A design pattern describes a solution to a recurring problem in a systematic and general way, and design patterns are an accepted means of representing a communication experience in software design. Up until now, however, only single patterns have been used in case tools; there has been no support for combining patterns. This article will show how patterns can be combined in Rational Rose to de...

Acoustic characteristics of speech signals differ with gender due to physiological differences of the glottis and the vocal tract. Previous research [1] showed that adding the voice-source related measuresH∗ 1 −H∗ 2 andH∗ 1 −A3 improved gender classification accuracy compared to using only the fundamental frequency (F0) and formant frequencies. H∗ i refers to the i–th source spectral harmonic m...

BACKGROUND While keyword based queries of databases such as Pubmed are frequently of great utility, the ability to use regular expressions in place of a keyword can often improve the results output by such databases. Regular expressions can allow for the identification of element types that cannot be readily specified by a single keyword and can allow for different words with similar character ...

American football is played primarily as a sequence of two types of plays – runs and passes, determined before the play by the team that has the possession of the ball. All other plays are much less frequent, and considered “special plays”. In this study we show that the type of play can be predicted using pattern recognition methods with accuracy higher than random chance based on several indi...

small area estimation is a technique used to estimate parameters of subpopulations with small sample sizes.  small area estimation is needed  in obtaining information on a small area, such as sub-district or village.  generally, in some cases, small area estimation uses parametric modeling.  but in fact, a lot of models have no linear relationship between the small area average and the covariat...

1 The concept of Pattern Mining has obtained significant focus in Telecommunications Network Management System (NMS). A big volume of literature has been dedicated to this field and valuable progress was also observed. Both sequential and structured pattern mining techniques were observed to be considered in NMS. In particular NMS logs (Performance and Alarm) pose several interesting issues for...