We submitted two approaches as the required runs: Acoustic Keyword Spotting as the primary one (AKWS) and Dynamic Time Wrapping as the secondary one (DTW) for the Spoken Web Search task. We aimed at building a simple phone based language-dependent system. We experimented with universal context bottle-neck neural network classifier with 3-state phone posterior features or bottle-neck features.

What Determines Family Structure? We estimate the effects of policy and labor market variables on the fertility, union formation and dissolution, type of union (cohabiting versus married), and partner choices of the NLSY79 cohort of women. These demographic behaviors interact to determine the family structure experienced by the children of these women: living with the biological mother and the ...

Basierend auf dem Kryptosystem von Paillier [5] und dem damit eingeführten Problem der zusammengesetzten Residuenklasse werden in diesem Artikel zwei kryptographische Verfahren vorgeschlagen. Zunächst wird die Signatur von Paillier in ein blindes Signaturverfahren umgewandelt. Dabei wird aus einer verblendeten Nachricht eine blinde Signatur erzeugt, so dass man dann in der Lage ist, daraus eine...

The physical idea of the natural origin of diseases and deaths has been presented. The fundamental microscopical reason is the destruction of any metastable state by thermal activation of a nucleus of a nonreversable change. On the basis of this idea the quantitative theory of age dependence of death probability has been constructed. The obtained simple Death Laws are very accurately fulfilled ...

The advent of nanotechnology has facilitated the preparation of colloidal particles with adjustable sizes and the control of their size-dependent properties. Physical manipulation, such as separation, mixing, and concentration, of these colloidal particles represents an essential step for fully utilizing their potential in a wide spectrum of nanotechnology applications. In this study, we invest...

A new technique for high fidelity three-dimensional imaging of atomic structure with gamma-ray holography is demonstrated. A complex hologram was constructed from holograms recorded for different values of the nuclear scattering amplitude on both sides of the (57)Fe Mössbauer resonance. The holographic reconstruction was applied to this complex hologram resulting in a twin-image-free image of t...

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The paper concentrates on four aspects of mitigating market power in European electricity networks: capacity divestiture, entry, promoting interconnection, and the capacity to regulate competition in generation, drawing on lessons from Britain, California and the Continent. Each of these actions can improve the intensity of competition in electricity wholesale markets, but attractive strategies...

An explicit procedure to construct a family of martingales generated by a process with independent increments is presented. The main tools are the polynomials that give the relationship between the moments and cumulants, and a set of martingales related to the jumps of the process called Teugels martingales.

Competitive political parties and election campaigns are central to the health of democracies. Parties and campaigns require significant resources to be effective. India has developed complex election expenditure, political party funding, and reporting and disclosure laws. We suggest that these laws may have perverse impacts on the electoral system: they tend to drive campaign expenditure under...