If individuals will cooperate with cooperators, and punish non-cooperators even at a cost to themselves, then this strong reciprocity could minimize the cheating that undermines cooperation. Based upon numerous economic experiments, some have proposed that human cooperation is explained by strong reciprocity and norm enforcement. Second-party punishment is when you punish someone who defected o...

Quality control is an important issue in the ceramic tile industry. On the other hand maintaining the rate of production with respect to time is also a major issue in ceramic tile manufacturing. Again, price of ceramic tiles also depends on purity of texture, accuracy of color, shape etc. Considering this criteria, an automated defect detection and classification technique has been proposed in ...

The optical properties, including UV-vis spectra and resonance Raman profiles, of pristine and defected single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) are computed using state-of-the-art time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) as implemented using the Liouville-Lanczos approach to linear-response TDDFT. The CNT defects were of the form of Stone-Wales and diatom-vacancies. Our results are in v...

In this paper, we adapt the TF-IDF model to the Japanese grapheme-phoneme alignment task, by way of a simple statistical model and an incremental learning method. In the incremental learning method, grapheme-phoneme alignment paradigms are disambiguated one at a t ime according to the relative plausibility of the highest scoring alignment schema, and the statistical model is re-trained accordin...

This paper reports results in building an Egyptian Arabic speech recognition system as an example for under-resourced languages. We investigated different approaches to build the system using 10 hours for training the acoustic model, and results for both grapheme system and phoneme system using MADA. The phoneme-based system shows better results than the grapheme-based system. In this paper, we...

Hidden Markov models (HMMs) have proven useful in various aspects of speech technology from automatic speech recognition through speech synthesis, speech segmentation and grapheme-to-phoneme conversion to part-of-speech tagging. Traditionally, context is modelled at the hidden states in the form of context-dependent models. This paper constitutes an extension to this approach; the underlying co...