We describe an automated method to assess the expressiveness of children’s oral reading by measuring how well its prosodic contours correlate in pitch, intensity, pauses, and word reading times with adult narrations of the same sentences. We evaluate the method directly against a common rubric used to assess fluency by hand. We also compare it against manual and automated baselines by its abili...

The development of an Automated System for Asthma Monitoring (ADAM) is described. This consists of a consumer electronics mobile platform running a custom application. The application acquires an audio signal from an external user-worn microphone connected to the device analog-to-digital converter (microphone input). This signal is processed to determine the presence or absence of cough sounds....

Methods TNPB, Ped-ANAM, quality of life (PedsQL), and depression scales (CDI-S) were administered by psychology associates blinded to clinical status at two research visits. Differences in mean TNPB standardized scores, PedANAM throughput scores (raw Throughput=correct responses/minute), and clinical variables between visits were compared using paired Student t-tests. Multi-variable linear regr...

Probabilistic AI planning methods that minimize expected execution cost have a neutral attitude towards risk. We demonstrate how one can transform planning problems for risk-sensitive agents into equivalent ones for risk-neutral agents provided that exponential utility functions are used. The transformed planning problems can then be solved with these existing AI planning methods. To demonstrat...

Standards Section Ho-Won Jung,* Robin Hunter, Dennis R. Goldenson and Khaled El-Emam 1 Department of Business Administration, Korea University, Anam-dong 5Ka, Sungbuk-gu, Seoul 136-701, Korea 2 Department of Computer Science, University of Strathclyde, Richmond Street, Glasgow G1 1XH, UK 3 Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, USA 4 National Rese...

Performance assessment is receiving consideration as an alternative to traditional standardized testing in many educational settings. In any performance assessment, there exists a tradeoff between the flexibility of the evaluation rubric and the reliability of the resulting scores. When the evaluation rubric for a set of performances captured on video can be completely specified, the most relia...

The challenging task of creating an accurate and up-to-date map of the fast changing world can be easily solved by means of crowdsourcing. OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a good example of this approach. However, the quantification of quality and suitability of OSM for certain applications is necessary as this database is primarily constructed by amateurs. Researchers have proposed several parameters to...

The automated collection of data (e.g., through sensor networks) has led to a massive increase in the quantity of environmental and other data available. The sheer quantity of data and growing need for real-time ingestion of sensor data (e.g., alerts and forecasts from physical models) means that automated Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) is necessary to ensure that the data collected ...

tire manufacturing industry has a history of more than half a century in iran, where 14 thousand workers are employed. the old and semi-automated processes equipment, backward technology, and raw materials impurity lead to significant exposures to occupational carcinogens such as benzene. this study was to assessment of benzene exposures and evaluation the resulting cancer risk in two tire-manu...

After PQ data of interest are obtained, a comprehensive PQ assessment can be carried out depending on the purpose of the study. This may include power system and equipment modeling verification, PQ problem mitigation and optimization, and data analysis [4,5]. In most cases, automated PQ assessment is desirable because manual analysis may be difficult to carry out due to lack of time and special...