Detection and attribution of human influence on sea level rise are important topics that have not yet been explored in depth. We question whether the sea level changes (SLC) over the past century were natural in origin. SLC exhibit power law long-term correlations. By estimating Hurst exponent through Detrended Fluctuation Analysis and by applying statistics of Lennartz and Bunde [2009], we sea...

A statistical downscaling approach is applied to the output of five different global climate model simulations driven by 21 century future scenarios of greenhouse gas concentrations. The contribution of sea-level pressure and precipitation changes to regional future winter sea-level changes is estimated for four Baltic sea-level stations by establishing statistical relationships between sea lev...

We present new sea-level reconstructions for the past 2100 y based on salt-marsh sedimentary sequences from the US Atlantic coast. The data from North Carolina reveal four phases of persistent sea-level change after correction for glacial isostatic adjustment. Sea level was stable from at least BC 100 until AD 950. Sea level then increased for 400 y at a rate of 0.6 mm/y, followed by a further ...

In this paper, we describe a rapid-prototyping approach to developing spoken language systems (SLSs). This new design methodology facilitates more usable and quickly implemented SLSs. Moreover, it allows SLS developers to address the delicate balance between designing dialogues that are sufficiently constraining to meet current speech recognition capabilities, yet feel natural and intuitive to ...

This session on corpora and evaluation was composed of two distinct parts. Before the break, four papers dealing with a range of important aspects of evaluation of written language systems and spoken language systems were presented. A printed version of each of these papers is included in the conference proceedings. After the break, a series of informal reports (not included as proceedings pape...

Stochastic Local Search (SLS) algorithms for Multiobjective Combinatorial Optimization Problems (MCOPs) typically involve the selection and parameterization of many algorithm components whose role with respect to their overall performance and relation to certain instance features is often not clear. This fact is becoming more problematic because of the recent trend in solving MCOPs that is givi...

The forming process parameters of Selective Laser Sintering(SLS) directly affect the forming efficiency and forming quality. Therefore, to determine reasonable process parameters is particularly important. In this paper, the weight of each target of the forming quality and efficiency is firstly calculated with the Analytic Hierarchy Process. And then the size of each target is measured by ortho...

[1] Prepared the CD-ROM versions of the Resource Management (PSI ) and Extended Resource Management (RM2) Corpora (a total of six discs) for use within the DARPA speech research community and for public distribution through the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). These discs include the scoring software and statistical significance tools for benchmark performance assessment tests.

abstract: identification of spatial-temporal anomalies sea level pressure in part of northern hemisphere was the main aim in this research. for this purpose six hourly data used from the to eastern longitude and to northern latitude. in this location, there are 825 pixels to geographical degree. therefore, database extent created. in this matrix, 825 are number of the pixels at that location an...