T(s) = — — — , P i r e a l , i = 0 , 1 , 2 , . . . , n 1 s + p n , s n x +pn-2s n 2 + ... + p0 such that the impulse energy measures of T(s) are Y0, Yl5 Y2,..., Yn_i? If the answer is in the affirmative the paper proposes a method to determine p„-1} Pn-i-> •••> PoSeveral results relating to the computation and application of the impulse response, impulse energy measures and quadratic moments of...

Individuals frequently have to regulate their emotions, especially negative ones, to function successfully. However, deliberate emotion regulation can have signiWcant costs for the individual. Are there less costly ways to achieve emotion regulatory goals? In two studies, we test the hypothesis that more automatic types of emotion regulation might provide the beneWts of deliberate emotion regul...

This paper proposes a new tactile sensor capable of automatically adjusting the sensitivity of each sensor unit, depending upon the contact information. Suppose a strain gauge based tactile sensor composed of multiple sub-sensor units and a single AD-DA port. For such a sensor system, we introduce two key components; the Analyzer, how to determine the contact force quickly from each sub-sensor ...

Database schema matching is the process of establishing correspondences between attributes of schemas for data integration purpose. Though various commercial tools have been developed, their results are inherently uncertain. In practice, to obtain correct attribute correspondences, there is a need for collecting human input, after the use of automatic matching tools, to reconcile erroneous mapp...

Due to the increased melting season in the arctic regions, especially in the seas surrounding Greenland, there has been an increased interest in utilizing these water ways, both as a efficient transport route and an attractive leisure destination. However, with heavier traffic comes an increased risk of accidents. Due to the immense size and poor infrastructure of Greenland, it is not feasible ...

values and goals were explained as having been “associated at some time with the satisfaction of primary drives”. Bolles (1975) sums up current attitudes to Hull’s work in the following terms: "the great enthusiasm with which early researchers sought to connect motivated behavior with automatic, physiological adjustments and needs of the organism has been frustrated time and again". "The idea t...

In forensic applications of speaker recognition it is necessary to be able to specify a conndence level for a decision that two sets of recordings have been produced by the same speaker (or by diierent speakers). Forensic phoneticians are sometimes incriminated because they nd it impossible to provide 'hard' estimates of the conndence level of an expert opinion. In this paper it is investigated...

We present a framework to identify whether a public speaker’s body movements are meaningful or non-meaningful (“Mannerisms”) in the context of their speeches. In a dataset of 84 public speaking videos from 28 individuals, we extract 314 unique body movement patterns (e.g. pacing, gesturing, shifting body weights, etc.). Online workers and the speakers themselves annotated the meaningfulness of ...

In this paper a novel method for energy normalization is presented. The objective of this method is to remove unwanted energy variations caused by different microphone gains, various loudness levels across speakers, as well as changes of single speaker loudness level over time. The solution presented here is based on principles used in automatic gain control. The use of this method results in r...

The TREC Definition and Relationship questions are evaluated on the basis of information nuggets that may be contained in system responses. Human evaluators provide informal descriptions of each nugget, and judgements (assignments of nuggets to responses) for each response submitted by participants. While human evaluation is the most accurate way to compare systems, approximate automatic evalua...