ur K ¨ unstliche Intelligenz, DFKI) with sites in Kaiserslautern and Saarbrücken is a non-profit organization which was founded in 1988. The DFKI conducts application-oriented basic research in the field of artificial intelligence and other related subfields of computer science. The overall goal is to construct systems with technical knowledge and common sense which-by using AI methods-implemen...

This paper argues for non-primary cand s-selectional restrictions of verbs in computing nonprimary predicatives such as resultatives, depictives, and manners. Our discussion is based both on the selection violations in the presence of nonprimary predicates and on the cross-linguistic and language-internal variations of categorial and semantic constraints on nonprimary predicates. We claim that ...

W diets appeal to the growing population of overweight Americans. Fad diets promise rapid weight loss, easy weight loss, limited restrictions on portion sizes of favorite foods, and above all an enhanced sense of well being. The popularity of fad diets points out the honest promises of traditional weight loss diets. Traditional weight loss diets promise slow weight loss of 0.45 to 0.9 kg/week. ...

We propose Compatibility Weighted Voting Games, a variant of Weighted Voting Games in which some pairs of agents are compatible and some are not. In a Weighted Voting Game each agent has a weight, and a set of agents can form a winning coalition if the sum of their weights is at least a given quota. Whereas the original Weighted Voting Game model assumes that all agents are compatible, we consi...

We prove that any simpli cation order over arbitrary terms is an extension of an order by weight, by considering a related monadic term algebra called the spine. We show that any total ground-stable simpli cation order on the spine lifts to an order on the full term algebra. Conversely, under certain restrictions, a simpli cation ordering on the term algebra de nes a weight function on the spin...

Aluminum-Lithium (AI-Li) alloys have been developed as an alternative to conventional aluminum alloys for use in aerospace and other applications where lowweight, high strength materials are required. The use of Al-Li alloys in military and civil air transport continues to increase [1]. The key benefits of AI-Li alloys, when compared to conventional aluminum alloys, are the lower density and hi...

This paper describes a novel framework of voice conversion (VC). We call it eigenvoice conversion (EVC). We apply EVC to the conversion from a source speaker’s voice to arbitrary target speakers’ voices. Using multiple parallel data sets consisting of utterancepairs of the source and multiple pre-stored target speakers, a canonical eigenvoice GMM (EV-GMM) is trained in advance. That conversion ...

The link between obesity and health disorders such as hypertension, diabetes and coronary artery disease is well known. When a morbidly obese patient presents with a new diagnosis of any cancer, it adds to the many challenges both the patient and treating physicians face. Not only is surgical resection of the malignancy more technically challenging, but also postoperative care such as therapeut...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether massage could help preterm infants improve weight gain, discharge from the hospital earlier, and promote the neurobehavioral development, a meta-analysis was conducted. STUDY DESIGN MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, Dissertation Abstracts, and the Cochrane Library were searched up to January 2012. There were no language restrictions. RESULTS In all, 611 articles were r...