Substantial research effort has been invested in recent decades into the computational study and automatic processing of multi-party conversation. While most aspects of conversational speech have benefited from a wide availability of analytic, computationally tractable techniques, only qualitative assessments are available for characterizing multi-party turn-taking. The current paper attempts t...

From novice to expert, almost every musician must recognize musical intervals, the perceived pitch difference between two notes, but there have not been many empirical attempts to discover an optimal teaching technique. The current study created a method for teaching identification of consonant and dissonant tone pairs. At posttest, participants increased their ability to discern tritones from ...

This study examines reluctance to respond to the Current Population Survey (CPS). The CPS is administered to a household for four consecutive months, followed by a break of eight months, and then administered for another four consecutive months. These eight interviews (panels) form the basis of this analysis. The respondents concerns and contact issues during the first panel were summarized usi...

Amongst applications of high temperature superconductors, fault current limiters are foreseen as one of the most promising in power systems. Several topologies have been developed in the last years, taking advantage of different superconductors’ properties. Increasing distributed generation (DG) penetration, based on renewable energy, adds new short-circuit sources to electrical grids, which br...

The debt crisis, and the IMF-sponsored stabilization programs enacted in response to it, have resulted in an excessive degree of ansterity for several of the debtor countries. The current creditor strategy, it is argued, is not sustainable over the long term unless the debtor countries are allowed to grow. The author advocates a more generous treatment of debt servicing requirements, in the for...