Software measures are recommended for the effective management of software development projects. Innovation diffusion theory (IDT) provides perspective for understanding managers’ and software developers’ perceptions of the relative advantage, complexity, and compatibility of software measures. This paper describes the results of a survey in which software developers and managers identified a s...

Many studies have shown the advantage of using ideal binary masking (IdBM) to improve the intelligibility of speech corrupted by interfering maskers. Given the fact that amplitude and phase are two important acoustic cues for speech perception, the present work further investigated the relative contributions of these two cues to the intelligibility advantage of IdBM-processed sentences. Three t...

Dept. of Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Germany Dept. of Modern Languages and Cultures, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA c School of Foreign Languages, Dalian University of Technology, China Dept. of Communicative Disorders, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University Bloomington, USA f School of Mathematics and Statistics,...

Two-party one-way quantum communication has been extensively studied in the recent literature. We target the size of minimal information that is necessary for a feasible party to finish a given combinatorial task, such as distinction of instances, using one-way communication from another party. This type of complexity measure has been studied under various names: advice complexity, Kolmogorov c...

The mammalian diaphragm is composed of two separate muscles (costal and crural) connected by a central tendon that serves as a piston head for drawing air into the lungs. The two muscles are described as having different embryological origins, segmental innervations, and mechanical functions [De Troyer A, Sampson M, Sigrist S, and Macklem PT. Science 213: 237-238, 1981; De Troyer A, Sampson M, ...

This paper presents a new method of measuring performance when positives are rare and investigates whether Chomsky like grammar representations are useful for learning accurate comprehensible predic tors of members of biological sequence families The positive only learn ing framework of the Inductive Logic Programming ILP system CPro gol is used to generate a grammar for recognising a class of ...

Internet voting is an emerging e-government phenomenon. In the United States, several state and local governments have experimented with Internet voting. This study presents a model of Internet voting adoption that integrates diffusion of innovation theory, institution-based trust and e-government utilization. To test the model a survey is administered to 372 citizens. The results of structural...

Relative Advantage of Touch over Vision in the Exploration of Texture. (August 2008) Yoon H. Bai, B.S., Texas A&M University Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Yoonsuck Choe Texture segmentation is an effortless process in scene analysis, yet its mechanisms have not been sufficiently understood. Several theories and algorithms exist for texture discrimination based on vision. These models diverge...

BACKGROUND Mental health during pregnancy has not been investigated in Vietnam. Antenatal depression is an established risk factor for postpartum mood disturbance and two representative cohort studies have found rates of depression after childbirth in Vietnam two to three times higher than those in high income countries. AIM The aim of this exploratory study was to investigate the prevalence ...