A new approach for an efficient text analyser is proposed. The prosody generator-driven method is employed to design an efficient text analyser for Mandarin text-to-speech. More simple structure of text analysis, more suitable classification of linguistic features and more efficient contribution of linguistic features to the prosody generator can be achieved. Three heuristic and theoretical met...

AIMS To assess the accuracy and precision of INR measurement by trained practice and district nursing staff using the Thrombolytic Assessment System (TAS) analyser. METHODS Seventeen nurses from four practices were trained to measure INR using the TAS analyser on citrated capillary blood samples. Quality control (QC) consisted of: daily internal QC using normal and abnormal commercial plasmas...

Performance, resolution and spectral throughput both of the sagittally focusing monochromator and of the alternately installed two analysing systems, a Cauchois-type cylindrically bent crystal analyser for Compton-profile measurements, and a spherically bent crystal analyser for S(q, (^-measurements, of the new Compton spectrometer at the HARWI (harter Röntgen Wiggler) of the DORIS storage ring...

BACKGROUND The Innocor device contains a highly sensitive photoacoustic gas analyser that has been used to perform multiple breath washout (MBW) measurements using very low concentrations of the tracer gas SF6. Use in smaller subjects has been restricted by the requirement for a gas analyser response time of <100 ms, in order to ensure accurate estimation of lung volumes at rapid ventilation ra...

This paper addresses the experimental bootstrapping of the development of broad-coverage finite-state morphological analysers for Xhosa, Swati and (Southern) Ndebele by using an existing prototype of a morphological analyser for Zulu. These languages are both morphologically complex and resource-scarce. The research question is whether bootstrapping is feasible across the language boundaries be...

The development of natural language processing (NLP) components is resource-intensive and therefore justifies exploring ways of reducing development time and effort when building NLP components. This paper addresses the experimental fast-tracking of the development of finite-state morphological analysers for Xhosa, Swati and (Southern) Ndebele by using an existing prototype of a morphological a...

Soil gas radon Rn concentration was measured at 12 location in the Al-Qassim area, using radon gas analyzer-type Alpha GUARD 2000 PRQ from Genitron Instruments (Germany). In each location four different depths were taken for soil gas measurements, staring from the ground surface. The results suggested that the largest concentration was 340 ± 22 Bq/m for 60cm depth at in Al-Tarfia point sample P...