Bacteria use a variety of means to communicate with one another and with their eukaryotic hosts. In some cases, social interactions allow bacteria to synchronize the behavior of all of the members of the group and thereby act like multicellular organisms. By contrast, some bacterial social engagements promote individuality among members within the group and thereby foster diversity. Here we exp...

O ccupational therapy is realizing some of its professional potential in generating new knowledge. Many occupational therapists are pursuing graduate degrees, including the scholar's criterion, the doctor of philosophy (American Occupational Therary Association [AOTAj, 1989). The American Journal of Occupational Therapy is publishing more research parers, and the Occupational Therapy Journal of...

This pilot study aimed to investigate the effects of two classroom instructions on complexity, accuracy, and fluency EFL learners’ speaking. The first one involved implicit task-based instruction with meaning-focused pedagogic tasks. second reduced practice time but complemented it explicit strategy-based (SBI) raise their metacognitive awareness in planning, monitoring, evaluating speech. Part...

Variability in talker identity and speaking rate, commonly referred to as indexical variation, has demonstrable effects on the speed and accuracy of spoken word recognition. The present study examines the time course of indexical specificity effects to evaluate the hypothesis that such effects occur relatively late in the perceptual processing of spoken words. In 3 long-term repetition priming ...

A criminal prosecution of Jamaican Creole (JC) speaking ‘posse’ (=gang) members in New York included evidence of recorded speech in JC. Clandestine recordings (discussions of criminal events, including narration of a homicide) were introduced at trial. Taped data were translated for prosecution by a non-linguist native speaker of JC. Defense disputed these texts and commissioned alternative tra...

We present a new feature-based method for estimating the speaking rate by detecting vowels in continuous speech. The features used are the modified loudness and the zerocrossing rate which are both calculated in the standard preprocessing unit of our speech recognition system. As vowels in general correspond to syllable nuclei, the feature-based vowel rate is comparable to an estimate of the le...

The report gives an overview of the current state of spontaneous speech recognition using the “Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese (CSJ)”. It is shown that the large-scale corpus had strong impact in training acoustic and language models considering morphological and pronunciation variations which are characteristic to spontaneous Japanese. Unsupervised adaptation of these models and the speaking ra...

●Objective: Transform spoken-style language (V) into written style language (W) for the creation of transcripts ●Approach: Statistical machine translation to “translate” from verbatim text to written text ●Innovations: ●Log-linear modeling for improved accuracy ●Introduction of features to handle common phenomena in speaking-style transformation ●WFST-based implementation for integration with W...

Abstract. Impact-based weather forecasting and warnings create the need for reliable sources of impact data to generate evaluate models forecasts. Here we compare outputs from social sensing – analysis unsolicited media data, in this case Twitter against a manually curated database created by Met Office. The study focuses on high-impact rainfall events across globe between January–June 2017. So...