Spoken user interfaces are conventionally either dialogue based or menu-based. In this paper we propose a third approach, in which the task of invoking responses from the system is treated as one of retrieval from the set of all possible responses. Unlike conventional spoken user interfaces that return a unique response to the user, the proposed interface returns a shortlist of possible respons...

Venting devices are commonly used to try to reduce the damage caused by any dust explosion that may occur in silo systems. In North America and Europe the sizing of these vent areas is governed by standards NFPA 68 and EN 14491 respectively, both of which have recently come into force. The aim of the present work was to compare these standards in terms of the cost of protecting against dust exp...

For many years, the health care community has used a silo approach to oral health, with little exception, treating the oral cavity as the sole province of the dentist, with no interaction with the medical profession. However, as research shows links between periodontal disease and diabetes, stroke, heart disease, and peripheral arterial disease, it seems clear that the silo approach to oral hea...

The aim of this study was isolation and identification fungi producing aflatoxin B1 from wheat which stored for four months in some silos Baghdad , including Al Taji Silo, Khan Bani Saad Silo Dhari Silo. Those Silos were included the agricultural plan marketing season 2020. Different types obtained. They initially identified according to cultural morphological characteristics as Alternaria spp,...

I. Introduction Banking-style institutions have existed for over two thousand years and are even documented in the earliest civilizations. For example, in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, barley and grain were forms of currency and the grain silos and state warehouses acted as banks. 1 An ancient Babylonian clay tablet explains that city workers received wages denominated in liters of barley that...

Objective. To describe a profoundly immunocompromised (panleukopenia) child with septic shock who developed abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) and was successfully treated with surgical decompression. Design. Individual case report. Setting. Pediatric intensive care unit of a tertiary children's hospital. Patient. A 32-month-old male with Fanconi anemia who underwent bone marrow transplantati...

Ultimate bearing capacity calculation is one of the most important factor to design foundations in geotechnical engineering. In this paper, ultimate values were calculated with finite element and analytical methods compared. A case study Bozozuk (1972) article used for evaluations. On 30 September 1970, 600-ton weight concrete silo suddenly overturned failure. After failure, in-situ Vane shear ...

A two-dimensional silo pressure model-problem is investigated by molecular dynamics simulations. A plane silo container is filled by a granular matter consisting of congruent elliptic particles dropped one by one into the silo. A suitable energy absorbing contact force mechanism is activated during particle collisions and collisions against the walls. After a while the residual kinetic energy i...