Word spotting, or keyword identification, is a highly challenging task when there are multiple speakers speaking simultaneously. In the case of a game being controlled by children solely through voice, the task becomes extremely difficult. Children, unlike adults, typically do not await their turn to speak in an orderly fashion. They interrupt and shout at arbitrary times, speak or say things t...

While many harmful algal blooms have been associated with increasing eutrophication, not all species respond similarly and the increasing challenge, especially for resource managers, is to determine which blooms are related to eutrophication and to understand why particular species proliferate under specific nutrient conditions. The overall goal of this brief review is to describe why nutrient ...

In data privacy, record linkage is a well known technique used to evaluate the disclosure risk of protected data. Mainly, the idea is the linkage between records of different databases, which make reference to the same individuals. In this paper we introduce a new parametrized variation of record linkage relying on the Mahalanobis distance, and a supervised learning method to determine the opti...

This review aims to provide practical outcomes on how to minimise the incidence of transport-related problem behaviours (TRPBs) in horses. TRPBs are unwanted behaviours occurring during different phases of transport, most commonly, a reluctance to load and scrambling during travelling. TRPBs can result in injuries to horses and horse handlers, horse trailer accidents, disruption of time schedul...

In the current COVID-19 post-pandemic era, vaccine hesitancy is hindering herd immunity generated by widespread vaccination. It critical to identify factors that may cause hesitancy, enabling relevant authorities propose appropriate interventions for mitigating such a phenomenon. Keyword extraction, sub-field of natural language processing (NLP) applications, plays vital role in modern medical ...

Information retrieval (IR) techniques become a challenge to researchers due to huge growth of digital and information retrieval. As a wide variety of Hindi Data and Literature is now available on web, we have developed information retrieval system for Hindi documents. This paper presents a new searching technique that has promising results in terms of F-measure. Historically, there have been tw...

Studies on the effect of the keyword method, a mnemonic technique that uses two links (acoustic and imagery) to facilitate memory for acquiring foreign words, are numerous. The majority of past studies found it effective for various age groups of learners for learning words of different languages. The findings however, have been inconclusive in: (a) its application to classroom settings; (b) it...

The recent development of embedded platforms along with spectacular growth in communication networking technologies is driving the Internet of things to thrive. More complex tasks are now possible to operate in small devices such as speech recognition and keyword spotting which are in great demand. Traditional voice recognition approaches are already being used in several embedded applications,...