There ' s something d i s turb ing in the mere suggest ion that soeial organizat ions in which golf is p a r amount should ever find themselves g r ipped in the tentacles of the law. Their very nature that of promot ing good f e l l owsh ip and brother ly l ove—wou ld seem suf f ic ient of itself to exempt them f rom embro i lment in things so mundane as common lawsuits in which they could he s...

Rela t ing the intonat ional characteristics of an u t ter ance to other features inferable f rom its text is impor t an t bo th for speech recognition and for speech synthesis. This work investigates techniques for predic t ing the locat ion of intonat ional phrase boundaries in na tu ra l speech, th rough analyzing a ut terances from the D A R P A Air Travel In format ion Service database. Fo...

This paper describes a new idea to project a str ipe pat tern onto a t ime-vary ing scene to f i nd moving objects and acquire scene features in the consecut i v e frames fo r est imat ing 3-D motion parameters. At f i r s t , a simple temporal d i f ference method detects objects moving against a complex background. A 2(1/2)D representat ion of moving objects at each frame is then obtained by ...

The aim of this paper is to clearly demonstrate the importance of finding a good balance between genetic search and local search in the implementation of hybrid evolutionary multi-criterion optimization (EMO) algorithms. We first modify the local search part of an existing multi-objective genetic local search (MOGLS) algorithm. In the modified MOGLS algorithm, the computation time spent by loca...

Typically, s ~ n a l l angle neut ron scat ter ing (SANS) d a t a is normalized t o a n absolut,e scale using secondary s tandards such a s water , polymers, silica gels, o r i rradiated aluminum. Er rors for this l r ~ e t h o d of calibration arise when t h e initial deterrllination or calculation of t h e standard 's scattering cross-section is n o longer valid due t o degrada t ion o r wave...

T h i s paper describes C A B O T , a case-based syst e m t h a t is able to ad jus t i ts re t r ieva l and adapt a t i o n met r ics , in a d d i t i o n to s to r ing cases. I t has been app l ied to the game of OTHELLO. Exper iments show t h a t C A B O T saves a b o u t ha l f as many cases as s imi la r systems t h a t do no t ad jus t the i r re t r ieva l and a d a p t a t i o n mechani...

EARLIER studies o f M o h a n and R a d h a (1977) have shown that the ra t io between b lood and bra in choline remains cons tant dur ing aging, however, the level o f acetylcholine (ACh) declines gradual ly wi th advance in age (Mohan , 1976). These results led us to investigate whether the reduced A C h levels in the aged bra in result f rom changes in the kinetic propert ies of the hydro ly...