When two speech signals are mixed in a single channel the voiced parts of any of them remain mostly unaltered during the voicing interruptions of the other, i.e. pauses and voiceless consonants. The mixture is made of 3 types of multivoiced segments noted 0V (unvoiced), 1V (one voicing) and 2V (two voicings). A statistical study of readaloud texts reveals that total time spent in the 1V state i...

Accurately predicting customer preferences is a highly sought after goal, for it allows businesses to market a product to individuals in a way that is most likely to generate a sale. This can be particularly important in the movie industry, where individual preferences can vary greatly. Recognizing this, the online movie rental business Netflix has sponsored a contest to find better ways of mak...

We explore the duality of construction and deconstruction in the presence of different evaluation strategies. We characterize an evaluation strategy by the notion of substitutability, given by defining what is a value and a co-value, and we present an equational theory that takes the strategy as a parameter. The theory may be extended with new logical connectives, in the form of user-defined da...

We address the problem of reconstructing a non-duplicated ancestor to a partially duplicated genome in a model where duplicated content is caused by several tandem duplications throughout its evolution and the only allowed rearrangement operations are DCJ. As a starting point, we consider a variant of the Genome Halving Problem, aiming at reconstructing a tandem duplicated genome instead of the...

We investigate the special class of formulas made up of arbitrary but finite combinations of addition, multiplication, and exponentiation gates. The inputs to these formulas are restricted to the integral unit 1. In connection with such formulas, we describe two essentially distinct families of canonical formula-encodings for integers, respectively deduced from the decimal encoding and the fund...

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This paper is concerned with noun incorporation (NI) in Chukchi, a Kamchatkan language spoken in Siberia. The data discussed are taken from two papers on this subject, namely Polinsky (1990) and Spencer (1995). This amount of data is of course extremely restricted, but I attempt to give an insight into the phenomenon and its theoretical solution rather than discuss it thoroughly on the basis of...

General results on transformations on information production processes (IPPs), involving transformations of the h-index and related indices, are applied in concrete, simple cases: doubling the production per source, doubling the number of sources, doubling the number of sources but halving their production, halving the number of sources but doubling their production (fusion of sources) and, fin...