Understanding synthetic speech involves a learning process. We address the question whether transfer of learning takes place from one kind of synthetic speech to another. An experiment is presented in which learning curves for intelligibility were determined for two diphone-based synthesis systems for Dutch, A and B, with different diphone databases. Twenty-four subjects heard eight blocks of 5...

We model an isolated portion of a competitive supply chain as a M/M/1 make-tostock queue. The retailer carries finished goods inventory to service a Poisson demand process, and specifies a policy for replenishing his inventory from an upstream supplier. The supplier chooses the service rate, i.e., capacity, of his manufacturing facility, which behaves as a single-server queue with exponential s...

delivery of exogenous materials such as nucleic acids, peptides, proteins, and drugs into cells is an important strategy in modern cellular and molecular biology. recently, the development of gene carriers for efficient gene transfer into cells has attracted a great attention. furthermore, lack of effective drug delivery is one of the major problems of cancer chemotherapy. many physical methods...

Today, the effective inventory management plays an important role in the success of the organizations in the new business environment. It is not clearly possible for the organizations that store hundreds of inventory items to economically design an inventory management policy for each inventory item separately. Moreover, various inventory items may play quite different roles in the business ...

this study aims to better understand the effect of practice schedule and feedback providing types. in two separate experiments the contextual interference effect in bandwidth and self-control feedback conditions on relative and absolute timing learning was examined. in experiment i, the effect of contextual interference using bandwidth and self-control feedback on absolute timing learning (para...

Perceptual learning, the improvement in performance with practice, reflects plasticity in the adult visual system. We challenge a standard claim that specificity of perceptual learning depends on task difficulty during training, instead showing that specificity, or conversely transfer, is primarily controlled by the precision demands (i.e., orientation difference) of the transfer task. Thus, fo...

With the increasing and rapid growth rate of COVID-19 cases, healthcare scheme several developed countries have reached point collapse. An important critical steps in fighting against is powerful screening diseased patients, such a way that positive patient can be treated isolated. A chest radiology image-based diagnosis might benefits over traditional approach. The accomplishment artificial in...

It is well{recognized that in practical inductive learning systems the search for a concept must be heavily biased. In addition the bias must be dynamic, adapting to the current learning problem. Another important requirement is sustained learning, allowing transfer from known tasks to new ones. Previous work on dynamic bias has not explicitly addressed learning transfer, while previous case{ba...