The paper introduces a Mobile Companion prototype, which helps users to plan and keep track of their exercise activities via an interface based mainly on speech input and output. The Mobile Companion runs on a PDA and is based on a stand-alone, speaker-independent solution, making it fairly unique among mobile spoken dialogue systems, where the common solution is to run the ASR on a separate se...

Aims. In our ongoing search for close and faint companions around T Tauri stars in the Chamaeleon star-forming region, we here present observations of a new common proper motion companion to the young T-Tauri star and Chamaeleon member CT Cha and discuss its properties in comparison to other young, low-mass objects and to synthetic model spectra from different origins. Methods. Common proper mo...

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In “Handbook of Zoonoses: Identifi cation and Prevention,” authors Joann Colville and David L. Berryhill laud their book as an ideal reference for veterinarians, veterinary technicians, and professional students, and as a general resource for healthcare professionals to help them understand and manage zoonotic diseases. Information on common, and currently topical, zoonoses are included; the bo...

We present a system that we call ‘The Piano Music Companion’ and that is able to follow and understand (at least to some extent) a live piano performance. Within a few seconds this system can identify the piece that is being played, and the position within the piece. It then tracks the progress of the performer over time via a robust score following algorithm. The companion is useful in multipl...

The classes of clean and nil-clean rings are closed with respect standard constructions as direct products and (triangular) matrix rings, cf. [12] resp. [4], while the classes of weakly (nil-)clean rings are not closed under these constructions. Moreover, while all matrix rings over fields are clean, [12] when we consider nil-clean rings there are strongly restrictions: if a matrix ring over a ...

641 Competition is at the heart of every step we make during our careers as research scientists. We first compete for a place in a laboratory to carry out our PhD research. We then compete for postdoctoral fellowships. And as heads of laboratories, in a way that is perhaps unique to research, we compete for funds to finance the experiments performed in our laboratories. It is not an exaggeratio...

THIS book, 240 pages crammed full of obstetric facts and figures, is written by two doctors who, after junior obstetric hospital posts, pursued careers in other areas of medicine. It is constructed along traditional lines with introductory chapters on anatomy, physiology and applied embryology. There follow accounts of antenatal care, abnormal pregnancy and pregnancyrelated systemic illness. In...

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, US, xvii + 550 pp.— therein: Ivor Grattan-Guinness. Mathematics in and behind Russell’s logicism, and its reception. Pp. 51–83. Richard Cartwright. Russell and Moore: 1895–1905. Pp. 108–127. Peter Hylton. The theory of descriptions. Pp. 202–240. Martin Godwyn and Andrew D. Irvine. Bertrand Russell’s logicism. Pp. 171–201. Michael Beaney. R...

pharmaceutical sector in the past decade is well documented1. Many of these analyses have attempted to identify specific causes leading to such questionable performance metrics, as well as suggest possible solutions1-5. In the latter case it has involved consideration of better technology investments; build-out of IT, bioinformatics and knowledge management tools; creation of efficient decision...