Fluent merging is the process of combining two or more fluents (state variables) into a single “super” fluent. By compiling in some of the inter-fluent interactions, fluent merging can (1) help improve informedness of relaxed reachability heuristics, and (2) improve the efficiency of factored planning as it removes some of the intervariable dependencies. Although some special cases of fluent me...

The aim of this study is to determine whether fluent and non-fluent aphasics preserve the acoustic marks of lexical stress in a repetition task involving regular oxytone and paroxytone disyllabic Spanish words in isolation. Acoustic analyses of each syllable (duration, F0, intensity) were performed. These data were then subjected to mixed-effects regression analyses, separately for oxytones and...

Kohonen network was applied in the analysis of fluent and non-fluent utterances of any length. The input vector consisted of sound level values measured in dB(A) in 1/3-octave bands. Fragments of stuttering people’s and fluent speakers’ utterances were analysed. The optimum neural network was chosen of a 5×5 rectangle topology. Time arrangement of winner neurons in the network extracts single d...

The present work is carried out to investigate heat transfer and friction factor characteristics of fluid (air) flow through turbulent channel i.e. parallel plate heat exchanger for different geometry and designs parameters, with a bottom plate applied to uniform constant heat flux thermal boundary condition, and upper plate is provided with a insulated condition. The fluid domain is designed u...

Czech vowels in fluent speech and their parameters can be found by The Generation and Analysis of Vowel Polygons software. On the base of found vowels formant values, vowel polygons can be created and further analyzed as a unit in relevant formant planes. Phoneme recognition is based on pattern similarity using Mahalanobis distance and Feed-forward Neural Network, and it is expanded by time dur...

Background: Heat exchanger is a device in many industrial applications and energy conversion systems. Various heat exchangers are designed for different industrial processes and applications. Shell and tube heat exchanger (STHE) has its own importance in the process industries. Methods: Experimental and numerical simulations are carried for a single shell and multiple pass heat exchangers with ...

wind catchers have been served as a cooling system, used to provide acceptable ventilation by means of renewable energy of wind. In the present study, the city of Yazd in arid climate is selected as case study. From the architecture point of view, learning about wind catchers in this study is done by means of field surveys. Research method for selection of the case is based on random form, and ...

En este trabajo se presentan los resultados de la modificación en cámara estabilizadora del túnel viento Facultad Ciencias Ingeniería y Tecnología (FCITEC), utilizando un honeycomb cuyo objetivo fue reducir intensidad turbulencia zona pruebas. Se experimentales comparan con análisis CFD realizado el software ANSYS-Fluent. La permitió una reducción 2%

Durative forces are introduced to Finite State Temporality (the application of Finite State Methods to Temporal Semantics). Punctual and durative forces are shown to have natural representations as fluents which place certain constraints on strings. These forces are related to previous work on stative explanations of aspectual classification. Given this extended ontology, it is shown how type c...