A study of the automatic discrimination of emotion in three different time windows of speech is presented. A large corpus of acted emotional speech in Finnish was collected in five emotional states: neutral, sadness, joy, anger and tenderness. Automatic emotion discrimination tests were performed in speaker-independent scenarios using kNN classifiers with sequential forwards-backwards floating ...

Automatic speech recognition can fail to a certain extent when confronted with emotionally distorted speech. Great efforts have been spent so far to cope with noise conditions or speaker’s characteristics. Yet, adaptation to the emotional condition of the speaker could help to further improve the overall performance. In this respect we aim at a robust and reliable recognition of the speaker’s e...

In order to analyse the large numbers of Seyfert galaxy spectra available at present, we are testing new techniques to derive their physical parameters fastly and accurately. We present an experiment on such a new technique to segregate old and young stellar populations in galactic spectra using machine learning methods. We used an ensemble of classifiers, each classifier in the ensemble specia...

Firm Recruitment Behaviour: Sequential or Non-Sequential Search? In the extensive job search literature, studies assume either sequential or non-sequential search. Which assumption is more reasonable? This paper introduces a novel method to test the hypothesis that firms search sequentially based on the relationship between the number of (rejected) job applicants and the number of employees hir...

Background and Aims: Chemotherapy is utilized as a part of combined-modality programs to achieve organ preservation and improve survival in patients with locally advanced head and neck cancer. Combinedmodality protocols can be used in three forms: a) neoadjuvant induction chemotherapy before definitive surgery or radiotherapy; b) concomitant chemoradiotherapy; and c) sequential therapy consisti...

Wind power prediction (WPP) of wind farm clusters is important to the safe operation and economic dispatch system, but it faces two challenges: (1) The dimensions input parameters for WPP are very high so that contain irrelevant or redundant features; (2) difficult build a holistic model with high-dimensional clusters. To overcome these challenges, novel short-term clusters, based on sequential...

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We report a general approach for three-dimensional (3D) multifunctional electronics based on the layer-by-layer assembly of nanowire (NW) building blocks. Using germanium/silicon (Ge/Si) core/shell NWs as a representative example, ten vertically stacked layers of multi-NW field-effect transistors (FETs) were fabricated. Transport measurements demonstrate that the Ge/Si NW FETs have reproducible...

This paper aims to achieve vibration suppression for multi-component floating structures under ocean waves. To this end, a multiple-passive-TMD (tuned mass damper) structure is employed, and numerical model developed incorporating both the dynamics of hinged foundation passive TMDs. A data-driven parameter optimization method search optimal TMD parameters. built upon Bayesian Ascent (BA) – an a...