From October 2013, European Union member states are obliged to adopt the new European rules allowing patients to search for health care abroad at the costs of the national authorities. The so-called cross-border care Directive (2011/24/EU) facilitates therefore patient mobility in the European Union (1). But only in case a certain treatment option is not (timely) available, or not equally effec...

Short duration tasks for text-independent speaker verification have received relatively little attention when compared to that directed at tasks involving many minutes of speech. In this paper we investigate verification performance on a range of durations from a few seconds to a few minutes. We begin with a state-of-the-art GMM-based system operating on a few minutes of speech per person and s...

1 Introduction Phonological representations are typically thought of as abstract: for example, phonemes are argued to be comprised of abstract subphonemic units of some sort, whether distinctive features (e.g., Chomsky & Halle 1968), articulatory gestures (e.g., Browman & Goldstein 1989), or acoustic-phonetic dimensions (e.g., Pierre-humbert 2000). There is direct evidence that people are sensi...

Uninorms as binary operations on the unit interval have been widely applied in the fuzzy set theory. This paper presents some 7 properties of uninorm-like operations for which the underlying operations are given by ordinal sums. If the underlying operations of a uninorm are given by ordinal sums, then the Cartesian product of the union of two arbitrary intervals (one in [0, e] and the other in ...

The citation impact of Environment and Planning B can be visualized using its citation relations with journals in its environment as the links of a network. The size of the nodes is varied in correspondence to the relative citation impact in this environment. Additionally, one can correct for the effect of within-journal “self”-citations. The network can be partitioned and clustered using algor...

MOTIVATION To understand the behaviour of complex biological regulatory networks, a proper integration of molecular data into a full-fledge formal dynamical model is ultimately required. As most available data on regulatory interactions are qualitative, logical modelling offers an interesting framework to delineate the main dynamical properties of the underlying networks. RESULTS Transposing ...

Using bit-parallelism has resulted in fast and practical algorithms for approximate string matching under the Levenshtein edit distance, which permits a single edit operation to insert, delete or substitute a character. Depending on the parameters of the search, currently the fastest non-filtering algorithms in practice are the O(kn!m/w") algorithm of Wu & Manber, the O(!km/w"n) algorithm of Ba...

Many of the highest performance approaches for electronic paper use voltage to reveal or hide dark pigments or dyes over a white pixel surface, and the reflectance of white pixels is lower than in real paper because the dark pigments or dyes can never be fully removed from the visible pixel area. Here, we introduce a re-designed approach for electronic paper that transposes coloured ink in fron...

This paper presents a reappraisal of how conventional lectures could meet the expectations of ‘digital native’ students. Our approach is to consider how digital media could be integrated further into the lecture by transposing knowledge through artistic as well as pedagogical means to form a ‘performance lecture’. We began by developing a design and evaluation framework to foster new creative t...

Two divided visual field lexical decision experiments were conducted to examine the role of the cerebral hemispheres in transposed-letter similarity effects. In Experiment 1, we created two types of nonwords: nonadjacent transposed-letter nonwords (TRADEGIA; the base word was TRAGEDIA, the Spanish for TRAGEDY) and two-letter different nonwords (orthographic controls: TRATEPIA). In Experiment 2,...