As part of the Interspeech 2016 COMPARE challenge, the two different sub-challenges Deception and Sincerity are addressed. The former refers to the identification of deceptive speech whereas the degree of perceived sincerity of speakers has to be estimated in the latter. In this paper, we investigate the potential of automatic phone recognition-based features for these use case scenarios. The s...

INTRODUCTION The Questionnaire for Olfactory Dysfunction (QOD) is a self-reporting olfactory-related quality of life questionnaire. The aim of this study was to determine the reliability and validity of the Persian version of this questionnaire. MATERIALS AND METHODS One hundred and thirteen patients with olfactory problems were enrolled in this study. The English version of the QOD was first...

Information provided by a source should be assessed by an intelligent agent on the basis of several criteria: most notably, its content and the trust one has in its source. In turn, the observed quality of information should feed back on the assessment of its source, and such feedback should intelligently distribute among different features of the source—e.g., competence and sincerity. We propo...

The purpose of this study is to determine the concept sincerity according Imam Al-Ghazali and its relevance goals Islamic education. Talking about traits that are very easy say but, in essence, difficult do, namely sincerity, Sincerity an intention from heart then applied form deeds, whose main for Allah SWT. indeed but contains enormous rewards if someone succeeds passing sincere certification...