objective : the present study is investigating the attribution style in patients with the anxiety and depression comorbidity. method: subjects are 26 patients with major depression, 25 patients with generalized anxiety disorder, 17 patients with comorbidity of anxiety and depression, and 30 normal individuals. the aparatus used in the study for data collecting were beck depression inventory, be...

This paper provides a novel method to classify spoken utterances into reading style or spontaneous style. Read/spontaneous speech classification is important for extracting data to train acoustic models for speech recognition from real data in which read speech and spontaneous speech samples are mixed. We analyzed 23,900 reading and 31,988 spontaneous utterances of 30 speakers and found that va...

  Background: Equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG) is commonly used in association with a progestagen treatment to synchronize estrus of goats and ewes during breeding and non-breeding seasons. Classical purification of the eCG from serum includes pH fractionation with metaphosphoric acid two ethanol precipitation steps as...

Synthesis of heat exchanger networks (HENs) is inherently a mixed integer and nonlinear programming (MINLP) problem. Solving such problems leads to difficulties <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #00...

To classify a text or to recognize its author there are two ways. To use the content of the text or the style. In this study 22 of style markers figured out for each author. By the developed method the author of a text can be determined using the style markers formed from a group of authors. The author group consists of 18 different authors and the success rate has been obtained as %84 in average.

frequent interaction among family members, may lead to conflict or problems. therefore, designing intervention programs for promote interpersonal skills among family members seemed to be necessary. one of these programs is problem solving strategies teaching.  this study aime to investigate the effects of teaching problem solving on parenting style and family problem solving. the sample is cons...

This paper proposes a method of sentence-style conversion for generating spontaneous Japanese speech in a text-to-speech synthesis system. Since written language is different from spoken language linguistically, the speech by direct reading of written Japanese texts might be unnatural. The method takes a fully rulebased approach to convert the sentence style and to complement sentences, which a...