A series of novel capabilities have been designed to extend the repertoire of Ville, a virtual language teacher for Swedish, created at the Centre for Speech technology at KTH. These capabilities were tested by twenty-seven language students at KTH. This paper reports on qualitative surveys and quantitative performance from these sessions which suggest some general lessons for automated languag...

The sharp lower bound of the kth largest positive eigenvalue of a tree T with n vertices, and the sharp lower bound of the positive eigenvalues of such a tree Tare worked out in this study. A conjecture on the sharp bound of the kth eigenvalue of such a T is proved.

B. Liu has recently obtained the maximum value for the kth upper multiexponents of primitive, nearly reducible matrices of order n with 1 ≤ k ≤ n. In this paper primitive, nearly reducible matrices whose kth upper multiexponents attain the maximum value are completely characterized.

Johan Tegin and Jan Wikander Mechatronics Laboratory Machine Design KTH, Stockholm, Sweden Email: johant, [email protected] Staffan Ekvall and Danica Kragic Computational Vision and Active Perception Laboratory KTH, Stockholm, Sweden Email: ekvall, [email protected] Boyko Iliev Biologically Inspired Systems Laboratory Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden Email: boyko....

An Extended Kth-Best Approach For ReferentialUncooperative Bilevel Multi-Follower Decision Making Guangquan Zhang , Chenggen Shi & Jie Lu To cite this article: Guangquan Zhang , Chenggen Shi & Jie Lu (2008) An Extended Kth-Best Approach For Referential-Uncooperative Bilevel Multi-Follower Decision Making, International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, 1:3, 205-214, DOI: 10.1080/18...

Background and aims: Visit quality is a crucial component of patient-physician interaction that its inadequacy can negatively influence the diagnosis and treatment efficiency. The waiting time and visit length are important determinants of quality in the outpatient care setting. Thus, the aim of this study was to determine waiting time and visit length and to compare them befor...