An adaptive speech rate control technology for ultra fast listening that is equivalent to skimming is described. Nowadays, listening to audio books on mobile devices is quite common. People read books at various levels of detail from close reading to skimming. Although a similar feature to skimming is required to efficiently obtain information from audio sources, there is no tool equivalent to ...

Premise of the study The use of genome skimming allows systematists to quickly generate large data sets, particularly of sequences in high abundance (e.g., plastomes); however, researchers may be overlooking data in low abundance that could be used for phylogenetic or evo-devo studies. Here, we present a bioinformatics approach that explores the low-abundance portion of genome-skimming next-gen...

Risk-adjusted capitation payments (RACPs) to competing health insurers are an essential element of market-oriented health care reforms in many countries. RACPs based on demographic variables only are insufficient, because they leave ample room for cream skimming. However, the implementation of improved RACPs does not appear to be straightforward. A solution might be to supplement imperfect RACP...

Today’s interfaces for time-scaled audio replay have limitations especially regarding highly interactive tasks such as skimming and searching, which require quick temporary speed changes. Motivated by this shortcoming, we introduce a new interaction technique for speech skimming based on the so called rubberband metaphor. We propose an “elastic” audio slider which is especially useful for tempo...

Recently, particular attention has been paid to the stepped spillways due to the increasing effect of energy dissipation and the reduction of cavitations risks with the development of Roller Compacted Concrete (RCC) technique. Flow regimes on the spillways divide into three groups, namely skimming, jet and transition flow. Compared to the numerical methods, the majority of performed studies in ...

The article actualizes the topic of skimming in foreign language. author describes characteristics and notes main problems faced by first- second-year students a non-linguistic university when reading linear or non-linear electronic text materials language for skimming. features an environment. presents comparison sources information with traditional paper sources. reasons possible cognitive ov...

Air-water flow experiments were conducted on some flat and pooled stepped spillways with slopes of 8.9° and 26.6° in transition and skimming flows. The study comprised the observations of the flow patterns, characteristic air-water flow properties, and energy dissipation performances. The air-water flow properties showed some differences in terms of interfacial velocity, bubble count rate, and ...

An important application of microanalytical lab-on-achip devices is the analysis of leukocytes or their genetic material, for which these cells must first be isolated from the whole blood sample. We created a simple microfluidic device that takes advantage of the intrinsic features of blood flow in the microcirculation, such as plasma skimming and leukocyte margination, to separate leukocytes d...