Sex allocation theory predicts that facultative maternal investment in the rare sex should be favoured by natural selection when breeders experience predictable variation in adult sex ratios (ASRs). We found significant spatial and predictable interannual changes in local ASRs within a natural population of the common lizard where the mean ASR is female-biased, thus validating the key assumptio...

A survey of major systems for the automated assessment of free text answers is presented. This includes the Project Essay Grade (PEG), Intelligent Essay Assessor (IEA) which employs Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA), and Electronic Essay Rater (e-rater). All these systems have the same weakness in that they are unable to perform any assessment of text content. The word order is not taken into acco...

The first automated assessment of student programs was reported more than 60 years ago, but this topic remains relevant and highly topical among computer science researchers teachers. In the last decade, several factors have contributed to popularity approach, such as development massive online courses, where large numbers students can hardly be assessed manually, COVID-19 pandemic with a stron...

Context: Lung cancer (LC) is one of the common diseases in pulmonary system, which defined as uncontrolled growth cells lung tissue. Objectives: The present investigation was conducted with aim prevalence LC Iran by meta-analysis method. Methods: In this study, articles that were to determine age-standardized incidence rates (ASRs) field included study. inclusion criteria determining number ASR...

In this work, an attempt is made to design ASR systems through software/computer programs which would perform Speaker Identification, Spoken word recognition and combination of both speaker identification and Spoken word recognition in general noisy environment. Automatic Speech Recognition system is designed for Limited vocabulary of Telugu language words/control commands. The experiments are ...

The Center for Integrated Acoustic Information Research (CIAIR) at Nagoya University has been collecting speech corpora in moving cars which are made available as resources to advance the research and development of robust ASRs and spoken dialogue systems under high-noise conditions. The speech corpus consists of (1) phonetically balanced sentences, (2) digit strings, (3) discrete words and (4)...