Autonomous synthetic actors performing in live stage performances must be capable of generating speech with characteristics appropriate to each moment in the performance. This paper describes a statistical technique used to classify lines of dialogue given a token set and prior knowledge base. The words in each line formed the basic tokens; results improved with each piece of additional informa...

The effects of metoclopramide on gastric emptying and gastric secretion have been assessed in man using the double sampling test meal. Metoclopramide increases the rate of emptying of the stomach. The magnitude of the effect is directly related to the initial emptying time. Metoclopramide has no effect on the acid response to a water test meal.

A fixture is designed and built to hold, support and locate every component to ensure that each is drilled or machined with accuracy and manufactured individually. A fixture can be designed for a particular job. A brake spider includes a spider body with a central opening and a slot for receiving a camshaft and bracket assembly. The brake spider is attached to axle housing via the central openi...

The assessment of biodurability of man-made vitreous fibers is essential to the limitation of health hazards associated with human exposure to environments in which respirable fibers are present. In vitro acellular systems provide effective test methods of measuring fiber solubility provided care is taken to select the most suitable solvent and test conditions for the specific fiber type and di...

Right ventricular outflow tract obstruction was suspected in a 32-year-old man with repaired tetralogy of Fallot and borderline indications for surgical. heart catheterisation dobutamine stress test useful assessing the dynamics severity right determining treatment strategy.

An Investigation of the Relationship Between the Bender-Gestalt, Draw-a-Man, and Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence by G. Edward Allen, Jr., Master of Science Utah State University, 1969 Major Professor: Glendon Casto Department: Psychology v This study investigated the relationship between the Bender-Gestalt, Draw-a-Man, and the Wexler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intellige...

The aim of this research is to evaluate the relationship between use of new communication technology (internet and satellite) and tendency toward social pathology(addiction).The results are based on survey methods and questionnaire techniques which asked amongst 400 people in a range 15-30 years old. In order to analyze the statistical data, Pearson's correlation test and Man-Whitney and struct...

thunderstorms are climatical phenomena, which sometimes can cause irreparable damage to the ecology. in this study to identify any trends in the frequency of days with thunderstorms in iran, long-term statistics of 33 synoptic stations, from the beginning until 2005 was used. at first by applying nonparametric man-kendall and sen’s estimator methods on four seasonal time series, and one annua...