Spoken dialogue systems have until recently upheld the simplifying assumption that the conversation between the user and the system occurs in a strict turn-by-turn fashion. In order to have more human-like, uent conversations with computers, a new generation of spoken dialogue systems has arisen that is capable of processing the user’s speech in an incremental way. As the user is speaking, the ...

Bubble nucleation in liquid confined nanochannel is studied using molecular dynamics simulations and compared against the over smooth surfaces (i.e. without confinement). Nucleation argon achieved by heating part of a platinum surface to high temperatures surface-to-liquid algorithm implemented LAMMPS. The hydrophilicity nanochannels increased understand its effect on behaviour. Liquid structur...

A fast gate module has been developed at KEKB, which can pick up a signal of one bunch along a bunch train. The gate module was attached to a tune measurement system and to a turn-by-turn beam-position monitor system. Continuous monitoring of the betatron tune is an indispensable tool to keep the machine in a stable condition. A measurement of the tune along a bunch train is helpful to estimate...

People in dialog use a rich set of nonverbal behaviors, including variations in the prosody of their utterances. Such behaviors, often emotion-related, call for appropriate responses, but today’s spoken dialog systems lack the ability to do this. Recent work has shown how to recognize user emotions from prosody and how to express system-side emotions with prosody, but demonstrations of how to c...

By the virtue of the nature of the vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) growth process in semiconductor nanowires (NWs) and their small size, the nucleation, propagation, and termination of stacking defects in NWs are dramatically different from that in thin films. We demonstrate germanium-silicon axial NW heterostructure growth by the VLS method with 100% composition modulation and use these structures as...

Abstract In the Photon Factory 2.5 GeV electron storage ring at KEK, the upgrade project of its straight sections is underway. In the project, we improve the beam-position monitors (BPMs) and the global orbit feedback system. New BPMs are designed and installed in the straight sections and the orbit stabilization system is improved. The effect RF phase modulation to the beam position fluctuatio...

Title of Document: LONGITUDINAL SPACE-CHARGE WAVES INDUCED BY ENERGY MODULATIONS Brian L. Beaudoin, Master of Science, 2008 Directed By: Professor Patrick G. O’Shea and Professor Rami A. Kishek Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering High intensity beams that are space-charge dominated are important for applications such as free electron lasers that require high intensity and low emit...

The turn-by-turn directions provided in existing navigation applications are exclusively derived from underlying road network topology information, i.e., the connectivity of edges to each other. Therefore, the turn-by-turn directions are simplified as metric translation of physical world (e.g. distance/time to turn) to spoken language. Such translation that ignores human cognition of the geogra...

The quark-hadron phase transition in the early universe can produce inho-mogeneities in the distribution of nucleons, which in turn affect the primordial nucleosynthesis. In all the investigations of this problem it has been assumed that the degree of supercooling of the quark-gluon plasma after the phase transition is large enough to produce a significant rate of nucleation of hadrons. Using t...

Based on the recent high-resolution laboratory experiments on propagating shear rupture, the constitutive law that governs shear rupture processes is discussed in view of the physical principles and constraints, and a specific constitutive law is proposed for shear rupture. It is demonstrated that nonuniform distributions of the constitutive law parameters on the fault are necessary for creatin...