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Reports of Other Diving and Hyperbaric Meetings

If we are using the Duocom, we initially compress to 18 msw with the intention of treating using a RN Table 62 profile of pressure and time. We have the option of going to 50 msw in deteriorating cases. On arrival in Townsville, the diver is transferred, under pressure, to the main chamber in the Hyperbaric Medicine Unit of the Townsville General Hospital (Figure 3), where the treatment profile...

Modeling other talkers for improved dialog act recognition in meetings

Automatic dialog act (DA) modeling has been shown to benefit meeting understanding, but current approaches to DA recognition tend to suffer from a common problem: they underrepresent behaviors found at turn edges, during which the “floor” is negotiated among meeting participants. We propose a new approach that takes into account speech from other talkers, relying only on speech/non-speech infor...

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Meetings with Lambert W and Other Special Functions in Optimization and Analysis

We remedy the under-appreciated role of the Lambert W function in convex analysis and optimization. We first discuss the role of little-known special functions in optimization and then illustrate the relevance of W in a series problem posed by Donald Knuth. We then provide a basic overview of the convex analysis of W and go on to explore its role in duality theory where it appears quite natural...