PURPOSE Medical students need close care and systematic management of their mental and emotional health during their academic tenure. This study examined the status of the current student advisory program and counseling office, the satisfaction of the current student advisory program, the core content of an advisory program, and the quality of a good advisor. METHODS We asked 64 faculties tha...

The Office of Graduate Studies has verified and approved the above named committee members. iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank my academic advisor, Dr. Jie Chang for his valuable guidance and encouragement throughout my graduate program. I would like to thank my committee members, Dr. Krishna Arora and Dr. Rodney Roberts, for their valuable advice and direction. I would also like to than...

A hierarchical framework is proposed to address the issues of modeling different type of words in keyword spotting (KWS). Keyword models are built at various levels according to the availability of training set resources for each individual word. The proposed approach improves the performance of KWS even when no training speech is available for the keywords. It also suggests an easier way to co...

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