It is believed that the current capabilities of the state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) technologies can be further enhanced by analysis and processing techniques that can take advantage of the full set of acoustic and linguistic information existing at various levels of the speech knowledge hierarchy. This calls for a bottom-up knowledge integration framework that links speech ...

OBJECTIVE To explore how hand hygiene observer scheduling influences the number of events and unique individuals observed. DESIGN We deployed a mobile sensor network to capture detailed movement data for 6 categories of healthcare workers over a 2-week period. SETTING   University of Iowa Hospital and Clinic medical intensive care unit (ICU). METHODS We recorded 33,721 time-stamped health...

In recent years, more and more speech processing products in several languages have been widely distributed all over the world. This fact reflects the general believe that speech technologies have a huge potential to let everyone participate in today's information revolution and to bridge the language barriers. However, the development of speech processing systems still requires significant ski...

Electron Transport in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Meninder S. Purewal We present electron transport experiments on single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs). By measuring the linear scaling of resistance with length, we determine an unusually long mean free path of Lm ∼1 μm at room temperature. From the temperature dependence of the mean free path for over 10 samples we show that inelastic scat...

The classification of dwellings according to different building performances has been proposed through many schemes worldwide in recent years. The general idea behind these schemes relates to the positive impact a higher label, and thus a better performance, should have. In particular, focusing on sound insulation performance, national schemes for sound classification of dwellings have been dev...

To assess the cell wall's role as a barrier to intracellular delivery, wild-type Chlamydomonas reinhardtii algal cells and mutant cells lacking a cell wall were exposed to electroporation or sonication. Flow cytometry determined intracellular uptake of calcein and bovine serum albumin (BSA) and loss of cell viability as functions of electroporation transmembrane potential and acoustic energy. E...

The ultimate purpose of this work is to reconstruct photogrammetrically a distinguished building in the centre of Athens, which has been torn down years ago. Five old photographs were available taken apparently with the same camera, the nominal calibration parameters of which could be somehow ‘guessed’. As a first step, it was decided to employ our own bundle-adjustment software, which works wi...

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the major barriers to application of Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) technologies in sustainability of livestock by ranchers of Meshkinshahr. A sample of 120 farmers was selected by using proportional random sampling method. Data were collected by means of a questionnaire. Validity of questionnaire was determined through Agricultural Jihad ex...

A previous paper [Applied Acoustics 66, pp.709-730, 2005] has shown that adding a quadratic residue diffuser (QRD) to the top of a T-shape barrier can provide better barrier performance than an equivalent purely absorptive barrier. In here, we extend the study to look at the performance when a QRD is made absorptive. This paper presents an investigation on the acoustic performance of a few well...