This paper describes a novel speech interface function, called speech completion, that helps a user enter a word or phrase by completing (filling in the rest of) a phrase fragment uttered by the user. Although the concept of completion is widely used in text-based interfaces, there have been no reports of completion being effectively applied to speech. By using a filled pause, we enable a user ...

A The making of projections often requires an economy-wide perspective, and the estimation of consumer demands at the international level. In this paper, an implicit, directly additive demand system (AIDADS) is estimated using cross-country data on consumer expenditures from two different sources: the International Comparison Programme (ICP), and the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP)....

In this paper I develop an empirical framework to estimate the role of agglomeration externalities, especially those stemming from input-output linkages, in the location process of US manufacturing plants. Furthermore, drawing on the model of Holmes and Stevens (2004b), I propose a way to reconciliate some previous puzzling results about proximity to consumers’ demand and the scope of agglomera...

This study investigates the water demand of Indian manufacturing plants. It adopts an input distance function approach and approximates it by a translog form. Duality between cost function and input distance function is exploited to retrieve information concerning substitutability and the shadow price of water. The model is estimated, using linear programming approach, on a sample of 92 firms o...

In this project, we formulate a Stochastic optimization framework to manage the risk from input uncertainty in inventory management. In the classical inventory management, the stochastic programming is used to find an optimal policy that optimizes the risk-neutral expected cost over a certain planning horizon [3], or the risk from the randomness of the demand [7]. However, to the best of our kn...

The coupling of the neuronal energetics to the blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) response is still incompletely understood. To address this issue, we compared the fits of four plausible models of neurometabolic coupling dynamics to available data for simultaneous recordings of the local field potential and the local BOLD response recorded from monkey primary visual cortex over a wide range of...

The demand for multi-functional software has grown drastically over the years. To cater for this demand, software engineers are forced to develop complex software with increasing number of input parameters. As a result, more and more dependencies between input parameters are to be expected, opening more possibilities of faults due to interactions. Although traditional static and dynamic testing...

Very few durable goods are recovered at the end of their useful lives. However, this situation could reverse with the development of a stronger remanufacturing industry in the economy. This paper evaluates the impact of remanufacturing in a hypothetical situation where remanufacturing holds a significant share of the economy, presently dominated by the original manufacturing industries. We adap...

Outside the laboratory, the ability to control visual input during multiple task performance by controlling where the eyes look and when is an obvious component of multiple task performance. However, inside the laboratory researchers either obviate the control of the eyes by presenting information from one task at a time or are oblivious to the need for just-intime control of the motor componen...