Environmental sounds provide many contextual cues that enable us to recognize important aspects of our surroundings. The goal of this project is to consider techniques to allow machines to extract and classify features from pre-defined classes of sounds in the environment. We will present the different phases of the project: capture of environmental audio, pre-processing of audio data, feature ...

Clonorchiasis is caused by infection with food-borne liver fluke, namely Clonorchis sinensis, which is also considered to be a neglected tropical disease. It is estimated that over 10 million people are infected with C. sinensis in China and, subsequently, several thousand new cholangiocarcinoma cases occur annually. On May 18, 2014, China Central Television broadcasted an episode on the habit ...

This paper describes VIStology’s HADRian system for semantically integrating disparate information sources into a common operational picture (COP) for humanitarian assistance/disaster relief (HADR) operations. Here the system is applied to the task of determining where unexploded or additional bombs were being reported via Twitter in the hours immediately after the Boston Marathon bombing in Ap...

For the past 30 years, philosophers have debated whether zombies could exist (Kirk, 1974a). Far from being a detour into the world of horror films, this debate asks a serious question: Could an individual act and speak just like other individuals without having any internal conscious experience? Belief in the possibility of these so-called philosophical zombies serves as a litmus test for wheth...

In this term paper, diversity in management positions and organizational performance is analyzed using gender diversity as a mediating role. The analysis is done based on the review of related literature. An organization’s success and competitiveness depends upon its ability to embrace diversity and realize the benefits. The success and failure of an organization is also linked with its leaders...

While most studies in EU external relations law take an inside-out perspective, the question of how and its action is viewed from ‘outside’ hardly ever raised legal scholarship. Yet outside can help us to understand third States international institutions perceive (normative) role aims play. As EU’s develops, governing has indeed received greater attention ‘outside’. The articles published this...

background considering the effect of human right observance on patients’ satisfaction from the treatment process, in iran the patient rights charter (prc) was developed by the ministry of health and medical education (mohme) in 2001 and enforced to all hospitals across the country. the purpose of the current study was to evaluate patients’ awareness of their rights based on prc in two tertiary ...