background: this study aimed to examine the impact of ego-resilience and family function on quality of life in childhood leukemia survivors. methods: this study targeted 100 pediatric leukemia survivors, who visited the pediatric hemato-oncology center in south korea from aug to dec 2011. a structured questionnaire of ego-resilience, family function and quality of life used to collect data thro...

There are many real problems in which multiple responses should be optimized simultaneously by setting of process variables. One of the common approaches for optimization of multi-response problems is desirability function. In most real cases, there is a correlation structure between responses so ignoring the correlation may lead to mistake results. Hence, in this paper a robust approach based ...

In this paper, we investigate prosodic alignment in task-based conversations. We use the HCRC Map Task Corpus and investigate how familiarity affects prosodic alignment and how task success is related to prosodic alignment. A variety of existing alignment measures is used and applied to our data. In particular, a windowed cross-correlation procedure, that has been used previously in visual beha...

We describe a corpus-based approach to improving synthesized speech quality and present two useful cost functions for unit selection. One is pitch-synchronous cross correlation for concatenation costs to reduce the noise caused by phase mismatch at concatenation points. The other is a discontinuous cost function for internal and concatenation costs to eliminate unnecessary cost calculation. An ...

It should be noted that the requirement of f to be convex in the definition of f -divergence is essential. In Euclidean spaces any convex function can be represented as the pointwise supremum of a family of affine functions and vice versa, every supremum of a family of affine functions produces a convex function. Take f(x) = 12 |x− 1| as an example. We see that it can be written as a pointwise ...

We present a general procedure for determining quasi-exact solvability of the Dirac and the Pauli equation with an underlying sl(2) symmetry. This procedure makes full use of the close connection between quasi-exactly solvable systems and supersymmetry. The Dirac-Pauli equation with spherical electric field is taken as an example to illustrate the procedure. 1. In this talk we present a general...

In this paper, we introduce a novel algorithm to solve the problem of object tracking across multiple nonoverlapping cameras by learning inter-camera transfer models. The transfer models are divided into two parts according to different kinds of cues, i.e. spatio-temporal cues and appearance cues. To learn spatiotemporal transfer models across cameras, an unsupervised topology recovering approa...

Departures from pure self-interest in economic experiments have recently inspired models of “social preferences”. We conduct experiments on simple games that test these theories more directly than the array of games conventionally considered. Our experiments show support for the prevalence of “quasi-maximin” preferences: People are self interested, but also sacrifice to increase the payoffs for...