In the automotive environment, intuitive in-car speech interfaces are crucial in order to reduce driver distraction. The design of an intuitive speech interface poses a great challenge to the speech recognition and natural language understanding component of a speech dialog system since human language allows speakers to create an infinite number of sentences. In this paper, a linguistic grammar...

Identity-based encryption (IBE) has been regarded as an attractive alternative to more conventional certificate-based public key systems. It has recently attracted not only considerable research from the academic community, but also interest from the industry and standardization bodies. However, while key revocation is a fundamental requirement to any public key systems, not much work has been ...

Newsletter 60 2 Newsletter 60 3 The Palaeontological Association 49th Annual Meeting 18th–21st December 2005 University Museum of Natural History and Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford The programme and abstracts for the 49th Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association are outlined after the following summary of the meeting. Confirmation of registration Confirmation of re...

In this paper I explore the prospects of applying inference to the Best Explanation (TIBE – sometimes also known as ‘abduction’) to an account of the way we decide whether to accept the word of others (sometimes known as ‘aliens’). IBE is a general account of nondemonstrative or inductive inference, but it has been applied in a particular way to the management of testimony. The governing idea o...

China's economic and social development has entered into a stage of steady growth, structural adjustment and innovation-driven leading. In the "new normal economy ", the business model of China's online travel booking is facing the new overturning and challenges, which is unable to ensure the sustainable development of the companies without innovation. Based on creating customer theory and comb...

OBJECTIVE To assess random venous blood glucose (RBG) measurement at antenatal booking to detect "overt diabetes in pregnancy" (ODIP). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A retrospective analysis of regional hospital obstetric data from 2004-2008 was performed. Universal RBG screening was included at booking. Oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) was administered if RBG >7.0 mmol/L or other indications,...

BACKGROUND Anemia in pregnancy is one of the public health problems in the developed and developing world. If uncontrolled it is a major indirect cause of maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. This is worst in settings with poor prenatal practices. Quality prenatal interventions therefore are expected to prevent or ameliorate this disorder in pregnancy. Nigerian scientific literatures...