The paper presents an exploratory DRT-based account of the adversative connector doch. It is assumed that doch is weakly ambiguous between various relations of contrast, and an underspecified meaning is defined in the framework of UDRT Reyle et al. (2005). It is shown how in concrete discourse, a particular reading is selected from the underspecified meaning representation, depending on the inf...

Rigid transformations are involved in a wide variety of image processing applications, including image registration. In this context, we recently proposed to deal with the associated optimization problem from a purely discrete point of view, using the notion of discrete rigid transformation (DRT) graph. In particular, a local search scheme within the DRT graph to compute a locally optimal solut...

This controlled study compared immediate effects of two relaxation techniques on state anxiety and sustained attention in healthy subjects. 86 volunteers (56 men and 30 women) were divided into two groups: the first 43 volunteers (age range 18 to 64) practiced 20 minutes of yoga-based Deep Relaxation Technique (DRT), while the second group of 43 volunteers (same age range), practiced 20 minutes...

The goal of this paper is to locate and understand the fine fundamental problems that exist in the representation of speech sounds by a very high quality speech analysis/synthesis engine namely STRAIGHT. The approach followed here is the evaluation of this system using subjective measures. We use the diagnostic rhyme test (DRT) to evaluate the intelligibility of speech analysed and synthesised ...

Sociodemographic correlates of engagement in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) care are well studied, however the association with accessing drug resistance testing (DRT) and the development of drug resistance have not been characterized. Between 1996-2014, 11 801 HIV patients accessing therapy in British Columbia were observed longitudinally. A subset of 9456 patients had testable viral load;...

The semantic treatment of anaphora using λ-DRT with Glue which I present combines the strengths of both by assigning to each the task where it arguably fares best: Glue composes meanings and DRT deals with anaphoric resolution. Key to this approach is a simple first-order system for λ-DRT that allows LFG syntactic constraints to be transferred into the dynamic representation language. This para...

Purpose Climate-related disasters are the most representative in terms of recurrence and impacts. To reduce them, risk transfer is a key strategy for climate management. However, this approach does not consider socioeconomic vulnerability each population group, limiting its effectiveness. The objective paper to improve increase usefulness through Differential Risk Transfer (DRT) approach. Desig...

Abstract This paper analyzes in a large-scale field experiment (N = 1425) whether gift vouchers stimulate the use of demand responsive transportation (DRT) system. scenario is compared to situation where customers receive environmental certificates, which report saved carbon dioxide as consequence bus ride. In our two treatments, and certificates could be gained by reaching certain threshold ri...

BACKGROUND Besides fluctuations, therapy refractory tremor is one of the main indications of deep brain stimulation (DBS) in patients with idiopathic Parkinson syndrome (IPS). Although thalamic DBS (ventral intermediate nucleus [Vim] of thalamus) has been shown to reduce tremor in 85-95% of patients, bradykinesia and rigidity often are not well controlled. The dentato-rubro-thalamic tract (DRT)...