Ontology can not only describe the workflow data of the any university more easily understood by computers in semantic encoding scenario, but can also integrate users data from different sources and in different forms for reasoning. Workflow technology promises to increase the efficiency in the execution of workflow based processes. The administrative workflow data of a typical higher learning ...

splendid atchievement, than he who invents a dazzling theory." But we are, at the same time, to bear in mind, that the greatest theorists have, generally speaking, been the most accurate observers. We have only to take Cullen and Darwin, in our own country, for an exemplification of this remark. Chemistry has advanced more rapidly than medicine; and the reason of this, Dr. B. thinks, is because...

Building on previous works (e.g. Kubozono 2006, and Kang 2010), this article attempts to establish a taxonomy for loanword prosody, referring specifically to the patterns of stress, tone, or pitch-accent that are found in loanwords. Toward a taxonomy, we consider the following factors: (i) whether the pronunciation of the word in the source language influences the assignment of prosody in the b...

In this paper we discuss certain strategies for building adapted TTS systems for dialectal or regional varieties from a given standard source. The basic question is how much recoding is necessary for a given transfer and to what extent it is possible to rely on the speech data alone. It will turn out that there are ambiguities that cannot be resolved without a certain amount of linguistic engin...

A set o f questionnaires was prepared to compare four elicitation methods: point esthnation, bzterval estflnation, membership function exemplification, and pairwise comparison. Technical and nontechnical topics were involved, assuming subjects performed either as measurenlent instruments or as repositories o f knowledge. The advantages, disadvantages, and limitations of each method are discusse...

This study investigated psychological mechanisms underlying the effect of narrative health communication on behavioral intention. Specifically, the study examined how exemplification in news about successful smoking cessation affects recipients' narrative engagement, thereby changing their intention to quit smoking. Nationally representative samples of U.S. adult smokers participated in 2 exper...

The formation of dislocation-free three-dimensional islands during the heteroepitaxial growth of lattice-mismatched materials has been observed experimentally for several material systems. The equilibrium shape of the islands is governed by the competition between the surface energy and the elastic relaxation energy of the islands as compared to the uniform strained film. As an exemplification ...