Training (CAPT) system allow children to enjoy the learning process with little supervision. For these applications to have a maximum effect on children’s learning and education, it must be attractive to th...

Previous studies showed that nonsense mutations in either of two genes (capR or capS) or an undefined mutation in a third gene (capT) led to pleiotropic effects: (i) increased capsular polysaccharide synthesis (mucoid phenotype); (ii) increased synthesis of enzymes specified by at least four spatially separated operons involved in synthesis of capsular polysaccharide including the product of th...

Sir,?Capt. R. Kennedy's interesting article on Ambulance Transport in very difficult mountainous country lias suggested to me to make known through your columns a method for removing casualties in hilly country from the firing line. This was shewn to me by Capt. L). J Shuttleworth, who told me it has been in use in his regiment, the 3rd Gurkhas, for some years. The photograph I send illustrates...

Recent research has shown that a properly designed ASRbased CALL system (Dutch-CAPT) was capable of detecting pronunciation errors and of providing comprehensible feedback on pronunciation. Since pronunciation is not the only skill required for speaking a second language, we explored the possibility of extending the Dutch-CAPT approach to other aspects of speaking proficiency like morphology an...

Computer-assisted pronunciation tutoring (CAPT) methods have been well-established in research and education. Common system approaches include the phonetic quality assessment, highlight problematic sections in the speech signal and usually rely on automatic speech recognition (ASR) regarding the target language L2. The contribution deals with the audiovisual CAPT system AzAR. An extensive feedb...