This paper addresses the topic of online unsupervised speaker segmentation in a complex audio environment as it is present in the Broadcast News databases. A new two stage speaker change detection algorithm is proposed, which combines the Bayesian Information Criterion with an ABLS-SCD statistical framework where adapted Gaussian mixture models are used to achieve higher accuracy. To enhance th...

Differential Ks-band luminosity functions (LFs) are presented for a complete sample of 1613 nearby bright galaxies segregated by visible morphology. The LF for late-type spirals follows a power law that rises towards low luminosities whereas the LFs for ellipticals, lenticulars and bulge-dominated spirals are peaked and decline toward both higher and lower luminosities. Each morphological type ...

meet Bakhai, MD, MRCP,*† Gregg W. Stone, MD,‡ Elizabeth Mahoney, SCD,* Tara A. Lavelle, BA,* hunxue Shi, MS,* Ronna H. Berezin, MPH,* Betsy J. Lahue, MPH,§ Mary Ann Clark, MHA,§ ichael J. Lacey, MS,§ Mary E. Russell, MD,§ Stephen G. Ellis, MD, James B. Hermiller, MD,¶ avid A. Cox, MD,# David J. Cohen, MD, MSC,*** on behalf of the TAXUS-IV Investigators oston and Natick, Massachusetts; Barnet, E...

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In a previous paper a method was developed to determine the shapes of dark matter halos of spiral galaxies from the flaring and velocity dispersion of the gas layer. Here I present the results for the almost edge-on Scd galaxy NGC 4244 and preliminary results for the Milky Way. NGC 4244’s dark matter halo is found to be highly flattened with a shortest-to-longest axis ratio of 0.2 −0.1 . If the...

The matter of meaning in place, is one of the main qualities of human life. People consciously or unconsciously looking for meanings in places. The importance of finding the meaning of place is that, Understanding the meaning will lead to “act” in place. Finding the place friendly, or finding it insecure will lead to act differently. Now the question is that, is the meaning of place, something ...

In a previous paper (Olling 1995) a method was developed to determine the shapes of dark matter halos of spiral galaxies from an accurate determination of the rotation curve, the flaring of the gas layer and the velocity dispersion in the H I . Here I report the results for the almost edge-on Scd galaxy NGC 4244 (Olling 1996a, 1996b). The observed flaring of the H I beyond the optical disk puts...

Taking a clue from the pair of HI supershells found in the Scd galaxy NGC 3556 (M 108), we propose a new mechanism for the origin of HI supershells in gas-rich massive galaxies. In this scenario, the two supershells were inflated out of the neutral hydrogen disk due to the localised flaring of a pair of radio lobes formed by the jets ejected from the nucleus during an active phase about ∼ 107 y...

We demonstrate the feasibility of uncovering supermassive black holes in late-type, “quiescent” spiral galaxies by detecting signs of very low-level nuclear activity. We use a combination of x-ray selection and multi-wavelength follow-up. Here, we apply this technique to NGC 3184 and NGC 5457, both of type Scd, and show that strong arguments can be made that both host AGNs.