Individuality is the state or quality of being an individual. We establish a computational methodology to determine whether a particular modality of data is sufficient to establish the individuality of every individual or even a demographic group. To test the individuality, generative models are given or learned to represent the distribution of certain characteristics such as birthday, human he...

A perceptual study has been performed to investigate relationship between acoustic parameters and the voice individuality making use of the pitch synchronous analysis-synthesis system Voice-individuality is involved in many acoustic parameters and the aim of this experiment is to examine how individual parameters affect the voice-individuality by separately giving them some distortions. Formant...

If no man is an island, if we are inherently social creatures, how should understand people’s claims to be valuable individuals, separate from their environment? Based on ethnographic research among self-employed Cuban market traders, this article analyses performances of imagined individuality people cultivate a notion themselves as ties. In Cuba, work in the growing private sector provides fo...

Variance components and individuality ratios for each of 25 chemical constituents of serum were estimated in a population of beagles. Ten blood samples were obtained from each of 14 beagles, seven of each sex, approximately weekly during three months. Glucose and phospholipid displayed marked inter-dog variation, as compared with intra-dog variation (individuality ratio less than 1). Triglyceri...

In text and speech, there are various features that express the individuality of the writer or speaker. In this paper, we take a step towards the creation of dialogue systems that consider this individuality by proposing a method for transforming individuality using a technique inspired by statistical machine translation (SMT). However, finding a parallel corpus with identical semantic content ...