There is an increasing amount of research focussing on the transition to adulthood, a stage of the life cycle where young people face demanding life decisions, including completion of education, finding stable employment, and establishing their household and family. Whereas there is a well-developed literature on poverty among households in general, very little research has focused on poverty a...

Abstract The growing concern about scarcity and large-scale applications of lithium resources has attracted efforts to realize cost-effective phosphate-based cathode materials for next-generation Na-ion batteries (NIBs). In previous work, a series (such as Na 4 Fe 3 (PO ) 2 (P O 7 ), VCr(PO , VMn(PO MnTi(PO MnZr(PO etc) with ∼120 mAh g −1 specific capacity high operating potential been proposed...

Midto high-rise buildings are often braced by slender reinforced concrete (RC) walls, which are coupled by RC floor diaphragms. In design it is typically assumed that the walls act independently and the design base shear demand is computed neglecting any compatibility forces between the walls. Pushover analysis of systems comprising walls of different lengths have, however, shown that large com...

The phase vocoder is a standard frequency domain time-scaling technique suitable for polyphonic audio, but it generates annoying artifacts called phasiness, or loss of presence, and transient smearing, especially for high values of the time-scale parameter. In this paper, a new time-scaling algorithm for polyphonic audio signals is described. It uses a multi-scale Gabor analysis for lowfrequenc...

Ontologies are built to provide semantics to real world terms. This obviously creates multiple representation of the same term by different societies. Such diversified views necessitate the need for some kind of mediator, which facilitates sharing of knowledge that can be used for effective communication of the meaning. Ontology Mapper is a MAS that provides mapping service to department agents...

We explore the interplay between architectures and algorithm design in the context of shared-memory platforms and a specific graph problem of central importance in scientific and high-performance computing, distance-1 graph coloring. We introduce two different kinds of multithreaded heuristic algorithms for the stated, NP-hard, problem. The first algorithm relies on speculation and iteration, a...

In this paper we describe an enhanced shift-reduce parsing method which differs from the traditional transition-based model in two ways: first, we maintain multiple transition paths after each transition step, in order to alleviate the serious risk of going astray for the only-one-path transition; second, we adopt the online training algorithm rather than the classical training-after-extraction...