The provided resources synergised with existing resources such as social capital and information demand, resulting in changes to resource allocation and social processes, such as economic resource reallocation, information sharing, personal agency, and social support. These changes impacted areas such as employment, education, transportation and domestic violence, leading to improved individual...

For use by school leaders in papers or presentations about important issues related to public education Key Message: A person's capacity to become a happy, healthy, contributing adult begins to take shape at the beginning of that person's life. It is our collective responsibility as a society to provide the environment and opportunities within which that development is most likely to take place...

“...where people do come with a sense that there’s going to be openness. That there’s going to be a great comfort with people standing up and challenging a particular perspective. That young people are welcome. That old codgers are welcome as well. This is sort of the idyllic way that science is supposed to happen. And Cold Spring Harbor [Laboratory] provides that opportunity.” —Francis Collins...

Session types provide static guarantees that concurrent programs respect communication protocols. We give a novel account of recursive session types in the context of GV, a small concurrent extension of the linear λ-calculus. We extend GV with recursive types and catamorphisms, following the initial algebra semantics of recursion, and show that doing so naturally gives rise to recursive session...

This paper describes an interactive presentation that introduces the Talking Heads website, which was originally proposed at the AVSP'97 meeting in Rhodes, Greece. Talking Heads is an effort to bring together information from a wide range of sources. The site provides interactive access to multimodal material in both its original form and as summarized by us. In addition, the authors have provi...

In this research, we model and analyze the vocal tract under normal and stressful talking conditions. This research answers the question of the degradation in the recognition performance of textdependent speaker identification under stressful talking conditions. This research can be used (for future research) to improve the recognition performance under stressful talking conditions.

Creative metaphor is a phenomenon that stretches and bends the conventions of semantic description, often to humorous and poetic extremes. The computational modeling of metaphor thus requires a knowledge representation that is just as stretchable and semantically accommodating. We present here a flexible knowledge representation for metaphor interpretation and generation, called Talking Points,...