Small Developing States (SDS) face substantial challenges in achieving sustainable development. Many of these relate to the small size and limited diversification their economies. SDS are also among most vulnerable countries impact climate change natural disasters. Meeting development goals goes hand-in-hand with building resilience. But additional costs meet resilience objectives difficult fin...

Bacillus thuringiensis and recombinant Escherichia coli proteinaceous protoxins were subject to proteolysis and analyzed by capillary electrokinetic chromatography. Three resulting toxins (65 kDa) were baseline-resolved within 22 min using a 10 mM borate, pH 11 separation buffer consisting of 25 mM sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and 30 mM phytic acid. The toxins displayed differential interaction...

Developing a spoken dialog system is typically timeconsuming, and must often be accomplished using difficult-tolearn professional technologies. Most existing toolkits use statistical semantic parsers and model a dialogue interaction as a finite-state network. However, for developing flexible spoken Chinese dialogue systems, these toolkits have several problems. A new toolkit named the d-Ear SDS...

Recent spoken dialog systems are moving away from command and control towards a more intuitive and natural style of interaction. In order to choose an appropriate system design which allows the system to deal with naturally spoken user input, a definition of what exactly constitutes naturalness in user input is important. In this paper, we examine how different user groups naturally speak to an...

The structure of lysozyme-sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) complexes in solution is studied using small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). The SAXS data cannot be explained by the necklace and bead model for unfolded polypeptide chain interspersed with surfactant micelles. For the protein and surfactant concentrations used in the study, there is only marginal growth of SDS micelles as they complex with...

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Clarifications are often necessary for maintaining human-human as well as human-machine dialogue. However, clarification questions asked by Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDS) are very different from clarification questions asked in natural human interaction. While in human-human dialogues, speakers ask targeted questions using contextual information, SDS ask generic clarifications such as please rep...

In this paper we present a Spoken Dialog System (SDS) with a Microphone Array (MA). Our goal is to create a hands-free home automation system with a speech interface to control home devices. The MA interface enables to create ubiquitous speech acquisition for the SDS. The implemented system allows any user – in any position in a room – to establish a dialog with a virtual butler that is able to...

Words used by a human while framing a response during the interaction with a software agent like spoken dialogue system(SDS) has valuable information as regards internal mental state of the user is concerned. The users level of certainty about a response could be judged by the prosody information structure. Prosody reveals Information about the context by highlighting information structure and ...