context-dependent modeling is a well-known approach to increase modeling accuracy in continuous speech recognition. the most common way to implement this approach is via triphone modeling. nevertheless, the large number of such models results in several problems in model training, whilst the robust training of such models is often hardly obtained. one approach to solve this problem is via param...

Abstract The Convention on the Rights of Child is most widely ratified core United Nations human rights treaty. Does size matter for normativity and compliance? Size does sometimes in a positive way: quasi-universal ratification CRC gives that treaty unprecedented normative legitimacy legal reach. Often, adds however layer complexity: negotiations, implementation, monitoring. matters somewhat, ...

Let G $$ be a finite tree. For any matching M of , let U ( ) U(M) the set vertices uncovered by . ℳ {\mathcal{M}}_G uniform random maximum size In this paper, we analyze structure U\left({\mathcal{M}}_G\right) We first show that is determinantal process. also for most process in small neighborhood vertex can well approximated based on somewhat larger same vertex. Then normalized Shannon entropy...

PURPOSE Calcaneocuboid arthrodesis was used during revision clubfoot surgery in order to maintain midfoot correction. The purposes of this study were to determine: (1) functional level at 17-year follow-up compared to 5-year follow-up; (2) patients' current functional level, satisfaction, and pain; and (3) current arthropometric measurements. METHODS Twenty patients (27 clubfeet) with clubfoo...

Abstract Critics and film theorists have frequently drawn attention to the use of J. S. Bach’s music in Accattone (1961), Pier Paolo Pasolini’s first film. Many noted strangeness musical choice particular its sociocultural disconnection from film’s setting borgate, deprived areas on outskirts Rome. second film, Mamma Roma (1962), similarly focuses lives an underclass pimps, prostitutes, scroung...

Abstract For a general fully continuous life insurance model, the variance of loss-at-issue random variable is expectation square discounted value net amount at risk moment death. In 1964 Jim Hickman gave an elementary and elegant derivation this result by method integration parts. One might expect that summation parts could be used to treat discrete case. However, there are two difficulties. T...