This paper used error back propagation algorithm and regression analysis to analyze and predict untranslated and translated Nigeria Stock Market Price (NSMP). Nigeria stock market prices were collected for the periods of seven hundred and twenty days and grouped into untranslated and translated train, validation and test data. A zero mean unit variance transformation was used to normalize the i...

Back-channel feedback is required in order to build spoken dialog systems that are responsive. This paper reports a model of back-channel feedback in Japanese dialog. It turns out that a low pitch region is a good clue that the speaker is ready for back-channel feedback. A rule based on this fact matches corpus data on respondents' production of backchannel feedback. A system based on this rule...

In a natural sonic environment a listener is accustomed to hearing reflections and reverberation. It is conceived that early reflections could reduce front-back confusion in synthetic 3-D audio. This paper describes an experiment to determine whether or not simulated reflections can reduce front-back confusion for audio presented with nonindividualized HRTFs via headphones. Although the simple ...

abdominal cystic lymphangioma is a rare benign neoplasm. less than 1% of lymphangiomas is in the retroperitoneum. lymphangioma is mostly asymptomatic. chronic symptoms were reported in retroperitoneal type more than others. acute symptoms due to complications like infection, cyst rupture or hemorrhage may occur. we report an 18-years-old girl with low back pain from 6 months ago with huge pelvi...