Spoken Language Recognition (SLR) technology has remarkably improved in the last years, partly thanks to NIST Language Recognition Evaluations (LRE), which have become standard benchmarks for testing new approaches. NIST evaluations focus on narrow-band conversational telephone speech and deal with some specific target languages. Recent efforts to expand the scope of SLR technology assessment i...

S models of reasoning (SLR) proved to be very successful in predicting behavior in the beauty contest game. Recently, a quantified version of the model was suggested as a more general model of thinking. In particular, it was found that the distribution of choices could be represented by a Poisson distribution. I test the model in stylized firstand second-price common-value sealed-bid auctions. ...

Context There is extensive interest in global software development (GSD) which has led to a large number of papers reporting on GSD. A number of systematic literature reviews (SLRs) have attempted to aggregate information from individual studies. Objective: We wish to investigate GSD SLR research with a focus on discovering what research has been conducted in the area and to determine if the SL...

The aim of the study was to evaluate changes in hamstring flexibility in 120 asymptomatic children who participated in a 6-week program consisting of one physiotherapy session per week and daily home exercises. The recruitment criteria included age (10-13 years), no pain, injury or musculoskeletal disorder throughout the previous year, physical activity limited to school sport. Subjects were ra...

Annoying shaky motion is one of the significant problems in home videos, since hand shake is an unavoidable effect when capturing by using a hand-held camcorder. Video stabilization is an important technique to solve this problem. However, the stabilized videos resulted by current methods usually have decreased resolution and are still not so stable. In this paper, we propose a novel, robust, a...

Finding an efficient and computationally feasible approach to deal with the curse of high-dimensionality is a daunting challenge faced by modern biological science. The problem becomes even more severe when the interactions are the research focus. To improve the performance of statistical analyses, we propose a sparse and low-rank (SLR) screening based on the combination of a low-rank interacti...

Introduction: The Shinnar Le Roux (SLR) method [1,2,3] has been widely used to design slice selection pulse and two-dimensional (2D) RF pulse on EPI trajectory [4] due to the advantage of allowing tradeoffs among the in-slice ripple, out-of-slice ripple and transition. In this work, the SLR method is extended to design 2D pulse on arbitrary k-space trajectory. Firstly, 2D filter coefficients ar...

[Purpose] This study were to examine the strength and relative direction of the applied force from lumbar segmental sustained rotation (LSSR) on the lumbar spinous process, and to clarify the effects of LSSR on straight leg raising (SLR) and lumbar flexion (LF). [Subjects] 18 pain-free healthy adults volunteered for this study. [Methods] Applied force and direction were measured between the L5-...

Private BitTorrent community, known as “BitTorrent Darknet” or “Private Tracker (PT)”, has received much attention in the research literature recently. Different from public BitTorrent community, PT can only be accessed by its registered members, and it can provide ultra-high downloading speed due to its effective Sharing Ratio Enforcement (SRE) incentive mechanism which stimulates members to c...

Crustal movement is one of the main factors influencing the change of the Earth system, especially in its vertical direction, which affects people's daily life through the frequent occurrence of earthquakes, geological disasters, and so on. In order to get a better study and application of the vertical crustal movement,as well as its changes, the foundation and prerequisite areto devise and est...