Transformation based speaker adaptation techniques, such as Maximum Likelihood Linear Regression (MLLR) [1] require a large amount of adaptation data to robustly estimate the transform matrices. In this paper, we present a new adaptation scheme that adjusts the adaptation data according to the feedback from recognizer. By giving different weights to different parts of the adaptation data, the p...

An experiment was conducted to determine the effect of graded levels of β-glucanase supplementation to barley (Hordeum vulgare)-based diets on the digestibility of DM, GE, N, and AA for growing-finishing pigs. Eight pigs (initial BW: 53.3 ± 3.2 kg) were each fitted with a simple T-cannula at the distal ileum and allotted to a replicated 4 × 4 Latin square design with 4 diets and 4 periods in ea...

The critical point of nickel and the phase diagram near the critical point are numerically evaluated using molecular dynamics (MD) computations. Thermodynamic states on the phase diagram are calculated for a homogeneous material at equilibrium states. Isothermal lines on p–v diagrams are constructed at temperatures below and above the critical temperature, and the liquid-gas coexistence lines a...

The Microsoft Malware Classification Challenge was announced in 2015 along with a publication of a huge dataset of nearly 0.5 terabytes, consisting of disassembly and bytecode of more than 20K malware samples. Apart from serving in the Kaggle competition, the dataset has become a standard benchmark for research on modeling malware behaviour. To date, the dataset has been cited in more than 50 r...

In this paper, we use prosodic information to improve the accuracy of our template-based automatic speech recognizer. Prosodic information is harvested adopting a data-driven approach. A number of prosodic features is extracted, then combined into major groups, and finally studied separately and together. All acoustic evidence, both segmental and suprasegmental, is modelled non-parametrically. ...